This is a quick and easy to understand guide to learn some popular information about furnitures. If you have a term or phrase that you want to learn more about, click on its beginning letter down below.
This glossary of common furniture terms may help familiarizing yourself with furnitures. It may also help improving your product knowledge on different kind of furnitures, and on furniture construction as well.
Furniture terms
Pediment - Ornamental, typically triangular, crown on the top of a case good or bed.
Pineapple - A carving used in 19th century furniture as a symbol of hospitality.
Plinth - "To the floor" squared off base of a piece of furniture.
Plywood - Layers of wood products attached in a cross grain method (1st layer grain is east to west, 2nd layer north to south, 3rd layer east to west and so forth) to assist in preventing the contraction and swelling of wood surfaces due to the rise and fall of humidity in the air.
Polyurethane - A synthetic material used as cushion material in upholstered furniture, available in varying degrees of density and softness.
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