Article of furniture having changeable decorative surface

Claim 1

An article of furniture having an exposed changeable decorative surface arrangement, the arrangement comprising: a plurality of tiles, at least some of which carry decorative matter on their exposed surfaces, retaining means carried by the edges of each tile, the retaining means of each tile being cooperable with the retaining means of other tiles to maintain the tiles in engagement with one another while permitting relative sliding movement between the tiles in the plane of the decorative surface, a frame fixed to the furniture, all the tiles being located within the frame, retaining means carried by the frame and cooperable with the retaining means carried by the edges of the tiles for maintaining at least some of the tiles, at any one time, in engagement with the frame while permitting sliding movement of those tiles with respect to the frame, the frame and tiles being so relatively sized that there is space available within the frame for accommodating at least one tile more than the number of tiles within the frame, whereby the tiles can be shifted with respect to each other, without leaving the confines of the frame, so as to change the decorative appearance of the surface arrangement, a filler tile devoid of the retaining means for occupying said available space, and means for securing the filler tile to the article of furniture so that the filler tile can be readily moved out of the plane of the decorative surface to establish said available space.