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...The interior has had a modern refurbishment with a fitted kitchen, sleek fireplaces, triple-glazed windows, parquet flooring and underfloor heating....
...with their expertise in flooring solutions.”...
...The house is one of those apartments one imagines is pure Paris, a delightful conjunction of hardwood flooring and enfiladed rooms....
...The pair also designed parquet flooring with a bespoke contemporary pattern for the antechamber to temper the Versailles parquetry found in the main reception rooms. “Thierry always pushes us further....
...He is also a director of Hanover Flooring alongside Geoff Wilding, Victoria’s executive chair, who since taking the helm in 2012 has spearheaded an acquisition spree of more than 20 flooring companies....
...Throughout, pretty parquet flooring, rich fabrics and interesting nooks and spaces have been reworked for their new life in hospitality....
...The same warehouse complex is home to MAK Flooring, a company whose business and assets Victoria has previously said it acquired as part of the Hanover acquisition....
...Dating back to 1915, the interior has many features typical of the period, such as the archways, balconies with stone balustrades, leaded windows, brick fireplace and parquet flooring....
...Three years later, he had scrapped his initial plans and started his own company — not only installing flooring but also manufacturing it. It was not easy....
...The lower two floors feature high ceilings and large sash windows, and there is wooden flooring in most rooms....
...instagrammable neighbourhood overrun with small cafés and antique shops within walking distance of Central, they decided on Wong Chuk Hang, where they were fascinated by vintage sage-coloured terrazzo flooring...
...Heavily indebted Victoria has acquired more than 20 other flooring companies around the world since New Zealand financier Geoff Wilding took the helm as executive chair in 2012....
...While the interior is modern, it retains distinctive features such as coffered ceilings, wood panelling, leaded windows, a gas fireplace and original fir flooring....
...What A one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment with a striking interior, featuring herringbone flooring in the living room, darkly coloured walls in the foyer and a fireplace....
...Italian furniture group Poltronesofà is to buy sofa and flooring retailer ScS as it enters the UK for the first time, a deal that sent shares in the chain up more than 60 per cent in early London trading...
...For effective recycling they need to be shipped back to Portugal, to be repurposed into other cork products such as insulation, flooring, tennis balls and aircraft components....
...“Nothing is more cocooning,” says Cotton, who’s covering an entire interior – floor, walls, ceiling – in a deep-sea-navy carpet for a home cinema that nods to the flooring of English picture houses....
...That’s when Geoff Wilding, a former investment banker from New Zealand, took the helm as executive chairman and spearheaded an acquisition spree of over 20 flooring companies around the globe....
...Or the flooring or, indeed, the whole style of the room? I ask this because I found myself in smart rooms at the Grand Hotel Wien in Vienna, feeling rather ungrateful....
...It counts makers of flooring, paint, insulation, roofing and modular homes among its subsidiaries....
...capital and operational expenditure programme of £3mn, updating the technology with a £500,000 warping machine, 10 new looms (including two new jacquard attachments used for complex pattern-making), new flooring...
...The home of Dr Godwin Baxter has decor by Salvador Dalí and pets by Hieronymus Bosch — upholstered flooring, a bird with dog legs, a barking rooster....
...But the stark audit warning is likely to cast further scrutiny over the highly leveraged carpet roll-up, which has acquired more than 20 other flooring companies around the world since New Zealand financier...
...Wood is much stronger when it comes to something like flooring, but if the edges of a washi floor come away you can repair them with glue.” He pauses for a second....
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