Capri Cork, Tandus Products Win Design Awards

Lancaster, PA, Dec. 19, 2008--Capri Cork's Espresso won Interior Design Magazine’s Best of Year Product Award for the Hard Floor Covering category.

Also, Tandus’ “Manufactured Landscapes Collection” was honored with a “Best of the Year Designer’s Choice Product Award” in the carpet tile category.

“The inspiration for Manufactured Landscapes came about from an awareness of what is going on in the environment and how we can be instrumental in changing the way people look at carpet,” said Suzanne Tick, design director for Tandus, who came up with the collection.

Espresso is part of Capri’s Rigato Collection. Rigato, which means pinstripe in Italian, has seven hand-laid patterns crafted by Italian artisans.

All entries were online with voting by the design community taking place October 6-15.

Winners were announced at a reception held at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Dec. 4.