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2. Noguchi table - Wikipedia

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   The Noguchi table was an evolution of a rosewood and glass table Noguchi designed in 1939 for A. Conger Goodyear, president of the Museum of Modern Art. [1] The design team at Herman Miller was so impressed by the table's use of biomorphism that they recruited Noguchi to design a similar table with a freeform sculptural base and biomorphic glass top for use in both residential and office ...

3. Dining room - Wikipedia

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   In modern American and Canadian homes, the dining room is typically adjacent to the living room, being increasingly used only for formal dining with guests or on special occasions. For informal daily meals, most medium size houses and larger will have a space adjacent to the kitchen where table and chairs can be placed, larger spaces are often ...

4. Cellarette - Wikipedia

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   Another type was a permanent piece of furniture built on a stand with a sliding shelf to hold glasses and a drawer for serving paraphernalia. [3] They could be free standing or built into a "pedestal-end" dining room buffet serving sideboard. Normally a cellarette had a hinged door or hinged top cover.

5. Table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   Roman dining table: mensa lunata Large 17th-century English folding tables Some very early tables were made and used by the Ancient Egyptians [ 4 ] around 2500 BC, using wood and alabaster . [ 5 ] They were often little more than stone platforms used to keep objects off the floor, though a few examples of wooden tables have been found in tombs.

6. Modern furniture - Wikipedia

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   In 1963 Robin Day designed the Polyprop chair for the British furniture design house Hille. Made of moulded polypropylene, the Polyprop sold in millions and became the world's best-selling chair. Today it is regarded as a modern design classic, and has been celebrated by Royal Mail with a commemorative postage stamp. [12] [13]

7. List of chairs - Wikipedia

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   Dining chair, designed to be used at a dining table; typically, dining chairs are part of a dining set, where the chairs and table feature similar or complementary designs. The oldest known depiction of dining chairs is a seventh-century BCE bas-relief of an Assyrian king and queen on very high chairs. [20]