Artificially Aged Oak Flooring in Icelandic Trend-Restaurant

 

Old Painter’s Dream by Baltic Wood is three-layer oak flooring that was awarded the ‘innovations’ label at DOMOTEX 2014. The following success story shows how this textured wood surface perfectly complements the interior design of the Grill Market restaurant in Reykjavik.

 

Over the few years of its existence, the Grill Market restaurant has become a highly popular meeting point in Reykjavik’s historical centre. Located in a former cinema, the restaurant, which predominantly offers regional specialties, boasts a rustic interior design concept featuring vintage elements. The distressed look of the wooden flooring perfectly complements the deliberately rough surfaces of the walls and fittings, as well as the lighting design that accentuates individual details.

 

Old Painter’s Dream is three-layer oak flooring by Polish manufacturer Baltic Wood. The planks’ wooden texture is brought out using a manual brushing technique. Manually planed edges and traces of black staining give the surface an aged look. This effect is additionally enhanced by staining the flooring’s hand-crafted ‘woodworm’ holes. The slightly polished and oiled parquet flooring is used on both floors of the Grill Market restaurant.

 

Architect Leifur Welding, whose office is also located in the Icelandic capital, has developed the interior design concept. In reference to the art nouveau building’s original use as a cinema, Welding wanted “to create an atmospheric set” in the restaurant’s rooms. In his design, the interior’s traditional detailing and the artificially aged flooring perfectly play off each other.

 

In 2014, the Old Painter’s Dream oak flooring by Baltic Wood with its hand-crafted distressed finish was awarded the Innovations@DOMOTEX label in the ‘parquet and laminate flooring’ category. The Polish manufacturer will again exhibit its products at DOMOTEX 2016.

 

Baltic Wood is a renowned European manufacturer of wooden floors, well-known for its offer of floors of supreme technical quality, as well as for its array of designing solutions – one of the widest arrays available in Europe, which results from the multitude of wood species, surface refining methods and aesthetic effects.