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Lincoln Park, Chicago / No. 01

Installation + Craft & detail

A different kind of detail.

Parquet, pattern & a remarkable stair.

A curved Lincoln Park stairwell with dark handrails and a red runner.
Lincoln Park, ChicagoFrom the Ace project archive

The brief, in detail

Setting
Chicago townhouse
Kitchen
Prefinished hexagonal parquet
Bedroom
White-oak parquet, finished on site
Detail
Stair finishing & handrail treatment

Every turn. Every joint. Every small decision.

Working alongside builders and designers, Ace brought several distinct flooring ideas together in this Lincoln Park townhouse. The kitchen’s hexagonal parquet and the bedroom’s white-oak pattern each have their own rhythm. The stair detailing connects the spaces.

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An installer working on dark hexagonal parquet in the Lincoln Park project.
01 / Working the hexagonal parquet.
The finished Lincoln Park kitchen with dark hexagonal parquet flooring.
02 / A pattern that gives the kitchen its character.

Beyond the photograph

The thought
behind the detail.

01

A pattern with purpose.

The kitchen floor uses a prefinished hexagonal parquet. Its geometry gives the room an unmistakable identity, right down to the edges and transitions.

02

Made to belong together.

Unfinished and partly preassembled white-oak parquet was finished on site in the bedroom. The material and pattern were considered as part of the room, not as an afterthought.

03

The connecting detail.

The published project record describes ebonized handrails and treads wire-brushed on site. The result is a staircase that belongs to the wider architectural story.

A closer look / Lincoln Park

There is more
in every detail.

Lincoln Park entrance with a dark curved handrail and warm wood floor.
01

A welcoming entrance.

The stair, handrail and floor considered together.

Pale grained wood flooring at the Lincoln Park stair landing.
02

Texture in the light.

A closer look at the grain and surface detail.

Lincoln Park staircase with a red runner and dark handrail.
03

A line through the home.

The completed stairwell from another perspective.

The wood parquet pattern in the Lincoln Park project.
04

The rhythm of parquet.

Individual pieces become a larger pattern.

Photographs from the original Lincoln Park project.

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From the project archive

See the work
come together.

Two stages of the same Lincoln Park stairwell. A closer look at the work along the way.

The completed curved Lincoln Park stairwell with dark handrails and a red runner.
The same stairwell during work, with protective wrapping and unfinished-looking pale treads, photographed from another angle.
Drag to explore the transformation.Different views from the same project archive.

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