Club foot (furniture) since. Pad feet can still be seen on some classical furniture. Club foot (furniture) 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. They can be found on tables, chairs, and some early sofas. Pad feet were first seen in the
18th-century French literature known both for his songs, such as "Il pleut, il pleut, bergère") ("It's raining, shepherdess") and for his participation in the writing of the new French Republican Calendar created during the French Revolution. French literature in the 18th century offered a rich collection of works in all genres, and brought together, rather than opposed, the philosophical and analytical views of the "Philosophes" and "Lumieres" with the more subjective and personal views of the emerging romantic movement. Many of the works of the 18th century are forgotten, but the century also produced a number of writers who were great both for