Hardwood Floor Border Inlays

The hardwood floor borders can be found as built with round shapes. Difference from the geometrical shaped ones is that the design can be way more creative. As example the below image shows a Pavex Parquet hardwood floor border inlay belonging to the MARQUETERIA Collection. The presented border is installed with a brown color African hardwood which founds itself included in the middle of the design. Walls with a classic golden wallpaper.

 

Kids Insets - Parquet Flooring Inlays

Pavex Parquet have been commissioned by a customer to design and manufacture a few patterns for a kids room parquet floor. A pair of flowers, a butterfly and a kitty have been created and installed inside the flooring. A few images can be seen below.

Parquet Border by Pavex Parquet - Around the Fireplace Arrangement

Somewhere in Belgium, 2011.

The Weaver Lines II hardwood floor border inlay, manufactured by Pavex Parquet, has been installed in an around the fireplace layout. The parquet flooring work we have been commissioned for consists in two border patterns (Weaver Lines II & Ribbon) which have been installed in two separate rooms.

Two images:
1. the installation, a chimney area close view
2. the project drawing

Parquet Border Close View - Old Nail Pinned Work, Boston

Boston. Close view of a hardwood border installation. Center filled with small field patterns (parquet panels).
All nail pinned on every element.

Traditional Living Room design by Boston Interior Designer Linda Merrill

Double Line Parquet Border Inlay, New York.

Double parquet border - geometric one in the middle, marquetry ones on sides. New York.

Eclectic Living Room design by New York Architect Neuhaus Design Architecture, P.C.

Hallway Installed Parquet Border

Parquet border installed in a hallway and partially in the kitchen.

Contemporary Kitchen design by New York General Contractor Fox Force Five Construction

Intricate Parquetry Composition - Cabinet des Miroirs, Château de Maisons-Laffitte, France 17th Century

France, 1630-1651, near Paris. The ”Château de Maisons-Laffitte” has been built by
René de Longueil and his wife Madeleine Boulenc de Crévecœur.
One room of this castle is interesting from our point of view: ”Cabinet des Miroirs”.
This particular round room has a splendid marquetry inlay composition worked in wood, pewter and ivory.
This marquetry work has been restored relative recently.

This image shows the work partially.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rucher_orgeval/3795541680/

Other web places for viewing other images with this work:
http://www.maisonslaffitte.net/interieurs.htm
http://netricsa.blogspot.ro/2010/03/chateau-de-maisons-laffite-salle-de-bal.html
Cabinet des Miroirs - Maison Laffitte, France

Hardwood Floor Medallion: Aesthetic Mission

The owner of this mansion - located somewhere in the US - has decided to commission us to manufacture the ”8 RAYS Double Frame Round” hardwood floor medallion inlay. The medallion would add value to their mansion's hardwood flooring installation.

The decorative parquetry work has been placed between the two stairs (see image) in front of the entry door with an aesthetic mission.

We've decided to add this showcase to the blog because it shows one possibility to use of this kind of parquetry works. All the installation decisions have been made by the owner.

by www.pavexparquet.com

Decorative Parquetry at the 19th Century Lyon, France.

Relative recently I’ve made an interesting discovery: a set of images with decorative parquet borders in the 19^th century France. Lyon residence. Why interesting? Because I haven’t seen this type of product in France. Not at that age. I was used to see different types of panels (panneaux in French) but no this design borders.

The owner of the images – Mr. Martin Loyer, le photographe – allowed me to publish them inside an article.

http://www.martinloyer.fr/visites-virtuelles/lyon-appartement-apparat/galerie-photos-appartement-apparat/

A few details on the building:

1.Dates from the end of the 18^th century beginning of the 19^th

2.Part of a large improvement project made by architect Soufflot

3.Initially there were Versailles panels but the owner changed it for a more modern parquet – at the beginning of the 19^th century

4.Parquetry is made of Oak (blackened), Walnut, Sycamore and Mahogany

5.It was installed on the old backing strips (called “lambourdes” in French)

6.It seems they kept the backing strips at the same distance and this was too big for the new parquetry causing damage with time.

The technical data was provided by Daniel Daminot, a cabinet maker in Lyon, France who worked for restoring it.

Interesting is Mr. Daminot said there are another 4 places in Lyon with the same parquetry.

I wait your comments. To the subject, please. Others will be promptly erased!

If you read this article and know a similar parquetry elsewhere in the world and are willing to share please contact us at pavex.parquet@gmail.com

Parquetry Borders and Panels in Lyon, France - Images:

Austria. The 18th & 19th Century Old Decorative Parquetry Works

Vienna, Austria.

Thomas Reiner runs a special business: he restores old parquet floors and in other cases recovers, restores and resells the same type of parquetry.

His website – www.antique-parquet.com - has a section where old, recovered and restored parquetry is offered for sale and it’s patiently waiting to start a new life.

Viewing Mr. Reiner’s collection of parquetry, one can have an idea on the decorative parquet flooring history. Not only the aesthetic side but how the importance of the work has been shared between the richest and the less rich of the society.

The richest.

The oldest – and the most spectacular – work is a piece of inlaid parquetry dating from 1745 and originating from Hetzendorf  Castle, Vienna (an edifice build 1694 by Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, bought in 1742 by Empress Maria Theresia of Habsburg, rebuild until 1745):

Hetzendorf Castle, Austria - Intricate Inlaid Parquetry Work, cca. 1745

Made of Oak, Mahogany, Maple & other specie | Size (in mm) 30 x  4530 x 4530 | Designed by Francois Cuvillies & Pacassi 1743 – 1745.

Here are some components of the larger assembly:

Parquetry border, part of the Hetzendorf Castle inlay.

Central motif, part of  intricate Hetzendorf Castle parquetry work;

The musicians and the nobility.

Down at a simple level there are parquet panels with design.

1.The first one is said to originate from the house of a musician, in Vienna. Notice the attention given to the design and the intricacy of detail.

Ringstrasse, Vienna, room of a musician - intricate parquet panel;

or another one worked with the same finesse:

Vienna, Austria, the end of the 19th century - Oak and maple parquet panel;

2. Beautifully parquet panel with geometric shapes – and done in maple, oak and mahogany.

Geometric shapes parquet panel inlay

A time when the attention for detail produced works of art we can inspire from today. 

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From Simple to Intricate - A Rectangular Parquet Flooring Installation

From a simple Herringbone pattern to an intricate 3 components (medallion, border + parquet flooring) parquet flooring installation the attached design shows how the same room can evolve.

by www.pavexparquet.com

1. - Herringbone; 2. - Herringbone + Greek key border; 3. – Herringbone + Greek Key Border + Medallion