The National Wood Flooring Association’s (NWFA) Floor of the Year awards give its members a chance to strut their stuff. This annual industry event hosted at the association’s convention and trade show showcases members’ talents in unique, skilled and elaborate installations from all over the world. This year, relative newcomer Integraf of Moscow garnered six trophies, an unprecedented number in the awards’ history. The six wins included the coveted Floor of the Year, Master Division award. A Master Division award signifies that the entrant has won an award in a previous Floor of the Year category.

This award, as well as an award for Best Manufacturer Finished Design, went to Integraf for a drawing room installation in Moscow. The 164-square foot raised installation, nestled near angled windows, features berry yew and olive wood machine cut with no duplicate details. Integraf was responsible for the design and flooring, the floor finish was manufactured by BonaKemi.

For a library installation in the same flat, Integraf received an Honorable Mention -- Best Job Site Finished Craftsmanship and Design. The installation features Finnish birch separated by arch strips of American walnut. Again, Integraf contributed the project’s design and flooring, and BonaKemi supplied the finish, as was the case in each of the company’s six award-winning entries.

Integraf also won the Member’s Choice, Master Division award for a 692-square-foot drawing room installation in Moscow, which features Finnish birch, American walnut, wenge, plane tree, and quarter-sawn oak in solid parquet flooring fashioned into a unique ornamental design.

For a different installation in the same flat, Integraf won an Honorable Mention -- Best Limited Species Design. The 48-square-foot tea room installation uses Finnish birch and American walnut in a mat-like texture.

Finally, Integraf received an award for Best Use of Wood Technology in a 467-square foot installation in Moscow. Using Finnish birch, Austrian pear, American walnut, jarrah, and wenge, the parquet installation features an intricate winding pattern that wends its way from the drawing room into a hallway.

The Floor of the Year, Expert Division award went to R&R Floors Inc. of Boise, Idaho. An Expert Division award denotes that the entrant has not won an award in a previous Floor of the Year category. Fourteen diamond medallions highlight the project, located in an upscale high-rise penthouse in Boise. Wenge was used to border the individual parquet patterns, which were then set in a field of no-sap, black walnut plank. Project design was created by R&R Floors. The flooring was distributed by R&R Hardwood Inc. The flooring was supplied by Seneca Hardwood and Kentucky Wood Floors. Glitsa American provided the finish.

Gardena, Calif.-based Parquet by Dian netted two Expert Division awards -- one for Best Job Site Finished Craftsmanship and Design, the other for Best Residential Application Design.

The company won the former award for a 250-square-foot installation in a wine cellar in Holmby Hills, Calif. Designed by Anatoli Efros, the installation features 7/16-inch-thick American walnut parquet, glued down and peppered with 3/8-inch limestone inserts. Parquet by Dian supplied the flooring materials and BonaKemi USA supplied the finish.

Also designed by Efros, a 650-square-foot master bedroom suite installation in Beverly Hills netted Parquet by Dian an award for Best Residential Application Design. The installation uses Brazilian satinwood, bloodwood and maple in a distinctive, elaborate pattern. Once again, Parquet by Dian provided the flooring and PoloPlaz supplied the finish.

Majestic Wood Floors Inc. of Frederick, Md., won a Member’s Choice, Expert Division award for a 450-square-foot installation that uses a combination of domestic (oak, maple, walnut) and exotic (wenge, leopardwood, bubinga) species in its design. Bob Humphreys, president and architect on this project, designed the floor for Classic Floor Designs of Washington, D.C. A total of 15 species from five continents were incorporated into the patterns, medallion and borders. Classic Floor Designs sanded and finished the floor. Flooring was supplied by Majestic Wood Floors and the finish by Berger-Seidle.

Nash Floor Co. Carpet One Inc. of Rockville, Md., won Best Showroom Design for a Washington Design Center showroom installation in Washington, D.C. The showroom, which showcases more than 200 samples, is subdivided into four smaller themes -- imported woods, antique, parquets, and domestics. The floor is meant to help designers, architects and custom builders find and specify products. The flooring for the project was distributed by Derr Flooring Co. and Hoboken Floors. Flooring materials were manufactured by Plumly Flooring Co., Superior Floor Co., French-Brown Wood Floors, BR-111, Junckers Hardwood, Greenwood Products Co., Oshkosh Floor Designs, Harris-Tarkett, and Mirage/Boa-Franc. BonaKemi USA supplied the finish.

Ray, Mich.-based Johnson Hardwood Floors garnered a Best Commercial Application Design trophy for its work on a 400-square-foot private dining room in The Huntsman Hunt Club in Dryden, Mich. Designed by Gabrielle Meaney, The American cherry floor is made from wood harvested from the acreage of Jim and Mary Beth Tebben, who commissioned the floor. Five Audubon-inspired wildlife scenes join with a delicate, unbroken border -- at one point, the border leaves the floor and climbs two feet up a timbered post. The birds and entwined vines were freehand cut into the floor by John Yarema, owner of Johnson Hardwood Floors to ensure that there were no straight borderlines. The flooring, which was manufactured by Johnson Hardwood Floors, was distributed by Erikson’s Flooring & Supply. Finish for the project was supplied by Synteko.

Rode Bros. Floors of Los Angeles won Best Limited Species Design for its 250-square-foot installation in a private home in Newport Coast, Calif. The design, conceived by Karen Butera Inc., features 3-inch ip?lank and hand-cut white oak borders. The flooring was distributed by Galleher Hardwood Co. and Greenbaum. The flooring was produced by Parquet by Dian and the finish by BonaKemi USA.

Miami-based Endurance Floor Co. received an Honorable Mention -- Best Residential Application Design for a nature-inspired mixed-media inlay at a private home in Aventura, Fla. Designed by Leonard Hall, owner of Endurance Floor Co., the inlay features details of flowers, leaves and insects surrounding a poplar vine that flows over 220 square feet of American cherry plank flooring. The vines, leaves, flowers, and a few ladybugs are made from 11 different wood species -- ash, beech, heart pine, lacewood, quartered white oak, maple, padouk, poplar, purpleheart, sapele, and wenge. Lapis Lazuli stone was used to create a dragonfly with poured metal for the wings. Onyx and Black Absolute were used to inset two butterflies. The flooring was supplied by Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring and the finish by Dura Seal.