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parquet de chêne à compartiments

English translation: framed inlaid-panel oak parquet

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French term or phrase:parquet de chêne à compartiments
English translation:framed inlaid-panel oak parquet
Entered by: philgoddard

14:03 Feb 13, 2014
French to English translations [PRO]
Architecture / Flooring
French term or phrase: parquet de chêne à compartiments
Anyone able to tell me what the "compartiments" might refer to at the end of the following piece of text?

Thanks in advance for any help...


Le 18e siècle est en effet marqué par la recherche du confort et de l’intimité : pièces plus petites et chaleureuses, miroirs et tableaux encastrés, plafonds souvent agrémentés de décors stuqués, parquets de chêne à compartiments.
Philip Taylor
Local time: 04:17
framed inlaid-panel oak parquet
Explanation:
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You can see some pictures here. It's like a rug, but made of wood.
https://www.google.com/search?q=inlaid panel framed parquet&...
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philgoddard
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4 +3framed inlaid-panel oak parquet
philgoddard
4floors of oak parquet with compartments/laid in compartment patterns
Anne-Marie Laliberté (X)
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Also parquetry
Didier Fourcot

  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
framed inlaid-panel oak parquet


Explanation:
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Note added at 9 mins (2014-02-13 14:13:14 GMT)
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You can see some pictures here. It's like a rug, but made of wood.
https://www.google.com/search?q=inlaid panel framed parquet&...


    Reference: http://books.google.com/books?id=jxX8nFivTXgC&pg=PA364&lpg=P...
philgoddard
United States
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 72
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway: nice research. it's not architecture though-what field should it be listed under? /but parquet is flooring.... /ok Christopher solved it for us.
4 mins
  -> Construction?
agree  Wendy Streitparth
7 mins
agree  Christopher Crockett: A floor is an essential part of a piece of architecture, seems to me. I'd suggest adding "floor" after "parquet."
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23 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
floors of oak parquet with compartments/laid in compartment patterns


Explanation:
http://www.rusartnet.com/russia/history/romanov/history-of-p...
These floors employed foreign strains of wood and inlays of mother-of-pearl (Lyon Room).
Giacomo Quarenghi preferred the second type of parquetry, which generally consisted of a grid of cells with a multi-petal rosette in the centre of each compartment.

http://blog.francoisandco.com/?p=164
Created by Roubo de Mazerolles for the eponymous Chateau de Versailles, this intricate pattern is made up of a border and compartments positioned diagonally in relation to the frame.

www.victoriana.com/Hardwood-Flooring/hardwood-floors.html‎
Parquet flooring is a wooden flooring of small pieces of wood arranged in patterns ... Samples of antique hardwood flooring were available in the "Book of Patterns. ... frames formed into compartments, comprising squares, diamonds, polygons


www.parquet-de-versailles.com/versailles_parquet/‎
:... it is a parquet floor of assembly that some people called " parquet with compartments".

http://www.patrice-besse.co.uk/
The parquet flooring is laid in an inverted “fern” pattern. It is pinned with inlaying of compartment modules of various species.


https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/1842/6968/2/510064_vo...‎
T. From a Persian carpet. 2nd half of the 16th century. After Grote-Hasenbalg. U. From a Persian ...... the floor had been taken over as the motiye for pattern, after long . the motifs are enclosed by a compartment pattern.

Anne-Marie Laliberté (X)
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Native speaker of: French
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Reference comments


4 hrs peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: Also parquetry

Reference information:
"à compartiments" is also commonly called "à panneaux", images:
https://www.google.fr/search?q=parquet à panneaux&client=fir...
or "parquet Versailles":
http://www.atdg.com/v2/fr/t-parquet-versailles.htm

The term "parquetry" suggested by Dicobat
http://dicobatonline.fr/une_definition.php?terme_id=8918&ter...
seems to fit the bill:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parquetry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parquetry
(most common pattern herringbone not shown in the article)
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parquetry

See also in archive:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/architecture/310...

Didier Fourcot
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 12

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