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The dining room serves a pretty standard purpose in today’s modern household: a convenient room adjacent to the kitchen for…you guessed it…dining. A few people use their dining room daily, but most just use it for special occasions. Instead of gathering for meals in the dining room, nowadays most dining takes place at a dinette set in a small space inside the kitchen (such as a breakfast nook).

This is a setup that has changed considerably over the centuries....

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We spend so much of our lives looking forward that sometimes it's easy to forget to look back. So today we're going back to school—to history class, that is. You might be surprised by how much dining room furniture has changed over the centuries (both in purpose and style), and particularly by how much the function of dining rooms has changed.

Let's start with the centerpiece of any dining room, new or old: the table. This word was introduced in the 12th century in...

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