INVISTA Presents ANTRON® carpet fiber award to designer of Major League Baseball headquarters

INVISTA, maker of Antron® carpet fiber, presented the Antron® Carpet Fiber Designed to Perform Award grand prize to Butler Rogers Baskett for its design of Major League Baseball’s headquarters.

KENNESAW, GA (April 29, 2010) – INVISTA, maker of Antron® carpet fiber, presented the Antron® Carpet Fiber Designed to Perform Award grand prize to Butler Rogers Baskett for its design of Major League Baseball’s headquarters. Butler Rogers Baskett is being honored tonight at a ceremony at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City. Judges awarded the grand prize for the firm’s innovative use of carpet in the design of a high-performance interior.  

“We are excited to award the grand prize to Butler Rogers Baskett because carpet played a significant part in the overall design objectives and aesthetics for the space,” said Diane O’Sullivan, global marketing director, INVISTA Commercial Flooring. “One of the first places designers are turning for performance and inspiration is to carpets made with Antron® fiber, because they know it can perform beautifully for years to come.”

The Major League Baseball headquarters in New York manages day to day operations for professional baseball. Butler Rogers Baskett designed a space to capture the spirit of the sport by incorporating references to baseball in a sophisticated, non-literal manner. They achieved this by using subtle allusions to the sport, such as bench seating to reference dugouts, and flooring to represent the grass and dirt zones found on a baseball field, reinterpreted in a combination of carpet and terrazzo. “Shirt,” by Lees, a brand of the Mohawk Group, made with Antron Legacy™ nylon, inspired the designers with its textured and quiet appearance, and the randomly spaced colored stripes provide a sense of movement and reference the pinstripes found on many uniforms. Performance and sustainability were of utmost concern to the client, and designers achieved this through the use of high performance materials.

“The designers displayed their intuitive knowledge of baseball’s subtleties and successfully incorporated a “Let’s play ball” theme into the space without kitsch or iconography,” said juror Ellen Dickson of Bailey Edward Architects. “The interior design is solid from concept to execution, including the selection of carpet constructed of Antron® carpet fiber to ensure performance and durability for years to come.”

Juror Marcia Drenton King of Forest City Enterprises added, “The carpet selection complimented the other architectural elements, resulting in a ‘home run’ space.”

Entries were evaluated on the ability of the design to withstand the test of time, the innovative use of carpet, and how well the design met client business objectives and challenges relative to performance, aesthetics and sustainable benefits.

Since 1983, the Antron® Carpet Fiber Design Award, now the Antron® Carpet Fiber Designed to Perform Award, has recognized design firms in the United States and Canada that continue to push the envelope in innovation and creativity in using carpet in commercial design.

About Antron® carpet fiber

Antron® carpet fiber is constructed with exceptional fiber engineering using type 6,6 nylon polymer and treated with DuraTech™ soil resistance treatment. Carpet of Antron® nylon is tested against the Antron® Performance Standards Program, the highest fiber performance standard for carpet durability. For more information on Antron® carpet fiber, please call 1-877-5ANTRON or visit antron.net.