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Tarkett is a global leader in innovative solutions for flooring and sports surfaces.
DESSO®, the carpet brand for Tarkett, has products that are supplied to corporate offices, education, healthcare and hospitality settings, amongst other commercial sectors.
Committed to environmental and social stewardship, the Group has implemented an eco-innovation strategy based on Cradle to Cradle® principles and promotes circular economy, with the ultimate goal of contributing to people’s health and wellbeing.
Tarkett, a global leader in recyclable flooring solutions, opened the doors of Tarkett Atelier on 6th July - its brand new UK and Ireland showroom in the heart of Clerkenwell, London’s iconic creative quarter. Based at 47 - 53 St John Street, the new showroom is open Monday - Friday, 9.30am - 5pm.
When we talk about being sustainable or identifying methods that hit the mark on sustainability, the circular economy features prominently.
Paris, July 10, 2020 – Tarkett, a worldwide leader in innovative flooring and sports surface solutions, announces joining the Clean Hospitals network to contribute to improve hospital hygiene and to promote effective, sustainable and evidence-based cleaning guidelines.
Tarkett launches a new collection of carpet tiles, DESSO Human Fascination II: an ode to the ingenuity, vulnerability and wild beauty of nature and the importance of protecting the earth’s resources, a cause Tarkett is actively committed to.
Tarkett’s new DESSO Orchard collection with its understated, irregular dotted pattern is reminiscent of the visual effect that’s create.d when viewing a cluster of planted trees from above.
Milan, April 2019: Forms on multiple scales, echoes of archetypal design principles, a modern industrial material like no other and an iconic backdrop rich in history... welcome to Formations.
April 2019 - Tarkett, a global leader in innovative and sustainable flooring solutions, has launched the latest addition to its DESSO Carpetecture® family, Human Fascination. The collection, which celebrates nature’s diversity, as well as its fragility, consists of four 50 x 50cm structured loop carpet tile ranges.
Tarkett, a worldwide leader of innovative flooring, has opened its new UK and Ireland headquarters in Ashford, Kent, 16km from its production site in Lenham (UK). The official opening took place at the end of January, attended by CEO of Tarkett, Fabrice Barthélemy, Tarkett’s UK & Ireland Managing Director, Andrew Sloan, and the Deputy Mayor of Ashford, Cllr Mrs Jenny Webb.
Worldwide leader of innovative flooring, Tarkett, has extended its acclaimed Desso Desert AirMaster collection with the addition of six new shades to its colour palette.
The restyled DESSO® Essence family is the latest offering from the worldwide leader in innovative flooring, Tarkett. An established favourite in the DESSO product portfolio, the newly re-coloured carpet tile family offers four coordinating designs created to fit seamlessly together.
Fusion is the latest offering from the worldwide leader in innovative flooring,Tarkett. Bringing Tarkett’s high-quality luxury vinyl and DESSO® carpet tiles together, the collection showcases the use of both materials, side-by-side, to stunning and practical effect.
This statement flooring surface lends itself to vast commercial spaces seeking maximum design appeal.
From the Ancient Greek word for Linen, the new DESSO Linon collection, takes inspiration from the timeless appeal and tactility of irregular woven fabrics and gives the look renewed relevance with a refreshing pop of pastel.
Tarkett, a global leader in innovative and sustainable solutions for flooring and sports surfaces, has launched DESSO Harvest, a new carpet tile collection that uses light and shade to inject texture and subtle movement into workplace design.
Tarkett and DESSO® are celebrating another show-stopping Clerkenwell Design Week following a compelling three-day programme exploring the human response to work spaces of the future.
Tarkett, a global leader in innovative and sustainable flooring solutions, has extended its acclaimed DESSO AirMaster carpet collection with the launch of AirMaster Earth & Tones.
Tarkett and DESSO® are inviting festival-goers to ‘Meet The Future Human’ at Clerkenwell Design Week (CDW) 22-24 May 2018.
Tarkett, a global leader in innovative and sustainable solutions for flooring and sports surfaces, has added nine new colours to its leading DESSO Desert collection, offering architects and designers even more creative freedom with eight bold accent colours and one new light neutral.
Tarkett, a global leader in innovative and sustainable flooring solutions, has launched two new DESSO® carpet tile collections inspired by urban outdoor environments – Street View and Street Tracks.
Tarkett, a global leader in innovative and sustainable solutions for flooring and sports surfaces, has extended its acclaimed DESSO AirMaster® Atmos carpet collection, offering architects and designers more creative freedom with additional colour options to choose from. AirMaster® Atmos offers patented technology, designed to improve indoor air quality, contributing to better health and wellbeing.
Tarkett, a global leader in innovative and sustainable solutions for flooring and sports surfaces, has extended its leading ‘Make it Your Own’ carpet collection by DESSO®, with the launch of two new products; Pixelate and Metallic Shades.
DESSO®, a Tarkett brand, is continuing its long-standing collaboration with international interior architects studio, Ex Interiors, with the launch of the Desso&Ex Concrete carpet tile range – the latest addition to the cut pile broadloom carpet and made-to-measure carpet rugs collection, Desso&Ex.
Tarkett, a global leader in innovative and sustainable solutions for flooring and sports surfaces, has launched a new DESSO® carpet collection, aptly-named ‘Make It Your Own’ - designed to inspire architects and designers to play with textures, colours and materials to tell their own unique story across the floor.
Desso and Tarkett are inviting visitors to Clerkenwell Design Week 2017 to ‘pause for thought’ during the hectic three-day event.
The UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) is regarded as a pioneer in the field of sustainability. As a charity and industry-led network with a mission to radically improve the sustainability of the built environment, UK-GBC not only focuses on the environmental impact of buildings, but also campaigns for ‘Better Places for People’, striving to accelerate health and wellbeing, especially within the workplace.
Desso, a Tarkett company, completes its Essentials II collection with the introduction of Iconic – a celebration of the archetype of colour, perfect for creating impactful designs across the floor.
Desso and Philips – partners in carpets and lighting respectively – have developed the pioneering and patented Luminous Carpets™. Think moving images, the latest news broadcast on the floor, personal greetings for important guests – all changeable at the click of a button.
Desso, a leading brand in high-end and innovative carpet flooring, is extending its most distinctive carpet tile collection, DESSO AirMaster®, with the launch of Desert AirMaster®. Bringing together the subtly layered organic designs of the Desert range and all the health and wellbeing benefits of AirMaster® with EcoBase™ backing, Desert AirMaster® creates free-flowing patterns for dynamic flooring while creating an improved indoor air quality.
Desso, a Tarkett company, is marking the fifth anniversary of DESSO AirMaster® with a ‘world first’ GUI Gold Plus certification. In addition, a product extension of AirMaster® Sphere range has been announced, with the introduction of six additional colours.
Desso, a Tarkett company, is launching Reveal, a new carpet tile that celebrates tactility through changing textiles.
Carpet manufacturer Desso, a Tarkett company, has launched its new collection Natural Nuances - a broad range of neutral colours designed to meet the needs of architects and designers. Set to provide a blank canvas for creative accents and to act as a calm base for interior spaces, an impressive selection of 48 shades of grey and beige are now available in the collection.
London’s queen of origami and designer Kyla McCallum is celebrating the dying art of paper pleating in an art installation made from 5,832 hand folded pleats. Commissioned by flooring company, Desso, the ‘Transitions’ themed design is hanging in the Clerkenwell showroom, along with behind the scenes footage of the painstaking folding process.
Desso, a Tarkett company, is introducing ‘Essentials’ - a new addition to the Carpetecture® collection celebrating iconic, pared back design. In a world of infinite choice and variety, the collection presents a ‘less is more’ solution, paying homage to the essence of timeless, uncluttered design.
Merge is a new, structured carpet tile from Desso and the latest addition to the Transitions collection launched in October 2014.
Desso, a leading carpet company (part of the Tarkett Group) has reached a major new milestone in its Cradle to Cradle® (C2C) journey in becoming the first carpet tile manufacturer in the world to achieve Cradle to Cradle® Gold level certification for a new carpet tile collection. The Gold certification is the culmination of seven years of hard work and effort, inspired by the goal of transitioning to the circular economy, based on C2C principles. The collection will be launched in all key markets in October 2015.
Transitions in Structure is a collection of four new carpet tiles that have been designed to reconnect people with nature, inviting the outside in to soften the interior.
What if work was awesome? Health and wellbeing expert and founder of Happiness Works, Nic Marks, thinks it should be and that unhappiness at work is bad news all round.
Rock has been designed in twelve complementary hues to sit alongside the distinctive Salt tile to create zones for stunning modern interiors.
Merge brings a natural, organic feel to indoor spaces by blending two different carpet structures in one tile, transitioning from one texture to another.
Fuse is a striking transition carpet tile that adds movement to the floor by effortlessly flowing between two contrasting yet complimentary colour schemes to help zone and divide a space.
Hard-wearing and highly functional, Essence forms part of a collection of carpets designed with affordable excellence in mind.
AirMaster® Atmos is a stunning textured carpet tile with all the functionality of the original DESSO AirMaster® carpet.
Inspired by timeless fabric designs, Edges adds tactile movement to the floor with a choice of two varying patterns, to suit the pace and rhythm of every unique space.
Drawing inspiration from Modernism, Traverse uses simple, diagonal lines and tonal shades to create an appearance of movement on the floor, subtly changing from different vantage points. Designers and architects can achieve classic herringbone and ashlar patterns, as well as a myriad of irregular designs to bring the floor to life and create self-contained zoned areas. Traverse is available in 15 rich colours offering a wealth of creative possibilities, to transform simple diagonals into a kaleidoscope of opportunity.
Inspired by the diversity and democracy of denim, the Jeans range features six stunning shades in three different structures, to zone or create large spaces through different textures and subtle patterns.
Ridge is a finely textured carpet tile that offers simple and timeless design.
Desso’s first tip sheared carpet tile, Reveal combines a structured loop and cut pile to bring a plush, rich look to spaces. By emphasising the contrast between the two different textures, the new carpet tiles can be used to create stunning patterns.
A combination of two contrasting but complementary colour schemes in one inspirational flooring product, Fuse Create presents a whole new take on transition carpet tile effects. The result is so novel it has won the Red Dot Award: Product Design.
Inspired by urban outdoor environments, the Street View carpet range has a natural textured appearance to create statement design for modern office interiors.
DESSO® Street Tracks is designed to create an urban, industrial feel for office interiors.
Desert lends a feeling of vast, open spaces to the indoors with its subtly layered organic design.
Inspired by chromatic layers, the soft gradient design of the DESSO® Pixelate tiles allow designers to work with colour layers and intensity to create truly unique spaces.
The Metallic Shades range has been created to inspire designers and architects to experiment with lustrous and matte effects.
Inspired by nature, Carved is designed to combine different textures with the same organic look and feel - perfect for creating individual flooring installations.
The DESSO Harvest carpet tile collection from Tarkett uses light and shade to inject texture and subtle movement into workplace design.
From the Ancient Greek word for Linen, the new DESSO Linon collection, takes inspiration from the timeless appeal and tactility of irregular woven fabrics and gives the look renewed relevance with a refreshing pop of pastel.
This statement flooring surface lends itself to vast commercial spaces seeking maximum design appeal.
When we talk about being in awe of nature, there is nothing quite like the mysterious world of plants and flowers to illustrate this sensation.
The DESSO Arable carpet tile collection is grounded in ancient wisdom, taking centuries-old field lines and sunscorched agricultural landscapes as inspiration.
Combining the strength and durability of real marble with the shapes and patterns of rocks shaped by the sea, the DESSO Breccia carpet tile collection makes for a fresh, revitalising welcome in any interior.
Invite the thrill of the untamed landscape into your interiors with the DESSO Granite carpet tile collection.
Inspired by nature, Desert AirMaster has a diffused pattern to give a marbled effect to flooring.
Created with versatility in mind, the hard-wearing and highly functional DESSO Essence acts as the building block in a portfolio of four carpet collections designed to fit seamlessly together.
