Real wooden floorboards and their laminate cousins will add warmth, texture and style to your kitchen space — and with endless colours and tones on the market, you can easily choose a style that suits your kitchen units, whatever budget you're working to.
He is also known for funding his
real - estate investments in this neighbourhood partly through the artworks that he sells in galleries — notably vertical stripe paintings made from the
wooden floorboards of school gym floors (sourced from condemned Chicago public schools) or canvas fire hoses (in reference to their brutal use against civil - rights protestors in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963) and also for his expressionist black paintings, abstractions made in tar in collaboration with his father, a retired roofer.