Tandus Prevails at IIDEX/NeoCon Canada Product Awa
Toronto, Ontario, October 2, 2006--week at IIDEX/NeoCon Canada in Toronto, Canada's leading conference for design and management of interior environments and the country's premier floorcovering exposition, the three brands of Tandus - Monterey, C&A, and Crossley - took top honors in the Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) Awards of Excellence for products. Crossley earned the Gold Award in the Broadloom Carpet category for its TeaHouse Collection; Monterey earned Silver Broadloom for its product Full Volume as well as Bronze Broadloom for its Beneath the Surface Collection. C&A earned Silver in the Modular Carpet category for its product Sira. All were produced under the direction of Suzanne Tick, Design Director, Tandus.
"This most recent performance coupled with a Best of NeoCon Gold award this past June in Chicago shows continued recognition from the architecture and design community that Tandus is the floorcovering industry's design leader - a goal we set out to achieve a year and a half ago," said Ms. Tick.
The Innovation Awards are run by the Interior Designers of Canada and Merchandise Mart Properties (Canada) Inc., managers of IIDEX/NeoCon Canada, the country's largest exposition and conference for the design, construction and management of the built environment. The Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO) owns the annual fall design exposition.
Crossley's TeaHouse Collection: Gold Award in the Broadloom Category
The TeaHouse Collection provides a beautiful assortment of earth-based colors, pattern scale and visual texture for corporate, better healthcare, boutique hospitality or residential interiors. Blurring the lines of pattern, Onsen, a timeless bamboo, incorporates Chado's subtle geometric. Ikasu and Kura offer organic patterning scale.
Monterey's Full Volume: Silver Award in the Broadloom Category
Inspired by sisals and old wool berbers, Full Volume combines an emotional connection to past techniques with a modern aesthetic. Full Volume is the first commercial Berber that offers a big, fat loop so prized in residential interiors but with the durability of a commercial floorcovering. Using Tandus' specialty CrossWeave(R) looms, Full Volume introduces a new breed of wovens for Monterey. Creating more profile in construction - these styles are not about scale - but all about volume.
Monterey's Beneath the Surface Collection: Bronze Award in the Broadloom Category
Four running line styles take handcrafted ethnicity to the next level. From within the blurred edges of these Persian inspired designs, patterns emerge from beneath the construction. Patterns include a Persian flower (Amaranth), a blurred block print (Datum), an impression of a fossilized leaf (Fossel), and a teardrop motif (Ogee). The marriage of Monterey's Linu and C&A's Linu Strata, a textural broadloom, six-foot and modular style, with the patterns of Beneath the Surface creates a new ground foundation that is more complex and tactile. These styles coordinate with the Beneath the Surface Strata six-foot and modular styles offered by sister brand C&A.
C&A's Sira: Silver Award in Modular Tile Category
The first patterned concept resulting from the 2005 Best of NeoCon Broadloom Gold winning Colouresce(TM) Collection, Sira offers a new pattern direction for the floor - FreeForm (patent pending). Tandus Design has pioneered a revolutionary new design technique for patterned carpet. By dissecting traditionally formatted patterns and reassembling them in a variable arrangement, a totally asymmetrical version of the original pattern emerges. Not geometric, not organic but a subtle diffusion of pattern that evokes a richer, deeper reaction. Sira has a positive-negative color relationship with companion broadloom style Sol from Monterey. Sira directly coordinates with Sol, as well as the entire broadloom and modular Colouresce(TM) Collection.
