Round Coffee table, a must have for all coffee lovers

The origin of when and how the existence of a coffee table came about still remains a debate for many years. Dating back from the Middle ages to the Victorian Era the popularity of coffee drinking is said to have spread to the rest of Europe from the Ottoman Empire after the Battle of Vienna in 1683. The design of the round coffee table was derived from the tea table. Tea tables, were used throughout Europe as early as the seventeenth century, were tall, round tables set beside a chair or placed in front of a group seating arrangement. The tea service could be placed on the table and served to family and guests.

The idea of these tables were specifically used for serving hot drinks or putting down one's cup between sips predates the coffee or tea table. In Britain in 1750 tea drinking was at the height of fashion and there was increasing demand for tea tables. There were pillar and claw tripod tea tables with a round top that were later hinged and were taller than present day coffee tables. There were also examples of tea or china tables that were rectangular. Other forms of tables in use at this time which could be placed near to a sofa were called occasional tables, end tables, and centre tables.

In America, the production of coffee tables increased rapidly in the early twentieth century, and the low, rectangular or round table was marketed to the average homeowner.
The president of the Imperial Furniture Company, one J. Stuart Foote, claimed to have invented the modern day coffee table in 1920. His story was he cut down the legs of a table and when he saw the result it occurred to him that it was suitable for placement in front of the sofa and perfect setting down one's coffee. The idiom "Gather round the coffee table" is derived from the furniture piece referring to its its proclivity for encouraging conviviality and light conversation.

So for all of you coffee lovers and enthusiasts out there you can now have an addition to numerous collection inside your home, a small round coffee table.

If your planning to add that perfect piece of elegant furniture to be placed inside your favorite pass time area or any place at all inside or outside your house,
you may visit these sites online at:

• www.coffeetableshowroom.com
• www.furnitureinfashion.net
• www.allcoffeetables.com

For those of you can wait for the next 5 years or so, you might as well be interested to the latest development in coffee tables by Microsoft. It is because of the coffee table, for all its myriad shapes and materials, whose singular purpose of being a surface on which to place things, In short, it is a transient storage. Microsoft may change all that. With its introduction of the touch screen tabletop, the coffee table may become interactive.

The device, called Microsoft Surface, has on its surface a touch screen - where users can group around the table and view photos, play games or catch up on the news.

The Microsoft Surface, as of May 2007, is being used in commercial applications in casinos and hotels throughout the United States.
Microsoft intends to market the device for consumer applications within 3 to 5 years as a touch screen coffee table.

Hmmmmn, an interactive round coffee table... A definite must have.

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