PARQUETRY DESIGN

(TRADE CATALOGUE) DAMMAN & CO. PARQUETRY DESIGN. (London): (circa 1910). Folding illustrated advertisement (16 1/8 x 14 1/6 inches). 32 mounted color samples. A rare trade broadside not recorded on OCLC. Damman & Co. were well known in the Edwardian era for their installation of wooden flooring. As the company introduction is at pains to point out "the enormous advantage, hygienic, decorative and practical, of parquetry flooring have been known on the continent, are at length becoming recognised in England, and in all houses of any pretension whatever, it is now absolutely necessary of the adornment and finishing of the interior." Damman also produced and advertised their patented parquet floor, "to meet th wishes of a great number of people who do not care to remove the existing floors." This economic form of floor was laid over the original wood floor a could be taken up by the owner on moving home. The printed broadside is moun on linen; and folded down into original cloth folder; with inserted cost of materials and estimate sheet. (Inventory #: 39346)