A dark floor that is not a flat floor
Solid black floors have an obvious appeal and an obvious problem: they show every particle of dust, every footprint and every scuff, because a uniform dark field gives every light-coloured thing on it maximum contrast. Obsidian Gold keeps the depth of a black floor and removes that problem, because the gold veining puts continuous variation into the surface. Dust that would be glaring on solid black disappears into the movement. It is the only way we know to get a genuinely dark floor that stays presentable in a room people use.
Lighting is not optional
Gold pigment in a dark resin has nothing to reflect unless light reaches it at an angle. Wall-washing, track lighting, LED strips down the sides of a room, or strong daylight from a window all pull the veining out and make the floor extraordinary. A single fixture centred in the ceiling illuminates the floor perpendicular to itself and produces almost no reflection back to a standing viewer, so the floor reads as flat black. If you want this floor, plan the lighting with it. If the lighting cannot change, choose Pewter Storm instead, which is far less dependent on it.
Where we use it
This is our showpiece pour, so it goes where a floor is meant to be noticed: entry halls, hotel and restaurant floors, collector garages, basement theatres and bars. In a commercial setting we specify a satin rather than a gloss topcoat, because a full gloss black floor in a public space is a glare and slip problem, and the satin costs nothing to choose. Add the anti-slip package in any public entry as a matter of course.