Herman Miller will debut a furnishings assortment impressed by Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico dwelling on Could twentieth. “The New Mexico Assortment” launches alongside the NYCxDESIGN pageant and options two limited-run items produced impressed by O’Keeffe’s inventive exchanges with Alexander and Susan Girard, in addition to Charles and Ray Eames. This assortment is launched in partnership with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
O’Keeffe moved completely to Abiquiú, New Mexico, in 1949. She reworked a crumbling adobe compound right into a spare, light-filled dwelling that mirrored each the encompassing panorama and her personal modernist style. O’Keeffe crammed the area with pure supplies—bones, stones, and weathered wooden—alongside modern furnishings by designers she knew personally, together with the Girard and Eames households. Girard suggested her on interiors; the Eameses gifted her a low-slung upholstered chair after she admired the same model within the Girards’s Santa Fe dwelling.
As a part of the brand new Herman Miller assortment, a completely upholstered Eames Wire Chair Low Base, designed by the Eames Workplace, revives the prototype that was given to O’Keeffe. The brand new version features a white wire body and base with partial “bikini” upholstery in Girard’s Toostripe textile in ochre and sienna. The chair shall be produced in an version of 300, with 250 chairs obtainable in North America—for $1,995 apiece—and 50 in Japan.
The second piece, the Girard Snake Desk, will carry to life an idea Girard by no means realized. The designer’s snake motif appeared in a number of of the items in O’Keeffe’s dwelling. The desk contains a white enamel metal prime printed with Girard’s black snake motif, mounted on a splayed-leg aluminum base. It will likely be obtainable in a restricted run of 100, with 90 tables—priced at $895 apiece—in North America and 10 in Japan. The gathering is formally launching at 12 p.m. EST on Could twentieth.
Herman Miller is staging a preview of each designs, together with archival images taken by Girard and Charles Eames throughout their visits to O’Keeffe’s Abiquiú dwelling, at its New York retailer at 251 Park Avenue South. The primary 100 guests to the shop on Could twentieth at 10 a.m. will obtain a bandana impressed by the Girard snake motif.
