The famous parquet de Versailles is certainly the most emblematic type of flooring you will find at Versailles. It's no surprise since it has "Versailles" in its name! There is yet another type of signature flooring for the palace, much lesser known by the general public who don't live in the place: terracotta hexagonal tilling floors are indeed very common and yet very discreet since found essentially in secondary stairs, corridors or passageways all over the palace.
The picture above is a look at the first room to be decorated with a brand new parquet de Versailles since the restoration work began on the palace in 2013. This room is located in a private apartments and thus closed to visits.
(If you live in the palace and would like to know if Versailles type parquet flooring could be laid in your rooms, please contact me. You must know however that this type of flooring is very expensive and quite tricky lo lay, and thus reserved for the decoration of important rooms or rooms belonging to important occupants. If your room already contains parquet flooring of any type, it is also unlikely that the floor will be changed. Please, also consider that you could be force to leave the palace if you try to remove any type of flooring without official permission.)
Room on the First Floor of the South-East Pavilion of the Secretaries of State.
This room is currently the private office of the Dutchess.
ReplyDeleteMore parquet should be added soon in other rooms who will be open to the public.
That room is no open to the public at the moment.
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We hope to begin work in other rooms of you apartments very soon!
DeleteMaybe some other rooms need to be completed before wasting time on that.
DeleteJ.D
In my opinion, work on any part of the palace is beneficial to the whole palace and increases the prestige and value of any room in the palace, even those in which work isn't done. But I understand everybody prefers when the work starts in its own apartments!
DeleteNique la duchese!
ReplyDeleteRude comments will just keep being ignored, I won't even bothered deleting them for everybody to witness how ill-mannered and discourteous an individual you can be. You're always welcome to come back to us with more constructive and positive feedback though!
DeleteDude, you need to make a blog entry about the security of that apartment.
ReplyDeleteIs there an alarm system behind the paintings? Can you check it out?
Also what's behind each door?
It is a very natural thing to wonder what you can find behind a closed door! And this question and its answer are all the more exiting in Versailles! But unfortunately, this room being part of a private apartments, I'm not allowed to reveal here the precise layout of those rooms, for security and privacy reasons. As for the alarm system, suffice to say the palace is very well protected, don't worry!
DeleteVery nice.
ReplyDeleteJ.D.
Thank you so much!
DeletePas mal la piece mec.
ReplyDeleteVery cool.
Thank you! Glad you like it!
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