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Editorial Contents 4 Kaindl brief portrait
6 Ecology
8 Introduction Kaindl BOARDS
10 Impression stairway 12 Interview: Mr. Schuster, Kaindl veneers department “The stuff good ideas are made of.”
14 Impression kitchen 16 Surface structures
18 Kaindl Charismo: wood with character
20 Impression kitchen uni decors 22 Reportage: uni decors
24 Impression hallway 26 Special laminates
28 Impression dining room 30 Impressions 4 combinations
32 Surprising solutions with Kaindl BOARDS
34 Impression kitchen 36 Interview: AREA® “Keyword: ideas kitchen”
38 Impression office rooms 40 Bathroom special: beautiful new morning
42 Interview: Inge Pober, stylist “The future is sensual.”
46 Natural Touch Synchronized decors
48 Impression lounge area 50 The mythology of the tree: Customs. Traditions. Rituals.
52 Kaindl BOARDS collection
54 Kaindl FLOORING collections
Imagine a seamless variety of woods,
decors, designs, colours, structures, formats
and strengths – and imagine being able to
compose new combinations of all of these
time and again. Welcome to the world of the
Kaindl BOARDS collection!
This Styleguide will inspire you. It will lend
your imagination wings, change your
perspective and make your ideas a reality.
Whether you prefer the classical or modern
style or both: Kaindl boards match your
designs to the millimetre.
We wish you an enjoyable 64-page journey
of discovery! We recommend sharpening
your pencils and keeping your sketch book
at hand.
Doris Buchmesser, Managing Director
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1897 1959 1982 1989 1999 2000 2007 20081989
Some ideas change the world.
In 1962, Kaindl in Salzburg first
started its production of a product
that has defined the design of
rooms and furniture to this day:
the wood chipboard. Read all
about what has moved us, before
and since the birth of modern
interior design, here.
a 50-year-old new idea
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Design without a sell-by datesustainability is a nice thought. Especially when it is also lived in day-to-day life: with raw materials that save resources; with products that are more durable and re-usable; with design that remains convincing in the future.
but eco-design means a whole lot more: Kaindl processes around 90 percent waste wood from the sawmill industry and log wood from the regular thinning of native forests. and we use woods from PEfC-certified forests for all carrier bases for our products. Exclusively and without exception.
1985 changeover of board pro-duction to E1 quality standard 1990 installation of the latest electrical filters 1996 environmen-tal protection prize awarded by the province of Salzburg 1999 MDF system; integrated organic scrubber recycles the wastewater 2000 Industrial waste heat to be provided to households as district heat 2003 Start of the cargo shuttle service between Salzburg and Lungötz 2003 Production of the first Super E0 chipboard 2006 Broad conversion to bio-mass instead of fossil fuels 2007 Expansion of the container termi-nal 2007 Eco-design becomes an integral part of corporate philosophy
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BOARDSAn architect might call it imagination. A designer might call it style. A technician calls
it innovation. An ecologist refers to it as sustainability. A carpenter calls it quality.
The end-consumer calls it variety.
And they all mean the same thing: Kaindl boards fulfil all demands that modern
interior design poses today. How wonderful that Kaindl boards match your designs
to the millimetre. See for yourself!
Tailored to your ideas.
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Wood Decor
37512 PR, Oak Cappuccino Rough
Wood Decor
37784 BS, Black Limba
Wood Decor
37488 WF, Makassar Cajal
Variation possibilities
Design meets nature: Kaindl
wood decors harmonise
wonderfully with modern
design elements made of
glass, metal or concrete.
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Mr. Schuster, where do the wood veneers for Kaindl
boards come from?
We buy primarily from European and North American countries
with sustainable forestry. We cover 90 percent of our demand
in this way. Naturally, for exceptional orders we source wood
globally – for example with eucalyptus, which we imported
from plantation forests in Australia three years ago.
How do you control the origin of the wood?
On principle, we only buy from certified suppliers, and our
partners work closely with the forestry and ourselves. In case
of uncertainties, we also contact external institutions, for
example the WWF.
Classics or trendsetters – which wood types can be found
in the Kaindl programme?
Both types, of course: oak, beech, walnut or maple primarily
represent the classic line, while heartwoods such as ash or
red gum cater to current trends. This category also includes
smoked woods such as Oak Basalt and Oak Szivaro, to name
just a few.
What is the significance of wood in modern interior design?
Nothing conveys nature and warmth as easily as real wood.
Naturalness, charisma, haptics, design – all these remain
unrivalled. The best proof for the great significance of wood in
interior design is precisely in decor boards and laminates: the
wood decors are becoming more and more authentic in order
to make the natural charm of this multifunctional material visible
and tangible. The design element wood plays a central role in
the history of design to this day. It is the stuff good ideas are
made of! Just think of Eames, Aalto, Jacobsen or Judd. What a
wonderful thought that the best design ideas are still slumbering
in the current generation of architects.
What’s behind Kaindl Charismo?
Kaindl Charismo stands for harmony with a 4/4 beat. That
means: through the board-like pattern of four designs in a row,
the overall appearance is homogenous, just like a harmonious
melody. All boards exhibit these homogenous characteristics;
this product is thus particularly suitable for fitting out larger
properties.
In conclusion a personal question: which wood types can
be found in the Schuster home?
My wife and I have a similar taste in interior design; we prefer
the more classic varieties. In our living area, we have Canadian
Maple, in the kitchen ash, and a lot of oak in the rest of the
house. Our dining table in maple with board character is parti-
cularly expressive, a real gem… not just for wood experts.
Thank you for the interview!
Johannes schuster has been working in Kaindl’s veneers department since 1978. His passion for the material wood eventually made him Product Manager. In the styleguide interview, he takes us to North america and through the history of design. and finally also to his dinner table.
The stuff good ideas are made of.
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Uni Decor
27170 BS, Red Copper
Synchronized Decor
37459 SW, Walnut Ribera
Worktop
37832 SM, Marble Verton
Laminate flooring Soft Touch
F40193 SM, Nera Mocca
Compact Plank
Everything for the kitchen: uni
decors in strong colours can be
combined perfectly with tangibly
authentic synchronized decors.
They are accompanied by work-
tops with natural stone decors
and Soft Touch laminate tiles that
are warm to the feet.
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Working to a thousandth of a millimetre
For the so-called “standard structures” the rule applies that ingeniously
simple things can be explained in a single sentence: in the short-cycle press,
the press plate engraves the structure onto the melamine-coated decor
paper, which is melted into the carrier base under high pressure and high
temperatures. Done! The principle is as easy as ironing shirts.
It gets a little more complicated with “synchronized structures”, as synchro-
nized decor is considered the most elaborate, but also the most authentic
wood reproduction. In this process, the engraving on the press plate follows
the wood grain on the decor paper to a hair. The press plate is, so to speak,
the negative twin of the represented wood image. Computer-aided high
technology and the expertise of experienced technicians make it possible to
amaze experts and customers alike with surface structures that are absolu-
tely identical to that of natural wood.
Kaindl caters to the lasting trend for smooth-as-glass furnishing in the
kitchen and living areas with a gloss degree of 100: gloss decors – particularly
in black and white – are among the literal highlights of the BOARDS
collection. Just like the special laminates for the synchronized ornament
structures “Gold”, “Flora”, and “Leather”. Oh, to be a fingertip!
The human fingertip can feel structure to the depth of
micrometers (µm). Therefore, in the short-cycle press each
micrometer counts in order to bring authentic surface structures
to the board.
When Kaindl application technicians talk about short-cycle presses,
gloss degrees or synchronized surface structures, it sounds almost as
easy as sharpening a pencil to architects and designers. At the end of
their thousandth-of-a-millimetre work are boards whose surfaces feel
like real wood or stone structures. But first things first.
The most important tool when it comes to surface structures is the
so-called press plate. The desired structure is negatively engraved into
this very special piece of metal. Here, literally each micrometer counts:
if the structure is too deep, it will lead to problems on the finished
surface, during the laminating stage at the latest; insufficient depth, on
the other hand, is detrimental to the natural appearance of the finished
product. The technicians won’t reveal to the press how many microme-
ter we are talking about here. Trade secret! Almost as closely guarded
as the Coca-Cola formula.
How the structure gets onto the surface
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Charismo
American Black Walnut Nature Mix
Charismo
American Black Walnut Structure
Charismo
American Black Walnut Elegant (plain)
Charismo
Ash with Core
Charismo
European Oak Nature Mix
The principle: The Kaindl Charismo board character is achieved by
aligning packages from several different trees.
The optics: The visual look-and-feel corresponds to planked solid wood;
the appearance is just as striking as it is homogenous.
The style: Choose from the designs “Nature Mix”, “Structure” or “Elegant”.
Wood with characterKaindl Charismo
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Uni Decor
27104 PE, Beetle Green
Uni Decor
27181 PE, Dark Chocolate
Laminate flooring Natural Touch
37264 SN, Walnut
Narrow Plank
Courageous colours: uni decors in contrasting colour tones cater
to the trend towards open-plan kitchens. The Natural Touch
laminate floor stretches from here right into the living area.
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Yellow enhances appetite, blue chases away flies
The world’s first fitted kitchen had blue fronts.
Here you can read what architect Margarete
Schütte-Lihotzky’s thinking behind this was.
And why you won’t be getting very hungry
on this page.
Orange stimulates, green calms, purple inspires.
The effects of colours are widely known. But did
you know why the famous “Frankfurt kitchen”
had to be blue, of all colours? Margarete Schütte-
Lihotzky listened to her instincts and to Frankfurt
scientists who had found out that flies avoid blue
surfaces. The other side of the coin is yellow: this
colour is proven to stimulate human appetite.
It is therefore no coincidence that many foodstuffs
brands and restaurants use yellow in their logos.
The big yellow M sends its regards!
The effects and symbolism of the colour red have
probably been written about most, with more or
less of a bleeding heart. Now it remains to clear
up an old misunderstanding: the red cloth in bull
fights doesn’t bother the colour-blind bull in the
least. What bothers him is just the torero.
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Wood flooring Exotic
H10294, Sapelli
Narrow Plank
Wood Decor
37744 AT, Lavare
Harmony in the smallest of spaces. Wooden floors and
wood decors complement each other particularly well
when the wood images and colorations create a contrast.
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Good design at your fingertips: thanks to synchronized ornament
structures, Kaindl special laminates present themselves in the
tangible leather-look, for example, in floral patterns or a special
gold look. Choose from among eight different decors for practically
all vertical areas of application.
Special Laminates
47990 OF, Flora 37999 OF, Zebra Bianco 37997 OF, Limed Chestnut 37995 OF, Walnut 57993 OF, Gold 47992 OF, Leather Brown 47996 OF, Leather Anthracite 47998 OF, Texture
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Worktop
2192 PE, Grey RAL 7035
Uni Decor
27186 BS, Violet Blue
Wood flooring Authentic Oak
H30760, Brighton
Narrow Plank
Wood Decor
37748 AT, Silver Oak
Silver Oak meets Authentic Oak. Oak decors from the
Kaindl BOARDS collection make for lovely combinations
with coloured wood floors on oak-basis. In addition, uni
decors provide courageous colourful touches.
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The combination of different shades of brown reflects the zeitgeist – but
it never goes out of style. The wood decor “Amouk” with its lively design
sets decisive contrasts to the ash decor of the laminate floor. Its coloration
is quoted harmoniously with the uni decor “Cabana”.
The exotic meets the extravagant. The wooden floor “Exotic Bamboo” by its
very nature harmonizes with the wood furnished board “Caramel Bamboo”.
In combination with strong colours from a wide range of uni decors, the
room achieves an equally exciting and individual appearance.
Opposites and contrasts have always been a popular and frequently used stylistic
device in interior design. A laminate floor with a bright pine decor underlines the
timeless elegance of the “Plum” wood decor. Light accents from uni decors make
dark furniture seem less imposing without losing any of their power.
Combination 1
Laminate flooring Natural Touch 37235 SO Ash | Wood decor 38543 AT Amouk, uni decor 27165 BS Cabana
Combination 3
Wood flooring Exotic H10341 Bamboo | Wood veneered board Caramel Bamboo, uni decor 27167 BS Viola
Combination 4
Laminate flooring Natural Touch 37384 SA Pine | Wood decor 37771 BS Plum, uni decor 2515 PE Sand
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“As you like it!”
Good ideas aren’t always rectangular. Feel free to think of round corners, angled edges or
polygonal incisions and cut-outs. Special productions of all kinds can be realized without any
problem thanks to the high quality of the carrier bases and laminates. At Kaindl, surprising
solutions are thus part of the order of the day, so to speak: from wood veneered banisters with
integrated hand rails on through to fireplace walls that present the raw material wood as both a
design element as well as an energy provider.
Surprise your clients with creative and poetic designs that would delight even Shakespeare!
How wonderful when your ideas are just as varied as our options for realizing them!
William shakespeare could also have been referring to the boards by Kaindl – because their simple processing makes practically any form possible, far beyond classic furniture surfaces and wall panels.
Combination 2
Laminate flooring Classic Touch 37327 PO Oak | Wood decor 37706 NM Beech with Core, uni decor 27045 BS Champagne
Same room, different atmosphere. Light wood decors such as “Beech
with Core” combined with bright or white uni decors draw inspiration from
classic Scandinavian design. The slightly darker oak decor of the laminate
floor increases the seeming weightlessness of the furniture.
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Worktop
37959 DC, Marble Astrato
Special Surface
27165 UM, Cabana
Special Surface
27045 UM, Champagne
Wood Decor
37975 AT, Melody
Wood flooring Natural Touch
37264 SN, Walnut
Narrow Plank
Tone on tone is the trend: the Kaindl product range
offers many different shades of brown that can be
combined and contrasted, from the wooden floor to
furniture and kitchens on through to worktops.
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Edi a
nd Jakob Mayer
Keyword: open-plan kitchenCommunicative, generous, sociable. Living areas blend into
one another in order to create areas of experience. A lack of
kitchen staff shouldn’t be a reason to lock oneself away.
Keyword: worktopWork bench, generous, resistant, ergonomic, innovative. If we
have to do the work ourselves, at least it should be practical
and beautiful.
Keyword: form follows functionLouis Sullivan, 1896. Reduction, clarity, realism... the design of
things emerges from their use. That is one way of looking at it
in any case.
Keyword: schütte-lihotzkyA great Austrian! The first woman in Austria to graduate from a
university-level architecture course. She developed the proto-
type for the modern fitted kitchen. Member of the resistance
and Holocaust survivor; she will definitely be remembered
forever in the Mount Olympus of design and architecture god-
desses.
Keyword: fingertipSensitive fingertips are necessary not only for feeling different
surfaces; sensitivity and empathy should be displayed on all
levels… communication, design, planning. Without that sensitive
touch, we are nothing but noisy, clumsy bulldozers!
Keyword: kitchen trendsBigger, more cosy, comfortable, and effective. Meeting place
for family and friends; information and communication head-
quarters; new materials and technologies. linear, purist,
functional… and open to anything.
Edi and Jakob Mayr are not related by blood or otherwise, but are brothers in spirit – and with their company arEa®, they are possibly austria’s most cre-ative corporate designers. The Kaindl floor House, too, uses their recipe for success: at the heart of showrooms and conference rooms an open-plan kitchen proves that good design stimu-lates all the senses. We invited the two rock stars of the design scene to a word rap all about kitchens.Ke
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Special Laminate
57993 OF, Gold
Worktop
47980 DC, Arctic
Laminate flooring Soft Touch
F40203 SM, Slate Untersberg
Compact Plank
Special solutions with special
surfaces: special laminates
with synchronized ornament
structures are equally convin-
cing both in terms of optics
and haptics. Just like the Soft
Touch laminate floors.
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Wood decor
37777 AT, Ash Coimbra
Worktop
37978 DC, Mocca
Synchronized Decor
37458 SW, Walnut Zingaro
Laminate flooring Soft Touch
F40530 SM, Ornamentbeton,
Compact Plank
The history of architecture as
concerns bathrooms is full of
refreshing twists and turns.
Today, body care is just one
of many functions that have
populated the area between
tub and washstand. The living
area bathroom accompanies its
users into the day and into the
night. And is also visited often in
the interim.
This is also reflected in the
interior design of modern
bathrooms: classic and creati-
ve combinations of uni, wood,
and stone decors increase the
degree of well-being and thus
also the amount of time spent
in the bathroom. Good design
becomes visible in the details:
the seamless, rounded edges
of Kaindl worktops are equally
convincing when it comes to
both form and function. And
the fact that floor tiles do not
necessarily mean ceramics and
tile glue is proven, for example,
by Kaindl Soft Touch lamina-
te flooring. A good reason for
keeping your gaze lowered in
the morning.
Beautiful new morning
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Inge Pober, Stylist
“The future is sensual!”Inge Pober from Munich is among Europe‘s most sought-after stylists and works for renowned interior design magazines such as “Elle Decoration”. In the Styleguide interview, she reveals her preference for British design and the English sense of humour. And looks towards the Far East to discover the future of interior design.
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How do you define the term design?
Design is the shaping of objects of everyday life. As an interior
stylist, I make use of this set of tools and create a setting that
explains and enhances the product – be it a floor or a walk-in
closet.
What trends in interior design are discernible at the
moment?
The future is sensual! A simple, clear aesthetic defines the
ambience – the forms and lines are by no means cool, despite
this austerity, but convey the passion of the makers for material
and quality. Wood, leather, felt and natural fibres are dominant,
we see classic olive green as well as light shades of green, in
addition there are pastel colours from rose to brown. The future
is friendly! Cool grey is enlivened with mandarin and lemon
yellow, the forms are delicate, transparent, plaited… someti-
mes the contours are reduced, but remain stable and useable.
Storage spaces in wardrobes are disappearing: videos, music
and books are becoming digital. And when something doesn’t
fit, it is made to fit.
And in the long-term future? How far ahead does a stylist
think?
Hopefully the British interior design style will be the trend
again soon. Chequered, tweed, earthy wall colours… I am
an anglophile! I particularly like the cottages in Cornwall, the
royal house, the passion for gardening, a nice cup of tea – and
last but not least: the British sense of humour. The future of
architecture and interior design is shaped more and more by
Asian influences. Relaxation and caring for the body define
daily life and one’s home should fit like a tailored suit.
Do you think of materials and colours when you are
searching for ideas?
No, first I think of the atmosphere, the associations that I want to
create. The discussion with the client concerning contents is also
more or less the guideline for my ideas.
What role do the haptics play?
Like all people, I like touching things. In photography, the light
glides across the fur and explains to the eye how soft it is.
Which designers have influenced you?
Jasper Morrison, Naoto Fukasawa, Dieter Rams, Piero Lissoni,
Donald Judd … there are very many whom I admire for their
work. If you are asking about my role models: I don’t have any.
I try to find my own style – and that is hard enough considering
the variety of tasks.
Is there something no house should do without?
The favourite space, the place of longing, a possibility for ret-
reat for every inhabitant. And movement, life, change – a house
is never really complete; the toolbox should always be readily
at hand.
Thank you for the interview!
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Natural Touch Synchronized Decors
One feels what one sees: the world’s first decor boards
with synchronized surface structure can hardly be distin-
guished from wood products, neither by touch nor feel.
Kaindl Natural Touch comprises an innovative production
process that adapts the surface structure exactly to the
decor image in question. Choose from a total of fourteen
different synchronized decors in the designs
“Natural Touch Kinetic”, “Natural Touch Urban, “Natural
Touch Expressive”, “Natural Touch Woodstock” and
“Natural Touch Rough Sawn”. 37769 SU, Ash Highland
37727 SE, Oak Bernstein 37458 SW, Walnut Zingaro 37635 SK, Chestnut Basalt37512 SX, Oak Cappuccino Rough
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Wood Decor
37544 AT, Sucupira
Laminate flooring Soft Touch
F40520 LM, Cayman
Compact Plank
Mixed materials with seamless intersec-
tions: Kaindl wood decors can be ideally
merged with laminate floors and furniture
to create a unified design.
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The maypole is traditionally so important that it is guarded. The Gerichtslinde (German for “court linden”) served the enforcement of law, the Yule tree was used in the Pagan celebration of life and even today, the Christmas tree makes baubles and children’s eyes shine. The mytho-logy of the tree has its roots deep in history and religion. five examples.
Customs. Traditions. Rituals.
The maypole. In many parts of Europe, on the 1st of May a festively
decorated maypole is erected and celebrated accordingly with a
village or town festival. Originally, it was celebrated as a kermis tree
or ceremonial maypole, but from the Romantic era onwards it was
seen as a symbol of fertility for rich harvests. In addition, it is also
customary that the unmarried men of the village erect smaller
maypoles (called “Maien” in German) before the houses of all
unmarried women. It is also a widespread tradition to “steal” the
maypole of the neighbouring village.
The Christmas tree. The Christian tradition of putting up a decorated
tree at Christmas time began to spread from Germany across the
world in the 19th century. Around 1830 the first Christmas baubles
were blown from glass. Not only children particularly enjoy the colour-
fully wrapped sweets that hang from the green branches.
The “topping out” tree. Topping out is a ceremony that is held when
the shell construction of a building is completed and the last beam is
placed on the roof. A colourfully decorated “topping out tree” is used
as a symbol of the celebration and placed on the roof.
The tree of the century. China’s ginkgo tree has spread across the
world as a particularly symbolic and mythological tree. In Japan, a
story that is still told today is that of the temple tree in Hiroshima that
burst into flames when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945, but
which sprouted again that same year and survived. At the turn of the
century, the German “Tree of the Year” curators made the Ginkgo
biloba a memorial for environment protection and peace and declared
it the tree of the century. And even Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
himself wrote a poem about this tree.
Diane’s tree. The mythology of the tree is also in full bloom in the
history books. Just think of Sir Isaac Newton, who was inspired under
an apple tree by falling fruit and came up with the theory of gravity.
Or Diane de Poitiers, the mistress and confidante of the French King
Henry II, who planted a tree in the year 1556 which is still growing and
thriving today. “Diane’s tree” is a plantain rich in history in the Parc de
Diane in Les Clayes-sous-Bois near Paris.
The mythology of the tree
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