Our new Commercial Collection features a range of our favorite wood flooring and paneling, carefully selected and produced to ensure their durability and suitability for commercial use, while retaining their unique character and beauty.
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Designing a food retail space that is easy to navigate, enjoyable and spacious is important for the shoppers’ overall experience. These spaces need to be designed in a way that relates to their customers and to the products they carry. Adding reclaimed wood is a wonderful option for adding natural warmth and comfort.
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Get Anthology Wood’s samples overnight! Anthology Woods is available on Material Bank, where designers and architects can browse thousands of materials for their upcoming projects.
While other companies scrambled to digitize their operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, Material Bank was already ahead of the game. Material Bank is the largest architectural and design-centric materials resource library, offering thousands of product samples for all aspects of design projects, from sink faucets to wood flooring.
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Reclaimed Spirit
The rich history of our forefathers can be felt through each plank of our Heritage Oak wood. Many Eastern farmers upon staking their claim would build and live in their barns first before building their homes. To them barns represented the farms income and where their livestock lived. In this region of the US, Oak trees were the most common tree to be found, so this is why most barns in Eastern US were constructed of either red or white oak planks. The wood from an Oak Tree is strong and hard, with a high tannin content making it resistant to both insect and fungal attack. Despite their rich legacies and strong timber frames, so many of these structures have been left empty as new generations head to the city abandoning the old family farm.
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Most of us have shared memories of filing into our gymnasiums for school rallies, basketball games and dreaded gym class. Nowadays most bleachers are made of aluminum or concrete, but perhaps you remember sneaking a piece of elastic chewing gum underneath wooden bleachers when the teacher wasn’t looking. At the time, you probably wouldn’t have been impressed that these bleachers were high quality wide plank, long length clear pine and fir that make incredible flooring and paneling. But now, you might!
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A recent article by the NWFA sheds light on various floor finishes used through the ages. This highly informative and entertaining article describes the differences in nearly every modern floor finish, including advantages and disadvantages, VOC content, ease (or difficulty) of application, and much more.
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Wood is an amazing material. There are many reasons we love to include it in our living and working spaces. Wood is strong, warm, resilient, and beautiful. And, wood is a natural material. As a natural material, wood is highly in tune with its environment.
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If you're evaluating wood flooring options, you've probably seen the term "Janka rating" or "Janka hardness" tossed about. You may have seen it on our technical specs. Without going into the details (you can check out Wikipedia for that), Janka is a numerical value that helps you determine how hard a species of wood is -- how likely a stiletto heel is to leave a permanent impression in the surface.
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