While I want my Coffee Table Guide site to provide real practical advice, I also want to blend in some more interesting commentary on the art of furniture-making and some greater appreciation for these simple little coffee tables we place before our sofas.
A favorite coffee table designer of mine is George Nakashima. George Nakashima was a Japanese American Architect, Woodworker and Furniture designers who pioneered 20th century furniture design as the father of the American craft movement. His work infused an organic primal energy with a clean, Asian aesthetic which grows more and more appealing with each passing year.
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Just because a square coffee table is so stylistically flexible doesn’t mean you can avoid careful consideration of how it will fit with your existing décor. A contemporary glass square coffee table will look odd and awkward in an ornately traditional living room and a richly detailed Victorian square coffee table will look startling and wrong in an environment filled with minimalist designs or a modern Asian theme.
This may sound obvious, but you might find yourself startled to learn how often people don’t consider the way the texture and design of a piece matches the rest of the room. They just develop a crush on a particular square coffee table then force it into whatever environment they own, often creating an accidental eyesore right in the middle of a heavily used space.
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