Oval Office Coffee Table (seating cluster)

Low coffee table located in the Oval Office seating cluster used during informal presidential meetings; appears in Season 1 Episode 3 and is associated with casual conversations rather than formal work or briefings.

2 appearances

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When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S1E3 · A Proportional Response

Charlie Supplies the Phoenix Context

The low oval coffee table is the locus of scattered papers and the object a steward is ordered to search under; it embodies the mess — literal and informational — that staff must sift through to find clues like glasses or mislaid briefs.

Before: Strewn with loose memos, a working draft fragment, and small evidentiary items; hands have been riffling through it.

After: A steward is sent to look under its papers; it remains the physical site of the search and the immediate disorder.

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S1E3 · A Proportional Response

Leo Reclaims Control: Quietly Redirecting the President

The low oval coffee table is invoked as the precise spot in the President's study where papers (possibly the phoenix briefing) might hide his missing glasses; a steward is sent to look under its papers, making it a focal point for the small domestic search amid national crisis.

Before: Occupied with scattered papers and briefing materials in the President's private study.

After: Targeted for a search by a steward; remains the likely physical locus for the missing glasses.

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