Alexander Girard Coffee Table - Knoll

Here's the history of the design history of the Alexander Girard coffee table by Knoll:

Alexander Girard described himself as "a reasonable and sane functionalist, tempered by irrational frivolity." The coffee table, introduced in the Knoll catalogue as the 108 model in 1948, reflects the playful spirit he injected into modern, often austere vocabulary. The table was one of Knoll 's first classical works and features prominently in one of Florence Knoll 's most iconic portraits and her dog, Cartree.

Girard's furniture and, most famously, his textile designs defined a new kind of "opulent modernism." Often drawing inspiration from traditional folk art, his pioneering and innovative approach to design helped usher in colors, quirky, amoebic shapes, synonymous with the 1960s in America.

After a major retrospective of Girard's work at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in 2004, Knoll reintroduced the coffee table.

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