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2. Nest of tables - Wikipedia

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   Nest of tables (also known as nested tables, nesting tables) is a set of few tables with progressively smaller heights and frames, so that they can be stacked when not in use. [1] A smaller table slides inside the frame of a larger one until it engages the edge of the back frame. [2] Typically a set contains three (trio) or four (quartetto ...

3. Coffee table - Wikipedia

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   Later coffee tables were designed as low tables, and this idea may have come from the Ottoman Empire, based on the tables in use in tea gardens. As the Anglo-Japanese style was popular in Britain throughout the 1870s and 1880s, [ 5 ] and low tables were common in Japan , this seems to be an equally likely source for the concept of a long low table.

4. Zarf - Wikipedia

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   Collection of Ottoman era Turkish coffee zarfs, c. 18th or 19th century. Although coffee was probably discovered in Ethiopia, it was in Turkey around the 13th century that it became popular as a beverage. As with the serving of tea in China and Japan, the serving of coffee in Turkey was a complex, ritualized process.

5. Ottoman (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   Over the subsequent generation, the ottoman became a common piece of bedroom furniture. European ottomans standardized on a smaller size than the traditional Turkish ottoman, and in the 19th century they took on a circular or octagonal shape. The seat was divided in the center by arms or by a central, padded column that might hold a plant or ...

6. Ottoman coffeehouse - Wikipedia

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   The Ottoman coffeehouse (Ottoman Turkish: قهوه‌خانه, romanized: kahvehane), or Ottoman café, was a distinctive part of the culture of the Ottoman Empire. These coffeehouses , started in the mid-sixteenth century, brought together citizens across society for educational, social, and political activity as well as general information ...

7. Early Ottoman architecture - Wikipedia

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   Early Ottoman architecture corresponds to the period of Ottoman architecture roughly up to the 15th century. [1] [2] This article covers the history of Ottoman architecture up to the end of Bayezid II's reign (r. 1447–1512), prior to the advent of what is generally considered "classical" Ottoman architecture in the 16th century.