About OBJECT CARPET

The innovative indoor/outdoor carpet collection MEDITERRANEO from OBJECT CARPET, created by the renowned designers Matteo Thun and Antonio Rodriguez, has received the “Best of Design 2024” award from Schöner Wohnen. An expert jury selected the collection as the winner due to its outstanding aesthetics and functionality. This award underlines the high quality and creativity that goes into every detail of the collection.

The product film showcasing our innovative Mono-Material carpet, NEOO, has been honored with the Architect's Darling Award in Gold by a prestigious expert jury. The coveted award from Heinze Verlag not only recognizes the compelling execution of the product presentation but also underscores the significance of NEOO as the first recyclable carpet, contributing to a sustainable future.

NEOO receives the German Innovation Award 2023 in the category #W1 Excellence in Business to Consumer Interior & Living and convinced the jury especially by its sustainable features. The first circular carpet is an innovation that stands out not only for its added value for users but also for the environment.

With the awarding of the ICONIC AWARDS 2023: BEST OF BEST Innovative Interior in the "Wall, Floor, Ceiling" category, our innovative and 100% recyclable carpet NEOO receives another significant award from the German Design Council. NEOO has particularly impressed against over 500 submissions and is awarded the "Best of Best" label, demonstrating that our mono-material product is on the absolutely right track!

With the awarding of the ICONIC AWARDS 2023: BEST OF BEST Innovative Interior in the "Wall, Floor, Ceiling" category, our innovative and 100% recyclable carpet NEOO receives another significant award from the German Design Council. NEOO has particularly impressed against over 500 submissions and is awarded the "Best of Best" label, demonstrating that our mono-material product is on the absolutely right track!

Sustainable, responsible, forward-looking. NEOO by OBJECT CARPET is paving the way for a green future and has been awarded the Green Product Award 2023 in the category "Workspace" for it. The renowned Green Product Award annually honors products and concepts from all over the world that stand out in terms of design, innovation, and sustainability, as judged by an expert jury.

OBJECT CARPET has received a Special Mention award from the prestigious German Design Awards for its coffee table book "FOREVER YOUNG." The German Design Awards is one of the most recognized design competitions worldwide, and the "Excellent Communications Design - Books and Calendars" category recognizes groundbreaking projects in communication design, such as the unique photo book "FOREVER YOUNG," in which OBJECT CARPET takes the reader on an exciting journey through its own rich corporate history. Spectacular staging by world-famous photographers immortalizes selected carpets from OBJECT CARPET in an unforgettable way.

Awarded with the Architects' Darling Cradle to Cradle Challenge Silver Award, OBJECT CARPET was recognized for its remarkable commitment to circularity. The coveted jury prize from Heinze Verlag examines the corporate responsibility and sustainability of various manufacturers in this award category. With the theme "No Time To Waste," OBJECT CARPET demonstrates how it can be done: design-strong, and at the same time resource-saving and infinitely recyclable.

The digital showroom has won a German Brand Award 2022 in recognition of its successful brand management. The OBJECT CARPET CREATIVE SPACE emerged victorious in the category "Excellence in Brand Strategy and Creation - Brand Communication - Digital Solutions and Apps". The German Brand Awards honour unique brands and brand builders, giving a boost to the entire industry as a result. Key factors in the judges' decision include the design quality of the brand presence, the homogeneity of the brand experience, differentiation from the competition and relevance to the target group.

For its innovative design features, the OBJECT CARPET × Ippolito Fleitz Group collection received the coveted GOOD DESIGN® Award 2021. The GOOD DESIGN® Award is considered the world’s oldest and most prestigious award for high-profile design projects. The idea behind it comes from major museum institutions such as the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and the Museum of Modern Art. With the award, the expert jury pays homage to not only the variability and structural diversity of the products but also ecologically sustainable manufacturing.

OBJECT CARPET × Ippolito Fleitz Group receives the CORPORATE DESIGN AWARD 2021, the second international award for the hybrid trade fair concept for collection presentation.  The category "Corporate Staging" honors particularly innovative design concepts that generate a distinctive brand atmosphere with elements of corporate design. The unique scenographic implementation of the hybrid trade show concept convinced the top-class jury - the combination of a film set, a digital 360° experience and an image-rich online/offline campaign makes a statement.

OBJECT CARPET wins renowned Red Dot Award 2021 for the hybrid trade fair concept for the OBJECT CARPET × Ippolito Fleitz Group collection - the award in the category "Digital Solutions - Fairs & Exhibitions" is also a novelty for OBJECT CARPET. The hybrid trade fair and communication concept for the OBJECT CARPET × Ippolito Fleitz Group collection was able to convince the jury of the most important and largest design competition in the world and emerged as the winner - further proof of the high creativity and design competence of the two development partners of this special collaboration. The impressive experience of a fascinating room installation can be experienced as a virtual walk-through 360° VR Experience ...

The new carpet collection from OBJECT CARPET × Ippolitio Fleitz Group is awarded the iF Design Award in the discipline "Product". The iF DESIGN AWARD has been one of the most important design prizes in the world since 1954 and is a globally recognized trademark for excellent design. Every year, products are honored in nine disciplines. Out of 10.000 submitted entries the new collection of OBJECT CARPET prevailed against the competitors. The judging panel consisted of 98 independent design experts from more than 20 countries.

In this year's Star Award of the industry magazine Tophotel OBJECT Carpet could reach the second place in the category "Equipment and Design" with the design world FORUM FOR GREAT IDEAS. The Star Award honors products and services of the hotel supply industry. Within it, 33 products were nominated in twelve categories. The decision on gold, silver and bronze was made by a reader vote.

Gold for OBJECT CARPET! The new collection OBJECT CARPET × Ippolito Fleitz Group was awarded with the coveted German Design Award for Excellent Product Design in Gold. Among the numerous submissions OBJECT CARPET managed to convince the jury in the category "Material & Surfaces" with its 8 new qualities in 111 colours - especially the collection scored with extraordinary colors and different structures. The high quality products inspire to unique atmospheric interiors and furthermore create curiosity for a factual product through original eye-catching pictures and pointed texts. The German Design Award is presented by the German Design Council to international design specialists from business, education and science and is one of the most recognized awards in the field of design. 

With the Best of Year Award 2020 OBJECT CARPET receives the 4th award for the new collection OBJECT CARPET × Ippolito Fleitz Group. The international design award is offered by the industry-leading design publication Interior Design and selected OBJECT CARPET as the "Winner" in the category "broadloom carpet" for sheet goods. Interior Design magazine, published by SANDOW for over 88 years, recognized the best in the industry for the 15th time.

The new collection OBJECT CARPET × Ippolito Fleitz Group was awarded 1st place in the category "Design" at the materialPREIS 2020. The prize is offered by an expert jury of raumPROBE and awarded for new materials and developments as well as original compositions and combinations. OBJECT CARPET shone with its diverse carpet collection, which convinced with numerous colorways and surface variations.

The international jury of the archiproducts Design Award 2020 awarded the quality MOOVE x GROOVE as "Winner" in the category Concept & Design. Among the 700 entries, OBJECT CARPET convinced with the 60 jurors with its expressive creations and original cooperation with the Ippolito Fleitz Group, which offers a unique playground for carpet design.

At the annual awarding of the best companies in the industry according to their popularity, OBJECT CARPET won the HEINZE ARCHITECTS' DARLING® Product Award "Silver" 2020 in the product category "Textile Floor Coverings". 
OBJECT CARPET also convinced with its comprehensive social and ecological commitment as well as its measures for the protection of the environment and was also awarded with the Jury-Award in the category "Cradle2Cradle" in "Silver".

The Design Center annually awards the Baden-Württemberg Focus Open International Design Prize worldwide. Our OBJECT CARPET design world FORUM FOR GREAT IDEAS - a concept for individual floor design without limits - was able to assert itself in the international environment and was awarded a FOCUS SPECIAL MENTION. The strong character of the designs, available as broadloom, Acoustic Tiles and RUGX, was convincing in the  category MATERIALS + SURFACE

Once again OBJECT CARPET has received an award for its innovative back construction. Already for the 9th time the healthy Acoustic Tile WELLTEX® is crowned as winner. The Plus X Award is the world's largest innovation award for brand quality in the areas of innovation, technology, sports and lifestyle. Every year, products can be awarded in seven categories. WELLTEX® by OBJECT CARPET was awarded in four of seven categories in 2020: High Quality, Innovation, Ease of Use and Functionality.

The new, creative design concept FORUM FOR GREAT IDEAS received the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2020 The fact that FORUM by OBJECT CARPET convinced the jury of the largest and most important design competition and emerged as the winner is further proof of the high design quality of the new creative concept. With FORUM, planners, architects and interior designers can realise their own design ideas. The new design world offers unlimited design freedom.

The association Netzwerk Boden, the largest network of the flooring industry in Germany, chooses WELLTEX as "Floor of the year 2020". OBJECT CARPET's innovative, extremely light tile backing convinced the jury with its outstanding product-technical and healthy living properties as well as its environmentally friendly production with recycled materials.

OBJECT CARPET wins the German Design Award 2020 with two products. The German Design Council awarded the prize to WELLTEX, an multiple award-winning, healthy back construction, which is made from 100% ECONYL® yarn and does justice to a health-conscious furnishing style due to its sustainable production method and the absence of bitumen, latex and PVC. The jury was also impressed by the PLACES OF ORIGIN collection, which scored points for its elegant design combined with healthy, environmentally friendly materials. Both products deservedly received the WINNER award in the "Excellent Product Design" category.

The multi-award-winning innovative carpet-tile backing WELLTEX is one of this year's winners of the German Innovation Award offered by the German Design Council. The newly developed product from OBJECT CARPET was particularly highlighted in this field due to its added value compared to previous solutions.

With its healthy-living backing WELLTEX, OBJECT CARPET has successfully contributed to a "green" future once again. The carpet-tile backing impressed the jury of the Green Product Award international competition by such properties as design, innovation and sustainability and was awarded as the winner in the "World of work” category.

Already honoured three times, the healthy and ecological backing construction WELLTEX from OBJECT CARPET received another coveted award: The innovative carpet tile backing was awarded the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2019. True to the motto "In search of good design and innovation", the jury praised WELLTEX in CANYON design.

Discovering and honoring the best of all areas of interior design is the goal of the ICONIC AWARDS: Innovative Interior. With the innivative tile backing WELLTEX, OBJECT CARPET was named the proud winner in the category "wall, floor, ceiling" and was awarded for its outstanding design quality.

OBJECT CARPET has won a silver prize in the category "Textile Floor Coverings" at “Architects’ Darling”. This award coronates the best manufacturer of construction products in Germany. In a large-scale survey of the Heinze Architecture Market Research, it is annually determined which companies best implement and understand the needs of architects and planners.

Not visible, but big in effect! The WELLTEX backing was nominated for the Design Selection 2018 by Achiproducts. The jury, consisting of 40 international architecture offices, communication agencies, journalists and architectural photographers awarded these healthy-living tiles, which is certified, among other labels, with the "Blue Angel".

At the AIT Innovation Award for Architecture + Office, the "Special Recognition” award was conferred to the healthy-living WELLTEX backing.  The five-member jury consisting of renowned architects and planners awarded this special innovation behind this visionary structure of tiles. The architecture and design competition was initiated by architecture trade magazines “AIT” and “xia intelligent architecture” at the ORGATEC 2018 for the tenth time. 

At this renowned international design competition, the new generation of carpets and carpet tiles produced an impression. Collection PLACES OF ORIGIN made of 100% recycled ECONYL® yarn was awarded by the "Focus Special Mention" in the category of sustainability - not only due to its ecological manufacturing technology, but also due to its durability and longevity.is

Due to its high degree of innovation, the PLACES OF ORIGIN collection was chosen as the "Green Selection" for the Green Product Award. Since 2013 the Green Product Award is given to the best innovative and sustainable products & services on the year. This award is given to the best national and international established companies and start-ups selected according to the design, innovation and sustainability criteria. 

Within the framework of Internorga 2018, readers of the lodging industry magazine Top Hotel awarded the innovative PLACES OF ORIGIN collection, which is made of ECONYL® yarn, top honours in the Versatility category.

Wallpaper Magazine showcases superbly designed products each year.  The sorbet version of SILKY SEAL1200 received top honours in the Best Blushers category.  In conjunction with other design elements, the pink version of this carpet was particularly outstanding.

The jury at FX International Interior Design Award bestowed an award on the FREESTILE Collection from OBJECT CARPET. The jury was particularly impressed with the combination of a simple concept and outstanding functionality exhibited by this innovative carpet tile collection.

The RUGXSTYLE Collection from OBJECT CARPET received top honours in the Red Dot Award Product Design 2017 category. The international jury consisting of independent experts praised this newly optimized carpet for its innovation, functionality and ecological sustainability.

The Architektur + Textil Objekt Innovation Prize (Innovationspreis Architektur + Textil Objekt) was bestowed in cooperation with the Heimtextil 2017 trade show. The new RUGXSTYLE collection won the award "Besondere Auszeichnung". By granting the collection this award, the jury of architects and interior designers recognized and confirmed the excellence of a highly successful product.

Having already garnered a number of prestigious international awards, the FREESTILE carpet tile collection also impressed the German Design Award jury. The German Design Council awarded this new generation of self-laying carpet tiles Special Mention in the Excellent Product Design category for its outstanding design.

OBJECT CARPET has now officially joined the ranks of the Brands of the Century (Marken des Jahunderts). Its carpets, which combine beauty and suitability for everyday use with innovative and top-drawer raw materials, greatly impressed the panel of experts and editors of Deutschen Standard.

The German Brand Award granted top honours to OBJECT CARPET for outstanding branding of its FREESTILE carpet tiles. The award, in the Industry Excellence in Branding category, encompasses all fields of modern branding and brand positioning. The award was granted by the renowned branding and design organization, the German Design Council.

On the occasion of Orgatec 2016 in Cologne, OBJECT CARPET was awarded the AIT innovation prize (Innovationspreis Architektur + Office) in the 'Synthese - Architekt und Industrie in Zusammenarbeit' (Synthesis – Architects and Industry working together) category for its outstanding FREESTILE carpet tile collection. An award that not only celebrates the product’s outstanding design, but that above all confirms its architectural relevance.

Already back in 2014, OBJECT CARPET was nominated by the German Design Council for the German Design Award. In 2016 the company’s SUPERGRAPHIC HIGH CLASS collection received a Special Mention award. In granting the award, the jury praised the successful textile interpretation of graphic design patterns.

Immediately following the market launch of Object Carpet’s innovative FREESTILE carpet tiles, the product won second place in the materialPRIZE (materialPREIS) 2016 competition. This event, which is sponsored by raumPROBE Stuttgart, looks for new materials and developments, as well as original compositions and combinations.

Each year NeoCon Chicago – the world's leading platform and most important event of the year for the commercial design industry – grants awards for the most innovative products, one of which is Object Carpet’s extraordinary FREESTILE carpet tiles. Being a top finalist for the HiP Award represents the first international prize for OBJECT CARPET.

OBJECT CARPET won the Red Dot Communication Design Award for the Configurator. The award, which is granted for the world’s best ad campaigns, marketing strategies and creative solutions, had 7,451 entries.

On the occasion of the BAU trade show in Munich, Germany, the architecture magazines AIT and Xia granted our GREEN CARD label a prize in the energy and resource efficiency category. In search of innovative products, GREEN CARD won the award for its use of sustainable ECONYL® yarn.

Having garnered kudos from the German Design Council and from Imm Cologne, the Interior Innovation Award is one of the most important design prizes in the furnishings industry. The award was bestowed in 2014 for the 12th time, whereby the SPLENDIDO product from the Matteo Thun collection won top honours.

For the past nine years the Architects Partner Award (APA) has been determining which companies the world’s architecture and interior design firms are most eager to work with. OBJECT CARPET was awarded this distinction, based on an extensive survey of architects.

This study by Ernst & Young, Munich Business School and the INLUX Institut fuer Luxus annually assesses so called hard criteria such as exclusivity, international orientation, and sustainability, as well as soft factors such as brand image – all of which are scrutinized by a panel of experts. Quality, innovativeness, appeal and brand loyalty are the decisive factors here.

The Design Award (Designpreis) Germany cited the SUPERGRAPHIC HIGH CLASS Collection for its outstanding design.

The internationally renowned Red Dot Design Award has granted OBJECT CARPET an award in the product design category. Given that the products reviewed by the jury must meet very stringent standards, the award attests to the outstanding quality of the winners. This seal of quality provides consumers with valuable orientation.

The architecture magazines AIT and xia - Intelligente Architektur award the Architektur & Boden AIT Architecture and Flooring Innovation Prize 2010 (Innovationspreis Architektur & Boden) during the Bau trade show, in cooperation with Messe Muenchen. OBJECT CARPET received this award for innovative flooring solutions.

Winners of the Red Dot Design Award are among the best-in-class when it comes to design and business. The Award is aimed at all those who want to demonstrate their business acumen through design. Rugs* Metal Stainless Steel Rug Enclosure received Honourable Mention for a particularly successful detail solution.

The key criteria for the granting of these awards were functional and design quality, material authenticity, and versatility.

This architecture and design competition was established for the express purpose of granting awards to those flooring solutions (among the myriad available in today’s market) that best meet the needs and expectations of architects and interior designers.

Innovation is the driver of business. Against this backdrop, the magazines AIT and xia – Intelligente Architektur have for many years been organizing a successful innovation competition in collaboration with many companies. The awards serve as a showcase for exceptional products and open up creative and innovative possibilities for more intelligent architecture and interior design.