Antique Furniture Parts

Antique furniture really need to be maintained so as to keep them in as original a state as possible. As time goes on there may be need to replace one or two parts of the antique furniture. The legs, the arm rest or the back rest of an antique chair may be damaged and needs to be replaced, any of the parts of a cabinet may also be damaged and be in need of a change, even an antique dinning set may require that any of its part be replaced. This surely makes it rather essential to have a means to do these replacements available.

Antique furniture are quite immense, these also brought to fore the immensity of antique furniture parts. Some of these antique furniture have various parts with which they could be replaced, for example the Chippendale chair had up to six different chair leg styles, three of them are cabriole legs; they could come in form of lion paw, club or ball and claw. The other three are Marlborough, Spade and the late Chippendale.

Majority of the antique furniture too were developed in line with the various eras when their designs were made, therefore in identifying the various parts of the antique furniture, there is need to have a good understanding of the era during which these antique furniture were made. Some were made during the Gothic era while others came by during the Chinese era. This brought about quite a number of different styles and designs.

As we have anatomy in human beings and animals, so do we have anatomy in furniture. The anatomy of furniture simply means the various parts that make up the furniture. Let us take the Chippendale type of chair as an example and analyze its anatomy from the top to the bottom. It consist of thee crest rail, the ear, the stille, the splat, the shoe, the slip seat, the side seat rail, the knee, the cabriole leg and also the claw and ball foot.

A good knowledge of the period during which these antique furniture were made and the style is greatly needed to aid one in having a full understanding of the different parts

Considering how old and ancient most of these antique furniture are, it will be understandable that their original parts are very difficult to locate. But some business minded individuals had been able to discover this difficulty and they have taken it upon themselves to find a solution to it. They have been able to make a collection of various parts of these antique furniture. Example of such companies are Don?s Furniture Company, Van Dyke?s Restorers, Kennedy Hardware, Classic Furniture services, Toledo Architectural Artifacts and so on. You can easily get more information on them online.