Club foot (furniture)
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A club foot is a type of rounded foot for a piece of furniture, such as the end of a chair leg.[1][2] It is also known by the alternative names pad foot[3][4][5] and Dutch foot,[4][5] the latter sometimes corrupted into duck foot.[6]
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.[7][8] 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.[citation needed] Pad feet can still be seen on some classical furniture.