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Pad Foot (or Club Foot): A simple foot treatment at the end of a cabriole or Queen Anne leg commonly found on living room and dining room tables of these styles.
Pad Seat: Upholstered furniture built without springs.
Padding: Soft materials such as foam that's used between the frame and covering material of an upholstered piece of furniture to create comfort and shape.
Palladian Style: Furniture styling based on designs from the mid 1500’s Italian architect Andrea Palladio. This furniture and decor style features very large and spectacular cornices, pediments and sculptural decorations of scallop shells, eagles, acanthus leaves and other motifs. Windows and columns in this style of decor still carry the Palladian name today.
Palladian window: A large window divided into three parts consisting of an arched center section and two smaller side sections.
Panel: Normally a thin flat piece of wood or similar material, framed by rails and stiles as in a door, or fitted into grooves of a thicker material with molded edges for a decorative wall treatment.
Papier (or Paper Mache): Material that’s made from paper pulp and molded into various products, which is suitable to be painted and varnished when dry.
Parquet: Wood flooring that’s usually laid in blocks with boards at angles to each other to form decorative patterns.
Parquetry: Furniture that’s inlaid with geometrical designs similar to parquet floors.
Parsons Leg: A relatively long fully upholstered leg, such as those found on a parsons dining room chair.
Parsons Table: A simple squared table with legs and apron of equal widths. The name is derived from the Parsons School of Design where the table was developed during the 1950’s.
Passementerie: Fancy decorative trimmings such as tassels, tiebacks and ribbon.
Pastel: A light, soft color.
Patina: A luster or sheen that develops with use over time, usually associated with fine antiques, vintage furniture and leather furniture.
Patio Furniture: Furniture that is specifically made and finished for outdoor use.
Pattern: The decorative or ornamental design of a fabric, veneers, etc.
Pattern Repeat: The interval between the repetition of the same pattern.
Pedestal: The supporting base for a table, vase, sculpture, etc.
Pedestal Desk: A flat desk, usually with a leather top, that stands on two banks of drawers.
Pedestal Table: A table that’s supported by a single center base or column.
Pediment: An ornamental crest running across the top of tall piece such as a highboy chest, curio cabinet, grandfather clock, etc.
Pegged Furniture: Early joined furniture constructed by a system of slots and tenons, held together by dowels.
Pelmet: A wooden or fabric edging used to conceal the top edge of a curtain or blind.
Pembroke Table: A drop leaf table with leaves that almost drop to the floor.
Pencil Pleat: A tightly gathered drapery heading.
Pencil-Post Bed: A bed with four slender posts generally rising from six to eight feet in height. The design is normally very simple with straight lines. These beds can be used alone or with a canopy.
Pennsylvania Dutch: Furniture style produced through the late 1600’s to mid 1800’s by German families settled around New York and Pennsylvania. They were commonly miscalled Dutch for "Deutsch". The styling is simple with a sense of rustic utilitarianism and is normally squared with minimal rounding or turning. Decorations predominately include paintings of flowers, fruit, animals, human motifs and German script. Most popular woods were walnut, maple, fruitwoods and pine.
Percale: A finely woven cotton fabric that’s usually used for bedding.
Pickling (or Pickled Finish): A term for a piece of wood that's been limed. Also a method of painting furniture and then wiping off the paint before it has completely dried leaving some on the edges.
Picture Rail: A molding that runs along the top of the wall a short distance from the ceiling, from which pictures are hung with hooks.
Piecrust Table: A round occasional table on a three-legged pedestal base that features an ornamented edging resembling a crimped piecrust.
Pier Glass: A large window height mirror suspended above a table.
Pier Group: Normally two tall, narrow chests (pier cabinets) which sit on either side of a bed that are joined by a headboard assembly often consisting of a mirror, or shelves and light bridge.
Piercing: A cutout or carved decorative detail seen in chair splats and other furniture originating from the 1700’s.
Pigment: A substance that gives color to paint, stain, dye, etc. Pigments are derived from both natural and synthetic resources.
Pigmented Leather: A leather finished with a pigmented coating for consistency of color and texture. Pigments may be used to cover imperfections in the hide, as well as to add protection to leather used for furniture.
Pilaster: A flattened column-like detail applied to furniture such as bookcases, grandfather clocks, etc. for decorative purposes.
Pilling: A condition that can affect textiles such as fabric and carpet. Pilling occurs when fibers become entangled with one another, creating hard masses of fibers in the form of knotted tufts. Some materials can be more prone to pilling than others.
Pillow Top Mattress: A mattress with extra foam and padding on top of the mattress. Better quality pillow tops will have the pillow top on both sides of the mattress. There are also fake pillow tops that do not have extra foam or padding.
Pin drill - the Plug-in round thorn. On Dal, pin drill - the Kostroma name also designates « a thorn in broad to work », can be made of wood, plastic or metal. Purpose(assignment) pin drill - to set an exact relative positioning of two furniture details at their angular connection, and sometimes and at longitudinal. Pin drill perceives all cross-section loadings arising in this connection while in service of a product. Pin drill sometimes name also a word dowel ( slangy ) - from it(him) Dubel.
Pinch Pleats (or French Pleats): Where individual drapery pleats are equally divided into smaller pleats and sewn together at the bottom of the pinched pleats.
Pineapple: A carving detail commonly used on 19th century furniture and home decor items (and today's reproductions) as a symbol of hospitality.
Piping (or Welting): A cord wrapped in fabric, which is used to trim upholstery seams and places where the fabric meets with exposed wood.
Plates furniture, reveted with plastic HPL with natural veneer sheeet - the Panels reveted with plastic Oberflex (France) from a collection "Prestige", for manufacturing furniture facades, cases, a case - compartment, interroom doors, manufacturing of bar racks, furnish of premises(rooms), etc. Standard panels are made by length 3050 mm, width 1260 mm, any thickness on the basis of high-quality plates MDF, HDF, chip plate class Å1.
Platform Base: Three, or four, cornered flat table bases supporting a central pedestal and standing on scrolled or paw feet.
Platform Bed: A bed whose base consists of a raised, flat horizontal surface meant to support a mattress.
Platform Foundation: Normally a mattress base made of wood with no metal wire. Foundations are usually covered with a layer of foam and fabric to look like a box spring.
Plinth: The base of a chest or other furniture that rests on the floor, opposed to sitting on legs.
Plush: Fabric in a velvet weave with a long pile.
Plywood: Layers of wood attached in a cross grain method to assist in preventing the contraction and swelling of wood surfaces from humidity changes in the air.
Podium - the Basis of a case designed from chip plate, raising a case on 5-15 sm.. The podium is established in a case when height of doors less the prospective size of a case, and false panel to make it is not desirable
Poly Dacron Wrap: A cushion construction method in which a soft resilient polyester material is wrapped around a polyurethane foam core. Poly Dacron wrapping is a feature commonly found in many of today's upholstered furniture designs.
Polyester: A synthetic polymer derived fiber that's often blended with other materials such as wool, cotton and rayon. Polyester is famous for its durability and wrinkle resistance.
Polyester Batting: A synthetic fiber wadded into rolls or sheets used for stuffing furniture and mattresses.
Polyurethane Foam: A synthetic material used for cushions in upholstered furniture such as sofas and chairs; better upholstered furniture uses high-density polyurethane foam.
Pop: Term meaning popular, used to describe design and artwork developed in the 1950's and 1960's that drew its inspiration from commercial art such as product packaging, comic strips, etc. (think Andy Warhol).
Portieres: Hinged metal curtain poles from which a curtain is hung to eliminate drafts.
Post-Modernism: A reaction against Modernism that began during the 1950's and promoted the reintroduction of bright colors and decorative components to furniture and home decor related designs.
Postformation (the subsequent formation) - Process at which laminates (plastics) heat up for giving of flexibility by him(it) and subject to pressure for veneer laying the rounded end faces. Postformation is carried out on the special equipment. Thus quality is provided with the following conditions: enough of pitches in structure of a laminate (plastic), manufacturing techniques of the laminate (plastic), correctly chosen temperature mode.
Posturized: A word created and used by the bedding industry to describe additional support in the center of a mattress or foundation unit.
Pressboard: A strong, high density board used for case backs, dust proofing or as the underlying structural base for veneers or vinyl wrap. Also known as composition board or particle board. Pressboard is commonly used by even the best furniture manufacturer's today because of it's proven strength and stability.
Pressforming - Technology of processing of plate MDF at which with the help of press-form on a surface of a plate the decorative relief can be squeezed out.
Primary Colors: Three colors; red, yellow and blue.
Prints: A fabric with a pattern. The term is also applied to lithographed reproductions of original paintings, drawings, etc.
Provincial: Furniture from the hinterlands inspired by designs from the major centers of a country, which have been adapted to local tastes, materials and ways of living.
Pub Table: Term conventionally refers to a round table about 40" in height designed for small spaces and intimate dining. It is common for people to also refer to pub tables as bistro tables.
Pull-Up Leather: A full grain, aniline dyed leather that is oiled or waxed. When pulled, the oils or waxes cause the coloring to migrate and become lighter in the pulled areas. A look commonly associated with better quality leather furniture.
Pure Aniline Leather: A top-grain leather that’s aniline dyed and receives no additional coloring. Also called full aniline.
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