Antique French Oak parquet de Versailles panels
Supplied Pre-finished by LASSCO. Prices are per square metre panel.
Hand made solid Oak parquetry panels. Made from antique 18th and 19th century reclaimed French Oak boards. The panels are created to customer order with a lead time of 6-8 weeks and are entirely constructed from scratch by expert joiners and heritage craftsmen. The square metre panels are supplied entirely pre-finished and ready for installation. Any quantity is available and we encourage customers to call our flooring office to discuss further details.
£495 + VAT
The word parquet derives from the Old French 'parchet' which means 'a small enclosed space'. The method was devised as a warmer and more serviceable alternative to elaborate domestic marble floors which required frequent washing with water that would damage the wooden joists beneath. The earliest instances of its use appear to be in the Bourbon palaces of La Trianon and Versailles in the late 17th Century. Necessity as ever has proved the mother of invention and there are now a great many different forms of parquetry panels to choose from, most named after the famous houses and palaces from which they originate.
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