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There's no better time than color month to admire the vintage excellence of Herman Miller's ground-breaking textile design director, Alexander Girard.

Many of Girard's folk-inspired, colorful upholstery textiles from the post-war period through the sixties will seem familiar because they've been re-issued by Herman Miller in recent years and are being used by companies like Maximo and DWR to hip up upholstered furniture and pillows.