Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ................................... Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary

Plinth

Architecture

1- A square or rectangular base for column, pilaster, or door framing

2- When used as a solid monumental base, often inscribed with moldings, bas reliefs, or inscriptions, to support a statue or memorial

3- A recognizable base of an external wall, or the base of courses of a building collectively, if so treated as to give the appearance of a platform

Plinth course:

• A masonry course which forms a continuous plinth
• The top course in a brick plinth

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Furniture

The square part of the base of a column or a pedestal piece of case furniture which is set solidly flat on the floor.

It is the molded pojection base of a structure or a pedestal without moldings.

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Examples from Buffalo:

• Illustration above: Column base: A. E. Perron Company Building
  
  
• Illustration above - Furniture: Bookcase - Old Editions Book Shop and Café
  
  
• Base for statue: Gen. Daniel Bidwell
  
  
• Base for statue: Statue of Cosimo I, Florence, Italy
  
  
• Base for fireplace columns: Hull House
  
  
• Base for columns: Harlow C. Curtiss Building
  
  
• Base for columns: Riviera Theatre, North Tonawanda
  
  
• Furniture: Renaissance Revival dresser - Private collection, Buffalo, NY

Other examples:

• Place des Vosges, Paris, France
  

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