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Article: The Coffee Table; No Sofa Is Complete Without One Or Its Companion Piece, the End Table-Both Inventions of This Century
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 8, 1988
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Consider the coffee table circa 1988. While it is indeed still
used for serving coffee, it probably spends more time as a repository
for books and other reading materials, cigarette boxes, ashtrays,
plants and flowers, candy dishes, accessories and bibelots. It may
even be a showcase for a favorite fan collection or photo album under
glass, or occasionally, the resting place of teen-age feet.
It has become ubiquitous. It is found not only in the home but
in places ranging from the hotel lobby, where it retains some of its
original function, to the dentist's waiting room, where it serves not
only as a magazine rack but as a "gracious barrier," in the words of
John F. Pile, professor of ...