Tricycle Inc.


Tricycle Inc. is a sustainable design company founded in 2002 by James Harrison and Andy Shipman of the UK and Jonathan Bragdon and Michael Hendrix of the US to deal with the product lifecycle of interior design and architecture professions and their suppliers.
The company primarily works with carpet manufacturers, such as Shaw Industries, Interface Inc., and Mohawk Industries, to reduce the waste involved in developing products and getting them to market. The company's headquarters is in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with an R&D center in Leeds, England.

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In 2006, Tricycle designed, edited, and published REVERB, a work about sustainability in the interiors industry, with articles written by eco-consultants, commercial interior designers, and editors of industry magazines. Sponsorships allow half of the book's sales go to support Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that enlists the help of architects and designers in areas devastated by natural disasters and AIDS.
REVERB's writers are Holley Henderson, chair of LEED for Commercial Interiors, Mairi Beautyman of Interior Design magazine and Treehugger.com, Melissa Mizell of Gensler, a report from a Saturday Education Seminar at the Color Marketing Group's spring international meeting, MK Timme of InteriorDesign.net, Katie Weeks of Contract magazine, Bill Grant of Grant Design Collaborative and current president of AIGA, Nadav Malin of Environmental Building News, Carlie Bullock-Jones of Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates, and Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity.