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Club foot (furniture)

Type of rounded foot for furniture

Club foot (furniture)
Summary

Type of rounded foot for furniture

A Windsor Georgian Double Bow chair with pad-footed [[cabriole leg]]s at the front. The back legs are plain.

A club foot is a type of rounded foot for a piece of furniture, such as the end of a chair leg. It is also known by the alternative names pad foot and Dutch foot, the latter sometimes corrupted into duck foot.

Such feet are rounded flat pads or disks at the end of furniture legs. Pad feet were regularly used on cabriole legs during the 18th century.It used the hoof foot in many places, and also the pad foot (most popular in present-day cabriole legs) ... {{cite book

Pad feet were first seen in the French and Italian Renaissance periods and have been widely used ever since. Pad feet can still be seen on some classical furniture.

References

References

  1. Bird, Lonnie. (2003). "Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Period Furniture Details". [[Taunton Press]].
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