Oregon Lumber Company (Lake Oswego, Ore.) is hard at work milling 20,000 square feet of nearly knot-free madrone flooring for a $200 million addition at New York's famed Carnegie Hall, according to OregonLive.com.
Oregon Lumber Company (Lake Oswego, Ore.) is hard at work milling 20,000 square feet of nearly knot-free madrone flooring for a $200 million addition at New York's famed Carnegie Hall, according to OregonLive.com.
Iu + Bibliowicz Architects, which is overseeing the addition, wanted the floors to bear a warm grain, and they needed material that could withstand the jabs of endpins when musicians-cellists, for example-rest their instruments on the floor.
The difficult part about this order is finding enough madrone. "It's very tough to find, hard to mill, maybe 15 percent is usable," Charles Couch, owner at Oregon Lumber Company, told OregonLive. Couch, who is an amateur classical guitarist, was drawn to the project because of Carnegie Hall's mission to expand music education.
Currently, Couch's two mills-one in Oakland, Ore., and another in Portland, Ore.-are working to fill the order. If they succeed, the company will send two trucks of madrone wood flooring to New York in June. In addition to the madrone material, Couch's company is also supplying 20,000 feet of Doug fir flooring to the hall, OregonLive.com reports.
