Parquet (from the French "small compartment") is a geometric mosaic of wood pieces used for decorative effects on the floor.
Parquet patterns are often completely geometry and square-angles, triangles, lozenges - but may contain curves. The most popular parquet pattern is herringbone.
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Etimologi
This word is derived from the Old French parchet (small letters parc ), literally meaning " small enclosed space ".
Maps Parquetry
History
The large diagonal box known as parquet de Versailles was introduced in 1684 as a parquet de menuiserie ("wood parquet") to replace the marble floor requiring constant washing, which tended to decay the beam -bottom under the floor. Like parquets en losange was recorded by the Swedish architect Daniel CronstrÃÆ'¶m at Versailles and at the Grand Trianon in 1693.
Materials
Contrasting wood in colors and grains, such as oak, walnut, cherry, lime, pine, maple, etc. Sometimes used, and in a more expensive type of colored mahogany and sometimes other tropical hardwoods are also used. Although technically not wood, bamboo is also a popular material for modern floors.
Parquet floor used to be usually fitted with hot bitumen. Today modern cold adhesives are commonly used.
Clean
Wood floors can be brushed clean, and mopped when necessary. Upright vacuum cleaners can scratch and apply the surface, because the sand particles are embedded in the spinning brush.
Repair
Parquet floors are usually durable and require little or no care. Block blocks re-glued. Blocks glued by asphalt require the use of hot asphalt or cold asphalt emulsion, because other types of glue do not stick to asphalt.
Domestic use
Parquet floors are often found in bedrooms and hallways. They are considered better than ordinary floor tiles because they feel warmer underfoot. But they do not absorb much sound like walking, vacuum and television, which can cause problems in multi-occupancy occupancy.
Basketball court
One of the most famous parquet floors is the one used by the Boston Celtics of the NBA. The original floor, which was installed in the original Celtics home of Boston Arena in 1946, was transferred to Boston Garden in 1952 and used there until the team moved on to what became known as the FleetCenter in 1995, now known as TD Garden. The floor remained intact and was used until it was cut and sold as a souvenir in 1999, after the demolition of Boston Garden in 1998. The Celtics today play on parquet floors inside TD Garden that incorporate old and new parts.
The same square-shaped parquet floors are made for the Orlando Magic, the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Denver Nuggets, and the New Jersey Nets. Of the four, only Magic continues to use square-paneled parquet floors (starting in 1989 at the Orlando Arena, and moving to the Amway Center in 2010), which unlike the Celtics, using maple rather than oak.
The Nets made their parquet debut at Meadowlands Arena in 1988, and continued to use the floor until 1997. The floor was still used with the Seton Hall basketball team until 2007.
The Nuggets used parquet floors from 1990 to 1993 at McNichols Sports Arena, while Timberwolves played in parquet from 1996 to 2008 at Target Center.
In 1995, the Toronto Raptors debuted with herringbone parquet, and used the floor until 1999 while playing in three different places at home: SkyDome, Copps Coliseum and Maple Leaf Gardens. The Nets revived the use of herringbone after moving to the Barclays Center in 2012.
While the Charlotte Hornets launches parquet floors like the Time Warner Cable Arena for the 2014-15 season, it is not considered a true parquet floor. Instead, it simulates the parquet pattern by alternately painting light and dark trapezoidal parts through the use of varnish, forming a honeycomb pattern that is identical to the franchise.
See also
- Wooden floor
- Marquetry
- Hard Wood
- Harewood
- Tessellation
- Tunbridge ware
Notes and references
External links
- J. W. Boughton - Wood Floor Pamphlet (1907) Kenneth Franzheim II Cricket Room, Library of Architecture and Art William R. Jenkins, University of Houston Digital Library.
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