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With the goal of reducing energy costs and minimizing environmental impact, architects and designers are getting serious about green design. Every part of the property can be impacted and savvy designers are incorporating reclaimed materials and restorative greenery. Visit Green Lodging News for the latest news and best practices. Got news or a story idea to share? Contact Glenn Hasek, editor, at (813) 510-3868, or by e-mail at: greenlodgingnews@gmail.com. CaraGreen Launches Two Vibrant New Organoid Wallcoverings
RALEIGH, N.C.—CaraGreen announces the debut of Color Splash and Superbloom, two dynamic new wallcoverings from Organoid. Crafted from preserved real flowers, leaves, and grasses and backed with natural flax, these innovative materials bring authentic botanical texture and color directly to interior spaces.
Organoid wallcoverings are known for transforming organic raw materials into functional, beautiful surfaces through climate-neutral production. With the introduction of Color Splash and Superbloom, CaraGreen expands its offering with bold new options designed to elevate feature walls, hospitality environments, corporate spaces, and retail interiors.
Available on a roll and installed like traditional wallcovering, Superbloom showcases an expressive composition of real hydrangeas,...
Anduba Launches Seven-Pattern Collection with Indigenous Artists
DENVER—Anduba, a company partnering with Indigenous artists to create sustainable wallcoverings, announced the launch of its debut collection, The Brave Ones. The collection features patterns created by Indigenous artists from Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, translated into designs that bring Indigenous art and perspectives into contemporary spaces.
Founded in 2025 by Flavia Pereira, Anduba addresses a persistent gap: Indigenous artists create work that carries distinct ways of seeing and relating to the world, yet that work rarely reaches the spaces where people live, work, and gather. Not because the art doesn't exist—but because there has been no scalable, ethical...
LX Hausys Introduces Four New HIMACS Solid Surface Colors
ORLANDO, FLA.—LX Hausys America Inc., an innovative manufacturer of building and decorative materials, introduced four new HIMACS solid surface colors at this year’s KBIS. Designed for commercial and residential interiors, the new colors reflect the stunning visual looks needed for today’s modern environments ranging from hospitality and wellness areas to retail and workplace settings. Expanding the HIMACS Calacatta and Terrazzo collections, the new colors also bring superior durability, easy cleanability and dynamic thermoforming capabilities, allowing designers the freedom to create the expressive surface designs they envision.
“Commercial interior designers are looking for surfaces that can help them achieve their design...
Coverings 2026 Commemorates National Tile Day with Top 10 Tile Trends
LAS VEGAS—Coverings, North America’s largest international showcase of ceramic tile and natural stone, has released the top 10 tile trends for 2026 in honor of National Tile Day. The newly announced trends offer a glimpse of the inspiring tile product displays that will be featured at Coverings 2026, scheduled to take place March 30 to April 2, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
The unveiling of the popular tile styles celebrates National Tile Day, honoring the beauty and versatility of ceramic and porcelain tile across a vast array of residential, commercial, industrial, hospitality, indoor and outdoor designs and installations. National...
Ultraleather by Ultrafabrics Names Pressler Residential Sales Director
NEW YORK—Ultraleather by Ultrafabrics, the residential brand by Ultrafabrics, a global leader in high-performance coated fabrics and leather alternatives, announced the appointment of Diane Pressler as Residential Sales Director. In this role, Pressler will lead the brand’s residential growth strategy, strengthening its presence across OEM and retail, expanding distribution, and aligning cross-functional teams to support scalable, long-term momentum.
Pressler joins Ultraleather by Ultrafabrics with a proven track record of building high-performing teams, developing go-to-market strategies, and accelerating revenue growth within design-led consumer and trade businesses. Most recently, she served as Regional Director at The Rug Company, supporting sustained growth and market expansion. Prior...
Introducing Beckons: A New Luxury Hospitality Brand Launches
DENVER—Yesterday marked the official debut of Beckons, a new experiential luxury hospitality brand uniting the award-winning Baillie Lodges and Tierra Hotels portfolios. Beckons is built around journeys of discovery for curious travelers seeking deeper connection to place, culture, and the natural world. Through a growing collection of lodges in some of the world’s most rare and remarkable destinations, the brand is guided by a regenerative approach to luxury travel, one that goes beyond sustainability to create positive, lasting impact for landscapes, wildlife, and the communities who call these places home. Cultivating a global footprint of lodges with an average of...
Wilsonart Elevates High Pressure Laminate as an Intentional Design Choice
TEMPLE, TEXAS—Wilsonart, a world-leading innovator of engineered surfaces, is redefining High Pressure Laminate (HPL) for today’s architecture and design community—advancing it beyond a substitute material to a performance-driven surface specified by designers.
As commercial interiors demand greater durability, faster timelines, and responsible material sourcing, Wilsonart HPL continues to advance in finishes, texture realism, and performance technology. The company is reframing laminate as a design-led solution that balances beauty, longevity, and value across healthcare, hospitality, education, office, retail, and residential environments.
“High Pressure Laminate has advanced alongside the needs of modern environments,” said Kate Grossman, Vice President, Marketing & Design, Wilsonart. “Designers...
Garnica Launches EverPly Laminate on Plywood Solution
RALEIGH, N.C.—Garnica, a leading manufacturer of premium sustainable plywood recently announced the launch of EverPly+, an advanced thermally fused laminate (TFL) on plywood solution developed in collaboration with Genesis Products. The panels were showcased at the Kitchen & Bathroom Industry Show (KBIS) 2026.
EverPly+ combines Genesis’s expertise in decorative surface systems with Garnica’s high-performance, sustainably sourced plywood. The result is a solution engineered to address longstanding challenges in decorative panel fabrication, including thickness variability, core consistency, weight, and durability. While TFL is commonly applied to particleboard or MDF, plywood has historically been more difficult to use due to core variability,...
Tarkett Renews Three Jhane Barnes Education Carpet Collections
SOLON, OHIO—Tarkett, a global leader in innovative and sustainable flooring solutions, has updated three of its popular ethos carpet tile and Powerbond hybrid carpet collections with new color lines that reflect current trends. The three refreshed collections—Aftermath III SD, Edifice II SD and Primary Color—were all created in collaboration with designer Jhane Barnes.
“These collections build on some of our most popular offerings, rejuvenated with new palettes to meet today’s demands,” said Omoleye Simmons, Vice President of Design. “The designs merge art with math and science to create practical, beautiful and high-performance floor solutions with signature dimensionality, precision and color consistency.”
Aftermath III SD: Available...
Treefrog Expands Collection of White Oak Veneers
EASTHAMPTON, MASS.—Treefrog, the “made in Italy, stocked in USA” prefinished real wood veneer, recently expanded its collection of popular, on-trend white oak veneers to 10, offering design professionals more choices when specifying white oak for interior spaces.
“There are so many advantages to using prefinished veneers from Treefrog, but for designers, it all starts with the beauty of the veneers,” said Treefrog Creative Director and President Geoff Schaefer, “and Treefrog’s white oak veneers are beautiful.”
The white oak variations start with veneer tone. For example, there are several cooler, desaturated European wood tones and even more warming, yellower “American” white oaks....



