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Last Updated ( Friday, 24 February 2012 )
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These are 10 of the coolest flooring designs. From an optical illusion floor,
to a floor made of pennies, an etched floor and even an interactive floor, this
design collection has it all!
Optical Illusion Floor
This optical illusion carpet, spotted in a Paris video game store, provides an
illusion of a vortex floor.
Leather Belt Floor
(Belt) strapped for cash? Forget 'affordable' for a minute and just imagine the
curious combination of feeling aged leather beneath your feet, and the look of
vintage belts lining the floors of your home. Leather flooring is fairly
unusual, but these upcycled belt designs are unique – each one hand-crafted and
with individually-selected old belts.
OK, but the price? Over 600 dollars for the round mat shown above from
BranchHome and over 70 dollars per square foot for the floor tiles from Ting.
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Penny Floor
A floor literally tiled with thousands of copper pennies… it's pretty surprising
to look down and see them when you walk into The Standard Grill in The Standard
Hotel, New York. The design was selected by the restaurant's designers, Robin
Standefer and Stephen Alesch of New York design firm - Roman and Williams.
Radiant Heat Floor
Take off your shoes and feel the warmth coming up through that radiant heat
flooring. It's not only one of the coolest ways to get warm (no pun intended),
but it's also really energy efficient because, unlike traditional heating
systems, you don't lose the heat. With traditional baseboard heating or forced
hot air heating, a lot of the energy you use to heat your home is wasted because
much of the heat produced is immediately lost. But with radiant floors, that
warmth is transferred directly to you as you come in contact with the floor. And
it takes advantage of something we all know - hot air rises - so when the heat
is generated underneath the floor, it does what it's supposed to, which is go
directly up. Aside from the fact that it keeps your indoor temperature up, and
your heating bills down, it's just plain fantastic.
Aerial Photo Floor
Check out the Flying Carpet next time you're in Sacramento. Created by
California-based artist Seyed Alavi, the carpet is an aerial view of the
Sacramento River as it flows for 50 miles, between the California towns of
Colusa and Chico. The 18-foot-wide, 150-foot-long image is woven and dyed into
the carpet covering a walkway that connects the main parking lot and Terminal A.
Alavi won a competition of more than 100 artists that submitted proposals for
upgrading the walkway.
Salt Floor
Every once in a while, though, we run across someone who has taken the industry
to a whole new level. Japanese Artist Motoi Yamamoto has found his medium in
grains of salt - billions and billions of them. Yamamoto adheres plain table
salt to floor surfaces, creating extremely intricate patterns & landscapes. The
result is pretty amazing and can be a dizzying optical illusion if you stare too
long. To prep, the artist draws the most complex mazes and labyrinths
imaginable, plotting out his design.
His creations are for exhibition only and aren't meant for permanent floor
design, which is fortunate, because it'd take just one mildly rude friend to
undo hours upon hours of work.
Puzzle Floor
This floor is something that stands out from the crowd. The new Puzzle Floor
elicits expressions of surprise and amazement. A perfect solution for children's
bedrooms, but not only. Available in 13 colors, the tiles can be mixed for
unique, personalized installations.
Human Traffic Floor
Alistair Bramley's Dimension laminate flooring is a futuristic take on laminate
floor design. The patterns are created using the natural movement of people
within a set environment. Obstacles such as furniture are incorporated into the
floor design. Video footage of how people used the room space was captured,
processed and then printed onto the floor. This takes bespoke flooring to the
next level.
Etched Floor
Some prefer the raw texture of hand-scraped hardwood floors, while others want
the modern look (and low costs) of laminate wood flooring. These patterned
wooden planks provide artistic relief somewhere in between – an honest
contemporary take on classic material and installation approaches.
This decorative flooring series from Mafi provides a fresh outlook on
manufactured floors, etching designs that range from abstract floral patterns to
playfully embossed stick figures. The pre-engraved slats are shallow enough not
to collect dirt and dust (at least in theory), but deep enough to be felt
underfoot by bare feet or with socks – each features a darker ‘burned' look or a
consistent surface treatment where variation is seen only by reflection, light
and shadow.
Interactive Floor
Billed as the world's first truly "sustainable dance club", Club Watt is based
in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and aims to use 50 per cent less waste and 30
per cent less energy than a typical club. To achieve its goals, it's working to
the green guidelines of a non-profit organization known as the Sustainable Dance
Club.
As well as generating energy, the dance floor has an interactive element. As you
dance, its appearance changes through the LED lighting embedded in the panels,
which are made from recycled materials.
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