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Object Timeline

1958

  • Work on this object began.

2000

  • We acquired this object.

2025

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Drawing, Textile Design: Sole, no. 417, 1958

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Alexander Hayden Girard and from the office of Herman Miller Furniture Company. It is dated 1958 and we acquired it in 2000. Its medium is blueprint, stamped ink, red color pencil, graphite, on off-white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Alexander Hayden Girard. It is credited Gift of Alexander H. Girard.

Its dimensions are

58.7 x 91.9 cm (23 1/8 x 36 3/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in green ink, lower left corner: GIRARD OFFICE COPY

It is inscribed

Inscribed in red color pencil, lower left: FILE COPY / H / M Nos 416 + 417; in graphite, upper right corner, faint numerical calculations; in graphite, lower right corner: 58 / 59; Imprinted upper right : "Sole" march 12, 1958, series #417

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Sole, no. 417, 1958; Designed by Alexander Hayden Girard (American, 1907–1993); Office of Herman Miller Furniture Company (United States); blueprint, stamped ink, red color pencil, graphite, on off-white wove paper; 58.7 x 91.9 cm (23 1/8 x 36 3/16 in.); Gift of Alexander H. Girard; 1969-165-266

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