They were told that wood parket floors were bourgeoisie…
Trakiya was built past the age, or the budget, of parket, linoleum sheet floors were rolled out into every apartment.
They convinced everyone that the smooth surface of linoleum floors were modern and they celebrated man made materials over that of natural ones. And as Krisztina Fehervary suggests, “..the smooth surfaces of linoleum floors.. allowed people to wipe away the dust and grime of objects that tied people to the past.”