110-year-old Vancouver company looks to future in new South Vancouver design hub, Launches celebratory rug collection

One of Vancouver’s most enduring businesses, Burritt Bros. Carpet & Floors, has officially announced its relocation to the up-and-coming interior design hub of South Vancouver. The company is marking the move to its new Fraser Street and SE Marine Drive home with The River Design Quarter Rug Collection, a series of rugs that celebrates the shared history of Vancouver and Burritt Bros.

“There’s a renewed energy in South Vancouver today. Along with major residential development, the area is attracting top-notch design-related businesses – it’s being dubbed the River Design Quarter,” says Harvey Burritt, co-owner, Burritt Bros. Carpet & Floors and Colin Campbell. “Opening a beautiful showroom in this central and accessible neighbourhood is the perfect way to launch Burritt Bros.’ next 110 years.”

Burritt Bros. is joined in the new location by Colin Campbell, providers of fine flooring to the design and architecture trades. The two shops sit side-by-side with a stunning showroom, offering retail and trade customers an unparalleled selection of high quality, high fashion floor coverings. The spacious showroom boasts soaring ceilings, a flood of natural light, and an artfully displayed collection of fine area rugs, carpet, and hardwood flooring.

Burritt Bros.' Main Street shop, 1967 - 2016

Burritt Bros. has a longevity that is rare in Vancouver. The company was founded in 1907 by Ed Burritt, grandfather of current co-owner, Harvey Burritt, and the company’s story is interwoven with the city’s history. Over the past century Burritt has covered the floors of the city’s most iconic buildings (including all three incarnations of the Hotel Vancouver, the Marine Building, and the Orpheum Theatre), laid linoleum on troop ships in World Wars I and II, and installed flooring in countless family homes throughout Greater Vancouver.

The River Design Quarter Collection includes the Aerial ‘48; a rug that celebrates Burritt’s new home on the Fraser River. The rug was inspired by a City of Vancouver archival photo depicting the 1948 flood of the Fraser, with farms on either side, absent of any of today’s industrialization. The rug pays homage to the mighty Fraser, which has powerfully shaped the region’s geography and economy but is rarely celebrated.

Ariel '48 from the River Design Quarter Collection

“Through our custom rug design process we use historical artefacts to celebrate our connection to Vancouver and the region,” says Keith Donegani, co-owner of Burritt Bros and Colin Campbell. “Aerial ’48 is an ode to our new home on the river, and we’re certain Vancouver history buffs and B.C. enthusiasts will adore it.

The full River Design Quarter Collection is on display online www.burrittfloors.ca and at the Burritt Bros. shop in South Vancouver.

The new combined showroom and offices are located in the River Design Quarter at #60 (Burritt Bros.) and #55 (Colin Campbell) 8385 Fraser Street in Vancouver. 

We're thrilled to see our good friends at Carter Hales Design Lab featured on Hey There. 

If you haven't checked out Carter Hales before, you really should. They do incredible design and branding work. In fact, they just delivered a new identity and website to NYC's La Guardia Airport, which is pretty big time if you ask us!

After a summer of all things light and bright on the home decor front, BC Living magazine is easing us into fall with the Home Trends page in their Fall 2014 issue.

Texture, metals, and natural elements feature heavily and beautifully. This includes a luxurious cowhide rug from our client, Burritt Bros. Carpets & Floors.

BC Living Fall 2014 is on newsstands now.

The May 2014 issue of Style at Home magazine is on newsstands now, and the Workbook section includes the Burritt Bros. / Zoe Pawlak rug collaboration. Check it out!

PR, Vancouver, Pacific Northwest, public relations, agency, firm, media, magazines, design, decor, Burritt Bros., Zoe Pawlak

If there's one thing that makes coming home from a beautiful, sunny vacation a little easier, it's finding something awesome like this on your desk when you get back in the office... Gray magazine's February issue has a beautiful cover feature on the Burritt Bros. / Zoe Pawlak Over Oceans Rug Collection. The piece highlights the inspired collaboration between artist and retailer, and describes the process of transforming a painting into a series of five hand-knotted Nepalese rugs.

Congrats to Zoe and our friends at Burritt Bros. This is been a fantastic project to work with you all on!

Gray's February issue is on newsstands now. A couple more pics after the jump....

It's been a busy week for the Burritt Bros./ Zoe Pawlak Over Oceans Rug Collection. On Thursday, Zoe sat down with Fiona Forbes on Shaw's The Rush to talk about the Rug Collection. Watch the whole segment here.

BC Living magazine's February issue came out with a lovely piece on the Collection in their Home Trends section.

BC Living'sFebruary issue is on newsstands now. And Western Living editor, Anicka Quin, chose the rug collection as her Pick of the Week.

magazine, PR, public relations, decor, deisng