Relative Space & Floorworks International Hosts Award Winning Bjarke Ingels (Bjarke Ingels Group)

Nov. 22, 2010 - PRLog -- Relative Space & Floorworks, the leading Canadian custom-design wood flooring and carpeting company, announces a December 16, 2010 special event hosted by the award-winning Dutch firm Bjarke Ingels Group, at the 2 Bond Street showroom in New York.

Find details about the recent award granted to BIG by Fast Company ‘Master of Design 2010’ at http://www.fastcompany.com/100/2010/64/bjarke-ingels. This evening event is by-invitation to the Architecture & Design industry, and will be moderated by Metropolis Magazine editor in chief Susan Szenasy.

In November, Relative Space New York in collaboration with SPaN Architects opened a brand new venue with sustainable wood flooring and wrap around ceiling clad at venerated Vegan restaurant Souen, located in Union Square.

Early December marks the debut of architectural design maven Clodagh’s ecological fashion line within the Relative Space 2 Bond Street New York showroom; this event series is by invitation only.

2011 promises an exciting ‘Berlin Design’ exhibit at the New York showroom, curated by architects Juergen Mayer H and Tyler Greenberg, who is also Principal at Relative Space New York. This May 2011 event series will also include notable industrial designers and artists Jerszy Seymour, Hella Jongerius, Sarah Illenberger and Mark Braun.

October 2010 marked the first anniversary of the Relative Space New York showroom, as well as the expansion of the Toronto Relative Space flagship to encompass the globally innovative interior design firm, Commute Home. Tours at the new CommuteHome location within Relative Space may be arranged by appointment via Gotham Public Relations.

Relative Space in Toronto is the title sponsor of the timely topic Conversations in Design: Crowdsourcing Creativity and Community at the upcoming 2011 Interior Design Show.

The shared hallmark of Relative Space and Commute Home is a dedication to sustainability and design that solves problems. Detailed company information and product collection artwork may be found via www.relative-space.com and www.commutehome.ca. The companies are complementary in terms of respective track records for sophisticated, contemporary design, working with acclaimed architecture and design firms that include Ian Schrager Hotel Group, Thompson Hotel Group, Rem Koolhaas, David Rockwell and Philippe Starck YOO.

Relative Space new products include Anker from Germany, which recently won the prestigious Good Design Award. Vorwerk, a new showroom product collection was recently nominated for the 2010 Interior Design Best of Year Product Award. Additionally, firm lines Jab, Carpet Concept and Fuse have respectively won the Good Design, Red Dot and Architectural Record Design Awards.

Collection products are LEED-compliant and hypoallergenic. As a company, Relative Space believes that nature is beautiful. To that end products are designed to enhance the intrinsic appeal of the materials, while limiting the artificial or chemical as part of their manufacture.

New modular carpet tiles from Vorwerk at Relative Space showroom contain no PVC and are hypoallergenic, thereby reducing issues of indoor air quality/sick building syndrome. Vorwerk ensures that this product is fully recyclable as it is composed of 60% recycled material, and is manufactured in a facility that is almost completely C02 neutral. See the product at http://www.scale.vorwerk-teppich-xtranet.de/

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