Shaw Hospitality Wins Top HD Product Design Award

Dalton, GA, May 27, 2009--For the third consecutive year, Shaw Hospitality Group won top honors in the International Interior Design Association Hospitality Product Design Awards at Hospitality Design Expo.

The Factory carpet collection for guest rooms and public spaces was named the “Award of Excellence” winner in the flooring/carpeting/rug category

Shaw Hospitality Group won “Best of Competition” in 2007 for its “AfterImages” collection and “Floor Architecture” was named the “Award of Excellence” winner in the flooring category in 2008

Factory, a collection created by the Shaw Hospitality Group Design Studio led by design manager Pamela Rainey, is third-party Cradle to Cradle Certified by McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry.

The collection was recognized by a panel of four industry judges as the winner because of its environmental qualities, varying pattern scales within the collection, true usability in the hospitality industry and its fun and playful nature, said Viveca Bissonnette, 2009 IIDA judge and associate with Carrier Johnson in San Diego.

Rainey was inspired to create the Factory collection after studying the 1934 Museum of Modern Art Exhibit “Machine Art,” which was organized by architect Phillip Johnson.

Rainey worked on the collection for about six months prior to the launch of Factory at the Hospitality Design Expo in 2009.

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