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News • News • 10 Jun 2021

London Design District welcomes first completed building designed by Barozzi Veiga

On the Greenwich Peninsula a hectare of 16 buildings is planned to become a new creative hub for London. The first of many planned to open this summer, Ravensbourne University’s new Institute for Creativity & Technology is designed by Barozzi Veiga. The institute is the first project in the UK for Barozzi Veiga. Taran Wilkhu Known for their monolithic designs Barozzi Veiga shaped the institute like a polished aluminium factory hall punctured asymmetrically with large industrial floor-to-ceiling windows. The building is one of two the architects designed for the district. A darker version of similar design will be located on the other end of the creative community. Taran Wilkhu “When developing this project, we ha... More

Product • By Forbo Flooring Systems • Marmoleum Imagine

Marmoleum Imagine

Did you know you can make the most stunning floor designs with Marmoleum? For Marmoleum Imagine we asked 3 international designers to create a series of Marmoleum designs, made possible by our refined Aquajet cutting technique. The designs can be customized on request which allows for endless design possibilities. More

Product • By Forbo Flooring Systems • Marmoleum Solid

Marmoleum Solid

Step into modern nature Nature's story unfolds with Marmoleum Solid. This well-curated palette empowers you to make limitless combinations within the collection but also with other interior materials. Marmoleum Solid is your reliable partner for modern and balanced spatial design with a natural feel. MODERN NATURE• Up to 98% natural raw materials• Climate positive without offsetting• Circular ready and PVC free MODERN DESIGN• Contemporary natural palette with muted and neutral tones• Connecting effortlessly with other interior materials• Crafted with your well-being in mind Caption MODERN USAGE• Designed to last with the Topshield pro surface finish• Easy to clean and maintain: no need to wax... More

Product • By Forbo Flooring Systems • Marmoleum Cocoa

Marmoleum Cocoa

A natural revolutionMarmoleum Cocoa is climate positive and ready for circular use. Reducing your carbon footprint and increasing the use of post-consumer recycled content, it can be used over and over again. Marmoleum Cocoa is made out of 97% natural and renewable raw materials. Of this, 43% is combined recycled content from end-of-life, post-installation, cross-industry and closed loop waste streams. Of the recycled content, 33% is recycled pre- and/or post-consumer flooring waste. The balance between pre- and post-consumer waste varies due to the availability of installation waste and old flooring obtained through our Back-to-the-Floor program. To ensure high-quality flooring, our recycled content is fully tested for health and safety... More

Product • By Forbo Flooring Systems • Furniture Linoleum - Linoleum Surfacing Material

Furniture Linoleum - Linoleum Surfacing Material

Forbo’s Furniture Linoleum, Desktop, is a natural surfacing material that delivers the finishing touch for all high end 3D furniture designs such as desks, chairs, stools, cabinets, doors and displays. The material is flexible and can be applied as a surface on all kinds of constructions. Caption Furniture Linoleum is renowned for its elegance and durability, radiating high quality and finesse. Furniture Linoleum delivers a combination of a satin matt surface with a warm, fine texture creating interior furniture with a truly distinctive, genuinely individual look and feel that really is unlike any other surface material available. The natural character of Furniture Linoleum means that the material achieves a beautiful patina ove... More

Product • By Forbo Flooring Systems • Marmoleum Linear

Marmoleum Linear

Creating comfortable spaces. Our Marmoleum Linear floor coverings are designed to create a contemporary and comfortable environment with a warm and welcoming feel for informal, natural settings with a homely atmosphere. An environment where we recover faster, feel encouraged to work, share ideas and learn. More

Product • By Forbo Flooring Systems • Marmoleum Walton

Marmoleum Walton

Presenting the pure character of linoleum. The solid identity of Marmoleum Walton with its smooth surface and minimal, unpretentious material expression makes it the ultimate & pure representative of our linoleum flooring. Its plain visual makes Walton easy adaptable to the context it is used in, and the subtle texture gives it a soft and natural look. The contemporary color palette presents both cool grey tones, warm earthy shades and rich classic shades. Forbo Marmoleum is the most sustainable flooring choice and combines its natural character with stunning floor designs, excellent durability and easy cleaning & maintenance. Caption Marmoleum, Forbo's brand of linoleum, is made from 97% natural raw mater... More

Product • By Forbo Flooring Systems • Marmoleum Modular

Marmoleum Modular

Create your floor! Our new Marmoleum Modular collection presents sustainable linoleum tiles in various sizes & designs that allows you to create stunning floor designs. The planks and tiles are created around visuals of wood, concrete, stone and marble and can be used to mix and match or on their own, both delivering a beautiful sustainable floor.Marmoleum Modular is a sustainable alternative to all designer modular floors available in the market today. With the new Topshield2 finish the floor is ready for use right away after installation. The modular tiles are easy to install, require a minimal cleaning and maintenance regime and can be recycled after it useful life.If you would like to see the different grids that Marmoleum Modu... More

Product • By Peter Boy Design • E1 Coffee Table Elipse

E1 Coffee Table Elipse

E1 is a fantastic simple and minimalistic coffee table. The black linoleum or the white compact laminated table top gives this table character and comfort and an interesting contrast to the frame.MaterialFrame: Brushed stainless steelTop: Black Linoleum, 12mm CDF black or white.MeasurementsLength: 150 cm Width: 65 cm Height: 40 cm More

Project • By Forbo Flooring Systems • Offices

Social- og Sundhøjsskolen

Constructing architect Bent Veller Hansen : "We wanted a robust environment. And then we had a desire to contribute to a good acoustics. We considered several materials, but chose furniture linoleum." More

Project • By Forbo Flooring Systems • Universities

UCD School of Architecutre

Special ceiling for centenary year It was decided to use Forbo’s Desktop for the panels. Each name is laser cut on an individual panel. The panels are made in 10 colours and are arranged in a way to make a floating coloured carpet of names. As the floor space need to be kept free it was decided that the installation should be hung from a ceiling. The new ceiling is installed in The Red Room, named for its timber walls and Forbo Walton red linoleum floor. At a special event the ceiling was unveiled by Minister for Education and Skills and graduate of the school, Ruairi Quinn TD. Flooring material: Desktop More

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Project • By Forbo Flooring Systems • Secondary Schools

Nørrebro Park School

The Nørrebro Park School project has won The Colour award 2012 for its unique colour composition. The jury announces that: “Several instruments have been put into use, carefully adjusted to one another, without being exaggerated. The project thereby appears as an outstanding and whole hearted piece of work.” Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Architect: NOVA5 Arkitekter General contractor: Enemærke & Petersen AS Flooring contractor: STECA enterprise aps Flooring material: 5000 m² Linoleum, 120m ² Vinyl. 30m² Coral, 450m² Bulletin Board, 10m ² Furniture linoleum Photos: Tine Juel More

Project • By a*l - alexandre loureiro arquitectos • Exhibitions

FoFoFo - Folding Forbo Folie

For the WIP13 (Work in Progress 2013) competition under the Projecto Casa event, one was challenged to build a 2X2m stand that could express a inovative and experimental use of some particular construction materials. Linoleum, a versitile product used many times in domestical spaces, has a wide range of application in the architecture of spaces due to its unique caracteristics that can render to the surfaces a high quality and confort to the domestic environment. Nevertheless, the tridimensionality of the product Linoleum has often been left out and unexplored by architecture. The object FoFoFo is a "folie" that tries to explore the tridimensionality of Forbo's linoleum product taking advantage of its physical characteristics (2X25m)... More

Project • By Forbo Flooring Systems • Museums

M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art

Linoleum and Forbo Flooring's Aquajet technology lie at the basis of the exhibition project 'A Synta of dependency' in the M HKA in Antwerp. The text and image of the double portrait of Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner took visual form thanks to the Aquajet technology. More

Product • By Forbo Flooring Systems • Marmoleum Marbled

Marmoleum Marbled

Around the world in 90 colours. Forbo Marmoleum Marbled flooring presents the classic marbled pattern in a large range of colours that vary in intensity and contrast; from bold, strong contrasts resembling real marble, to more subtle designs like fresco murals. Explore our Marbled ranges Real, Fresco, Vivace More

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