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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clutteredcloset49, post: 231710, member: 85&quot;]I may very well be wrong, but it has always been my understanding that coffee tables as we know them, low and sit in front of a sofa, did not become popular until after WWII. (Maybe I should qualify, here in the states)</p><p><br /></p><p>I can see an occasional table being called a coffee table in the Victorian era, as they would have needed something to set the tea and coffee service on. However, I do not believe they were the low in front of sofa table as we here in the states would define a coffee table. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a quote from the wiki posted about Coffee tables. And based on it, coffee tables would actually be after WWI not WWII as I stated. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Joseph Aronson writing in 1938 defines a coffee table as a, &quot;Low wide table now used before a sofa or couch. There is no historical precedent...,&quot; suggesting that coffee tables were a late development in the history of furniture. With the increasing availability of television sets from the 1950s on wards coffee tables really came into their own since they are low enough, even with cups and glasses on them, not to obstruct the view of the TV.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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