Technicolor Parquet Flooring

Painted floors are a dynamic way to add color to a space, and Apartment Therapy has been keeping tabs on some of the best examples. We'd like to add this amazing parquet floor to the mix...

10.20.09 floors 3.jpg Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer have created this installation, appropriately titled Wall to Wall, in an investigation of the connection between flooring and textiles. Using multi-tonal bright colors and a seemingly woven pattern, Alkalay and Mer have created a kind of hybrid between a traditional rug and the floor that it typically sits upon. Check out more information at Design Llama.
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Comments (9)

Gorgeous. I wonder if they were inspired by this: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/la/041309-floor02.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/look/look-colorful-flooring-via-design-crisis-081716&usg=__dKR_E5y58Zz5XNlsx5K7mG664q8=&h=338&w=540&sz=49&hl=en&start=19&um=1&tbnid=e8JNDycrDKwcSM:&tbnh=83&tbnw=132&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpainted%2Bherringbone%2Bfloor%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us%26rlz%3D1I7ADSA_en%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

posted by repressd on October 20th 2009 at 5:07pm
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love it... as long as it's in a sparse room or gallery.

posted by CozyLittleCave on October 20th 2009 at 6:04pm
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What a great idea.

posted by hforhannah on October 20th 2009 at 6:09pm
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gorgeous... but man, you must have a ton of faith in the designer who arranges those colors...

but this room is stunning....

posted by modern on long island on October 20th 2009 at 8:22pm
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It's so ugly !!!
ARGH !!!

posted by ziiip on October 20th 2009 at 8:59pm
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Oh... my. Not my speed at all.

posted by Elizabeth B on October 21st 2009 at 12:03am
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Its a brilliant idea but does it really belong in small places like an apartment? I feel as if it promotes more of a clutter feeling than anything, without any space being taken up.

posted by dnic on October 21st 2009 at 1:18am
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it's absolutely gorgeous, but it really does belong in a large, public space rather than in a home.

posted by bewarethebaobabs on October 21st 2009 at 11:28am
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Awesome!

posted by aj on October 21st 2009 at 3:24pm
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