In 1966, Alexander Girard designed the interior of The Compound restaurant in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
For the most part, the restaurant looks as is did in 1966. One exception is the missing "Sansi and Friends" mural on the right .
The mural, by Girard,depicts his daughter and four others at a table. The red text painting on the left is now black.
2013
The Girard fabric tiles are still on the ceiling, no Sansi.
1966
2013
I made a reservation for the table right under the brass face.
I had the wild mushrooms with organic stone ground polenta.
Food mural next to the kitchen
The Navajo rug ceiling patchwork is still there.
This wood patch door is just like the mural Girard did a year earlier at the First Unitarian in Albuquerque.
I wish I could have taken this home.
This too.
