Shade Innovation Inspired Award-Winning Fabric
Sunbrella® Contour was honored with a Platinum award in this year’s ADEX awards competition, an architecture and design industry recognition of excellence in design and product innovation.
Contour is a revolutionary fabric that expands the possibilities of what can be crafted using shade fabrics. Featuring the unmatched durability of Sunbrella fabrics, Sunbrella Contour is a rich, knit-textured fabric ideal for shade structures.
“Contour’s specifically engineered construction provides an entirely new set of unique benefits to architects,” said Vince Hankins, industrial business manager for Glen Raven Custom Fabrics. “Using fabric for building structures allows for endless opportunities to conceive architectural designs.”
Because of the fabric's unique ability to fit to any shape or angle, a variety of end products are possible with Sunbrella Contour, allowing craftsmen to expand their offerings with shade sails and other shade structures including fixed awnings, windscreens, umbrellas, cabanas, pavilions and marine applications.
Featuring a patent-pending construction, Contour comes in 15 stylish colorways: Pebble, Crimson, Terracotta, Aztec, Pacific, Sunset, Sunflower, Forest, Concord, Indigo, Charcoal, Wren, Cadet, Beige and Salt. Additionally, Sunbrella Contour was honored with the Popular Choice Award for the 2017 Architizer A+Awards in the Fabric & Textiles category.
For more information, visit sunbrella.com/contour. High-resolution images are available in the Sunbrella Press Room.
ABOUT SUNBRELLA FABRICS
Sunbrella has revolutionized the way the world thinks about how beautiful fabrics look, feel and perform. With an inspired palette of colors, styles and textures, premium Sunbrella fabric gives consumers, designers and architects the material they need to create the extraordinary in marine, shade, indoor upholstery, outdoor upholstery, commercial and contract applications.
Versatile in style and function, Sunbrella fabrics create welcoming spaces indoors and out, offering durability, fade resistance and ease of cleaning. They also offer peace of mind; Sunbrella fabrics have achieved GREENGUARD GOLD certification as contributing to healthy indoor air quality.
Introduced in 1961, Sunbrella fabrics are manufactured and marketed by Glen Raven, Inc., a 135-year-old family-owned company based in North Carolina with operations worldwide. For more information on Sunbrella, including inspiration, fabric collections and where to buy, visit sunbrella.com.
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