Furniture Choices: Trestle Tables
Thanksgiving is fast approaching, which makes me think of the gorgeous antique table at my parents' house, passed down from my grandmother. While it's lovely to look at, all of us who are seated down the sides have to awkwardly straddle table legs and make sure our wine glasses aren't placed on the crevice where the leaf was inserted. A superior table for dining dates back to the Roman Empire, where it was usually made out of marble: The Trestle Table. The materials and the styles have changed, but the big idea behind them has endured. Let's take a look at today's trestle tables.
The trestle table is comprised of two trestles, usually with a horizontal bar spanning from one to the other. Here it is in its simplest and most familiar form: The picnic table.
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