This month, interior designers, textile manufacturers, artists and architects alike swept into Chicago for NeoCon-the three day long industry event. Between checking out the showrooms and visiting with new and old friends, I was able to enjoy a little bit of Chicago: dinner at Miller’s Pub with the Shaw Contract folks, cocktails at Pops on Champagne with Mannington Commercial, and even dinner on the river at Wollensky’s!

Mannington Commercial announced the winners in tx:style Competition, Sara Meier & Paul Lewandowski who will be debuting their collections at NeoCon 2012.

Our flooring friends were well represented in the Best of Awards:
- On the Edge by Shaw Contract Group, Best of Innovation Award & Modular Carpet Gold Award
- Change Modular Collection by Tandus Flooring, Editor’s Choice Award
- SmartStrand Contract with DuPont™ Sorona® by The Mohawk Group, Carpet Fiber Gold Award
- Roughhewn Broadloom by Tandus Flooring, carpet broadloom Silver Award
- Luxe at Work by InterfaceFLOR, Modular Carpet Silver Award
- Cork Décor, Vol. 2 by USFContract, Resilient Flooring Gold Winner
- The Rinascita Collection: Bufalo & Castoro by Milliken, Resilient Flooring Silver Award