Kidney Coffee Tables...

Looking for kidney coffee tables?

The vintage look is coming back not only in fashion, but also in home interior and exterior design and furniture.

One furniture piece that will definitely enhance the vintage look is a kidney shaped coffee table.

First making its appearance in the '50s during the era of the Eames brothers, who popularized the merging of high artistic design with functionability, the kidney bean coffee table is bound to be not only an attractive centerpiece in your retro-inspired living room, but will also be practical for everyday use.

You know how you're walking through your living room or den and you mindlessly bump your leg or knee against the corner of your rectangular coffee table.

Now isn't that always such a pain, literally and figuratively?

Kidney shaped coffee tables have smooth edges and won't hurt, even if its strange shape gets in your way.

So, why a kidney shaped table? Why not a round or oval table?

Round tables are nice, but coffee tables are usually made long so that they can service all the people sitting around it.

This means not only on those seated on the long sofa, but also on the side armchairs you would naturally set up beside it.

Or even if there's just one of you, you don't have to strategically sit at a particular spot just to put your coffee cup down easily.

Oval tables may accomodate this problem, but doesn't have the same surface area that has made kidney bean coffee tables so popular.

Kidney shaped coffee tables are usually made of solid teak slabs or birch plywood, although there are a lot of new furniture companies producing glass kidney tops.

These are often found on three detachable metal or wooden legs.

The legs of the kidney bean coffee tables of the 50s used to come as separate parts and had to be screwed in.

Most of today's kidney coffee tables follow this tradition, with easier assembly.