TONY BERLANT takes TV trays, cookie tins, wastebaskets, signs and other objects made of metal, cuts them apart and affixes the resulting strips and curves to flat surfaces or to wood “houses ...

Then I’d click together three spindly black-and-gold metal TV tray tables, and we’d eat our pies while watching “Gilligan’s Island” or “The Addams Family.” Fast-forward to today.

But on those special days, my mother would bring out my bowl of Jell-O or stack of Saltines on one of a quartet of old metal TV trays we kept in the broom closet. And it was magic. There’s been ...

‘CHIC’ TV TABLE is not an oxymoron—a good thing ... for $4,800. More-affordable metal vintage tray tables sold by Etsy vendor Our Vintage Bungalow ($295 for a set of 4) are more likely ...

Schools in Needham have cut down on their food waste by replacing their old cafeteria lunch trays with reusable metal ones.

TV tables were widely introduced in 1952, and a year later the Swanson corporation came out with the first frozen TV dinner, which nested neatly within the raised metal rim and even divided the ...

‘CHIC’ TV TABLE is not an oxymoron—a good thing ... for $4,800. More-affordable metal vintage tray tables sold by Etsy vendor Our Vintage Bungalow ($295 for a set of 4) are more likely ...