Chances are you’ve never given the floor of the Fox Theatre much thought. But did you know that you’re walking on a woven bit of history?
Here are some other fun facts:
- The Fox Theatre carpet design is based on photographs and a sample of the original carpet installed here in 1929.
- The design of the theatre carpet has symbols representing the Shriners and William Fox.
- Bloomsberg custom-made the Fox Theatre’s Auditorium and Egyptian Ballroom carpets this year. More than one acre of carpet was made.
- The wool for our carpet came from sheep in New Zealand.
- The installation took 21 days to complete and over 900 hours.
Would have been nice to see a picture of the carpet design.
Thanks
There are images in the issue of Encore Atlanta being passed out this month at the Fox Theatre, which you also can view digitally from the home page encoreatlanta.con.
Here’s the direct link to the page with images: http://issuu.com/encoreatlanta/docs/feb11_fox/1