Suminagashi on Wood & Custom In-Situ Tinting Techniques

Exploring the intersection of ancient Japanese water-marbling and modern in-situ architectural wood tinting in Madrid luxury interiors.

The Suminagashi Art on Timber

Suminagashi (“floating ink”) is a 12th-century Japanese decorative art where pigments suspended on water form organic fluid rings. International design innovators (such as Danish artist Pernille Snedker) have demonstrated how transferring these patterns onto pine and oak growth rings transforms timber into one-of-a-kind chromatic art pieces.

Custom In-Situ Floor Tinting in Madrid

In contemporary luxury architecture, bespoke color customization on solid hardwood floors allows architects to achieve cohesive interior palettes:

• Reactive Tannin Staining: Utilizing wood’s natural tannic acid to create deep, smoked, and fumed grey tones without synthetic paint pigments.
• Penetrating Pigmented Oils: Scandinavian Nordic white, warm honey, chocolate walnut, and charcoal black tones buffed directly into the timber pores.
• Two-Step Protective Sealing: Protecting the custom color with anti-UV 2K polyurethane topcoats to prevent fading from sunlight exposure.