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Customisable Greeting Card

by Alexander Girard, 1965-1971 — from CHF 7.03
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CHF 7.03 *
Limited stock - only 12 x in stock, delivery time 2-3 working days (country of delivery Switzerland)
3% advance payment discount*: CHF 6.82 (Save CHF 0.21)

With the individualized Vitra Greetings Card of Vitra you have the possibility to add a personal touch to a gift delivery. Just choose from your card from the selection of popular Alexander Girard motifs and let us know your greetings. The card with your personal greeting will then be included with the package.

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This article is supplied as part of an order. The greetings card cannot be ordered separately.

Details

Product type Greetings card
Dimensions Size M


Size L
Motif

Material Paper, blind embossed
Variants Size M available as Flower Bush, Four Leaf Clover, Love Heart and Home Sweet Home
Size L as Nativity
Function & properties Please write your individual message (max. 180 characters) in the message field prior to the checkout .... or send it via e-mail to service@smow.de.

The greetings card is supplied as part of an order. The greetings card cannot be ordered separately
Delivery includes 1 Vitra greetings card, including envelope and personal message
(Supplementary to an order)
Datasheet Click for more information (ca. 0,3 MB).

Popular versions

Customisable Greeting Card, Nativity (L)
Customisable Greeting Card, Home Sweet Home (M)

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...Galaxy made its debut, and as far as we are aware only public appearance, in context of Alexander Girard's An Exhibition for Modern Living staged at the Detroit Institute of the Arts in the autumn of 1949, an exhibition via which Girard sought to help a wider public "understand more about design - especially in terms of our own time"3, and that via a collection of some 2000 every day objects selected by Girard and his team on the basis of a series of physical, formal and aesthetic criteria4, and also six room installations, one each by Alvar Aalto, Bruno Mathsson, George Nelson, Jens Risom, Florence Knoll & Charles and Ray Eames5... An opinion on the shortcomings and inadequacies of contemporary lamp design largely echoed by Alexander Girard in context of An Exhibition for Modern Living, also in 1949, and his belief that, "the decorative and clumsy lamps will inevitably be replaced by more efficient and honestly designed equipment...

Vitra Design Museum present Alexander Girard. A Designer's Universe

...Clearly vexed by a critical review in Architectural Forum of his friend Alexander Girard's Santa Fe house, Charles Eames wrote a short letter on December 26th 1956 to the magazine's editor Walter McQuade: "Alexander Girard is interested in the quality of everything and does not hesitate to act on this interest, personally and immediately... Also of some significance is the fact that he is part Magpie - and a Florentine one at that"1 Alexander Girard's interest in quality, total involvement and his magpie-esque tendencies can be explored in the Vitra Design Museum's exhibition Alexander Girard...

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...Alexander Girard... A Designer's Universe at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany Our first inkling that something was afoot came at Milan 2014, the Vitra stand and branding was all very much in the spirit of Alexander Girard...

Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat ... colour and fun from Alexander Girard

...Although Alexander Girard worked closely with Herman Miller and designers such as George Nelson or Charles and Ray Eames; Alexander Girard's speciality was not furniture but fabrics, folk art and colour... Born in America and raised in Italy Alexander Girard studied architecture in London before a lack of architectural openings saw him spend several years working as an exhibition and interior designer; most notably in Sweden where he worked in the design department of the Nordiska department store...

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