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Reviews

A beautiful and comprehensive survey.-- "Interior Design"

The book excels - it is a visual treat. It's hard not to enjoy Alexander Girard's joyful work and you'll spot something aesthetically pleasing every time you open the book. You finish the book with a balanced and rounded impression of the designer who, despite the exuberance of his work, was as disciplined and controlled as his mid-century contemporaries. And it really is something you'll want to pick up and be inspired by again and again. Perhaps most importantly, it's a reminder that we all benefit from some colour in our lives - and, as Alexander Girard so skilfully demonstrated, that pattern and colour can be truly modern.-- "Mid Century Magazine"

This richly illustrated catalogue draws on the vast holdings in Girard's private estate, which were exhaustively investigated for the first time at the Vitra Design Museum. The book presents the oeuvre of the multitalented designer in all its facets, while offering the first scholarly, critical examination of his work.-- "Grain Edit"

A landmark... looks beyond the iconic textiles and patterns to reveal a hitherto unseen side of Girard.--Avinash Rajagopal "Metropolis Magazine"

A rich testament to one of modernism's most prodigious and prolific talents.--Edward M Gómez "Hyperallergic"

Alexander Girard's collage principle is once again very much in fashion, succeeding as it does in breaking both with the ideology of the 'new' that underpinned Modernism, but also with the indifferent anything goes attitude of Post-Modernism. In Girard's pieces, his own designs enter into a harmonious dialog with the found, the glossy new with the signs of use.--Annette Tietenberg "StylePark"

Girard's sophisticated sense of color and willingness to create things that were more folksy, even charming, within high Modernism is part of his continued appeal, bringing a warmth and humanity to design in an era of hard-edged, gridded corporate design that could appear cold and forbidding.--Angela Riechers "Eye on Design"

Girard's work restored what classical modernism had rejected in design: color, ornamentation, and folk motifs. He combined craftsmanship and pop culture with ingenious ease, and anticipated the colorful language of postmodernism.... the first scholarly examination of Girard's oeuvre.--Jana Perkovic "Blouin Artinfo"