TY - JOUR T1 - Origin of palace floor – historic flooring A1 - Katarzyna Kafel A1 - Piotr Buda JO - Acta Sci. Pol. Architectura} VL - 18 IS - 4 SP - 18 Y1 - 2019 UR - https://www.architectura.actapol.net/volume18/issue4/_4_.pdf SN - 1644-0730 KW - palace floor, mosaic, parquet, wooden floor, historic floor AB - The floor is an element of the building aimed at finishing horizontal partitions, giving them utility and aesthetic properties. Wooden floors are a frequent finishing element of building floors. The use of wood as a finishing element is intended to introduce user comfort due to the physical properties of the material. Renovation of historic wooden floors is characterized by considerable specificity of works, due to the need to preserve their unique character. The aim of the work is to systematize the terminology that define the wooden top layer of historic and contemporary floors. The work also discusses the implementation of renovation of historic floor and made from scratch, which served as examples illustrating the terminology and differences associated with the historic palace mosaic, and the wooden floor made today. Analysis of the literature in terms of terminology within wooden floors, allowed to illustrate the differences in the performance of the top layers of floors. The work shows the origin of the term “palace floor” and its contemporary interpretation. ER -