Herman Miller has launched the New Mexico Collection, a limited-edition furniture line inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe's desert home in Abiquiú, New Mexico. Created in collaboration with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, the collection includes the Eames Wire Chair Low Base (300 pieces, $1,995) and the Girard Snake Table (100 pieces, $895), both drawing on O'Keeffe's friendship with textile designer and architect Alexander Girard. The chair reimagines a prototype gifted to O'Keeffe by Charles and Ray Eames, while the table is based on a never-produced Girard design from the 1950s.
The collection matters because it bridges O'Keeffe's iconic modernist aesthetic with midcentury design history, highlighting her role as a tastemaker who influenced and collaborated with major figures like the Eameses and Alexander Girard. By bringing a previously unrealized Girard table into production and reviving a chair O'Keeffe called "the smallest, best chair," Herman Miller connects contemporary design consumers to a storied artistic legacy, while the accompanying exhibition of Girard's photographs of O'Keeffe's home adds historical depth.