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'.
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Fire: Living Room
Standing in the kitchen looking back to the living room is our couch that got melted along the back. Some of our frames fell down onto the couch exposing the once white wall.
Miraculously the coffee table was untouched, getting only a bit of soot. This was VERY NICE as all of my library books regarding my thesis were down there. The trash bag was full of garbage or possibly clothes.
Beyond the couch is our plastic Christmas tree. Near the window is our cat tree that is now melted. Kim made that by herself. We were going to keep it and re-carpet it as that was all that was wrong with it, as we were promised a cat tree from a friend. I don't know what happened with that offer but we don't have a cat tree and I'm not going to ask.
I need a bigger coffee table
...it has become a catch-all for random stuff that really needs to be put away properly.