July 18, 2001—Milliken Carpet and Gensler have teamed up to launch Oxygen, a modular carpet collection that the two companies believe is a new graphic concept for the floor. The eight design groups can be mixed and matched to allow designers to compose their own graphic art on the floor. The modern collection was created for Milliken by Gensler, an architecture, design and strategic consulting firm.
Eight design groups and 15 patterns form the basis of the carpet system that breaks the paradigm of 12″ repeats in carpet design. With names like Float, Catwalk, Kiss, Screen, Shag, Wink, Fizz and Glam, the patterns suggest images such as bubbles and fizz, striped blocks and TV screens and textures such as linen, nubby cotton and tissue paper. One design can be used for a single treatment, or multiple patterns can be mixed and matched, checkerboarded, turned in 90 or 180 angles or placed randomly throughout the space.
Oxygen and all Milliken modular carpets are sustainable and can be renewed through Millikens proprietary Earth Square program. At the end of its first life, carpet is removed and sent to Milliken, where it is super-cleaned, rejuvenated and restyled for another lifetime of use. The renewal process costs substantially less than new carpet, and it eliminates landfill waste.
For more information, contact Milliken Carpet.
