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A little history. . .

Until the Average Age the first grounds wood limited themselves to footboards intended to accenillir chairs of honor, beds or tables of feast. From the rennaissance, the grounds of the stages superiors evolve: those put up badly with heavy coating, one gradually adopted the wood of the simple boards, revived or rabbets were nailed ditectly on the beams. At the noble ones, sawn timber blades and pannels fixed on tie bars or beams appeared of making the grounds in this way liked to kings for the originality and the comfort. The architects alse adopted it for its lightweight. The assemblies og the wood blades quickly became works of art. The parquet floors assembled in pannels carry still today the name of the royal residences or they fures installed for the first time (Wersailles, Chantillly, Aremberg...)
Whithin a framework out of wooden of one square meter, they icluded geometric figures complex embodies by tenons and mortises. The diagonals obtained offered prospects innovating for the time. The known parquet floor mosaic a sharp success in the cabinets and of the court of the king. In the moddle - classe residence, one used floor assembled by grove and strip posed (al'anglaise) in ringlet. At the beginning of XVII century other motives appeared, like the "le point de Hongrie". The true rise of the parquet floor took place withe the beginning of the industrial ere. If was largely very used at the time of the transformation of Paris an the island of France by the baron Haussman. All the wood turpentines were exploited like the oak, the chatainier, the fir tree, the acacia, the polar, the ash, the maple, the beech, the wild cherry tree... The grounds out of wooden made up of blades superiors to 11 centimeteres of width were called floors. The finer blades were called parquet floors. The word parquet floor comes from the word park... It was used to indicate the enclosure surrounding the estrade wood or sat will magistras them of the king.

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