Join Us Thursday, October 24, at 4 p.m. ET!
October is a special month because we are bringing you not one, but TWO book club discussions.
One week after our talk with Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller about Here: Where The Black Designers Are, we’ll welcome photographer, fashion designer, and artist Todd Oldham and writer Kiera Coffee to discuss their new book Alexander Girard: Let The Sun In.
Register here to attend the live stream on Thursday, October 24.
The new monograph, by Todd Oldham and Kiera Coffee, covers the full breadth of the influential and much-loved designer’s life and career. It begins with Girard’s textile designs where he favored abstract forms and geometric patterns that moved effortlessly between chic, understated designs full of subtle color and texture, to intensely vivid designs that popped with super bright tones.
For many years he led the Herman Miller textile department where he worked with George Nelson and Charles & Ray Eames, and designed, colored, and drew hundreds of patterns, many of which are still popular and available today.
The book also covers the highly diverse range of work Girard undertook for commercial businesses, from Braniff (rebrand) to Detrola (radios and turntables) to La Fonda del Sol restaurant in New York (interior design).
For Girard, design (interior or otherwise) was never fixed; his ethos was one of constant change and allowing space for new ideas and seasons.
Art is only art when it is synonymous with living.
Alexander Girard
Todd Oldham is a photographer, author, and designer. Widely regarded as one of America’s top fashion designers in the 1990s, Oldham has since authored more than 20 books about artists and various design subjects, including Best of Nest (Phaidon, 2020).
Kiera Coffee is a New York-based writer and has spent more than a decade writing about design. She has worked for publications such as Interiors, Nest, and Martha Stewart Living amongst others.
Don’t miss our conversation with Oldham and Coffee on Thursday, October 24, at 4 PM ET! Register for the live discussion and buy your copy of Let The Sun In, here!