Abstract: A device for attaching a retaining plate to a furniture surface which includes a rigid retaining plate which is subject to loads, such as to a moment tending to rotate it about an edge. A flexible anchor plate is secured to the furniture surface by a releasable adhesive. The rigid retaining plate and the flexible anchor plate have an interlocking structure which removably connects them together, specifically projections and recesses, which releasably lock the plates together with the under surface of the rigid retaining plate in substantial engagement with the upper surface of the flexible anchor plate. A moment applied to the retaining plate is resisted by the entire body of adhesive, since the anchor plate is prevented from flexing by the rigid retaining plate. Upon separation of the retaining plate from the anchor plate, the flexible anchor plate may be peeled from the furniture surface.