Presented this year at a celebratory cocktail reception at the Museum of Introductions where all entries were displayed, Kaleen's award was for the design excellence and innovation of its Chancellor collection in the hand-tufted $0-$16 per square foot price category.
In accepting the award, Monty Rathi, Kaleen COO, said, "My family and I would like to thank our design team and all the Kaleen associates around the world for all their hard work developing and producing our great products. Chancellor is one among many. We would also like to thank all our loyal customers for supporting our company."
Asked why he thought Chancellor won in its category, Rathi told RugNews.com, "Chancellor is very different from what's available in the market. We are known as a quality tufted manufacturer, and for this collection we developed a space-dyed transitional tufted -- it's a very hard twist tufted, in 100 percent wool."