The Astronomie Collection by Bentley Prince Street and Parterre Flooring Systems Offers Total Flooring Solution

LOS ANGELES, CA, October 28, 2010 (Press-News.org) Bentley Prince Street, Inc, an industry leader in design, quality and sustainability, is proud to announce the launch of The Astronomie Collection, the first in a series of design collaborations with Parterre Flooring Systems. This comprehensive, high-level flooring concept boasts 15 luxury vinyl tile and 3 sleek vinyl wood plank designs that perfectly complement 18 carpet designs from Bentley Prince Street's best-selling Satellite City and Saturnia lines. Astronomie's carpet and vinyl tile coordinates fulfill the needs of designers to handle multiple spaces in a single project. The ability to create a cohesive look with different floor coverings makes Astronomie the uncomplicated choice for corporate, hospitality, educational, retail and public spaces.

"Parterre is an ideal partner for us because they share our commitment to innovative design and environmental responsibility," says Anthony Minite, president of Bentley Prince Street. "We are so excited to introduce the marketplace to a collection that makes great design easy with quality hard and soft floor coverings in coordinated textures and patterns."

Parterre Flooring System's commitment to creating durable, luxury vinyl tile, produced from recyclable materials, perfectly complements Bentley Prince Street's Mission Zero promise to completely eliminate any negative impact it may have on the environment by the year 2020. Saturnia features a tufted tip shear construction made with Antron Brilliance 6,6 nylon. Satellite City features a tufted textured loop construction made with Antron Lumena Solution dyed nylon. Parterre's luxury vinyl tile coordinates are 100% recyclable and available with the EnviroSTIX Adhesive system, which creates an odorless, vapor-free and incredibly strong flooring bond that will never dry, harden, crack or crystallize throughout its use.

"By collaborating with Bentley Prince Street, we're able to expand our reach and offer customers a wider range of flooring products that meet their needs for design, durability and sustainability," says Parterre President T. Fred Roche. "Now, designers can easily coordinate all their spaces with the ultimate selection of vinyl, broadloom and carpet tiles."

Bentley Prince Street strives to provide its customers with unique product solutions. Aware that many projects require designers to specify different types of floor coverings, the company looked to partner with luxury vinyl tile market leader, Parterre, to create correlating hard and soft surfaces. Maurie and Frank O'Neill, owners of O2 Strategies, brought the companies together and assisted in the Astronomie Collection's development. The collection is a one-stop-shop for designers, that is cost-effective, easy to maintain and designed with the typical Bentley Prince Street customer's palette in mind.

"We set out to design a high quality, yet ready made collection that took advantage of Parterre's beautiful vinyl tiles and our most popular lines," says Valerie Ottaviano, vice president of product design of Bentley Prince Street. "We could not be more thrilled with the outcome. Astronomie will give any space a look of streaming light bouncing off metallic-infused colors for an effect that is extraordinary and effortless."

Astronomie takes its design cues from earth's natural resources and the rugged, fiery terrains of planets and moons in the universe. The inspiration for the collection can be seen in its nature-based color palette with metallic details. Saturnia is a pebbly, natural structure with rich color, while Satellite City is a combination of metallic patterning, natural colorations and knitted pearlescent textures. Parterre's tile coordinates offer edgy colorways and textures in an artful, high quality alternative to costly and high maintenance stone and metal floors. The color palette is carefully calibrated to coordinate with not only carpet from Saturnia and Satellite City, but also a myriad of other carpet styles within the entire Bentley Prince Street line. Additionally, the Saturnia and Satellite City carpet tile coordinates are available in 3 new tile sizes: 18"x36", 24"x24" and 36"x36".

About Bentley Prince Street
Defining style, color, quality and service for 30 years, Bentley Prince Street manufactures and markets award-winning broadloom and carpet tile products for commercial interiors across the globe. Bentley Prince Street is committed to sustainable commerce and innovations to integrate style and function with environmental practices through its Mission Zero goal of eliminating any negative impact it has on the environment by the year 2020. With the industry's most comprehensive vertical carpet manufacturing facility, the company maintains third-party certification to the ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System and the ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System. Based in Los Angeles County, California, Bentley Prince Street is a subsidiary of Interface, Inc., a global provider of floor coverings. For more information, please visit www.bentleyprincestreet.com

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