Given Monday’s foray into new possibilities with wooden surfaces (see Bolefloor’s Beautiful Naturally Curved Wooden Floors), today’s look at Jamie Beckwith’s Enigma Collection couldn’t be more apropos. While Bolefloor explores the existential query of what might transpire if we left the lovely, God-given curve within the self-same floor, Beckwith is interested in more elaborate manipulations.

Enigma Collection of Interlocking Wooden Tiles. Designed and Manufactured by Jamie Beckwith.

Jamie Beckwith’s Enigma Collection Explores the Potential of Wooden Tiles as Superlatively Beautiful Art

One look at Beckwith’s website and you’ll know you’re traveling in rarefied terrain. And it’s not just the designer’s proclivity for quoting Emerson, Picasso, and Einstein. Like all of Beckwith’s output, Enigma proposes the hand of the divine in the creation of great beauty, of great art. This might sound like posturing were it not for the singular beauty of Enigma.

Indeed, Beckwith’s collection of 14 different styles of wooden tiles create a celestial palette of possibility, an improbable aesthetic lineup that not only suggests how some hypothetical Supreme Being might surface his floors, but also makes a believer of yours truly—formerly, an arch nemesis of the very notion of “parquet.”

But to call enigma parquet is to do a great dis-service. Rather, this collection is sort of a parquet anti-thesis, as the interlocking wooden tiles eschew the duo-tone and duo-shape of parquet in favor of subtle modulations in tint and shade, of bold and dramatic shapes that create lovely oscillations and beguiling serpentines—a whole panoply of captivating geometric interchange across the entire length of the most beautiful floor this side of the forest.

Via Trendir.

About the Manufacturer: Designer Jamie Beckwith is the name and the creative force behind the Jamie Beckwith Collection, an assortment of wooden floor and vertical surfacing options that celebrates the traditional warmth of wood while transforming the conventional plank into varied ornamental patterns with equally varied tonal modulations. Beckwith’s Enigma Line offers 14 patterns of interlocking wooden tiles that collectively “invite you to rethink wood flooring. Use one of the 14 patterns as a wall to wall flooring installation, mix colors or patterns, or create an inset rug pattern in a traditional plank floor… finally, floors become a design element, instead of an afterthought.”