Kentile Floors Sign

This diy model kit is laser cut in brooklyn from chipboard a 100 recycled material and comes with everything you ll need to put your sign together in minutes.

Kentile floors sign.

Kentile became successful by offering flooring in a wide range of materials colors and patterns. Kentile floors in brooklyn new york was a neighborhood mainstay for many years with a recognizable neon kentile sign above its flagship factory. The company remained in brooklyn for 100 years before going out of business. At above left our illustration shows green and beige kentile floor patterns from 1958.

Many have adopted it as a. In canada kentile flooring was distributed by t. You can celebrate our past with the boundless brooklyn kentile floors sign model kit. Originally the company produced vinyl rubber and cork floor tiles.

The kentile floors sign in brooklyn is coming down. A soon to be dismantled sign that has become an emblem of brooklyn s fading industrial enterprise will be illuminated one last time. The company filed bankruptcy in 1992 ceasing operations in 1995. The company began as a small brooklyn tile company in 1898.

Kentile s sign along the gowanus canal brooklyn new york ca 1949 has been considered an important landmark in its own right. Kentile floors ghost sign in brooklyn as far as i m concerned this is the mother of all ghost signs. In brooklyn and easily visible from the gowanus expressway and the f train kentile once billed itself as america s largest manufacturers of super resilient floor tile. Kentile floors sign 9th street and 2nd avenue 1949 the kentile floor company founded by arthur kennedy in 1898 opened its third location here in 1949.

The iconic kentile floors sign can be seen towering over 2nd ave. When lit up in bright neon purple the sign could be seen from miles away. Kentile floors was founded in 1898 by arthur kennedy. Unfortunately the company also is remembered for using toxic asbestos in a variety of its products including asphalt and vinyl floor tiles.

Many remember kentile floors for the company s eight story sign visible from the gowanus expressway in brooklyn. Kentile floors sign brooklyn ny. But the majestic 50 year old icon will be saved said city councilman brad lander who helped broker the deal. A team of artists plans to use powerful projectors to animate.