ANTRON® Design Award Entries Still Being Accepted
Prestigious Awards Program to Honor Creative Architects and Designers

June 12, 2005
CHICAGO — The 22nd Antron® fiber Design Award competition is still open for new entries. Since 1983, the Antron® Design Award program recognizes designers who are setting new standards of creativity in commercial interior design through the innovative use of carpet. The Antron® Design Award competition celebrates the marriage of unique interior design and inventive floor coverings.

The competition also marks the third year for the Sustainable Flooring Performance Award. The Sustainable Flooring Performance Award recognizes sustainable practices through the use of performance driven flooring choices in commercial applications.

Attending NeoCon in Chicago, Bobby Berrier, vice president –INVISTA commercial and transportation flooring said, “We want to remind everyone of how important it is to recognize architects and interior designers for their innovative work as well as to award sustainable decisions by architects, interior designers and facility managers. Each year, these individuals raise the standards of creativity through their innovative use of carpet. Many of the best and brightest are at NeoCon, so we wanted to use this opportunity to remind them of our awards.”

Judges for the 22nd Antron® Design Award and the Sustainable Flooring Performance Award will be Gail Burns of WHR Architects, Nila Leiserowitz of Gensler, Brenda Nyce-Taylor of Hillier Architecture, Joseph Pettipas of HOK Canada and George Scammell of the Walt Disney World Company.

To download the call for entries and to review past winners go to antron.invista.com/designawards. Entries are due September 16, 2005.

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