by Ann Withanee — June 20, 2012—Mannington Commercial has expanded the Vivendi Collection of flooring products into broadloom and modular carpet, providing the healthcare facilities fields with soft surface flooring designed to perform with low maintenance and high durability.
For the new soft flooring, the Mannington Vivendi Collection was awarded a Gold in the Best of NeoCon product competition, held during the annual NeoCon contract furnishings show at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart in June. Vivendi was displayed in the company’s permanent Mart showroom.
Following last year’s launch of the Vivendi heterogeneous sheet for healthcare and other high-performance projects, HOK Product Design and Mannington Commercial this year expanded Vivendi into soft surface flooring. The coordinating carpet, sheet flooring and textile collections bring a “goes, not matches” philosophy in an aesthetic that is suited to today’s healthcare spaces. “We find that in healthcare in particular, our clients’ brands right now fall into one of three categories: luxury, healthy and calm. Or, at best, a combination of these categories,” said Donald Cremers with HOK, an interior designer and lead product designer of Vivendi.
The carpet is a performance product with some tip shear texture, bringing pattern to the foreground. While Vivendi heterogeneous sheet was inspired by the visual softness of textiles, Vivendi carpet is inspired by striated artisan tile, flame-stitched chevrons and fractal geometrics with an organic twist. The visual effect of the patterns is at once timeless and contemporary, bringing interest to the floor without overwhelming other design elements. The palette of thirteen colors draws from wood, soft metals and cool industrial materials, and complementary neutrals.
Antron fiber and Mannington construction unite to create a low-maintenance, high-durability carpet engineered to retain the color and texture that set the collection apart. Mannington’s Colorsafe bleach warranty, Xguard stain warranty and other lifetime warranties apply.
The carpet is backed with high recycled content backings, Platinum certified by NSI/ANSI as Environmentally Preferable Products. As modular tile, Vivendi is also available backed with rEvolve, Mannington’s vinyl alternative modular backing that includes 40 percent recycled content and renewable resources.
For more information visit the Mannington Web site. See also the list of the Best of NeoCon winners on FMLink.