Hardwood Floors June/July 2018

CATEGORY: Best Parquetry/Inlay Application + Members’ Choice

Fit for a Fairytale (Continued)

“Our task was to emphasize the natural color and style of the room,” said Natalia Lebedeva, export manager for ArtParquet. “Our designers were inspired by these ancient ethnic ornaments, and they reflected these ornaments in the flooring.” This is not the first project that the team did for the Tajik president. “Typically, the contractor or people who are responsible for interior design contact us and send us layouts of the rooms and decoration of the ceiling. More often than not, our flooring correlates with the ceiling and shape of the room,” said Lebedeva. One of the advantages ArtParquet has is that they have their own design-studio where artists and designers create unique floors. Specialists fashion projects of different types and levels of complexity starting from pencil drawing and ending with a precise image of future flooring in digital programs. “Artistic parquet production is a difficult and elaborate process. Craftsmen of the past had to calculate every centimeter of the pattern and carve every single detail

ArtParquet specializes in developing and selling wooden products used for interior design. The team provides full service – from floor to ceiling – along with design and installation. Some of the many services offered include artistic parquet, engineered tile, strip parquet, solid wood, wooden doors, caisson ceilings, wooden panels (boiserie), and much more. About 200 people work in the factory, and more than 50 people work in the office. The winning installation took place in one of the residences of the Tajik president, known as “Kohi Nowruz” located in Tajikistan. The name of the hall where the winning flooring is installed is “Zarandud” which means gilt (or golden) in Tajik. When the building was initially constructed in September 2014, it was planned to be a teahouse, but during the construction process, it evolved into a palace. Kohi Nowruz has 12 halls, each of which is designed in a distinctive style. All the rooms of the palace are decorated by artists and craftsmen containing exquisite artwork including wood carvings, mosaics including local semi-precious stones, and painted ceilings.

manually. Only the best could manage such work,” said Lebedeva. After the initial design for Kohi Nowruz was approved, the design engineers prepared AutoCAD drawings that were sent to the factory where CNC machines cut all the necessary details.

“Our designers were inspired by these ancient ethnic ornaments, and they reflected these ornaments in the flooring.”

AutoCAD drawings were sent to the factory where CNC machines cut all the necessary details.

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