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

You have the parqueted or painted floor, the porcelain stove, the sofa, the table, the wooden bedstead, and the wooden hanging cupboard wherever you are.

From Home Life in Germany by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

The interior, divided into twenty rooms, was paneled and parqueted in the most expensive manner for homes of that day.

From The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser

The ground was covered with a parqueted flooring of rare wood, forming concentric patterns.

From The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

As a delicate wind danceth invisibly upon parqueted seas, light, feather-light, so—danceth sleep upon me.

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche