Invista Awards Interiors Using Antron Fiber

In addition to the Carpet Fiber Design awards, Invista handed out prizes for both innovative and sustainable flooring products.

by Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 5/2/2008

All eyes were on the floor last week at the San Francisco St. Regis, when resin and fiber manufacturer Invista assembled the winners of its 23rd annual Antron Carpet Fiber Design Award. The competition honors projects incorporating Invista's nylon carpet fiber Antron. Entries were evaluated on carpet application, creativity, originality, and how well the design met the client’s business objectives and challenges.

Cohos Evamy Integrated Design took home the grand prize for its PCL Centennial Learning Centre in Edmonton, Canada. The project utilized Atlas Carpet Mills' Perspective, a sculptural pattern that complemented the vertical and horizontal elements of the design.

Category and merit awards were also handed out for healthcare, hospitality, large and small offices, retail, and public space projects. International architecture firm Gensler was the big winner, with two category awards and a merit award.



Invista also used the San Francisco ceremony to reward companies for both innovative and sustainable flooring products made with Antron nylon. Top honors in the eighth annual Antron Carpet Fiber Product Innovation Award competition went to Atlas Carpet Mills for its Avant Garde collection, which took home the gold for broadloom, and Shaw Contract Group's Silk, which won gold for modular carpet design. Ephrata Middle School in Ephrata, Washington won the Sustainable Flooring Performance Award for its Tandus C&A Guardian I carpet, still going strong 25 years after its installation.

Judging the awards were Richard Carlson of Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, Tama Duffy Day of Perkins + Will, Eric Engstrom of EDG Interior Architecture + Design, Carol Jones of Kasian Architecture Interior Design & Planning, and Richard Pollack of Pollack Architecture.

From top: Cohos Evamy Intergrated Design took home the grand prize for its use of Atlas Carpet Mills Perspective carpet at the PCL Centennial Learning Centre in Edmonton, Alberta. Atlas Carpet Mills won the product innovation award for its Avant Garde collection, including the Energy pattern.

Images courtesy of Invista