Our talented in-house designers worked a number of years ago with a manufacturer to invent a new category of flooring. The emergence of this category came from alot of research that pointed us towards two key insights:
1. Hand scraped flooring is hot and fashionable
2. Bamboo is an emerging trend and can have a very eco-friendly story when done right. remember that no all bamboo is created or made in a green way.
It turned into a reese’s peanut butter cup kind of story. One day we said, hey what if you put those two trends together?
Ming Dynasty is a true original from a expert craftsman who originally designed and handcrafted the line.
There is no doubt that the colors and styles were so good they were copied by just about every mill that we visit in China. If they make bamboo not only have they copied the look and stain colors, but often they copied the color names as well. Watch out for imitators. The knock offs don’t always hold up to the originals.
That is a ringing endorsement to the original team that designed the unique invention of hand scraped bamboo. (CLICK TO SEE MY FAVORITE HANDSCRAPED BAMBOO AT THE MOMENT.)
The good news for flooring enthusiasts is that there are a couple ideas in the hopper that will be the next generation of things to copy by those who cannot create something unique!
