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Your Guide to Wood Flooring

Wood-Flooring


Interior designers often look at various ways to make use of space and natural materials. Wood is often a top consideration for furniture, and lately more and more as a consideration for flooring. The ability of wood flooring to create instant warmth, to make any space welcoming and to suit many design styles, makes it popular amongst many interior designers.

If you are new to wood flooring, here is a handy guide to talk you through and various options together with high quality images of each option. Enjoy!



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Materialworks the Innovative Material Service

Materialworks is a new and innovative information service addressing the topic materials, under the motto “Search and feel”. It is linked to an online database with a unique specimens service.

Concrete Art by Transparent House

Transparent House created a way to refine a popular element of contemporary interior design such as polished concrete flooring.

The design concept allows for application of any pattern to the surface either when pouring or afterwards when the concrete has set.

The fine floral ornament promotes the clean and simple character of the space while adding a touch of warm and live contrast and highlighting the cold austerity of the material.

Materialize the Future with Materia

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Materia stimulates and inspires architects, designers and producers to apply these materials to their designs. Materia aims to build a new vision for the future.

Material Database by Raw

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Need some help choosing materials? Try Raw’s material database, it’s totally free.

They inform designers, architects, product developers and producers about new as well as traditional materials and means of production. Raw is constantly updating it with new inspiring materials and production techniques.

They also run a free magazine called Ravara.

Litracon: light-transmitting concrete

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Litracon, invented by Hungarian architect Áron Losonczi, presents the phenomenon of light transmitting concrete in the form of a widely applicable new building material.

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A Unique Acoustic Ceiling

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In a small New York restaurant called Tides, LTL Architects explored different configurations of bamboo. The ceiling is formed by over 110,000 bamboo skewers embedded into a bach-lit acoustical ceiling. The skewers are composed to produce a topographical effect, evoking sea grass.

Bio Glass

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Bio Glass from Coverings Etc consists of 100% recycled glass.

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Paper Bridge by Shigeru Ban

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Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, known for his eco-friendly lightweight materials, lifted the veil on a paper bridge over the Gardon River in southern France.

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Acoustic Design by Offecct

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Flo by Karim Rashid

The Swedish company Offecct is now focusing on acoustic design.

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