Flor and Alexander Girard

Flor is producing a line of 4 modular carpet tiles based on Alexander Girard's famous graphic designs.
"As a business owner, I'm always on the look out for new opportunities to develop and expand our business and our audience.  When we were approached by maXimo to develop an area rug collection using the iconic designs of the renowned Herman Miller textile designer, Alexander Girard, we viewed it as a perfect fit for our company."

Like all great designers, Alexander Girard never forgot that his work must be ultimately practical - he just made sure to imbue his designs with a whole lot of sophisticated yet fun boldness.

Working smack in the middle of the hey-day of mid-20th century American design was Alexander Girard. Many consider Girard the most influential textile designer of the modern era. But to many more, he remains relatively unknown. To Flor, Girard is everything one could ever hope to aspire to: functionality made better by a blended balance of vibrant color, whimsical design and pure sophistication.
Girard's La Fonda del Sol restaurant project put the emphasis on sol with bold, color-saturated graphics of the sun reviving up the walls, the furniture, the floors, the tableware, the menus, even the matchbooks. Though the restaurant closed in 1971, Girard's work there maintained an iconic status - each piece thoroughly beautiful, all supremely functional. And it's that work that has inspired the Flor Girard line of modular carpet tiles.