Furniture construction

A furniture piece comprising (a) a first plurality of units, each first plurality unit being of uniform thickness and having parallel side faces with at least one shaped edge surface, the composite of a portion of said edge surfaces defining at least one functional surface of said furniture piece when the units of said first plurality are positioned in a predetermined spaced face-to-face arrangement, (b) a plurality of discrete spacer means, (c) a second plurality of units of a configuration distinct from the units of said first plurality, each unit of said second plurality being disposed in said predetermined arrangement in face-to-face relationship with at least one unit of said first plurality transverse to the functional surface defined by said first plurality, said second plurality of units bearing at least a portion of the load of said first plurality of units, at least one of said spacers or a unit of said second plurality being disposed between the opposed faces of adjacent units of said first plurality and spacing said units of said first plurality from one another in said spaced arrangement, the units of each of said first and second plurality and said spacing means being provided with openings which are registered in said predetermined arrangement, and (d) interconnecting means operable to pass through said openings to maintain the units of said first and second plurality and said spacer means in said spaced arrangement.