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Conversation pit

A conversation pit is an architectural feature that incorporates built-in seating into a depressed section of flooring within a larger room.

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The conversation pit was popular from the 1950s to the 1970s, seen across Europe as well as North America. Modernist architects Eero Saarinen and Alexander Girard used a conversation pit as the centerpiece of the influential Miller House (1958) in Columbus, Indiana, one of the earliest widely publicized applications of the concept. A red conversation pit (since covered, but recently restored) was later incorporated by Saarinen into the 1962 TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

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It’s that thing everyone fills in when they buy a house from the 1970’s.

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that’s a fuck-pit

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If you use it enough it fills up

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That’s how you get out

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My initial reaction as well; there’s no way these aren’t some of the raunchiest places on earth

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I think they’re cool

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these are cool but split-levels aren’t

constantly tripping trying to carry anything across the house

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Dry jacuzzi

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