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What is the point of nesting tables?
Nesting tables are great space-saving solutions for small spaces. They allow you to save space without having to give up the comfort of having a lot of furniture. By opting for nesting tables you basically save a lot of floor space.
Do nesting tables come apart?
Nesting Tables Are the Easiest Way to Add a Layered Look to Your Living Room. You can group the tables together to create a layered coffee table, or you can break them apart and use some of the pieces as end tables.
What is a nesting coffee table?
If you don’t know what a nesting coffee table is, it is a table with two extra smaller coffee tables beneath it. When guests are around or when it’s the holiday season, the smaller tables can be pulled out from underneath to serve as additional table space!
Who was the first person to make a Nesting Table?
In the annals of furniture, nesting tables are fairly new. The British cabinetmaker Thomas Sheraton is credited with publishing the first drawings (a group of four spindly-legged tables labeled Quartetto) in his book “The Cabinet Dictionary,” published in 1803.
When did Josef Albers make the Nesting Table?
Legs with flat outer sides are needed to move the tables in and out of their stacks. My own nesting tables were designed in the late 1920s by the German artist Josef Albers, when he taught at the Bauhaus. They are shiny, colorful rectangles on thin oaken legs.
Who was the designer of the Bauhaus Nesting Table?
Albers wasn’t the only one making nesting tables at the Bauhaus. At about the same time, Marcel Breuer, his friend and fellow instructor, came up with a set in tubular steel with a similar color scheme. The tables fit the school’s populist ethos and the needs of a society that, like ours, had begun to relish small living.
Why do we need a nesting table in our living room?
What is more, nesting tables liberate the space in front of a sofa, where a coffee table would otherwise squat, allowing legs to stretch and blood to circulate. We have evolved to function at many different levels: lounging, typing ergonomically, chopping vegetables, tending houseplants, tending bar. Latitudinally speaking, we want it all.