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Object Timeline

1947

  • Work on this object began.

1967

  • Work on this object ended.

2000

  • We acquired this object.

2025

  • You found it!

Print, Design for a Direct Mail Brochure for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, ca. 1957

This is a Print. It was designed by Alexander Hayden Girard and from the office of Herman Miller Furniture Company. It is dated ca. 1957 and we acquired it in 2000. Its medium is blueprint, diazo print 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

26.0 x 38.4 cm (10 1/4 x 15 1/8 in.)

It is signed

Printed in ink, lower right: April 22, '58 Alexander Girard

It is inscribed

Printed in ink, upper left side: 71 wallpapers in / 11 patterns / dsigned by / alexander / girard for / herman miller at $8.00 each. Imprinted lower left: The Herman Miller furniture co. / textile and wallpaper division / zeeland michigan. Imprinted upper left in margin: picture of book [and placement indicated with arrow]; Imprinted center right: please enter my order for / herman miller wallpaper / sample books at $8.00 each / name: / address:; Imprinted in margins where appropriate: customer address; stamp [placement indicated with arrow]

Cite this object as

Print, Design for a Direct Mail Brochure for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, ca. 1957; Designed by Alexander Hayden Girard (American, 1907–1993); Office of Herman Miller Furniture Company (United States); blueprint, diazo print on off-white wove paper; 26.0 x 38.4 cm (10 1/4 x 15 1/8 in.); Gift of Alexander H. Girard; 1969-165-269

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