PARQUET MAGAZINE INSPIRATION AND GUIDE TO TARKETT’S WOOD FLOORING

Prestige Oak White Sand – 7877046

WOOD, A NATURAL CHOICE A wood floor brings a special character that enhances a room whatever life or activity it contains. Designing a floor requires taking time to think about not only what looks good, but also what lasts the test of time to bring a stylish, functional and beautiful setting to your everyday. By tracking consumer trends, understanding changing lifestyles and mastering new technologies, we have crafted a collection that makes it easier for you to find the floor to suit your needs and aspirations. In these pages, you’ll find everything from classic to contemporary designs, interior...

GENUINE CRAFTSMANSHIP SINCE 1886 THAT THE STORY OF TARKETT should have its roots in Sweden – a land rich in forests – is not so strange. From it has sprung a passion for wood and the skills of transforming it for the basic human needs of housing, furniture and flooring. From the beauty of nature to the hand of an expert, this know-how has passed from generation to generation of men and women in Tarkett since.

Tarkett’s history began in the late 1880s in a small carpentry shop in Malmo, Sweden that created parquet planks from local oak and beech trees. Soon this thriving company introduced innovations like the Linderman board –a way of joining parquet strips together to make them easier to install, as well as multi-layer parquet that revolutionized the industry by counteracting the natural movement of wood due to humidity. It’s a technique that still forms the basis for the European standard for parquet flooring. This wood expertise helped drive expansion beyond Sweden in the 1950s to neighbouring markets...

FIND YOUR STYLE IN THIS YEAR’S COLLECTION Discover the natural beauty and variety in our new collection of wooden flooring, developed around interior decoration trends and styles of today and tomorrow. Be inspired by timeless design and distinctive craftsmanship. Or hardwood floors with powerful character and special finishing touches. There’s a wide spectrum of choice in colour and expression. ATELIER reflects a trend evoking classic tastes through toned-down luxury with more than a touch of extra care and attention. Inspiration is drawn from authentic and time-worn materials – new or even salvaged...

ATELIER COLLECTIONS ATELIER is a prestigious collection of exclusive engineered wood flooring that brings a new level of craftsmanship, quality and expression to interior design. or beauty, strength and character, Atelier sources wood that offers a unique ambience in all its natural details. Through special rendering, every plank can become a living art with a beautiful patina that brings a lived-in and loved feel over time.

ELEGANCE Exclusive wide and long planks. Nature’s own design determines their unique character. legance’s wide, extra long, extra thick planks stretch out to shape perspectives and bring a serene ambience to a room. Its natural beauty, with all the cracks and knots of the wood, is enhanced through hand-crafted elements like beveling. Its hardwax oil finishing highlights each plank’s distinctive grain and structure. A harmonious combination of design and decoration in a floor that brings depth, beauty and sophistication to any room.

The wide, extra long, extra thick planks bring an experience beyond the ordinary

NOBLE Noble is a modular floor, inspired by the long tradition of classic parquet. oble is a design that reinterprets a classic modular technique of the 1950s. On top of a traditional laquer arrangement, it adds a brushing and hardwax oil finish for a fresh flooring approach. Underfoot, it creates a surprising interplay of light that changes according to your position and perspective as the light falls in the room. The result is an exciting dynamic between the floor and its surroundings, for an effect both timeless yet still on trend.

A dynamic interplay of light and floor for a timeless yet trendy effect

Noble Oak Basket Weave - 7806003

HERITAGE Heritage introduces nature’s styling at its best – a genuinely rustic oak. Natural details that give floors a feeling of century-old patina. ot so long ago, some oak raw materials were not considered to have the right look for flooring. Now, this rustic, grainy wood is sought after more than ever. And the larger the shape or depth of the cracks, knots and natural colour variations, the better! The wood grains are enhanced with brushing and staining to emphasize the beautiful details that make each plank unique.

Natural characteristics and added finishing effects create a really rustic and beautiful feel. Heritage Oak Lime Stone – 4100700

PRESTIGE A sophisticated and naturally worn look. As if Prestige planks had been left outdoors to be worn by wind and weather. restige celebrates nature’s creation and wood’s intrinsic strength and power to stand the test of time. Careful brushing enhances the structure and patina of the wood, as though it had been weathered by sun, sand and wind. The effect is a smooth and rustic appearance– like an old wooden bench left on a windswept promenade by the ocean, season after season.

Prestige Oak White Sand – 7877046

Prestige Oak White Sand – 78770046 Prestige Oak Dark Slate – 7877047 An antique look – weathered and worn by natural elements Prestige Oak White Sand – 7877046 PARQUET MAGAZINE 20

VINTAGE Floors with history. Woodworking traces, from saw marks to indentation, give added patina and a sense of time gone-by. intage combines the charm and detail of old wooden floors with all the benefits of modern flooring for a lived-in look from day one. The worn surfaces you might find in second-hand furniture or salvaged flooring have been recreated. Saw marks, indentation or other distressed details make the floor seem that it’s been walked over for years and years. Add the hardwax oil and each floor will tell you its very own history for generations to come.