Unreferenced date November 2009 A campaigndesk is an antique desk of normal size which was used by officers and their staffs in rear areas during a military campaign . The campaigndesk was usually the private property of the officer, as was his uniform and other military implements. It was in general handcrafted by a master cabinet maker according to the officer s wishes or following traditions for such desks. The desk forms varied greatly, but nearly all had as a common trait several features which made it easy to transport them from one campaign posting to another. For instance, a campaigndesk version of a traditional pedestal desk form would have strong but removable fittings making it easy to break up the desk in three pieces two pedestals and one desktop surface. Each piece would have brass or iron handles mounted on it to facilitate handling. Campaigndesk variations of the antique writing table seem to have been rather frequent. This form was usually in one piece, with strong handles and two pairs of folding legs. A smaller version of such a transportable writing table could be considered to be more a field desk than a campaigndesk, since it could be moved frequently from one battlefield s rear area to another s as the war went on. Any campaigndesk is in a sense also a portable desk . See also List of desk forms and types DEFAULTSORT CampaignDesk Category Desks ... more details
No footnotes date December 2010 cleanup date December 2010 File Writing desk.jpg thumb A writing desk A desk is a furniture form and a class of table furniture table often used in a work or office setting ... side of a desk is suitable to sit on though there are some exceptions, such as a partners desk . Not all desks have the form of a table. For instance, an armoire desk is a desk built within a large wardrobe like cabinet furniture cabinet , and a portable desk is light enough to be placed on a person s lap. Since many people lean on a desk while using it, a desk must be sturdy. Early desks File Yokeback ... editing desk of the 12th century Metropolitan Museum of Art Desk style furniture appears not to have ... or other piece of furniture of those times was designed to be used as a desk by looking for a drawer ... tray and room for the pen s. The desk forms we are familiar with in this beginning of the millennium were born mostly in the 17th and 18th centuries. The ergonomic desk of the last decades is the newest addition to a long list of desk forms, but in a way it is only a refinement of the mechanically ... left thumb An untidy desk. Refinements to those first desk forms were considerable through the 19th ... machinery. This was the first sharp division in desk manufacturing. From then on, limited quantities ... turned out in batches by machine tools . Thus, age alone does not guarantee that an antique desk ... desk which was a mass produced, slatted variant of the classical cylinder desk . It provided a relatively ... by the end of the day. Paper documents started leaving the desk as a home, with the general introduction ... compartment over or under the work surface of the desk. The famous Wooton desk and others ... different shapes and angles and were ideal for artists. Steel desks A small boom in office work and desk ... and withstand the pounding meted out on the typewriters. The L shaped desk became popular, with the leg ... with the spread of photocopying . Paperwork drove even higher the number of desk workers, whose work ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 A Desk on a chest is an antique Portable desk made up of two chests, the bottom one usually having drawers and the top one having a hinged desk surface which also serves as a side mounted lid. A Vargueno or Bargueno desk is a specific form of the Desk on a chest when it is mounted on a chest of drawers called a Taquillon . The Desk on a chest was popular during the Renaissance and to some extent during the Middle Ages , in much of Europe . It was also used by officers as a form of Campaigndesk during much of the 18th and 19th centuries. When the top and bottom chests are permanently attached or built as one piece there is a desk form called a Fall front desk . It is supposed that the Fall front desk form gradually evolved from the Desk on a chest towards the end of the Renaissance. See also the list of desk forms and types . DEFAULTSORT Desk On Chest Category Desks ... more details
a right pedestal desk or a left pedestal desk, depending on the position of the pedestal. This kind of form is common for a student desk . The pedestal desk is also one of the two principal forms of the big campaigndesk , used by the military in days gone by. It can then be considered a portable ...Image Pedestal desk sketch.png thumb A pedestal desk A pedestal desk is usually a large free standing desk made of a simple rectangular working surface resting on two Column pedestals or small cabinet ... called a panel desk . The smaller and older pedestal desks with such a panel are sometimes ... desk has often had a top that is inlaid with a large panel of leather sometimes with a gold or blind stamped border or baize for a writing surface, within a cross banded border. If the desk ... this form a pedestal desk. Most people usually refer to it as an executive desk, in contrast with the cubicle desk which is assigned to those who work under the executive. However, the term executive desk has been applied to so many desk forms as to be misleading, so the less used but more precise pedestal desk has been retained here. The pedestal desk appeared, especially in England , in the 18th century but became popular in the 19th and the 20th, overtaking the variants of the secretary desk ... plat flat desk , which might have a matching paper case cartonnier that stood upon it. There were at least two precursors to the pedestal desk The French Bureau Mazarin a desk named for Cardinal Mazarin of the late 17th century and the China Chinese Jumu desk or scholar s desk, which Europe ans ... desk however these precursors had an incomplete stack of drawers and compartments holding up the two ... desk is doubled in size to form a nearly square working surface, and drawers are put on both sides to accommodate two users at the same time, it becomes a partners desk . Thomas Chippendale gives ... and Cabinet Maker s Director 1753&ndash 4 and 1762 . When the pedestal desk form is cut ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 A field desk is a portable desk which is meant to be used in rear areas near a battlefield and moved around rather frequently in difficult conditions. It is in contrast to the campaigndesk , which is usually heavier and meant for areas further in the rear. The field desk is both an antique and a modern desk form. The antique form is usually made of fine woods and brass fittings. The smaller versions can often be confused with the civilian writing slope . This is quite understandable, because during the 18th and 19th centuries they were often used interchangeably. There is a wide variety of antique field desks, ranging from small suitcase sized ones to fairly big chests, like the one general Stonewall Jackson Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson used during the American Civil War in the United States . Until recently, General Jackson s desk was exhibited in the museum of the Virginia Military Institute VMI . At one point, VMI gave a licence to a furniture manufacturer to produce copies of the desk, available on the web. The modern form of the field desk is made of resistant plastic composites and steel or aluminium . It is built to NATO standards or to the standards of national armies. There are several variants, but the most common one is a nearly cubic chest whose lid is removed to expose internal drawers and then reattached on the side to serve as a desktop. See also list of desk forms and types . DEFAULTSORT Field Desk Category Desks ... more details
File John Couch Adams 2.jpeg thumb Mathematician John Couch Adams sitting at a Davenport desk Nofootnotes date January 2009 A Davenport desk is a small desk with an inclined lifting desktop attached with hinges to the back of the body. Lifting the desktop accesses a large compartment with storage space for paper and other writing implements, and smaller spaces in the forms of small drawers and pigeonholes. The Davenport has drawers on one of its sides, which are sometimes concealed by a panel. This stack of side drawers holds up the back of the desk and most of its weight. The front of the desk stands on thick legs or pillars which are often highly carved, somewhat exaggerated, thick cabriole legs, but these are not essential. 19th century Davenport desks had a variety of different leg designs. ref http www.darwincountry.org explore 005193.html?sid fb Davenport desk belonging to the Shrewsbury Museums Service ref The desk shape is distinctive its top part resembles an antique school desk while the bottom is like one half of the supports of a pedestal desk turned sideways. The addition of the two legs in front completes the odd effect. This desk owes its name to a Captain Davenport who was the first to commission the design, from Waring & Gillow of Lancaster, near the end of the 18th century. In a sense then it could also be considered a Campaigndesk though there are no records indicating if Captain Davenport was in the British Army or the Royal Navy . This desk form was popular during the 19th century. There have been numerous reproductions during the 20th century, and amateur cabinetmakers sometimes consider a Davenport to be an interesting project. The Davenport desk should not be confused with the Davenport sofa Davenport sofa , which is usually a modern combination sofa and bed or an antique form of upholstered sofa based on a design conceived at the beginning of the 20th century by a Boston company called Irving and Casson and Davenport. See also List of desk forms ... more details
campaign. These were usually known as the Campaigndesk and the Field desk . Ubiquity kills off ...unreferenced date January 2008 The portable desk has not one but many forms. In a sense, the portable desk is a long lost ancestor of the portable computer , and the modern laptop could be considered an atavistic grandchild of the 19th century Lap desk . Medieval and renaissance portables It seems that all desks were portable to some extent, from medieval times to the end of the Renaissance, with the exception of built in tables and inclined ranks of desks found in places such as the scriptorium or library of a monastery . This was due to the itinerant nature of medieval kingship and the similar conditions that prevailed in lesser administrations under dukes or counts. There was rarely a single capital for a kingdom, and the monarch and his or her court would travel periodically between several seats of power during the year, taking precious goods and quite a lot of furniture with them. A good example of this is Henry VIII s writing desk . The traditional French words for furniture le mobilier ... men or of being made of pieces that could be knocked down for transport. The Trestle desk was a common ... forms The rather large Bargueno desk or Vargueno, a chest desk from 16th century Spain, and the relatively .... The lap desk appeared sometime in the 17th century and became a stylish accessory for traveling gentlemen. Like the Bible box, the lap desk was usually small enough to be carried on a horse or by a gentleman ... and clean pocket fountain pen and the pencil , a gentleman did not need to include a lap desk in his ..., making the portable desk obsolete in maritime environments. Survival of a few portables The only modern survivors of all the antique forms of the portable desk are the bed variants of the lap desk and a series of standardized forms following NATO specifications or others of the field desk. See also the list of desk forms and types . Category Desks ... more details
The Campaign means different things The Campaign was the title of a poem by Joseph Addison . The Campaign album The Campaign album , an album by Into the Moat See also Political campaign , an organized effort toward specific political goals. Military campaign , a connected series of battles and maneuvers that support them. Advertising campaign , a series of advertisements sharing a common element or theme. Role playing campaign and campaign setting , a connected series of battles, adventures or scenarios played by the same characters in a role playing game. disambig ... more details
Campaign may refer to Advertising campaign Military campaign Political campaign Advocacy or Advocacy group , relating campaigning on an issue British English Publishing Campaign magazine , a British magazine serving the advertising industry Gaming Campaign role playing games and campaign setting , a connected series of battles, adventures or scenarios played by the same character in a role playing game. A common name for the story mode of a computer strategy game Campaign video game , 1992 computer game by Empire Software disambig wiktionary de Kampagne eo Kampanjo fa fr Campagne homonymie hr Kampanja it Campagna disambigua nl Campagne ja uz Kampaniya pl Campagne pt Campanha simple Campaign sr sv Kampanj ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date October 2009 A Desk and bench can be an antique or a modern form of desk combined with a small bench or a stool made in exactly the same style and material. The desk is usually not very big and meant to be placed against a wall, in a little room or a hallway. Because of this intended venue and its small size it is in a sense a cousin to the telephone desk . In form it is in general a smaller brother of the writing table . The term Desk and bench is also sometimes used to describe a school desk which has a built in seat. A Desk and bench set is also sometimes called a Desk and stool . The desk is usually built with a single drawer or none, and the bench can sometimes have a small storage space under its seat. Great attention is usually paid to the aesthetics of the set in order to enhance the matching features. Since the stool or bench has no back it is put away completely under the desk when not in use, maximizing even more the available space. See also List of desk forms and types . DEFAULTSORT Desk And Bench Category Desks ... more details
A Moore Desk is not one but two large antique desk forms. The Moore Office Queen is a massive desk, made for a sitting user. From the outside it looks, when closed, much like its competitor, the Wooton desk but it differs from it in several ways. For one, it has but a single large door to lock up the main work surface and the drawers and nooks around it, while the Wooton has two. More importantly the manufacturer liked to boast about it the main work surface slides in and out of the main body of the desk so that work can be stopped and the desk closed without having to put away everything, as is the case for the Wooton desk. The Moore Office Queen was patented in 1878 in Indiana in the United States by the Moore Combination Desk Company. The Office Queen has a modern descendant called the Armoire desk . The Moore Insurance Desk is nearly twice as big as the Office Queen and combines a Standing desk and a normal sitting desk in a single piece of furniture. It was patented in 1882. Like the Office Queen it opens up by means of a single large door, and its internal work surface slides in and out. But it also has an external work surface to accommodate a standing user, on the other side of the desk. The standing user employs the roof of the desk of the sitting user as his or her work surface. Moore combination desks were produced in standard, extra, and superior grades. Standard grade combination desks were 110 to 185. Extra grade desks were 40 to 50 more expensive. Superior were more expensive. ref http www.officemuseum.com desks.htm ref In her Smithsonian monography on the Wooton desk, Betty Lawson Walters notes the relative importance of the Moore desk as a competitor to the famous Wooton desk, and traces its origin and destiny. References Walters, Betty Lawson, The King of Desks Wooton s Patent Secretary , Smithsonian Studies in History and technology 3, Washington Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969. references See also desk forms and types furniture Category Desks ... more details
Sports Desk may refer to Sports Desk Philippine TV program , a sports program shown on Solar Sports Scotsport , a Scottish sports television program shown on STV. See also SportsDesk disambig ... more details
desk available, while others would have their employees sit on boxes and work on desks made ... trestle desk improvisations. These activities popularised the trestle desk as a desk form, and some ... of a frugal company culture. In the United States , a desk or a table set on X shaped trestles is sometimes called a sawbuck table. See also the list of desk forms and types . References Gloag, John. A Complete ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 File Credenza desk.jpg thumb A credenza desk A credenza desk often simply, credenza is a modern desk form usually placed next to a wall as a secondary work surface to that of another desk, such as a pedestal desk , in a typical executive office. When used as an active work surface, the credenza desk is often placed against the wall immediately behind or perpendicular to the main desk, but close enough that the user can reach it from the seated position at the main desk by simply swiveling and wheeling their office chair over to it. When its planned use is to be less frequent, such as holding books or files which are not regularly referenced, or to act as an extra surface to help facilitate larger meetings, credenza desks are often placed on a wall in some other location of the office, such as adjacent to a conference table if one is present. Many conference rooms which have meeting tables but not desks will also have a credenza desk against one wall. The credenza desk is sometimes flat, like a pedestal desk, but more often than not it has a stack of shelves, small drawers and other nooks, above its main working surface. The sum of these overhead amenities is usually called a hutch. Hence, the credenza desk is often called a credenza with hutch . The credenza desk is often used as a computer desk , thus leaving the possibility of keeping the surface of the main desk completely free, when this is required. An executive desk is often the central artifact for a meeting between several persons. A Computer display computer monitor or a printer .... The credenza desk is comparable in form to but differs from the armoire desk in that it is seen for the most part in large office building s instead of home office s, like the armoire desk and most ... set which can include pieces such as a primary desk, a conference table, a cabinet for a whiteboard ... environment. See also Credenza List of desk forms and types DEFAULTSORT Credenza Desk Category ... more details
thumb Computer desk Image Spectrum Evolution Computer Furniture.jpg thumb 300px Computer Furniture ... computer desk The ergonomic desk and related computer desk are furniture pieces designed to comfortably ... , peripherals and cabling for office and home office users. Ergonomic desk The ergonomic desk is a modern desk form which, like the adjustable drawing table or drafting table, offers mechanical ... desk is usually a stand alone piece of furniture allowing access to the adjustment mechanisms ... sit down desk or a less common standing desk , which allows the user to work while standing. The ergonomic desk is usually a close companion to the ergonomic chair . The ergonomic desk originated ... minimal requirements for furniture used by office workers referred to ergonomic desk standards. Computer desk The most common form of the computer desk is a variant of the ergonomic desk, which has ... components together. The typical armoire desk provides space for a computer keyboard keyboard ... speaker s. Cubicle desk designs for business and government workplaces include a range of shelves, trays ... panel at the back of the desk, to create a neater appearance. There are a great variety of computer desk shapes and forms. Large multi student computer desks configured in rows are designed ... and vandalism reduction. Small rolling lectern desk s or computer carts with tiny desktops provide ... and require some RTA furniture self assembly . The computer itself is normally separate from the desk ... are built within a desk made specially for them, like the British i desk . Various proposals for the Office ... chair table configuration offers mobility and improved access in situations where a desk is not convenient ... Durfee, Charles. Build a Computer Desk. Fine Woodworking . No. 164. July August 2003. pp. 42 49. Lauziere, Stephen. A Laptop Computer desk Doubles as a Side Table. Fine Woodworking . No. 133. July ... 149 See also list of desk forms and types DEFAULTSORT Computer Desk Category Desks Category Ergonomics ... more details
File Tambour Desk.JPG thumb right 220px Sheraton style d tambour desk, inlaid with an Bald Eagle American eagle , ca. 1810 1820 A tambour desk is a desk with desktop based drawer s and pigeonhole s, in a way resembling bureau gradin . The small drawers and nooks are covered, when required, by reeded or slatted shutters, tambours , which usually retract in the two sides, left and right. It is a flatter and sideways version of the rolltop desk . Unlike the rolltop desk , the tambour desk uses straight, perfectly vertical rows of shutters, and the work surface rests on a few drawers, which in turn are supported by short legs instead of pedestals. In addition, half of the desktop folds back on itself when not in use. The desktop is supported by sliders, like a secretary desk or a slant top desk when it is unfolded. The tambour desk is an antique form indigenous to the United States United States of America and should not be confused with the United Kingdom British tambour writing table . See also List of desk forms and types . References Gloag, John. A Complete Dictionary of Furniture. Woodstock, N.Y. Overlook Press, 1991. Category Desks Category History of furniture ... more details
Image Resolute desk.jpg thumb right Model of the Resolute desk in the recreated Oval Office at the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum . A partners desk is an antique desk form which is basically two pedestal desk s constructed from the start as one large desk joined at the front, for two users working while facing each other. The spelling of the term is irregular, with partner s desk and partners desk being common variants. This massive piece of furniture was first conceived in the United Kingdom to accommodate the work of bank ing partners. These gentlemen were usually senior bank officials who wished to do teamwork while keeping the convenience and the prestige of a pedestal desk. It was an adaptation of the earlier and sometimes more massive library desk , found in the library libraries of the mansion s of the gentry and the nobility . Most partners desks made in the 19th century were built of high quality wood s such as oak , mahogany or walnut and finished with tooled leather inserts on top and brass fittings all around. Many reproductions have been made in the 20th century. This type of desk is also known as a double desk . See also List of desk forms and types Resolute Desk , a specific partners desk used by US presidents References cite book last Gloag first John coauthors and Clive Edwards year 1991 title A Complete Dictionary of Furniture edition rev. ed. publisher Overlook Press location Woodstock, N.Y. isbn 0 87951 414 0 Category Desks fr Partners desk ... more details
Image Rolltop desk.JPG thumb 250px Typical rolltop desk A rolltop desk is a 19th century reworking of the pedestal desk with, in addition, a series of stacked compartments, shelves, drawers and nooks in front of the user, much like the bureau gradin or the Carlton House desk . In contrast to these the compartments and the desktop surface of a rolltop desk can be covered by means of a tambour consisting of linked wooden slats that roll or slide through slots in the raised sides of the desk. In that, it is a descendant in function, and partly in form, of the cylinder desk of the 18th century. It is a relative of the tambour desk whose slats retract horizontally rather than vertically. Image Rolltopdesksideinjpeg20031124.png thumb left 250px Unlike the cylinder desk, the rolltop desk could be mass produced rather easily since the simple wooden slats could be turned out very fast in a uniform way. In contrast, the wooden section of a cylinder had to be treated with great pains to keep its form perfectly over time, lest it warp or bend, and make it impossible to retract or extend. The wooden slats of the rolltop s tambour were usually joined together by being all attached to a cloth or leather foundation, and were thus less influenced by the problems which plagued the cylinder desk. The rolltop desk was the mainstay of the small or medium sized office at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. It gradually fell out of favor with the introduction of the steel desk ... expensive especially if the wood used is expensive. File Rolltop desk sketch.jpg thumb left 250px Because it was produced in vast numbers and at varying levels of quality, the rolltop desk is popular ... His Girl Friday with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell . See also the list of desk forms and types . References Baumert, Kenneth. Building a rolltop desk Interlocking slats form an all wood tambour. Fine .... Woodstock, N.Y. Overlook Press, 1991. External links http roll top desk.net Roll Top Desk Guide Category ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 A Plantation desk is an antique desk form. It is thought to have been originally used as a mail desk by postmen. The form is known to have been used on Southern plantations in the United States , but it is not limited to them. For some time communities of Shakers in New England built a large version of this form of desk. It was quite popular in the 19th century. Basically, the Plantation desk is a Fall front desk with a deeper stand or bottom part. The extra space or ledge of the bottom part of the desk serves as a support for the fall front, thus eliminating the need for retractable supports. Like a normal fall front desk the work surface must be cleared of all materials in order to raise it in a vertical position and thus close off the small drawers and pigeonholes set in front of the user. While the fall front desk was developed by placing a chest on its side, on a stand made for it, to its exact dimensions as is the case with the Bargueno desk , the plantation desk form was devised by placing such a chest on its side, on a table a bit too deep for it. The fall front usually settles at a slight angle once it is open, in order to give a slanted work surface to the user. Some plantation desks have two panel doors instead of a fall front and the ledge is hence much deeper since it serves as the main desktop surface. See also the list of desk forms and types . DEFAULTSORT Plantation Desk Category Desks ... more details
An armoire desk is a writing table built within a large cabinet, usually 1.5 2.0 m 5 7 feet high. The cabinet is closed by two to four full height doors, to keep out dust or to give a tidy appearance to a room by hiding the cluttered working surface of the desk. This form of desk is usually placed against a wall, like its Antiques antique uncle, the secretary desk . Image Armoiredeskfront.png right Image Armoire deskside.png right Small or home offices also known as Small Office, Home Office SOHO are the usual habitat of the modern armoire desk. Corporations and government bureaucracies typically shun the armoire desk, preferring pedestal desk s and cubicle s in most instances. The closest ancestor, in form, of the armoire desk, is the Moore desk . The armoire desk is often called a computer armoire desk , or a computer desk , since it is used in our times to house a computer and its peripherals. Holes are provided to connect the peripherals located in several nooks above or below the main work surface. Often, the work surface or surfaces, such as a writing area or a computer keyboard tray are adjustable to provide an ergonomically sound working environment. Some armoire desks have .... This kind of armoire desk is a direct descendant of the antique rolltop desk which was common ... of armoire desk is a morphological descendant of the famous Wooton desk by its size and by the necessity ..., given the trouble involved. The fall front desk or secr taire abattant , and the slant top desk are also related. Unlike all of these earlier relations, however, the modern armoire desk usually ... of an armoire desk which comes with this article shows a fairly large version with four folding .... Since most armoire desk are modern forms, the writing surface here is placed at 30 inches 76 cm from the floor. In antique desk forms it would have been 29 inches 73.5 cm from the floor. See also list of desk forms and types . References Staples catalog on line and on paper Office Furniture ... more details
The desk on a frame or desk on frame is usually an antique form made up of two pieces of furniture. The first piece is a fairly large and closable portable desk with a slanted hinged top giving access to the writing surface and utility nooks and small drawers. The second piece is a stand made for it in the same style and material. It is also sometimes a single piece of furniture which looks as if it were made up of the two previous pieces but is in fact solid and undetachable. This form was popular in Colonial America and was often done in the Queen Anne style . The slant top desk is a direct morphological descendant. In a sense the Spanish Bargueno desk Bargueno or Vargueno desk is a distant cousin of the two piece version, since the Bargueno is also made up of a portable desk and a stand constructed specially for it, using the same materials and style. See also the list of desk forms and types . References Aronson, Joseph. The Encyclopedia of Furniture. 3rd edition. New York Crown Publishers Inc., 1965. Boyce, Charles. Dictionary of Furniture. 2nd ed. New York Roundtable Press Book, 2001. Moser,Thomas. Measured Shop Drawings for American Furniture. New York Sterling Publlishing Inc., 1985. Sack, Albert. Fine Points of Furniture Early American. New York Crown Publishers, 1950. Category Desks furniture stub ... more details
Multiple issues confusing September 2008 orphan February 2009 unreferenced September 2008 A desk pad or blotter is a Table furniture table protector used when table work such as painting or eating damages the table. Different desk pads have specific uses for example, Chinese calligraphy uses a black velour desk pad since Chinese calligraphy is written using an ink brush. Westerners use simpler Writing pad s, while less expensive carton desk pads are used as promotional items, providing a calendar that comes with promotional information. A desk pad is typically a paper based product used for writing, note taking and scribbling. Typically a desk pad is either A3 in size 420 x 297mm or A2 in size 594 x 420mm . Desk pads are very popular promotional products, usually branded with a logo, contact information and product or service information. Many also include a calendar. Desk pads are usually glued at the foot bottom of the pad to prevent the paper from curling. Many are glued to a grey backboard. They can contain anything from 10 to 100 sheets although 50 sheets is standard. See also Writing pad Category Tables furniture de Schreibunterlage ... more details
Image Wooton rockefeller desk.jpg right thumb Wooton Rockefeller desk The Wooton desk is a variation of the Fall front desk . It is the embodiment in the field of desk design and construction of the phenomenon of conspicuous consumption which swept over moneyed society in the United States at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, and was described by Thorstein Veblen in his book The Theory of the Leisure Class . History An Indianapolis, Indiana entrepreneur who was later to become ... a company in 1870. Production continued until about 1884. The Wooton desk is their better known secretary desk the Wooton desk company also produced a so called rotary desk, which is in fact a pedestal desk whose pedestals have segments which turn on themselves to expose more drawers and nooks. The Wooton desk was introduced at the end of the 19th century, at a time when office work was changing ... the Wooton desk was obsolete just as it was born and its biggest selling point was probably snob appeal in owning a complex desk with so many divisions and an abundance of ornaments. Wooton desks in good ... desk had more divisions, but they were of a very utilitarian different style, and were often produced by the very families or communities which used them, such as the Shakers . The armoire desk is the closest modern relative to the Wooton desk in its size and form. But the armoire desk is even ... more practical piece of furniture. The Wooton secretary desk usually rests on a four legged quadruped support equipped with casters. The main body of the desk is filled with a dozen or several dozens ... a abattant or in a Fall front desk the main working surface or desktop is hinged and lifted completely from the horizontal to the vertical in order to lock up the desk, forcing the user to gather up and store ... hinged panels which are themselves as deep as the desk and are like it filled with small drawers and nooks of all sizes. See also List of desk forms and types References Boyce, Charles, Dictionary ... more details
The telephone desk is the smallest kind of fixed desk . Its traditional role is to provide a working surface barely large enough to write notes while speaking on the telephone , and in some cases to support the telephone or hold telephone books. In early generations of telephones the phone apparatus itself had a small desk built in. This was most common in wall mounted telephones of the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The illustrations show front and side views of such an antique wall phone with a small slanted desk surface fitted with two ridges to keep paper and pencil from falling to the floor. File Antique telephone desk.jpg Image Telephonedeskjpegside.png The telephone desk has usually been a domestic piece of furniture. In an office a telephone would normally be placed on any form of desk, as close as possible to its users. In the last fifty years of the 20th century a domestic telephone desk would usually be placed next to a phone located in an entryway or a small lobby. With the widespread use of the cellular telephone and the portable phone, which permit complete liberty of movement and make note taking possible on any table or desk in a home, the telephone desk is rapidly becoming an antique form. In the past any telephone booth or call box used to have a tiny built in desk surface for the convenience of customers. An increase in vandalism and a higher concern for costs has led to the gradual elimination of these minuscule desk surfaces. See also the list of desk forms and types . References Mr Chips 101 plans. Page 158 wall telephone office . http www.officemuseum.com communications equipment.htm Early office museum. http www.telephoneart.com antique page 14.htm Telephone History Category Desks Category Telephony equipment ... more details
A spinet desk is an antique desk form which has the exterior shape of a slightly higher than usual writing table , fitted with a single drawer under the whole length of the flat top surface. The spinet desk is so named because when closed it resembles a spinet , a musical instrument of the harpsichord family. This single drawer, however, is a dummy. It is a hinged panel which is meant to be folded in, at the same time as half of the hinged top surface is folded back on to the top of the other half, revealing an inner desktop surface of normal height, with small drawers and pigeonholes in the back. In certain spinet desks the inner desktop surface can be drawn out a few inches, adding working space. Image Spinetdeskfrontinjpeg20040131B.png thumbnail right 700pix Front of spinet desk, closed Image Spinetdesksideinjpeg20040131B.png thumbnail right 700pix Side of spinet desk, partly open The image of the front of the spinet desk shows it in a closed position while the image of the side shows it in a partly open position, just before the hinged mobile part of the top is placed on the fixed part of the top. By this capacity of hiding or revealing the main working area the spinet desk could be said to be a smaller, less obtrusive cousin of the rolltop desk and the cylinder desk . Like them, and unlike the secretary desk or the fall front desk , it can be closed up without disturbing too much the paperwork and various documents and implements left on the main desktop surface. See also List of desk forms and types . References Monteith, Edward R. Tables designed to lead dual lives. Fine Woodworking. Volume 93. March April 1992 pp. 70 71 Category Desks Category History of furniture ... more details
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