Did you know that the original purpose of those tables was not to do with eating at all? Instead, they served to arrange Chinese characters into movable kinds for printing. Lazy Susan’s origins can be ...

Round table with Lazy Susan and Chinese dishes - RosyNPooh/Shutterstock Sometimes topped with a Lazy Susan, the circular tables in Chinese restaurants epitomize cultural dining etiquette, social ...

Legend–er, “history”–has it that Thomas Jefferson designed the first Lazy Susan when his daughter complained about being served last. But dumbwaiters, as they were originally called, only really ...

In the 1950s, the "early American" look was popular for small homes across the country. New houses were built with a kitchen with a breakfast nook or a pass-through to a breakfast room. The long walk ...

In the 1950s, the “early American” look was popular for homes across the country. Kitchens in new houses had a breakfast nook or a pass-through to a breakfast room. The long walk to a formal dining ...

This design for a lazy susan utilizes skateboard trucks as the mechanism behind the rotation of the glass tabletop. It’s clever, but at $1800 I’m thinking DIY project here. [Future Perfect via Boing ...