Abstract
Furniture is a medium of human action. This is particularly true for the dining table: it represents the material place where people build community through eating; it joins the bodies of the diners assembled at it; and it offers an operating room for their activities. In its prototypical use as a meeting place, the dining table further acts as a social piece of furniture. The following study is concerned with the dining table from a spatio-semiotic as well as a culture-historical perspective. The spatial order which humans generate on, at and around the dining table can be read as symbolic expressions and performative elements of societal orders, and that changes in these spatial orders correlate with historical changes in societal orders.
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