Guest post by Thom Moran Pos­si­bly the most visu­ally strik­ing show­room and col­lec­tion at NEOCON this year is Inter­face FLOR’s “Mem­phis Under Foot.” Beyond the boldly pat­terned car­pets, the show­room fea­tured a whim­si­cal romper-room like instal­la­tion, an aug­mented real­ity game based on said romper room, boldly pat­terned wall­pa­pers, and a wall of stacked objects painted white includ­ing tele­vi­sions play­ing 80’s inspired videos like La Roux’s “Bul­let Proof.” All of this added up to a brightly-colored over­load of eighties-ness that was suc­cess­ful in cre­at­ing a total­iz­ing atmos­phere. Bor­row­ing heav­ily from the now noto­ri­ous early eight­ies Ital­ian design col­lab­o­ra­tive Mem­phis, the company’s col­lec­tion cen­ters around “Mem­phis inspired” car­pet tile sys­tems designed by David Oakey