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New Collection Launch: Expression

Taking cues from groundbreakers in music and high fashion, our brand-new Expression Collection presents an inclusive, multi-layered design evolution that emphasizes self-expression. 

Gone are the days of ‘traditional’ in today’s world of design! Spurning conventional gender-specific colors and design elements, a growing number of modern hospitality spaces reflect the evolving notions of masculine and feminine aesthetics.

Rather than adhere to rigid style definitions, the blurring of décor rules can help designers create unique spaces, which makes guests from all walks of life feel welcome. The Tarkett Hospitality Design Team strives to examine expressive, multi-layered visuals through the art of textiles. 

With this thoughtful guiding inspiration, Tarkett Hospitality’s eclectic, individualistic, and multifaceted Expression Collection marks an exciting custom-carpet debut that allows all visitors to walk away with a unique experience and perspective. 

According to Kim Drautz, Tarkett Hospitality President, the design team is constantly inspired by the trends observed in fashion, the arts, and self-expression, and set out to explore how these evolving ideas could impact the built environment and hospitality experiences specifically:

“The Expression Collection provides a fresh, inclusive solution, with a new way of looking at pattern and color in designed spaces. The styles form multi-layered expressions that are open-ended and open to personal interpretation with geometrics, brushstrokes, lines, and color. In the end, these are patterns without patterns, designed for continual reinterpretation.”

The 14 patterns of the Expression Collection pull from an earthy color palette of creams, browns, and charcoal, with dashes of sage and fuchsia. Along with the eye-catching blend of abstract, artistic creativity, the Expression Collection can be customized with Axminster woven, Digital Dye Injection (DDI), or tufted constructions, along with a variety of fiber types, texture, color, and pile weight options.

Ideal for fitting specific budget and project requirements, Expression Collection designs can also be made into custom rugs to enhance guest rooms, lobbies, and other open spaces. Tarkett Hospitality launched the Expression Collection in November at the 2022 Boutique Design New York event. 

For more information on Tarkett Hospitality or Expression Collection, please visit www.TarkettHospitality.com. 

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Design Product Spotlight

All About Axminster Carpet for Hospitality

Whether traveling miles for an overnight stay or attending a professional conference for an afternoon, every guest of a hospitality location will remember a unique, impressive space designed to the nines and fit for royalty. 

Combining the vast capability of industry-leading innovation, premium materials, and dedicated support with the storied legacy of Britain’s oldest, best known, and most prestigious manufacturer of carpets, Tarkett Hospitality offers custom-tailored Axminster Carpets™ that provide clients with superior beauty, clarity, and longevity in an enduring, luxurious woven construction. 

Custom Axminster solutions can be tailored to fit the specific color scheme and needs of any space, are available in 2-ply and 3-ply, and some options feature Sculpt Technology to enhance the carpet with unique multi-level texturing and depth. In fact, any carpet pattern that can be envisioned can become an Axminister construction. These carpets are also available in tiles suitable for all heavy-traffic public applications such as hotels, resorts, and casinos.

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Originally selected and purchased by King George III and Queen Charlotte in 1755, Axminster Carpets have spent over 250 years’ worth of high-profile placement in royal palaces, luxury hotels, sports stadiums, and the poshest private residences. With an impressive heritage as the Desso brand and approved supplier to the leading industry brands, Tarkett Hospitality is a world-leading manufacturer of woven Axminster and has provided customers with the finest-quality flooring since 1935. 

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It starts with premium-grade virgin wool from New Zealand and Europe, the highest-quality wool on the market. In addition to wool fiber being naturally non-allergenic, sustainable, flame-retardant, and repellant of water and stains, the 80% wool yarn used for Axminster carpets has been third-party tested and proven to provide greater appearance retention, stronger resilience to crushing, and an overall reduction in life-cycle costs. 

Using the latest technology to create designs with outstanding clarity, precision, and definition, Smart Looms can even weave fields, borders, and out-fills as one piece. This not only minimizes weaving time and eliminates the need for onsite border work and mitering, but also minimizes seams, pattern matching, and waste.  Boasting a tighter yarn twist for great pile retention and crush resistance, Axminster carpets provide fast renovation, superior performance, and easy maintenance. 

Tarkett Hospitality’s design team then draws wide-ranging inspiration to create fascinating patterns that are not found anywhere else in the industry. All Axminster yarns are blended, spun, and dyed in-house for superior color saturation, and each blank Axminster canvas can feature up to 16 colors per design, with 480 unique colors to choose from, plus 55 unique gray shades.

Maybe your eyes are drawn to the iconic shapes and patterns of the prestigious Bauhaus art school interpreted in the nowHAUS Collection or the celebration of storied textile traditions and craftspeople rooted in Mexico and Central America within the El Alma Collection. These are just two stunning examples of how Axminster weaving technology provides outstanding beauty and crisp renderings of clear, complex patterns that can liven up any space.

Axminster custom carpet

After the transformative pattern and carpet are complete, Tarkett Hospitality’s dedicated Axminister project managers offer comprehensive support, including the skill of highly qualified CRI-certified Axminster installers to optimize your installation and provide on-site support, training, and full fleet management.

For more information on creating a distinctive Axminster carpet with Tarkett Hospitality’, visit www.TarkettHospitality.com and explore how the specialized team of Axminister designers can bring your vision to life! v

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Events

Recap: Tarkett Hospitality Takes Las Vegas & Hosts Customer Event! 

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It feels great to be back! After the past couple of years of uncertainty surrounding travel, events, and hosting during the COVID pandemic, it was truly incredible to meet face-to-face with customers this past April 26th through April 28th at the Tarkett Hospitality customer event and showcase in Las Vegas, NV. 

In addition to sponsoring and providing carpet for the DesignWell Pavilion during the HD Expo+ Conference, where attendees learn how brands are integrating wellness and sustainability into their projects and what more the industry can do, Tarkett Hospitality’s presence signaled that the industry is getting back to business!

The public interest in health and wellbeing has never been greater amid the COVID-19 pandemic and Tarkett Hospitality shares the ultimate goals of sourcing, designing, and thinking smarter. In addition to the valuable discovery, knowledge-sharing, networking, and inspiration that always takes place at in-person events, this event highlighted the latest products, services, and innovative development.

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Attendees got to experience products in person the same way that guests will in the future! This includes the launch of Tarkett Hospitality’s Blotted Collection, a new custom broadloom collection inspired by the abstract expression movement popularized by American painter Jackson Pollack, which juxtaposes soft, airy, delicate textures with expressive, erratic lines to create eleven unforgettable patterns:

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Blotted Collection is available in Axminster woven, Digital Dye Injection (DDI), and tufted, is fully customizable across a suite of constructions, colors, textures, and pile weights, and includes rugs as well. The energy of the show-stopping carpet certainly matched the buzz of insightful discussions and innovative ideas that permeated the air!

In addition to hosting all visitors with food and beverages, Tarkett Hospitality invited ten customers back to attend a special VOC (Voice of Customer) morning session. These VOC sessions are invaluable as attendees provide feedback on specific new color lines of several products, as well as feedback on many additional new products and programs. 

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The customer turnout throughout the Tarkett Hospitality space was tremendous and it’s safe to say that the event was a smashing success. Thank you to all who visited and provided feedback in Las Vegas!For more information about future Tarkett Hospitality events and sponsorships, contact the Tarkett Hospitality event & media team.