Private Residence, Mongolia

This Mongolian residence runs a single border system through six connected rooms — reception, dining and bedrooms — so the floor reads as one continuous field rather than a series of thresholds. The challenge was keeping that line uninterrupted where rooms meet and floor levels change slightly.

We set the border and field out from the longest axis of the plan, sized each room's panels to Crema Marfil, Emperador and Rosso Levanto, and cut the whole system from one waterjet file so the motifs matched at every door. Fields were dry-assembled and numbered room by room.

Installed beneath gold-accented ceilings, the inlaid floors carry the eye from room to room without a break in the pattern — the border doing exactly the structural job it is meant to do.

The border was cut in long runs and indexed at the doors, so the pattern flows from the reception into the dining room and on to the bedrooms without a joint. Each room's field was numbered to its own setting plan, which made the four-week installation straightforward.