Fertile terrain for enchantment, the landscape of New Mexico profoundly influenced the imaginative mise en scene of Georgia O’Keeffe. Her endless skies, inscrutably blooming fauna, and parched-white bones have imprinted the high desert onto the minds of millions—even those who have never set foot in the state.

O’Keeffe’s affinity for Mid-Century Modern is less known.

Herman Miller is changing that with the brand’s New Mexico Collection, a re-issued/slightly altered/ultimately never-before-seen version of two iconic pieces: the Eames Wire Chair Low Base and the Girard Snake Table.

Both chair and table emerged from the friendship and artistic collaboration between the Eames, artist Alexander Girard and his wife susan, and O’Keeffe. In 1953, after relocating to New Mexico from Zeeland, Michigan, Girard informally contributed to the design of O’Keeffe’s home in Abiquiú, introducing the Eames to O’Keeffe, and—in the process—the very spirit of Mid-Century Modern.

The chair, upholstered with a stripe motif on twin fiberglass panels that meet at pointed ends (evocative of an abstract rattlesnake), is an iteration of one designed by the Eames especially for O’Keeffe. Says Herman Miller “It’s a prototype of an upholstered molded fiberglass chair on a low wire base, a special configuration that was never offered for sale by Herman Miller.” In a thank-you note O’Keeffe called it “the smallest, best chair.”

The table tops the Modern mainstay of a splayed aluminum base with a steel surface finished in white enamel and decorated with an inscrutably coiled snake, a pattern of happenstance monochromatic diamonds embellishing its back.

The snake motif was a favorite of Girard’s. He experimented with the design in the 50s for Herman Miller, but 2025 marks the first time the table has been produced. Just so, the brand is releasing it (available to the public beginning May 20) in a limited-edition run of 100 at a price of $895. 300 of the tables are being offered at $1,995.

Paired with a backdrop of barbed wire, scrub oak, and russet earth that stretches into an infinite horizon, the duo exemplifies the surprising synthesis of the desert and Mid-Century Modern design.

Herman Miller’s New Mexico collection debuted last week at NYCxDESIGN. If you’re in the city, you may examine both up close at the brand’s 251 Park Avenue South location.