Interface, Inc., the global flooring and sustainability leader, today introduces Forest Within™ and Cut & Form™, two new flooring collections that translate biophilic design into immersive, sensory-rich commercial interior environments. Debuting at Chicago Design Week, the collections transform the Interface showroom, creating visual and experiential connections to nature through design and materials. The company will also showcase its new noravant™ rubber flooring that uniquely combines design flexibility, high performance, and enhanced sustainability in an innovative polyvinyl chloride-free solution. For specifiers tracking commercial flooring trends, the launch signals a shift toward expressive, nature-based palettes paired with circularity metrics.
The showroom features an elevated color palette rooted in warmth and lightness, but activated by rich accents, texture and bold color blocking to deliver contrast and moments of surprise. Expressive use of pattern, texture, and form guide movement and tell a cohesive story across Interface’s coordinated flooring system, showcasing Forest Within, Cut & Form, and noravant™. Interface’s approach to circularity, from smarter design to better materials and renewal programs, all help reduce waste and lower impact. “We designed the Chicago showroom experience to create immersive, unexpected moments. And to remind attendees that good design encompasses how a product is made and how it performs, while also having an impact beyond the physical space. It serves as a way to truly inspire, connect, and move people,” said Kelly Simcox, Head of Global Design at Interface. “Our latest flooring collections show how materials, pattern, and color can work together to create a deeper connection to nature, while also supporting performance, smarter budgets, and lower carbon impact.”
Forest Within: Biophilic Carpet Tile Collection
Forest Within reflects birch bark, shifting seasons, organic visuals, and patterns that charge spaces. It is the latest carpet tile collection designed by David Oakey for Interface. And features a broad palette of birch-inspired patterns that feel alive and expressive, capturing biophilic realism while offering endless design possibilities. It offers four distinct products each made for a variety of moods, including First Light™ featuring a calming, foundational texture with a neutral color palette and subtle bark patterning inspired by fractal patterns in nature. Shifting Seasons™ combines a dynamic pattern with a mix of neutral and saturated color reflecting spring’s greens, summer’s heat, autumn’s richness, and winter’s clarity. Spruce It Up™ balances playfulness with refinement through rich, expressive colors and a nature-inspired pattern mirroring branches in a tree canopy. Quiet Grove™ offers a disciplined, sculptural, and bark-like pattern with precise detail and articulation to create a confident look that brings the forest to interiors. “Biophilic design continues to be a driving force in commercial interiors, but we’re seeing it evolve beyond simply bringing nature indoors,” said David Oakey, founder of David Oakey Designs and exclusive product designer for Interface. “Designers are focusing on how spaces feel, from how light shifts throughout the day to how texture and pattern create immersive, sensory experiences. With Forest Within, we’re deepening the connection to nature in a way that’s more expressive and design-forward than ever, giving designers new ways to tell that story through the floor.” The collection advances biophilic design by moving from literal motifs to atmospheric abstraction.
Cut & Form: Parquet-Inspired LVT Collection
The Cut & Form luxury vinyl tile collection offers a modern twist on the classic, parquet style. It combines angles, movement, and material to create something both timeless and unexpected. And brings the familiarity of woodgrain into a trending geometric interpretation. It features ten unique colorways ranging from soft blondes and golden honey to rich walnuts and dark coffee. The collection blends textures and shades to introduce subtle shifts of color for added depth and character, offers a warm, earthy palette giving designers a great foundation for color exploration, and supports commercial interior trends with a natural, inviting look and feel. It meets performance needs with Ceramor+™ ceramic bead coating for durability and 4.5 millimeter Sound Choice™ backing for acoustic comfort. The geometric wood interpretation addresses demand for LVT flooring design that balances heritage references with acoustic and maintenance performance in workplace and education sectors.
Interface Chicago Showroom: Boldly Biophilic
Forest Within, Cut & Form, and noravant will be featured in Interface’s Chicago showroom at 345 North Wells Street during NeoCon and Fulton Market Design Days, held June 8—10, 2026. Showroom visitors will experience an immersive approach to biophilic design, exploring light filtering, biomorphic forms and multi-sensory experiences, a dedicated nora® rubber PlayLab showcasing the category’s high-performance and design breadth, and Interface’s commitment to sustainability through a strong design story rooted in transparency across its three product categories, carpet tile, LVT, and rubber. The noravant rubber platform is positioned as a PVC-free alternative that maintains design flexibility while reducing material impact, extending Interface’s portfolio alongside nora rubber flooring. More on the company’s sustainability roadmap is available at Interface.
Interface is a global flooring and sustainability leader dedicated to rethinking how spaces work for people and the planet. Its portfolio includes Interface® carpet tile and LVT, nora® rubber flooring, and FLOR® premium area rugs. Across every brand, the company innovates in a way that combines design, performance, and sustainability—without compromise. Building on more than 30 years of sustainability progress and industry first innovation, Interface remains ‘all in’ on its goal of becoming carbon negative by 2040, without the use of offsets. The Chicago Design Week presentation uses the showroom as a testbed for how product, narrative, and spatial experience can align, offering architects and designers a systems-based view of flooring that links sustainable materials to emotional and physiological outcomes in the built environment.
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