Please, how can i say in english when the legs in furniture is like a toothpick?

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50s60s

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02/09/2008 10:41 pm

Please, normaly, what I appreciate most in the piece is the legs.. I like a lot "pé palito"... I don't know how to say it in english but like when the legs seems like toothpick. When it's cylindrical, start "big" and after narrow... it finish thin. The legs is like a funnel like this picture... What kind of expression do you use to it?

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Igor

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02/09/2008 10:46 pm

Excellent question - I like...
Excellent question - I like conical, Igor, but tapered is also fine, and there are others probably better or at least as good.

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02/09/2008 10:51 pm

Toothpick-like
Tapered dowel legs.

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02/09/2008 11:10 pm

Tapered - Conified
Butted?
I like to use ?conificado? (in Spanish), Is used specially for industrial metal factories (tables and chairs)
So conical is the shape and would conified the process to make that one?
,,Conified,, is is founded in link below, as well as Tapered (Thanks hudsonhonu!, as you said!) as well as butted.
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=386859

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03/09/2008 2:15 am

Here in the US, those types o...
Here in the US, those types of legs are sometimes refered to as "spindle legs" .

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03/09/2008 6:22 am

Call me silly but
I'm not a fan of splayed legs.

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03/09/2008 7:09 am

thanks
Thanks Barry, Woof, and Woody for the help. Now a have more words to my vocabulary, hehehe
Hello Gugu... I asked it to you in another post and do you answered it's here, rs... Thanks too...
And you Hudson? Do you like this legs like me? After i will post another pieces with this legs, ok?
Abraços a todos...
Igor

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03/09/2008 8:56 am

no, call ME silly...
i'm a fan of the taper [cf., prouvé],
but i like the legs on this chair.
[sorry...i just couldn't help myself!]

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03/09/2008 7:27 pm

I like "pe palitos" legs!
Igor, rs, but in the other thread, many questions!, and as you see I,m slow to answer, then when I saw this, it I recall it! RSRSRS.
Barry, like it or not, it,s ok. But aren,t the legs as nelson clocks?, a furniture 4, a clock 12! I expected you liked 1/3!

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