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mafi : walk on art

mafi stands for as much natural as innovative natural wooden floors.

The family business from Schneegattern, Upper Austria sees itself as a
trendsetter in the wooden flooring industry and proves this time and
again with its constantly expanding product range. Architects,
designers and socialites worldwide trust the understanding of design
as well as the quality of mafi's natural wooden floors.
Almost 100 years experience in processing wood
The raw material wood has accompanied the Fillafer family since the
end of the First World War. At that time, a sawmill was run in the
grounds of a house in Schneegattern, Upper Austria. The largest,
contiguous woodland in Central Europe, the Kobernauerwald Forrest
formed the perfect starting point for this. The family took the first steps
in the design direction with the production of wooden ceilings and joists
and the unique, hand-carved decoration thereof. Over the years, the
family owned enterprise perfected the processing and the integration
of wood into man's living space. In 1992, Fritz Fillafer's focus wandered
from the ceiling to the floor, the basis of living space. Since then, the
family produces both traditional and innovative natural wooden floors
under the name mafi. With the existing infrastructure and the knowhow collected over decades, the foundation was laid for a lasting
success.
Nature as the designer
Sustainability and resource efficiency are part of the mafi philosophy
and permeate through all company areas. So, mafi obtains its wood
almost exclusively from Central Europe and only from carefully
managed forests if possible. Herein, mafi uses the entire tree. Every
tree, however, is unique, and any plank thereof is one of a kind. No
floor is therefore like any other, nothing is produced on stock. The
customer receives his own work of art made specifically for him - mafi:
walk on art. Varying widths and lengths or even single product lines
reflect this basic philosophy. Any resulting waste wood is used in the
internal pellet production.
mafi natural wooden floors was the first company in the industry, which
declined to use any form of paint or chemical additives in the
production of wood floorings. mafis special oils penetrate deeply into
the top layer of the wood flooring, cure and thus make the wood
resistant from the inside out, without forming a film layer. Both the oils
and and the soaps used consist of purely natural substances. The
individual layers of the boards are glued together with pva glue from
water, carbon, lime and acetic acid. The sustainable philosophy,
together with the natural handling of the resource which is wood
earned mafi the Energy Globe Award in 2011 for the earth category.
The mafi Vulcano flooring offers a real and most importantly,
sustainable alternative to tropical wood floors. Through a complex
thermo treatment, the wood obtains a dark colour with warm brown
tones. During this thermo treatment, no chemical additives are used.

With this method, only heat, wind and water are used and this reduces
swelling, shrinkage and internal stresses.

Never normal, but unique - mafi as the Trendsetter

Every year, next to "traditional wooden floors" new technologies and
designs are developed, many of which are already proven as pioneers
in the international market. In this way, natural knots and cracks are
not negated, but rather through coloured puttys celebrated. Hand
planed cracks or the individual colours of the cracks are only the tip of
the tradecraft iceberg.
The 3-D surfaces of the mafi Fresco Edition are especially enjoyable
barefoot. The raised upper layer performs a slight but nonetheless
unforgettable massage effect. 2009 brought with it an honourable
mention in the Red Dot Design award for the mafi Fresco Duna, oiled in
white, in the Interior Design category.
Especially unique are also the Carving Edition patterns which through
the designs across several planks give a larger surface appearance.
The long standing Paisley design is having a revival thanks to this, just
as what used to be rough sound of the Seattle music scene inspired
Grunge optic is. 2012 mafi gain the red dot design award: best of
the best for its Carving Club I. With its high design language and
quality this unique natural wooden floor could inspire the experts and
was able to assert more than 4500 designs.
With the mafi Domino, the assortment is rounded off through this
enormously robust cross grain wooden floor, especially for public
places.
International success
With 20 employees in organisation and about 80 employees in
production, mafi celebrates international success. Apart from Europe,
people live and work on mafi natural wooden floors in the USA, Japan,
UAE, Australia and Mexico. Altogether, mafi exports to approx. 40
countries on this Earth. Socialites like Claudia Schiffer and Giorgio
Armani count themselves as customers just as much as Star Architect
Norman Foster. An outstanding project is the Cathedral Baslica de
Zacatecas in Mexico which was equipped extensively with mafi natural
wooden as well as the high luxurious Yachts of an Italian YachtManufacturer. Recently the Melbourne International Airport and the
Revel Casino in Atlantic City were realized.