GLASS-TOPPED TABLES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 789, 9 October 1929, Page 14

GLASS-TOPPED TABLES

GAINING IN POPULARITY The glass-topped table is generally j connected with either the surgery or j • the bathroom. That it can be used ' | successfully for less restricted pur- , poses can be seen in a number of ex--5 ceedingly ornamental tables of glass and metal combined. The glass top may be plain, in which case it is made of very thick, j transparent glass, cut so that the j green tone shows. As a rule, it is | rectangular, but may be round or oval, and sometimes it is made to fold. The metals with which it is j combined are either iron or aluminium. ■ It is the form of these which prevents • the table from looking merely j hygienic. [ The aluminium supports are all i cubist in design, this metal having | been monopolised by the new art. j Generally they consist of rectangular I pieces of the material put together to form a cross or an X. Cubism dislikes table-legs in the ordinary sense, and j where the two crossed sheets of | metal are not used there is a central pillar of aluminium upon which the glass rests. Sometimes the glass edge is fitted with aluminium, but more often it is left to show the green colour. Very pleasing iron supports are made to glass tables. Here the glass is used rather like marble, in thick slabs, generally oblong in shape. Wrought iron in its natural, steely tone then forms the supports. The metal is twisted into all sorts of designs, a general pattern being a little like a lyre upon a stand. One of these is used at each end of the table. Sometimes the iron is picked out with gold, with which its grey tone goes admirably. Glass tables are very freely used in smokerooms and libraries for after-dinner coffee or drinks or similar purposes.