Metal Wall Relief SunMaterial: brass; including assembly materials.‎Along with his colleagues Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson, Alexander Girard was one of the leading figures in American design during the postwar era.‎ While textile design was the primary focus of Girard’s oeuvre, he was also admired for his work in the graphic arts as well as furniture, exhibition and interior design.‎ Girard brought a sensuous playfulness to twentieth-century design that had been absent from the austere aesthetic of classic modernism.‎Girard devoted the same level of 09179302attention to every visible surface in an interior.‎ Ceilings, walls and floors were treated with great care and coordinated with the moveable objects in the room.‎ The Metal Wall Reliefs are decorative examples of wall decorations created for The Compound restaurant and his own house in Santa Fe.‎ Selected in cooperation with the Girard family, the Sun and Heart motifs are made of robust metal materials.‎