What is the name for this style legs coffee table ...

[vanzemaljac]

I really like this style of work. provided a forum to know the exact name of this style and if it works ...

 

[KimG]

Chunky.

Just joking, though they are substantial for sure, I'm not sure the style actually has a name, I await further posts.

 

[Bodrighy]

It is a basic victoriana/edwardian type spindle leg that was common in one form or another with stools for a long time. I don't know of any specific name for it. I do a lot of them for someone who does renovation and reproduction on them. Not usually quite so many beads and coves as yours though.

Pete

 

[Spindle]

Hi

I think I'd edge towards Jacobean as a style.

Regards Mick

 

[Bodrighy]

I can see why you say Jacobean though as often as not they were with barley twists and / or a series of large beads running down the legs. That style tended to be later Jacobean perhaps? Most of the furniture tended to be heavy and often in oak. The simpler beaded spindle evolved into what we see today on so much furniture from the 19th and early 20th century and on until the 1950's. I admit to remembering the old sideboards and dressers with stunted versions of the style in solid oak. 'orrible stuff IMHO but now quite popular again in some circles.

Pete

 

[Richard Findley]

Look closer guys, these are what I refer to as "square turned" because they are not turned at all. If you look at them they are square in section although at first glance appear to be turned. I've been asked to do similar before but have never actually figured out a way todo them on a standard lathe. I beleive the could be "thermed" if there was enough of them but they would originally have been made on a rotary cutting machine, which is a cross beteen a lathe and a spindle moulder, with spinning cutters that come in and remove wood.

Cheers

Richard

 

[nev]

Well spotted mr F.
spectacles for everyone please!
so.... anyone got a Jacobean rotary cutting machine #-o

 

[chipmunk]

Richard's suggestion of therming would be a great way to cut all four at once, albeit one side at a time.

...but the pommels look curved to me. So something is conventionally turned?

Perhaps the curved pommels are a way to disguise the fact that the therming is slightly curved and isn't plumb with the square side of the pommels?

Jon

 

[Bodrighy]

I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't mentioned it Richard lol. Perhaps they were done with a spokeshave LOL.

Pete

 

[Paul.J]

So are they Victorian/Edwardian or Jacobean era style :?

 

[Bodrighy]

So are they Victorian/Edwardian or Jacobean era style :?

Before I saw the way they had been made with rounded square section I would have said Victorian / Edwardian but I am not aware of anything like that in those eras of furniture making. Maybe there was though as the general look of them is definitely from that period.

Pete