Setting the Table is an illustrated reflection by architects Florencia Köncke and Paula Olea Fonti. In the following paragraphs, the authors develop a first approach to the study of the table as "the centre of our notion of domesticity"(1). In the relationship between space, objects and people and as a social catalyst for gathering and exchange.
In the medieval house, the table could be dismantled and rested on trestles. This gave rise to the terms table-laying and table-clearing. The table was in constant use and different functions were performed on it by changing the furniture as needed. "There was no dining table, only a table that was used for preparing food, eating, counting money and, if necessary, for sleeping"(2).
