— Materials & standards
How we source.
How we test.
The materials list on a Flamingo project is a document, not a habit. Every timber, stone, metal and fabric is chosen for the room it will live in — and left out of every other room where it does not fit.
Timber runs to French beech, Italian veneer, Indian teak, solid oak and walnut. Every slab is cut, seasoned and moisture-checked before it enters joinery. That habit adds weeks to the timeline and years to the piece — a trade we have never once regretted.
Stone is a slower conversation. Italian and Indian marble slabs are inspected at the quarry, matched for veining, and finished for the specific wall or floor. We do the same with basalt, granite and travertine when a brief calls for them. Nothing arrives at site un-numbered.
Metals are cast where the piece asks for the hand of it — brass legs, bronze pulls, hammered stainless — and machined where consistency wins over character. Leather and art-leather pass grain, hand and colour-fastness checks before a single yard is upholstered.
Every material carries a paper trail from sourcing lot to workshop bench to install date. None of this is glamorous work. It is the quiet reason a Flamingo piece still reads the way it did the day it left the studio, three years on.