FLOORING ASK THE DESIGNER…
In our flooring feature this issue we ask, what has been your most challenging flooring brief and why?
Image: Sarah Ward has created a centre piece in the marble floor setting to add distinction and drama to a lobby space
Douglas Saunders, Project Leader, EDGE
A current client had spotted some beautiful stone (Truffer V
als) in an
exclusive Swiss spa and wanted it for his office reception. The stone proved elusive: available only at certain times and in certain quantities with hugely variable inflections. It’s now procured and secured – but only after many quarry visits and a huge amount of rejected stone.
www.edge.gb.com
Jan Wilson, Managing Director, RPW Design
Commercial flooring is much the same as specifying for a residential project - just more extreme. We found a great flooring solution recently at Le
Camelia Restaurant at the Okura Hotel Amsterdam. Under the buffet area we used a ceramic tile that looked like a limed timber floor from Domus Tiles. It sounds pastiche but looks and wears wonderfully.
www.rpwdesign.co.uk
Joanna Cox, Ham Interiors
I had client moving into a Chelsea residence; it was a tiny, one bed flat. He wanted the walls to be like concrete flooring, a white poured resin floor. You can see every little bump with a material like this but he loved it. It is definitely the most bizarre flooring and wallcovering I’ve ever worked on!
www.haminteriors.com
Sarah Ward, Sarah Ward Associates
In one particular project in a hallway we decided to use a contrasting circular marble feature in the centre of the space. To achieve this kind of effect the designer needs to be mindful of selecting a marble of similar quality and thickness and to allow enough budget owing to wastage.
www.sarahwardassociates.com
Stuart McLauchlan, Associate Director, SHH
F
or a private house, we were briefed to create flooring with the look of polished concrete. We priced up laying a screed with a fake polished concrete finish, but were surprised to find that eliminating the screed and laying actual concrete, polished by a
specialist tradesman, was way less expensive, so the client ended up with the genuine thing!
www.shh.co.uk
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