MFP Flooring at the Architectural digest home design show 2015.

Today is the day if you are in the trade. Visit booth # 239 At the Architectural digest home design show at pier 94.

New MFP Flooring Samples

This is just a tease of some of the samples were working on for the Architectural Digest Home Design Show this year. Check back for more info on the show.

American Walnut Custom Entry Table

American Walnut Custom Entry Table

Custom made solid American walnut slab table, with solid brass legs. created by Manhattan Forest Products. Showcasing our fine wood work.

Custom serving boards for one of our events

Each one is made from a different wood species, cured and hand oiled with food safe oil. This is just a little something to go the extra mile.

Live edge walnut table top ready for custom legs

This is a first glimpse at a new live edge walnut slab that we'll turn into a beautiful custom wood table. You can see from this snapshot, the depth and beauty of the wood. Check back for an update in the near future.

Manhattan Forest Products Press Clippings

Here is a collection of Manhattan Forest Products press clippings from across the web. 

Manhattan Forest Products Chicago

Merchandise Mart • 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 163 Ground floor in the Design Resource Center

212-595-0900 • MFPNY.com • New York • Chicago • New Jersey

Architizer News

Shop LuxeHome, Where You’ll Find All The Design You Could Ask For

  

While most architects profess to being purists, either Miesian minimalists or one-off trendsetters, the reality is that most shoppers are for the most part—gasp—wildly eclectic in their tastes. Enter LuxeHome, an enfilade of showrooms in Chicago’s famed design center, the Merchandise Mart. Here, designers and shoppers alike can weave in and out of stores offering products as varied as high-end appliances to antique furnishings, stone tiles to sustainable carpets. Continue.

Old Word stone, terra cotta and wood make give even the newest homes a welcome warmth.

LuxeHome’s success as a one-stop shopping venue means it is always expanding and adding more showrooms to its boutique roster. Two new shops offer products with a history. Exquisite Surfaces, founded in 1997 by the Nataf Family, meticulously selects antique salvaged materials and creates unique hand-crafted products that stand outside of time. The store launched on the West Coast and now has showrooms in Beverly Hills, San Francisco, Laguna Niguel in California as well as New York, Greenwich, CT on the East Coast. And now Midwesterners can shop in their new Chicago showroom.

Wood salvaged from the Coney Island Boardwalk now lives in some of the finest homes and establishments.

Exquisite Surfaces offerings include antique and aged French oak, antique and reproduction limestone fireplaces, Provencal fountains, garden elements, antique Jerusalem stone, salvaged roof tiles, antique Tunisian tiles, decorative ceramic tile collections from France, Spain, Italy and North Africa and more. While they may source historic materials, many designers and homeowners incorporate them into contemporary architecture and interiors. The fabric of Old World stone, wood and ceramic tile can lend a patina and texture that appeals to the most staunch modernist equally.
Buyers for Exquisite Surfaces are constantly searching for unique  materials, traveling throughout the world, and meeting local artisans. They recently added a collection of hand-crafted tiles from Sicily and a line of antique cement tiles from Belgium. It is worth the trip to their showroom—not only can you look, touch, and feel their meticulously salvaged materials.

Coney Island Boardwalk

Another new resident at LuxeHome, Manhattan Forest Products, also sources materials that have mellowed with age. The millers re-harvest vintage New York wood from historic buildings to use in bespoke flooring, including antique oak, heart pine, chestnut, and other antique hardwoods found in old factories, mills, and breweries. They have salvaged wood from water towers and even the Coney Island boardwalk in New York. MFP is a full-service mill and lumber supplier, with the capacity to produce and ship internationally reclaimed flooring, custom molding, sawn and hand-hewn beams, architectural millwork and a wide range of other wood products. As a custom mill, they have the flexibility to produce products made from just about any type of wood, to your exact specifications. While many customers like reclaimed wood that shows its wear and tear, others prefer “new face wood” or wood that has had the top worn layer of reclaimed wood shaved off to expose the virgin surface beneath.

The wood reclaimed from the Coney Island Boardwalk lives on as Manhattan Forest Products’ Surf & Sand flooring.

On Tuesday, October 23, from 6-8pm, Margaret Russell, Editor in Chief, Architectural Digest, is hosting cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in Exquisite Surfaces showroom (Suite 1-143) in LuxeHome, 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza. Please respond to rsvp@archdigest.com
On Thursday, November 15, from 6-8:30pm, LuxeHome Presents the Sixth Annual CHILL, the Sixth Annual Charity CHILL Event, featuring superb wines from winemakers worldwide paired with cuisine from distinguished chefs amidst the ambiance of the world’s largest collection of premier boutiques for homebuilding and renovation.

 

Sophia Weiss Lapat

Sophia + Co

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(c) 212.203.6536

The Evolution of a White Floor Sample

Because we are a full service mill, our customers often ask us to create a custom finish or have a new idea for their flooring. Each clients needs are unique so we want to give them the attention they deserve.

Our client has a beautiful home in Florida and asked us to start with a white oak floor, make it whiter, grayer, but still with some grain. Our craftspeople accepted the challenge and started down the path of making samples for the client to review. Below is where we went and how we got there.

It took some time to get it right, because everyone sees things in their minds eye a different way. The floor underneath these samples is our standard white oak floor. As you can see, we went through quite a few versions of this, to interpret the customer’s ideas. The best way to do it some times is go to extremes. On one end, we have a vibrant white that almost wipes out any indication of wood grain. We then take it in another direction to go gray. Ultimately, we take cues from our clients and we end up with a stunning result, all natural oils, not paint, non-toxic, environmentally friendly finishes that will last.

DIAMOND WHITE

Our client ultimately selected our newest white oak finish called Diamond White. It has just enough gray and white with grain showing through. We were able to create an additional finish below, which is also a very beautiful look for white oak.

DOVE WHITE

RUSTIC MOUNTAIN

If you like these finishes, come visit us at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show Booth #480. We are debuting some real ground breaking designs in a crowded world of reclaimed wood flooring.

Join us at the 2013 Architectural Digest Home Design Show

This is our second great year at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show in NYC. Join us this year in Booth Number 480 for a display that you won't forget. We are debuting many new products and finishes that will astound you.

Handmade one of a kind tables and benches

Happy New Year from MFP. We are proud to launch a new line of handmade one of a kind tables and benches this year. Each piece is crafted from Coney Island Boardwalk, New York Water Towers and many other reclaimed woods. Visit our Chicago showroom in the Merchandise Mart, or our New York showroom in Union Square for more details.

Manhattan Forest Products brings piece of NY to Chicago

We've recently opened our Chicago showroom and we're getting a lot of press featuring our flooring products. Check out the the link here. http://www.fcnews.net/2012/07/manhattan-forest-products-brings-piece-of-ny-to-chicago/

MFP Designs a custom wood floor for the CURATOR Event in Greenwich, CT

Delamar Greenwich Harbor is arguably one of the most elegant boutique hotels in the country. This stunning jewel is located along the beautiful Greenwich Harbor, offering its discerning guests a Mediterranean style waterfront setting, all designed to evoke an ambiance of old world charm, bespoke services and modern technology. Delamar Greenwich Harbor features over five hundred feet of private dock and is located just off the famous Greenwich Avenue, often referred to as the “Rodeo Drive of the East Coast.” For more information visit www.thecurator.com

We created a beautiful, custom, cutting-edge, designer wood floor for this high-end luxury event. This is true artisanship at its finest. Below are some shots from the event.