People have gotten away from cluttering the center of the room.I once saw antique road show value some piece of "mid century modern" butt ugly piece of furniture like that stupidly high.
The reason it was so high is those comically small and useless little legs had broken off most of the guys designs over the years but theirs still had all 4 legs.
Like hey this one is worth a lot of money because it's the only one that hasn't fallen apart yet.