Slow Design: Heritage Salvage Wine-Soaked Flooring
From Janet
Heritage Salvage, located an hour north of San Francisco in Petaluma, stocks a wide array of recycled wood, vintage lumber, salvaged flooring, and other reclaimed buillding products. We particularly like the French white oak Wine-Soaked Boards (Heritage's location just south of wine country is a plus), which are used in steel wine tanks to impart an oak barrel flavor. Once they've served their purpose, they can be reused as flooring or paneling; Heritage Salvage offers them in red wine or white wine varieties, with crystalline formations embedded in the grain. Available in two half-inch thick sizes: the 2.5-foot-by-36-inch boards are $1 each and the 4.25-foot-by-39.5-inch boards are $2 each.
Above: White-wine-soaked oak boards.
Above: Red-wine-soaked oak boards.
Above: Wine-soaked boards from Heritage Salvage can be used as paneling.
October 2, 2009
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They use these wine-stained boards in the new pizza restaurant Flour and Water. The restaurant was an interior design venture for the landscaper/owner Sean Quigley of SF's quintessential taxidermy and plant store Paxton Gate. Check out the article about him in California Home + Design, August issue. Go eat there if you haven't yet!
Salvaging boards from wine and whiskey making production is becoming popular because of the rich staining and unique history. Wood which was exposed to water or other liquids for long periods of time usually develops interesting coloring. Another example is wood milled from salvaged river logs. To read more info and see pictures of this wood, visit my blog!
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