
While some of us might not use our coffee tables for coffee alone, or at all, the coffee table has always been used as gathering settings. The long, low, rectangular tables we know now as coffee tables were born around the 17th century in Turkey's Ottoman Empire. Architecture of the region in that period was largely community-based; Turkish mosques, schools, and hospitals were all openly designed to accommodate those who communed within.
Coffee tables make sense, then, from this origin. While they were once used outdoors in tea gardens, they now serve as excellent congregation points inside our modern homes. Use your coffee table in front of a sofa to support everyday morning coffee or weekend dinner drinks with your friends and family, as well as that collection of photographs, candy dishes, and intriguing coffee table books.
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