Four high-backed chairs flanked two small coffee tables, as though arranged for a meeting over tea.
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The space is defiantly modest, furnished with nineteen-nineties-era glass coffee tables, unfashionable yellow couches, and family photographs.
And Benjamin Yates makes his unique coffee tables from recycled circuit boards, old VCRs and computer components.
By his count, there are about 5 million of them sitting on coffee tables and in business lobbies.
The familiar semicircle initially used for seating around some sort of open hearth is recreated around coffee tables and entertainment walls even today.
Time Out Chicago magazine, a weekly staple in waiting rooms and coffee tables around the city, is ceasing print operations and going all digital, according to sources.
With no set schedules dictating the order of jobs, one group building coffee tables had to stop work and wait as the other team, making bookshelves, used the router tables they needed.
The independently owned hotel with 197 rooms describes its style as "industrial chic" with furnishings related to its history, such as desks inspired by vintage sewing machines and coffee tables that resemble old factory carts.
His colored glass cubes demonstrate the flexibility of design today: The pieces, reminiscent of children's building blocks, can be mounted on top of each other to make shelves or placed sideways to form coffee tables.
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There's a classic neon McDonald's sign, a scale model of an old Texaco service station where kids can play at fixing a car and a mock-up of an early Holiday Inn, complete with cheesy laminated coffee tables.
Three of the chairs are copies of the 19th-century original, which came from the Villa Farnese, but the sofas, covered in Smith's own fabric, came from the supremely affordable CB2, as did the made-in-Vietnam concrete coffee tables.
"Henri Samuel used '70s furnishings to fill in gaps, things like large coffee tables and lighting accoutrements for our modern lives, " says 20th-century furniture dealer Liz O'Brien, who notes that prices have been slowly rising over the last decade.
The furnishings, though, looked much the same the modern taste of twenty years ago, boxy and stuffed, bare wood and monochrome wool, coffee tables of thick glass on cruciform legs of stainless steel, all mixed with Orientals and family antiques.
They word of mouth spread around the coffee shop tables of each country, to the people who would stand up and change their own lives and the world around them.
Empty coffee cups dot the tables, as does spilled soda.
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When community groups send out appeals for help, convince local merchants to volunteer supplies and staff the tables providing coffee and donuts for the volunteers, we create the social capital which the political scientist Robert Putnam has identified as crucial to healthy societies. (His famous example was that of the choral societies of northern Italy).
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The AARP roadies--senior citizens who roam the country visiting grandchildren--won't be down for another hour, so now it's all hardworking business types sipping coffee at the too-small tables, preparing for another day of work on the road.
The coffee house is furnished with aged sofas, mirrors and waxy tables and is popular among the youth for its eccentric gypsy vibe, great coffee, moist cherry pies and wi-fi.
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They clean tables, carry dirty dishes, refill coffee, replace soiled table linens, etc.
You spend more money on it than other tables, such as bedroom nightstands, the coffee table, the patio table, the workbench in the garage, the desk in your home office and so on.
Walker said the other day as she sipped coffee from a mug at one of her high-top tables.
The typical Viennese coffee house -- an elegant institution with high ceilings, marble-top tables and a stack of newspapers to make one linger over an impeccable black brew with a customary glass of water -- may be more famously known than its Ukrainian cousin, but to trace back the origin of the communal coffee space, you have to go to Lviv, a Medieval city in western Ukraine.
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So far, this appears to be largely a New York phenomenon, though San Francisco's Coffee Bar does now put out signs when the shop is crowded asking laptop users to share tables and make space for other customers.
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The narrow space between the grill counter and rickety tables is a bit dingy, but regulars flock here all day long for breakfast and lunch specials, coffee and burgers, served at a breakneck pace.
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