A coffee table is a long, low-table style designed to be placed in front of (or next to) a couch or padded chair to support drinks (hence the name), magazines, books (especially picture coffee table books large), decorative objects, and other small items to use while sitting, like a beverage coaster. In some situations, such as parties, plates can be placed on the table.
Coffee tables are usually found in the living room or sitting room. They are available in various variations and the price varies from style to style. Coffee tables can also include cabinets or drawers for storage. The most common coffee table construction is of wood (although the counterfeit wood tables are increasingly common); metal coffee table, glass and leather are also popular. Typically, stainless steel or aluminum is used for metal coffee tables. The idiom "Gathering the coffee table" comes from the furniture section and its tendency to encourage hospitality and light conversation. The coffee table is considered originally built in the English Renaissance.
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Origins
In Europe, a specially designed first table called a coffee table, apparently made in England in the late Victorian era.
According to the list at Victorian Furniture by R.W. Symonds & amp; BB Whineray and also in Edward T. Joy's Country Life Book of English Furniture, a table designed by EW Godwin in 1868 and made in large quantities by William Watt, and Collinson and Lock, is coffee table. If this is true, it's probably one of the earliest made in Europe. Other sources, however, list only as "tables" so this can be expressed categorically. Far from a low table, this table was about twenty-seven inches tall.
Then the coffee table was designed as a low table and this idea probably came from the Ottoman Empire, based on tables used in tea gardens. However, since the Anglo-Japanese style was very popular in England throughout the 1870s and 1880s and the common low tables in Japan, this seems to be an equally likely source for the concept of long low tables.
From the late 19th century onwards, many coffeehouses were then made in previous styles due to the popularity of revivalism, so it is possible to find a Louis XVI style coffee table or Georgian style coffee table, but there seems to be no evidence of a table actually made as a coffee table before this time. Joseph Aronson's writing in 1938 defines a coffee table as, "Low tables are now used before couches or couches, no historical precedent...," indicating that the coffee table is a final development in furniture history. With the increasing availability of television from the 1950s onwards, the coffee tables actually came into their own because they were quite low, even with glasses and glasses on it, not blocking the view of the TV.
Also, the use of the same table was recorded in the ancient Greek era, following the Roman conquest of North-East Africa.
There is a theory by Koa Stephens, furniture maker and theorist, that the current form and standard dimensions are directly related to the bedouin brass and moroccan tables. Noticing it, "It's probably no coincidence that it's called a coffee table because they're the ones who bring coffee to the western world." The call theory to support the increasing popularity of oriental carpets originating from the same region in the same era with the introduction of coffee table.
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See also
- Nightstand
- Chabudai
References
External links
- Brief History of Coffee Table in Europe
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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