Some month ago a lady was coming in our flagship store and wanted have a very light floor for the whole house. She decided to take the mafi Maple white oiled and wanted to install this floor also in the kitchen. We discussed the situation and I ask here if she is also cooking in her kitchen, because I was thinking about “Hungarian Gulasch” or “Italian pasta” on the floor – which would be a nice colour difference – and I told her that I was not so sure if this floor is quite well the right decision.
2 weeks later I a met another lady having breakfast in the Cafe Bazar and she asked me, “you are working in this nice flagship around the corner, aren’t you?” “yes I am”, and she said:”We decided 6 years ago to take this wonderful floor and I am still so happy because it´s so easy to clean. Much better then the floor we had before”. I ask her all the important things, which floor, which rooms, …
She told me that they have a mafi Maple white oiled in the whole house also in the kitchen and in the bathroom too. No problems, no stains. I learned that it´s possible to use a white oiled maple also in a kitchen with kids and dogs. I ask here about her secret to get a look like a new floor. She said “I took a little more soap on the floor in the beginning than mafi recommend me. And so the floor was fat enough and I never had a problem“.
The only problem I had with this information, I got it 2 weeks too late to tell the other lady.
Worldwide the Buddha Bar is a synonym for a perfect combination between “dinner & party” with “style & glamour”. Now the Buddha Bar Monaco has opened and the biggest furniture in the bar is a wonderful Oak Nero produced from mafi with a lot of handscraftswork and love.
A perfect marriage with found “marvels” finely blended by architects of the “Société des Bains de Mer” ( SBM) with red and gold colours, the identity of Buddha Bar.
This new Buddha Bar is an effect in the ancient cabaret where the construction site allowed to update gilded oak woodwork on walls. In the ceiling, a glittering décor in stucco Belle Epoque. The whole was hidden “for some decades by synthetic surfaces and spoiled restorations from other times”.
These marvels restored by artisans combined with great materials will give a timeless side to the bar.
Our young and professional team located in Cannes was responsible for this project. “I´m proud because it was an hard job as mafi was still an unknown brand in this area and working together with architects of SBM and getting their approbation for our product was a rich experience ” explain Stephanie Benoit, Regional Sales Manager mafi France.
Mafi America wrapped up its Los Angeles debut at Dwell on Design, and made a big splash at the West Coast’s most prestigious design event. Noted visitor’s to Mafi’s exhibition were Barbara Lazaroff, interior designer, noted for her branding of the Wolfang Puck restaurants; Janel Tamares of NBC’s LXTV; noted arts consultant Merry Norris; and Louis Stern of Lois Stern Fine Arts.
“Although our artful and sustainable wood floors are already adorning West Coast interiors, the esteem that was garnered at the event will send out a rippling wave of demand. Architect and designers are eagerly awaiting samples and catalogues for their upcoming projects and we are busy responding to requests“, proudly explained our West Coast Director of Sales & Operations, Nic Neumann.
All the friends of our philosophy and products now have the possibility to get closer in contact with our new sales & service company mafi France established in Cannes.
“Travelling and working between USA and Latin America in the search of wood talents wherever they are, I had the pleasure to discover a really unique product coming from my old continent and I became a lover of mafi products and philosophy. I took the decision last year, back to France, to develop a colaboration with mafi for the french market. Today, I´m very proud to be part of mafi France and to introduce these architectural products in high-end projects on the Riviera Coast, in Monaco, Paris, Lyon, …” Stephanie Benoit, CSO mafi France
We are in Madrid on the Casa Pasarela (27.03.-31.03.) with our newest booth. This booth was designed in collaboration with our CI design partner AREA and with a young US graffiti-artist.
This booth has the same uniqueness as our floors – begehbare Kunstwerke!
On this exhibition we show a part of our product-portfolio including Tiger Oak, Magic Oak, Magic Ash, Domino, Coral Oak, …
