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Antron Presents Antron Design Awards

One prize went to the owners of a 30-year-old carpet.

Mairi Beautyman -- Interior Design, 4/3/2006 12:00:00 AM

On March 23, at the Beverly Hills Hotel, carpet fiber manufacturer Antron bestowed its annual Antron Design Awards, which consist of the 22nd Antron Design Award, the 3rd Antron Sustainable Flooring Performance Award, and the 7th Antron Product Innovation Award. The awards recognize “new standards of creativity in commercial interior design through the innovative use of carpet,” according to press material.

Design and architecture firm HOK is this year’s Grand Prize winner of the 22nd Antron Design Award competition. The architecture and design firm was recognized for its innovative use of carpet—Antron Crepe Suzette" and "Industry" by Bentley Prince Street—in the Executive Briefing Center for Cisco Systems in San Jose, California.

Weld County School District 6OC’s 30-year-old carpet earned them the Grand Prize in the Sustainable Flooring Performance Award category. This award recognizes sustainable interior practices and features carpet that has remained on the floor for 10 or more years.

Lees Carpets received two Antron Product Innovation Awards—the Modular Gold for "Ground Strata" and a Modular Silver for “Architectural Rhythms.” Karastan Contract also received a Gold, in the Broadloom category, for "Ribbed Concrete."