Busacca Gallery

{Price Upon request} Status: Exclusive / Consignment. We Are Art Advisers. Custom sizes and colors available. Easy installation. wood and custom designed metal base table. A truly great looking and comfortable wood and metal networking computer long table. Made from truly gigantic trees, our dining tables can fit entire familys or boardrooms alike. The straight leg design gives a clean simple base and allows the eye to focus on the beauty of the natural wood. Sizes made to seat 6, 8, 10 and up. After the client chooses a slab, we custom fit the base to match the contours of the wood. This is typically of my bases. I'd describe it as a modern, industrial look. I use a blackener, then finish it to have an oil rubbed "antique gun" patina. Also we offer powder coating or satin brushed stainless steel or if there are any other specific requirements, we can most likely handle that too. These options would be upgrades. *All of the art is edited and chosen by us for its high quality and workmanship before posting. These collectibles have been selected with the artist & collector in mind. * We specialize in high end luxury fine art and collectibles from private estates. - Our job is to find and target great art by collecting a vast array of contemporary, vintage, antique and collectible items from across the globe. Individually handcrafted, we breathe new life into these forgotten relics by giving back each piece it's unique story. We welcome dealers, galleries, and private collectors to register securely and buy with us.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(furniture)

Some very early tables were made and used by the Egyptians, and were little more than stone platforms used to keep objects off the floor. They were not used for seating people. Food and drinks were usually put on large plates deposed on a pedestal for eating. The Egyptians made use of various small tables and elevated playing boards. The Chinese also created very early tables in order to pursue the arts of writing and painting. The Greeks and Romans made more frequent use of tables, notably for eating, although Greek tables were pushed under a bed after use. The Greeks invented a piece of furniture very similar to the guéridon. Tables were made of marble or wood and metal (typically bronze or silver alloys), sometimes with richly ornate legs. Later, the larger rectangular tables were made of separate platforms and pillars. The Romans also introduced a large, semicircular table to Italy, the mensa lunata. Furniture during the Middle Ages is not as well known as that of earlier or later periods, and most sources show the types used by the nobility. In the Eastern Roman Empire, tables were made of metal or wood, usually with four feet and frequently linked by x-shaped stretchers. Tables for eating were large and often round or semicircular. A combination of a small round table and a lectern seemed very popular as a writing table. In western Europe, the invasions and internecine wars caused most of the knowledge inherited from the classical era to be lost. As a result of the necessary movability, most tables were simple trestle tables, although small round tables made from joinery reappeared during the 15th century and onward. In the Gothic era, the chest became widespread and was often used as a table. Refectory tables first appeared at least as early as the 17th century, as an advancement of the trestle table; these tables were typically quite long and wide and capable of supporting a sizeable banquet in the great hall or other reception room of a castle.