The C-shape structure that Woodwright Hardwood Floor Company was hired to create in the lobby of a Dallas-based law firm represents the last initial held by the three principals of Caldwell, Cassady & Curry. Think that’s odd? The principals also named the firm’s conference rooms after big-name rappers. They are clients with wild ideas—just the type an award-winning company like Woodwright enjoys.
The company loves to be adventurous with its floors. This time, their floors climb the wall and ceiling of the C-shape. “If you roll that thing over to make the floor the ceiling, it’s built in such a way that you could walk on it,” says Rick Farrell, Woodwright’s architecture and design consultant. To install the 3-inch-wide, 5⁄8-inch-thick engineered walnut flooring planks into the shape of a letter C, Farrell worked with designer Zach Weihrich from Dallas-based Interior Architects to fine-tune the look. A CNC machine cut the bulkheads that would create the curves in the C shape.
The walnut floor was milled in-house with a loose tongue and groove so it would flow up the curve while remaining flat, then finished on Woodwright’s UV coating line. Once installed on-site, the exposed ends of the wall and ceiling boards were capped with 3⁄4-inch solid walnut cut by the CNC machine.
The firm’s principals were thrilled to have their initial front-and-center, just like rap artists who put their names on necklaces. For Woodwright, the creation was just another work opportunity on a long list of creative projects. “This is what we do every day,” says Woodwright owner Steve Welch. “We don’t stand back and think, ‘Wow, this is so unique.’ We tend to take it for granted.”
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