Carpet Firms Teach Students About Green Design

New York, NY, May 10, 2010--Consolidated Carpet recently co-hosted a 2010 Celebrate Earth hands-on learning workshop with Bentley Prince Street at the Bentley Prince Street showroom in Manhattan.

Designers from 11 major New York City interior design firms taught students from Bronx middle schools about sustainable design by working with them on projects using repurposed samples.

Consolidated Carpet co-sponsored the event with Bentley Prince Street, The Salvadori Center and Antron Carpet Fiber in honor of Earth Day. Consolidated and Bentley Prince Street partnered 11 designers with teams of four students in the sixth to eighth grades. The 44 student participants were identified by The Salvadori Center, a non-profit that fosters learning through architecture and design. 

The design firms donated carpet sample boxes, carpet samples and a variety of design materials; and the students worked alongside the designers to decorate the boxes with the carpet samples and other materials, repurposing the boxes as containers for art supplies.

“The students were all very interested in the sustainability concepts we showed them,” said Beth Shoshan, Regional Vice President of Bentley Prince Street. “It was great to see the creative ways that each child interpreted sustainability.”