Saturday 22 August 2009

The Coffee Table

With its placement in a central position in your main living space, the coffee table is arguably the single most important piece of furniture you will purchase.
The coffee table, from its probable inception as a 28" high, two tier table, designed by E.W. Godwin in Victorian times, has evolved over the years into the long low table that we recognize today.
Once constructed out of wood, coffee tables are to be found nowadays in a wide variety of forms and materials: from the natural beauty of various hardwoods, to the more modernest examples using stainless steel and polished glass for instance. Their function has
also expanded since those humble origins as a resting place for a cup of coffee. Today, a coffee table is just as likely to incorporate a magazine shelf, or drawers underneath the top, (perhaps for housing D.V.D.s, or the myriad remote controls which exist in a modern household): in effect, becoming a multi-storage unit as well as a table. Less conventionally, there are also examples of coffee tables being used to house anything from a fish tank, to a pin ball machine.
But whether your taste is for a sparse, minimalist, modern design, or a homely, more traditional style, chose your coffee table well: it occupies the pride of place in your household.

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