parquet

It mixes images of parquet floors; spindly, naked trees; and Sol LeWitt-style stripes in a geometric composition that juxtaposes inside and out, black and white, relaxation and activity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Built in 2008, it features parquet de Versailles flooring, 18th-century French Louis XV–carved stone fireplaces, and hand-carved marble bathtubs.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 5, 2026

For those who come in through the women’s side, you’ll be greeted with a leather goods salon that’s designed in shades of creamy white with gold accents and traditional Versailles parquet flooring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

A few blocks away from The Node, one of them, Snafu Records, is based at a shared office space with a parquet floor and a cocktail bar.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024

To delighted squeals, Stargirl led them off the parquet dance floor onto the other courts—and then through the chain-link fence and off the tennis courts altogether.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

Seepage has rotted away the wooden beams supporting the parqueted floors, loosened the gold and plaster ceilings which are nailed precariously to deteriorating laths.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was in high feather, and as she tramped along the cool parqueted hall she kept calling out, "Uncle Ju—where are you, Uncle Ju?"

From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The wainscot wants patching up, and so does the parqueted floor.

From Happy-Thought Hall by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

In the finely parqueted floor great holes appear; the places from which fine statues of Canova's were, as the steward told us, dragged up for the Emperor of Russia.

From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 by Augustus J. C. Hare

There was in the hall a shining floor painted and parqueted, there were Viennese chairs, a piano, a violin stand; there was a smell of paint.

From The Schoolmaster by Constance Garnett