True confession—I’ve never owned a lazy Susan, unless you count the single platter mounted on a turntable that my husband used as a Scrabble board base. It quickly became history when it couldn’t hold ...

Lazy Susans first spun onto the scene in an ad in "Vanity Fair" back in 1917, which hailed them as revolving servers that would revolutionize household organization and convenience.

“Lazy Susans are an aspect of the maximalist revival going on right now,” says Matt Heide, the 44-year-old co-founder of the Montreal-based design studio Concrete Cat.

The Lazy Susan helped to solve that problem, and plenty of 18th century examples prove it. In January, a mahogany Lazy Susan — 16 inches in diameter and dated circa 1780 — sold at Christie’s ...