by AF 0620c3 — June 28, 2010—Milliken Constantine presented its largest ever collection of new carpet products during NeoCon World’s Trade Fair at The Merchandise Mart in June. The Palisades Collection was given a Gold award in The Best of NeoCon product competition. The company also received an Innovation award for its Notan Collection. The new collections showcase the creative and technological strength achieved by combining Milliken and Constantine.
The Palisades Collection, designed by Cresta Bledsoe, embodies luxury with its plush weight and subtlety. High luster fiber is sheared to expose organically placed loops — an effect that takes commercial broadloom to new levels of nuance and richness, says the company. The collection is available in broadloom format and includes five designs, Palisades, Rexford, Mulberry, Crescendo and TLC (TLC is available also in tile format).
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| In the Notan Collection, simple forms come together on a striated base. |
The Notan Collection, also from Cresta Bledsoe, was inspired by the nuance and tonality of the brush and ink calligraphy of Oriental Sumi-e artists. (Sumi-e is defined as a monochromatic painting executed in ink.) The Notan Collection features a series of simple yet expressive graphic shapes with varying levels of opacity and translucency. The collection is composed of six patterns.
Milliken Constantine also presented Fretwork, with three interlaced, delicate geometric patterns that have an architectural and mathematical feel while managing to be large in scale and subtly textural. The combination of light and dark lines on solid backgrounds creates a fresh, modern feel, and the overall effect is one of understated simplicity.
The Best of NeoCon product competition is sponsored by Contract Magazine; IIDA (International Interior Design Association); IFMA (International Facility Management Association); MMPI (The Merchandise Mart); and the McMorrow Report.
For more information, see the Milliken Web site.
