Combine and Conquer: The Irregular Edges and Wild Knots of Bolefloor
We all adore the warmth that wood floors bring to us, but sometimes the geometry of their assembly beneath us gets to the best of us. After all, they could be cut and fit in irregular patterns too. Thanks to Bolefloor, the world’s “first industrial-scale manufactured hardwood flooring with naturally curved lengths” has arrived.
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Win-Win Wood Flooring: Modern, Technological Design by Bolefloor Brings Us Rustic, Organic Wood Floor
The unusual look and knotted grains follow the tree’s growth working to create the latest in wood flooring from the Netherlands-based company. Rustic and gorgeous, the irregular edges add an effect that grid-like patterns of planks and straight lines cannot. Besides shooting out from the normal patterns of flooring, Bolefloor itself is named after the word “bole” – a word which literally means the trunk of the tree. According to the company website, they use technology that combines wood scanning systems and tailor-made CAD/CAM developments and innovative optimization algorithms that were created by a Finnish engineering automation company, three software companies, and the Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology.
Straightforward in its own, curved-length way, the floorboards are as individual as the tree it came from. Similarly, no two Bolefloor boards are alike. The one thing that is absolutely equal about the entire concept is its attention to both the private and public sectors. As Bolefloor describes, “whether a ski lodge, hotel reception, spa, restaurant, office, theatre, museum, retail premise, or your own city or country home, Bolefloors work in any setting where intimate, natural and individual interiors are desired.” After all of the technology and spread into the marketplace, their motto rings true from every knotted inside to outer, irregular edge: Life is not a straight line.
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