This design for a TV Cabinet by the office of Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates features a pivot for TV to be swung in and out of cabinet. 

Photocopy of TV Cabinet drawing (8 1/2 x 11 in.) by Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates, 7 June 1974, 9/88, Miller House and Garden Collection, IMA Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana. (MHG_Ib_B009_f088_079)

Girard’s purchase order specifies the upholstered version (LAR-1) of the chair in the photograph. On the reverse of the photograph is written in pencil “CE-228-E.” We’re curious to know if anyone is familiar with this photo or its marking. Perhaps Charles Eames took it himself?

Black and white photograph of Eames LAR chair (8 x 10 inches) and purchase order from Alexander Girard to Herman Miller Furniture Company, 1 September 1955, 33/382, Miller House and Garden Collection, IMA Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana. (MHG_Ic_B033_f382_004-005)

When the Millers remodeled the Guest Bedroom in the late 1970s, they chose furniture designed by Dieter Rams and sold by Jack Lenor Larsen.

Selected pages from Jack Lenor Larsen sales brochures for Dieter Rams’ 620 Lounge Chair System and 571/72 Montage System, 1977, 10/90 Miller House an Garden Collection, IMA Archives, Indianapolis, Indiana. (MHG_Ib_B010_f090_028, 033, 035-036)

“Eames sofa makes me tremble in my boots, ” writes Girard in response to Irwin Miller’s January 5 letter. 

Alexander H. Girard to J. Irwin Miller, 26 January 1956, 1/6, Miller House and Garden Collection, IMA Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana. (MHG_Ia_B001_f006_082-083)

“With respect to the Eames Sofa, we give up.” Irwin Miller reluctantly gives Girard his OK for purchasing a slightly modified Eames Compact Sofa. See yesterday’s post to read about the modifications to the sofa.

J. Irwin Miller to Alexander H. Girard, 5 January 1956, 1/6, Miller House and Garden Collection, IMA Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana.(MHG_Ia_B001_f006_095-096)

In 1970 the Millers brought their Eames Aluminium group chairs back to a Herman Miller factory to be recovered. They purchased the chairs in June 1958.

Herman Miller chair brochure, probably 1970; Owen D. Hungerford to Xenia S. Miller, 11 May 1970, 7/63 Miller House and Garden Collection, IMA Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana. (MHG_Ib_B007_f063_019 and MHG_Ib_B007_f063_016)

This memo from Alexander Girard to Xenia Miller would likely have been included in the loose leaf book Girard described in his letter of March 4, 1963. The notes on the memo indicate that Girard’s proposal to replace the Eames wire-cage bases was completed on 16 May 1963.

Alexander H. Girard to Xenia S. Miller, 1 March 1963, 6/52, Miller House and Garden Collection, IMA Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana.(MHG_Ib_B006_f052_039)