Bored of perfectly straight floorboards with rigid, defined lines? Then an all-new curved flooring design may be right up your alley.
Floor design is moving away from the straight and narrow with a revolutionary natural design that follows the grain of the wood and produces curved, wavy planks.Created by Dutch flooring company Bolefloor, the unique design is purported to save wood and allow for more floors to be created per forest.
Bolefloor touts its products as being eco-friendly, saying that ‘It wasn’t nature that created straight floorboards: it was the limitations of technology.’
A combination of various types of sophisticated technologies are used to scan and cut the wood so that each plank will fit perfectly into place, which is considerably more difficult for curved planks than uniformly straight planks.
In a statement on the company’s website, Bolefloor explains that it ‘combines wood scanning systems, tailor-made CAD/CAM developments and innovative optimisation algorithims for placement software developed by a Finnish engineering automation company and three software companies in cooperation with the Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology.’
Bolefloor is currently only being distributed in Europe, but is seeking production and distribution partners in the United States and Canada.
