The Orb House
We just got forwarded an amazing project recently finished in Australia. They used mafi floors in the area which looks over the courtyard and pool. Mafi timber was chosen because of the perfectly matching design and because mafi was the only company which could supply wide plank timber boards over hydronic heating.
Same feeling – less temperature
Knowing that you save energy in heating your floor to a warm and nice temperature is another fact for using mafi on hydronic heating systems. It is sientific proofen that you must not heat up a brushed and natural oiled floor that high than every other lacquered wooden floor or tile for the same warm feeling. This saves energy and is much more healthy for your feet.
Star Architect Enrique Norten designed 6 fabolous glass penthouses with automated parking in the 1 York Street / Manhattan. He used our mafi Clear Oak, brushed and natural oiled for all six pents. We are very proud about this one york project.
More and more the americans recognise the trend of natural wooden floors in high living areas. Also the architects prefer the mafi natural wooden floors for special projects. In some regions in the US mafi is very famous and they name us as interior designers, not as wooden floor manufacturer. This is why many architctes and designers now use very often our unique products for their unique projects.
On the other hand there are still a lot of americans, who don’t know the difference between natural oiled surfaces and lacquered or other surfaces. With this references we can give the people in the US an impression of the advantages of natural oiled floors. We want to introduce ourselves as a(n) (interior) manufacturer of natural oiled wooden floors whose philosophy is to work with natural materials only and to only oil the floors to keep the perfect attributes of the wood. We bring the nature in your house.
mafi has recognised a new need of the market, architects and designers and settled the next trend. From now on mafi can also provide all of it’s floors for wall coverings, ceilings and furniture.
Some innovative architects and interior desingers we are working with don`t like to use too much different materials for modern objects. As mafi always tries to make more out of wood we were thinking to use our material also for ceilings and wall coverings. Based on the experience of mafi about natural wood in combination with the needs of it’s clients, mafi developed new trends. But mafi still goes one step further and makes the chance to get all materials of the floors for other usage. mafi floors are on the way to the wall, to the ceiling and also on furniture.
mafi walls…
Because of the very special surfaces the products of the mafi Fresco line are a wonderful alternative for mixing materials to a continuous architecture. In a lot of our projects architects & designers used these products for the floor and the wall. Because of this versatile usability it’s possible to create a consistent room atmosphere without using too many different surfaces.Subtle surface structures make the 3-layer Fresco planks a work of art that can be used as a design element for floors, walls and ceilings. Furthermore mafi Fresco line which is made by incredible craftsmanship and are not only looking perfect in a way of either waves (mafi fresco duna), points (mafi fresco punto) or diamonds (mafi fresco rombo), they also stimulate tired soles of feet. It is wellness you desire every day.
mafi ceilings…
There is a Bar in Leibzig/ GER where the architect used the mafi Tiger Oak for the floor, the wall and also for the ceiling for a very beautiful and modern interior design solution. The owner is fascinated about the interior – primarily because the wood doesn’t have a lacquered surface. With this open-pore surface wood regulates the air humidity. Wood ensures a balanced moisture exchange and a healthy room atmosphere and furthermore filtrates cigarette smoke. All of these attitudes make living in wooden rooms so comfortable and having dinner, lunch or having drinks so much more enjoyable.
Stairs and furniture
For relying to the central theme you can also make stairs out of mafi materials. Basically the 3-layer plank is used for walls, ceilings and stairs. But there is also a second possibility for the use of mafi wood, which is the mafi top layer. These top layers can be used for the carpenter works of staircases, doors, kitchen fronts and also for other furniture constructions.
mafi has entered a cooperation with a furniture manufacturer. Now there is a suitable furniture to the mafi Tiger Oak floor available. Thomas Haider a famous German producer of high end furniture selected the Tiger Oak for his new interior line. There are some very special furnitures made out of the Tiger Oak available now. And as the Tiger Oak is unique in every plank, every furniture is now unique as well – just like our customers – they are unique too.
The decision to take a mafi natural wooden floor is for the most architects and customers not so easy, because you normally do not know all the benefits of these unique products..
The swiss architect Rolf Billing is enthused about mafi floors till his first project with mafi. Now he knows , to live in a house with a natural material like wood is better for the well-being and health of people who are living there. As long as the wood is kept natural with natural oils and not is laquered it can spread all the positve benefits that comes with nature. Rolf Billing styled this very modern apartment with the mafi Tigeroak black color filler, brushed natural oil. This floor demonstrates the symbol between nature an engineering. mafi Oak in combination with the dark cracks gets the costumer a product outstanding in its uniqueness and vitality.
Rolf Billing used the mafi Tigeroak not only for the Living room also for the bathroom, please have a look at the pictures.
The Swiss star architect duo Herzog & de Meuron styled the 27 unit luxury class complex. 22 loft style dwellings and 5 town houses with private gardens.
Our mafi Oak in Vulcano is not only in all the rooms and on all stairs, but also used in the kitchen and on the bathroom doors and walls as well.
We are very proud about 40 Bond this luxury project from the inernationally known interior designers and lifestyle architects.
The mafi Vulcano line is a special heat treated (without any chemical additives) wood which has a consistent couloring and better properties in case of swelling and shrinking. That is why it is also useable for bathrooms and other wellnes- and recreation areas.
