At NeoCon 2018: Shaw Contract’s Inside Shapes

At NeoCon 2018: Shaw Contract’s Inside Shapes

Manufacturer Shaw Contract had an impressive showing at NeoCon last week with wins in two categories: Modular Carpet (Haven, Gold) and Hard-Surface Flooring (Natural Choreography, Silver).
At NeoCon 2018: Shaw Contract's Inside Shapes
At NeoCon 2018: Shaw Contract's Inside Shapes
But for my money, as well as my sense of tactile engagement and whimsy, the real show-stopper was Inside Shapes.
At NeoCon 2018: Shaw Contract's Inside Shapes
Produced in collaboration with Stockholm studio Form Us With Love, Inside Shapes is comprised of four different units that amount to seven different shapes, proposing a versatile, colorful, and engaging approach to modular carpet that's also an exploration into the aesthetic possibilities of basic geometry.
At NeoCon 2018: Shaw Contract's Inside Shapes
The "four shapes" remind me foremost of Shel Silverstein's The Missing Piece, that well-known childhood parable about identity and belonging. One of the four tiles is a basic square, but the other three are a matching convex and concave curve, triangle and triangular cutout (the "point"), and a pair of matching triangles.
At NeoCon 2018: Shaw Contract's Inside Shapes
The shapes can be combined in various ways within an enhanced spectrum of available colors-12 to be exact, each grounded in organic shades found in nature with accompanying light and dark variations.
At NeoCon 2018: Shaw Contract's Inside Shapes
For those who might be intimidated by the breadth and expanse of aesthetic possibility here, Shaw Contract offers 17 Premixes: "Warm to cool, curvy to angular, sophisticated to dynamic."
At NeoCon 2018: Shaw Contract's Inside Shapes
For everyone else, Inside Shapes grants "Permission to Play." Herein find a rolling canvas of possibility: "From offices to schools, retail to hospitality, architects and designers can engage and enliven the human experience in commercial spaces."
At NeoCon 2018: Shaw Contract's Inside Shapes
Find out more at Shaw Contract and Form Us With Love.

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