While any small and low table can be, and is, called a coffee table, the term is applied particularly to the sets of three or four tables made from about 1790; of which the latter were called 'quartetto tables'.
A low table, typically placed in front of a sofa
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (La mariee mise a nu par ses celibataires, meme), most often called The Large Glass, is an artwork by Marcel Duchamp.
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Flower and reflection in coffee table.
The light is coming from a halogen table lamp facing upward from under the coffee table. The table is just a glass, not a mirror surface, so I taped a sheet of white paper to the underside of the glass to hide the lamp.
This photo was taken as something for me to do between me hitting the shutter release on the other camera every minute (I do not have an option to have it automatically do that on the camera).
The object that looks like a camera strap is the end of a piece of tape that was used so that the camera would not shift from shot to shot.
F-18 GLASS COFFEE TABLE
THIS GLASS AND CHROME CONTEMPORARY TABLE EXCELLENT CONDITION IIT'S LARGE 48" X 60" SO BE CAREFUL, IT COULD EAT UP YOUR DANCING SPACE. UNLESS OF COURSE YOU SIT JAPANESE STYLE AND EAT ON IT. (THE SHOES ARE NOT INCLUDED.) THE OBISON RUG IS SHREDDED IN MANY PLACES NOT VISIBLE AND WOULD REQUIRE SOME LOVING REPAIR. CALL ME IF YOU WANT TO GIVE IT A SHOT.