Art

Alexander Girard was the director of design for Herman Miller’s textile division from 1952 to 1973. Toward the end of his tenure, he was asked to add an element of ‘aesthetic functionalism’ to Herman Miller’s very first open-plan office system, called Action Office. He responded with more than 40 images for the Environmental Enrichment Panel…

Sinziana Velicescu is a Los Angeles-based photographer and filmmaker. ‘Palm Springs, CA’ (2017), part of her Fabricating Desert series, explores a constructed reality of the natural landscape as a result of abstracting desert architecture. There is an intimacy and painterly quality to Velicescu’s work in the way she plays with our perception of context and…

Herman Miller has a long tradition of styling its physical spaces with bold ads and graphics, a process it calls ‘environmental enrichment.’ Fans of the brand often ask where they can find these works of art, which prompted the company to reprint select pieces from its archives. Linda Powell’s 1979 poster designed to advertise the…