Larch and glass in Hotel Pogusch

mafi Larch wide plank brushed natural oil is fantastically installed in the hotel rooms Pogusch in Steierereck. The rooms are  outstandingly mixed with natural products and  modern design. Relaxing in the rooms you can look through glass boards directly down into a stable. We really like the combination of a wooden floor with a glass floor-window as an optical highlight next to each other.

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larch wide plank floor in a modern way

mafi coniferous wood gives rooms a very warm design and a wonderful atmosphere. The extravagant surfaces of the conifer wide planks create a consistent atmosphere for every area. Especially the natural oiled larch wide plank is ideal to create feelings with wooden floors in modern and minimalism objects without destroying them. To read more about the rainessance of wide plank Larch please click here.

Larch Counrty wide plank: Heartwood with proportionate cracks is blended. Knotwholes and cracks as well as pitch pockets are filled with black putty. Very vivid surface appearance. A hard-wearing conifer floor. Planks up to 5 meter lenght and 30 centimetre width are available.

AIA/LA in the Oberfeld Residence in LA

The American Institute of Architects’ self-guided home tours are a neat way to view some of L.A.’s most interesting homes. AIA/LA held its first fall home tour of the year in the 10000 square feet luxury house. In this villa outstanding  SPF architects used our mafi wood for some of the rooms. This home tour gives architects and designers the possibility to see perfectly done projects and  learn from each others.

After this home tour the SPE architects got a lot of inquires about the natural wooden floor from mafi.

Please click here to see pictures of the Oberfeld Residence

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Nature brings unique variations every day

A perfect example of this is Tiger Oak with it’s irregular stripes that achieve an incomparably unique surface. With it’s vivid colour accents in black, cream, silver, gold or violet the luxury floor radiates an immensely sensuous lustre. Our partner in Russia used Tiger Oak different for a private house.

In every room is an other colour for the stripes of the Tiger Oak or an other oil. In the living room is the mafi Tiger Oak cream color filler brushed natural oil, while the violet color filler brushed white oil is in a bedroom of the house. Also you can see on the pictures that in the bedroom is a black color filler Tiger Oak install.

Tiger Oak is not only extremely decorative it is as hard-wearing and easy to clean as all mafi natural wooden floors.

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Oak Vulcano in the Hotel Alpina

mafi Oak Vulcano brushed natural oil is not only a heard wearing and warmness spending floor, it is also installed in the big Wellness Hotel Alpina in the “Alpendorf” in St. Johann / Pg. in Austria. They used the mafi Oak Vulcano for a heavily frequented area in the restaurant and the Wellness Area of the Hotel.

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What you have to keep in mind if you use a mafi floor for a heavily frequented area…

You have to put felt pads on the chair to get no scratches. In public areas it is important to reoil the floor once a year to give the floor the ingredients it needs to keep the hard wearing surface as beautiful as it was on the first day. With the reoiling small scratches will be gone and the floor will get a saturated colour. It is important to know that for cleaning you have to use  mafi wood floor soap. Never use any other cleaning fluids as the floor’s surface can become washed out and sensitive to dirt as the mafi soap is cleaning and refatting the floor all at once. We recommend working with 2 buckets: 1 bucket with soap mixture and 1 bucket with clear water that is used to rinse the soiled wiping mop; change water frequently.

Advantages for public areas:

Resistance through use of mafi ‘s natural Oil because the Oil penetrates into the wood’s pores where it hardens. After hardening the surface is extremely hard wearing yet stays breathable and open-pore. Because of the open-pore surface the floor is free from static electricity and regulates the air humidity. Then  the regular care with mafi soap the floor increases its natural robustness as the soap contains protective vegetable oils. Small pressure marks will disappear without further treatment when the floor is damp wiped. mafi floors have a lot of positive advantages not only the optical look and uniqueness they are especially long lasting and dimensionally stable in each region of the world.

Floor Highlights at the Maison et Objet in Paris

We want to surprise you on the exhibition Maison et Objet 2010 in Paris from 03th to 07th of September. Have a look on some quick shots of the booth.

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We developed a new product with surfaces that are like a massage to your feet walking barefoot over it and also another product line with a extravagant design which you never have seen before.
You can see the new planed product (for the massage effect) on the first pictures, it is the one with silver filled cracks. The name of this special new product is mafi Riva silver, hand-planed white oiled. It’s available in all Country and Coral variates and with a white, natural or grey oiled surface.

The other product presented on the Maison et Objet will be launched and officially presented in October 2010, than you will see pictures on our Blog. Be surprised!

You can also find mafi on the Maison-et-Objet-list of a selection of the favourite finds from the home-fashion shows. “We are more than happy to be picked in an exclusive selection of 50 brands out of 3000 exhibitors at this worldwide renown show. It shows, that we are on the right way with our philosophy and products.”, a noticeable delighted Harald Maier, CSO of mafi said.

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Summer feeling

We want to present you our new shop window decoration. The topic is butterfly feeling in summer. Mrs. Brigitta Schölbauer/ Basis 4 used beautiful butterflies for the shop-window to get a very good feeling and a good impression for the summer time.

In combination with the natural wooden floors our shop get a very friendly impression for people who walk outside. We recognize people standing outside and having a look into the shop window every day. We will adopt the decoration for the summer festival and will change it in fall.

Have a look at the pictures…

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Vertical useability of mafi wood

We’ve got some extraordinary pictures of an exclusive apartment in Belgium. The interior designers from the construction company Elbeko were very creative with our Mafi wood. Walnut sanded natural oiled was used for the floor, the stairs, the desk and some shelves in the living room.

The Mafi Fresco Duna white oiled is used in the bedroom. The feeling of walking barefoot on the curved wood is like a gentle feet massage, a perfect feeling to start the day. The finishing touch in this room is the dressing with parts in the same Fresco Duna as the floor.

The Home cinema and bar is designed with the Mafi Domino. This wood blends in perfectly with the purpose of this entertainment room. The bar has a build-in fridge and shelves behind faded glass. Above this there’s a floating shelf with RGB LED lights, they point out the life and richness of the Mafi Domino wood. Across this bar there a unique Mafi furniture to separate the bar of the home cinema.

The fine craftsmanship is from Chris Veschaeve Bvba.

Get an impression…

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Pictures: AF-Fotografie.com

Astonishing house in Los Angeles

We recently got pictures of an unbelievable 1000 sqm private house and a beautiful view of the Los Angeles basin. For some rooms they used mafi Beech Fresco punto, white oiled. The house is a perfect symbioses of modern architecture and unique natural oiled floors which brings in the nature in the house.

This project is getting a lot of attention in the US. It is being heralded by some as the best Modern Home in Los Angeles.

Click here for more information about this project please.

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Fresco design apartment in Cap d’Ail

Here we want to present you a neat appartment in France. Fantastic Interior Designer Valérie Barth equipped the interior with mafi Fresco duna, natural oiled. We think this is a very good idea especially as people walk very often barefoot and this floor stimulates the soles of your feet. The work is very fantastic, everything is very good planned. We are more than happy that mafi floors also are very famous in France.

mafi Fresco is the ideal floor for Living Areas where you usually walk barefoot. The surface of the floor is with different shapes, looks good and is perfect to stimulate soles of feet.  Design experts honour mafi fresco duna white in the red dot award: product design 2009

This subtle surface structures make the 3-layer Vulcano beech planks a work of art that can be used as a design element for floor, wall and ceiling.

For more information please click here

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kitchen, doors and furniture – made possible by mafi CH

This is a very special project to show what is possible with mafi natural wooden floors. On the pictures  you can see that the wood is used for the floor, the kitchen, the doors and for some of the furniture. There is a cabinet covered with mafi Oak. This is possible for nearly all furnitures and with almost every mafi floor.
“A good carpenter can make nearly everything out of our floors”, says Daniel Bangerter, CEO of mafi Suisse.
Also the kitchen is made with the same Oak and also brushed. We think this reference shows that you can make one line through the apartment which makes a very good interior design. The kitchen is from the carpenter Moser Appenzell/Switzerland.

They used mafi Oak Country, brushed oiled white for teh complete apartment.

Please have a look of the pictures about this perfect done detail work.

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