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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While some call it a cocktail table, the coffee table is the more established name for the low, long furniture piece set before the sofa to provide easy access to hot and cold drinks. Modern coffee tables have come to be the resting place for more than just coffee, however, with coasters, magazines, plants and perhaps most famously coffee table books finding their place atop a coffee table. These contemporary coffee tables have also begun to incorporate storage through small cabinets or drawers.
You’ll find coffee tables everywhere from the living room, family room or sitting room to the recreation room or home entertainment center.
While furniture trends come and go, the coffee table doesn’t ever seem to go out of style. Whether because it provides the perfect complement to the living room sofa or because it represents versatile and practical function, you’ll always find a way to fit a coffee table into your home.
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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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Considering lift top coffee tables? For most people this will be a great idea. Let me explain why.
As simple as the basic coffee table may be in concept, you can actually find a wide variety of styles and functions fulfilled by different modern coffee tables. They’ve evolved to provide a great number of functions and features.
The most inventive and practical of them all, however, may likely be a lift top coffee table. Lift top coffee tables provide flexible functionality along with elegant looks. If you hope to fully utilize the room in which you place your new coffee table, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more convenient and versatile piece of furniture than the lift top coffee table.
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Glass Coffee Tables were once a luxury reserved for the wealthy. As furniture manufacturing has evolved, however, this furniture of clear elegance has become affordable, popular and much more diverse.
The beauty of glass coffee tables is that they manage to be functional and practical while also conveying a sense of class and refinement. The sparkling, shapely glass instantly enhances the panache of your decór, yet most glass coffee tables also provide flexible functionality with durable, easy-to-clean maintenance.
When considering a glass coffee table for your home, remember that your home’s appearance reflects the attitude and sensibility of your family and your life. How you choose to furnish your humble (or not so humble) abode can shape the way guests feel during their visits with you.
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