{"product_id":"alexander-girard-small-squares","title":"Alexander Girard \"Small Squares\"","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"551\" data-start=\"194\"\u003eOur ongoing collaboration with the estate of Alexander Girard continues with \u003cem data-end=\"286\" data-start=\"271\"\u003eSmall Squares\u003c\/em\u003e (1953), a print developed during his second year as Head of Fabric and Textile Design at Herman Miller. Created at a pivotal moment in his tenure, the design reflects Girard’s early efforts to define a new visual language for textiles within modernist interiors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1245\" data-start=\"553\"\u003eWithin the print, an irregular arrangement of colored squares is set against a muted ground, balancing spontaneity with underlying order. This tension situates \u003cem data-end=\"735\" data-start=\"720\"\u003eSmall Squares\u003c\/em\u003e within a broader mid-century context, where artists and designers explored abstraction through both reduction and repetition. Geometric forms and a restrained color palette reference Bauhaus and early modernist painting. Without any noticeable symmetry in the print, Small Squares appears particularly hand-made. As with much of Girard's work, these design characteristics support the idea that design \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1245\" data-start=\"553\"\u003eInfluences of Bauhaus and early modernist painting are both evident in its use of geometric forms and restrained palette, while the loose grid structure suggests a departure from strict symmetry toward a more dynamic, human-centered composition. As with much of Girard’s work, the design reinforces his view of textiles as active architectural elements rather than passive decoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1605\" data-start=\"1247\"\u003eTo continue Girard’s emphasis on quality craftsmanship, we had \u003cem data-end=\"1325\" data-start=\"1310\"\u003eSmall Squares\u003c\/em\u003e meticulously reengineered by our Italian partner mill on a summer-weight 100% cotton poplin. 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