It's also my entry to the Cronkwright Woodshop coffee table build off. Thanks to my wife for her awesome mosaic work. This is my first attempt at animation. Let me know what you think of the video ...

Overhead view of the ancient Roman mosaic New Yorker Helen Fioratti unknowingly converted into a coffee table. Emperor Caligula, one of the most despised Roman rulers, was known for his violence ...

No, they hadn’t seen it on Craiglist, thinking, “Wow, that marbled mosaic coffee table would look fantastic in the law library.” The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office was helping ...

Art dealer Helen Fioratti and her husband, Nereo, purchased the mosaic from an aristocratic Italian family in the 1960s and used it as a coffee table in their Manhattan apartment for some 45 years.

Once the Fiorattis brought the mosaic home to their Park Avenue apartment, they affixed it to a base to turn it into a coffee table. "It was an innocent purchase," Fioratti told the Times in 2017.

bought the mosaic from an Italian noble family in the 1960s. When it arrived in New York, the couple turned it into a coffee table. “It was an innocent purchase,” Fioratti told the Times.

A 2,000-year-old Roman artifact has been recovered after being used as a coffee table in a Manhattan apartment for nearly 50 years. The priceless Roman mosaic dates back to the time of emperor ...

A New York City couple unknowingly used a mosaic commissioned by Caligula as a coffee table for 45 years. The mosaic had disappeared from Italy in 1944 when the Nazis withdrew from the country.

It is not clear how the mosaic came to the attention of the authorities. In her interview with NBC News, Helen Fioratti speculated that Italian police may have seen a photo of the coffee table ...