Fresco duna in antique house’s bathroom

One of mafi’s massage effect floors is now installed in a 400 year old private house in Bavaria/GER. They used the Beech Vulcano Fresco duna not only for the floor but also for the bath tub covering. This is a very difficult installation because of the surfaces structure and the humid conditions in bathrooms. On the pictures you can see that each plank of the covering is ongoing around the edge.

Please also have a look on the perfectly done solution of the connection areas to tiles and to a 400 year old stone wall where the the floor exactly follows the shape of the natural stone wall.

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Technical information to natural wooden floors in bathrooms:

The planks must be glued to the subfloor firmly with elastic adhesive. Impregnate the cut edges with mafi Wood Floor Oil so that the wood does not swell. An Expansion gap of min. 5 mm must be left at the edge – also  when the join is with sanitary ware (baths, shower basins, etc…)

Subsequent treatment with the appropriate mafi Wood Floor Oil is absolutely necessary after installation. The regular care should be with mafi Wood Floor Soap. Subsequent care is carried out as required using mafi Wood Floor Soap. Please avoid pools of water on the wood’s surface and/ or soak up immediately!

Fresco duna on a Belgium Wall

mafi Benelux outfitted a private house’s kitchen walls with the mafi Fresco duna brushed white oil. It’s a good detailed work of teh installers and carpenters. They have done an incredible job doing all doors and cabinets with Fresco duna as well. This presumes a very precise work as  you need to take care that you get perfect crossings of milled structure with every plank.

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The lamp is made by Dark and is called Skywalker Junior.

Beech Fresco is particularly suitable for zones often walked on barefoot, as it’s 3-D structures have a massaging effect on the soles of the foot. With their decorative character, mafi Fresco planks are ideal design elements for walls and ceilings.

Luxury real estate with Fresco Duna in Montecarlo

More and more of our products as like as the  Beech Vulcano Fresco Duna are part of high end interior design. In this case there is a wonderful wall-application in the entrance Hall of the Mirabeau in Monaco. It is the former Mirabeau Hotel converted into 8 high end condominium Apartments in Monaco.

The owner is David and Frederik Barclay, also owners of the famous Ritz Hotel in London.

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Beech Vulcano Fresco Duna is also vertical usable and works as a fantastically eye catcher generated by a unique material selection. More and more designers and architects growned to like the Duna to design rooms not only as floors but also for walls, ceilings and also furniture.
Fresco floors are also very good for wet rooms like bathrooms and areas where you often walk barefoot. The 3D structure massages your feet and also has an anti slip effect.

Important:
Fresco products are only available as planks because of technical reasons. All other products you can buy the toplayer for producing your special applications.

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

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.

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Beech Vulcano Fresco duna on the wall

We recently got pictures from the photographer Bieke Claessens of a really beautiful reference.  Interior designer Lens°ass used the mafi Beech Vulcano Fresco duna white oil for the bathroom in an office in Brussel. He used the mafi Fresco for the wall.

We think this is a very beautiful done project and shows that mafi floors can even be used for home interior design solutions.

The mafi Beech Vulcano Fresco is also available in the shapes of Rombo and Punto.

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mafi fresco report in MARK magazine

In the next release (No. 21) of the MARK magazine by FRAME, mafi Fresco will be presented to design- and architecture- people. Attached you will find the text of the report.

In one of the most famous and toughest international design competitions, the
Red Dot Design Award, Mafi’s Fresco floor was awarded an honourable mention
by a jury composed of top-class experts, while no other prizes were awarded
in its category. ‘Mafi Fresco is ideal for wellness facilities and all living spaces,
where people usually walk barefoot,’ explains Heidrun Fillafer, responsible for
research and development in the Austrian firm. ‘The sophisticated finishing of
the floor surfaces made possible by various milling programmes not only gives
them a striking appearance, with waves (Fresco Duna), spots (Fresco Punkto)
or diamond shapes (Fresco Rombo), but also provides the tired soles of our feet
with a soothing, relaxing and invigorating massage,’ she adds. ‘At the same time,
the imagination can run riot when it comes to possible uses for the product, due
to its decorative appearance.’
‘Successful products differ from less successful products in that they can
stand up to real conditions,’ said design expert Professor Dr Peter Zec, when
introducing the Red Dot Design Award. ‘Successful participation in a design competition
can be the first indication of the later commercial success of a product,
as such competitions make it possible to look objectively at otherwise highly
subjective design decisions.’ Receiving an award in an internationally renowned
design competition is therefore an important indication of whether a product
has the potential to succeed internationally. Products submitted for the Red
Dot Design Award were judged by an international jury composed of renowned
design experts. They evaluate and test the products and assess them according
to criteria such as innovation, functionality, ergonomics, durability, environmental
sustainability or clarity of function. This year the jury judged companies from
49 countries, which submitted over 3,000 products. Prizes were awarded in the
categories ‘product design’, ‘communication design’, and ‘design concept’.

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mafi at the Fuori Salone in Milan

Luigi Ferrario

production mafi and COSTI DESIGN

Luigi Ferrario graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic School of Turin and achieved a master in architectural and environmental restoration at Rome University. At 25 he was director of the architecture department of the Centre d’Experimentation Artistique Marie Louise Jeanneret in Boissano and at 26 he opened his Laboratorio Architettura Contemporanea (Laboratory of Contemporary Architecture) in Rome: a professional studio and a gallery for modern and contemporary architecture exhibitions. In 1989 he moved his studio to Milan. He designed and built many works of architecture as well as monumental and urban restoration, interior architecture and design projects, that have been published in Italian and international books and magazines in Germany, England, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey and Spain. Some of these are still underway: a multi-storey building in Milan and one in Beirut, a small tower in New York, a few riads in Marrakech and an experimental house in aluminium. A few of his works and projects are exhibited in the Biennale in Venice, at the Festival of Architecture in Parma and, in 2003, in the Medaglia d’Oro all’Architettura Italiana exhibition at the Triennale of Milan, where he was awarded with a honour mention. The restoration project for Legnano Castle was chosen among the Italian works featured at the 2009 European Union Prize for Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.

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