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.