Decoration element for covering and embellishing furniture

Abstract

Abstract The invention is a novel covering and optical embellishing of surfaces and edges of furniture structures, particularly legs and/or portions of frames and/or bodies of seats or resting furniture, tables, cupboards, shelves, mirrors and the like. The decoration element is comprised substantially of a plurality of long strands having a constant cross sectional area, made from the core of a tropical creeper or palmyra. The ligneous, fibrous strands are free of knots and very flexible, and are arranged with most of them adjacent, parallel, and touching each other without any space, thus forming a complete optical covering on the visible surfaces and edges of the structure. The element made, for example, from "Palmyra" creepers is, because of its inner structure of small channels and absence of knots, substantially perfectly homogeneous on its entire length with respect to its structure and physio-mechanical properties. It is extremely hard, very flexible, and may therefore be folded with a relatively small radius of curvature without any risk of breaking, as is the case with known materials. The strand presents hardly any risk of splitting or bursting when pierced transversely with respect to the channels by a pin or a nail which secures it to the underlying frame.

Inventors

• 👤 Karl Rausch

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