Club foot (furniture) explained

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.^{[1] [2]} They can be found on tables, chairs, and some early sofas.

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.

See also

• Foot (furniture)

Further reading

• Book: Feet . 42 et seq. Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Period Furniture Details. Lonnie Bird. Taunton Press. 2003. 978-1-56158-590-8.
• pad foot. The new encyclopedia of furniture. Joseph Aronson. Crown Publishers. 1967.

Notes and References

1. Book: Bird, Lonnie . Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Period Furniture Details . 2003 . . 1-56158-590-4 . 44 . The pad foot was the most common form of foot used on 18th-century cabriole legs.
2. It used the hoof foot in many places, and also the pad foot (most popular in present-day cabriole legs) ... Book: Sparkes , Ivan G. . English Windsor Chairs. 1981. Shire publications. 0-85263-562-1. 7.