Valchromat — Strength and Elegance
The material behind Golden Age
Valchromat is the material used for the Groovaly Golden Age Collection.
Chosen for its density, depth and sculptural potential, it allows us to create furniture with rounded forms, softer curves and a more architectural presence.
Unlike surface-coated panels, Valchromat is a wood-fibre material coloured throughout. The colour runs through the material itself, giving each piece a deeper, more tactile quality.
For Golden Age, Groovaly uses White Pearl Valchromat with a protective matte finish — a surface treatment designed to protect the material while preserving its soft, mineral presence.
Strength for vinyl collections
Vinyl records are heavy. Groovaly furniture has to support real collections, not just look good in photographs.
Valchromat is dense and mechanically resistant, which makes it well suited to furniture designed for records, stacked compositions and moving mechanisms such as the Bloom fan drawer.
Its weight also contributes to the physical stability of Golden Age pieces. This is especially important for pieces that combine storage, browsing mechanisms and sculptural form.
Made for rounded forms
The Golden Age Collection is defined by rounded edges, softer curves and organic forms inspired by the 1970s — the golden age of vinyl.
Valchromat makes this possible because it can be machined and shaped while keeping visual continuity through the material.
The curves are not decorative afterthoughts. They are part of the way the material is worked.
This is what gives Golden Age its sculptural presence: a combination of mass, softness, depth and precision.
Finished for everyday living
Each Golden Age piece is protected with a matte finish.
This protective matte finish makes the surface easier to live with day to day, while preserving the material’s natural depth and tactile quality.
As with any refined material, small variations in colour, tone, texture or surface appearance may occur. These are part of Valchromat’s character and of the small-batch production process.
They do not make each piece less precise. They make it less anonymous.
Dyed throughout
Valchromat is made from wood fibres that are coloured before being bonded together.
Because the material is coloured throughout, the colour is not just a surface finish. It remains visible through the edges, curves and machined details, making it especially suited to furniture that is shaped, rounded and sculpted.
This is one of the reasons Valchromat is central to the Golden Age Collection: it allows the material and the form to work together, instead of hiding the construction behind a surface layer.
A mineral surface, a softer touch
Valchromat has a distinctive visual depth.
Its surface can show subtle flecks, tonal variations and micro-patterns created by the way the fibres absorb pigment. These variations are part of the material’s character, giving it a quiet mineral quality rather than a perfectly uniform industrial finish.
With its protective matte finish, the surface becomes smoother and more resistant to everyday use, while keeping the tactile presence that makes Valchromat feel different from standard furniture panels.
In White Pearl, the result is soft, calm and slightly architectural — a neutral tone designed to let records, objects and interiors breathe around it.
Why Valchromat for Golden Age
Golden Age is Groovaly’s more sculptural expression.
It is not only about storing records. It is about giving a vinyl collection a physical presence in the room — visible, accessible and integrated into the way people live with music.
Valchromat supports that ambition: dense enough for real collections, refined enough for interiors and expressive enough to carry the rounded forms of the Golden Age Collection.