Next time you're at an airport, check what's under your feet ......
There’s a web site for everything, but ‘Carpets for Airports’ sets either a new high or a new low, depending on your perspective.The global survey of airport floors has bestowed a viral fame on the carpet at Bermuda’s LF Wade International Airport.According to airport general manager Aaron Adderley, the unexpected attention may even have saved the carpet from getting scrapped.A picture of the Bermuda carpet now opens an article at CNN.com, which quotes the www.carpetsforairports.com review. “The carpet of BDA both comforts and interrogates the identity of the weary traveller,” writes George Pendle.“The result is an exploration of the relationship between artist, subject and carpet. ‘You stand on me,’ it seems to say. ‘Why?’”CNN’s verdict is more blunt: LF Wade International’s carpet is “alarmingly colourful”, it says.Visitors to the site in question may be interested to learn Bermuda’s salmon-and-blue fish-like motifs “ruthlessly challenge the status quo”.The commentary on 150 airport carpets is firmly tongue-in-cheek: Dublin Airport’s carpet “may or may not reference the strong links between Ireland and America”.Others are unflattering at best: Grand Bahama Island Airport has “grotesque linoleum floor”.Mr Adderley responded: “I suspect it’s always good to be recognised, albeit for things you least expected.“The author’s choice of words to describe the carpet was classic. To be considered ‘comforting’ yet ‘interrogating’ in the same sentence is certainly an accomplishment.”He added: “Ironically, as part of an effort to enhance the interior design of a rather mature terminal whenever financially feasible, we had earmarked the carpet as something in need of replacement. However, given his love affair with our flooring, perhaps we need to reconsider that?”