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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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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.

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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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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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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

4948

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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Whatever you draw in you sketch book: boards by Kaindl are as

varied as your ideas. Discover the entire product range with more

than 250 woods and decors: in the Kaindl BOARDS collection and

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Whether your designs are better suited for long, short, wide, narrow

or compact boards: floors by Kaindl are as individual as your ideas.

Discover the entire product range of wood and laminate flooring: in

the Kaindl FLOORING collection and at www.kaindl.com

Wood flooring- Classic

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