Trestle table

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Construction and uses

Trestle tables figure prominently in the traditional Americana style of household furnishings, usually accompanied by spindle-backed chairs. The trestles in this case are normally of much higher quality, often made of oak and braced with a stretcher beam using a keyed tenon through the centre of each trestle. These typically support a high-quality waxed oak tabletop.

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The decorator's trestle table is acknowledged as the basis of the pseudonym adopted by Robert Tressell, a decorator-turned-author, for his novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, published in 1910. oak tv console

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Table (furniture)

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References

^ Webster's Third New International Dictionary

^ Britannica.com/Table

^ "The Dictionary of Art", Jane Turner, Grove 1996 p.217

^ Gordon Campbell, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts Vol 2, Oxford University Press US (2006) p411

^ http://www.shaker.net/html/trestle.html Examples of modern trestle table and chairs

^ http://www.oldandsold.com/articles03/hf1.shtml Americana-style trestle table

External links

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Historical reference at Bartleby/Columbia Encyclopedia

Photos of a trestle table broken down into individual components at RL Goins

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