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The desk, the mainstay of any given office.
Desks started with nothing more than a simple table - a
place to sit, read, write, and conduct business. Soon the
requirement for storage was obvious, and drawers appeared
in the table aprons.
Schools and business clerks were the first
to employ desks in large volume, but almost every home
of means had a desk for the head of household to conduct
his affairs.
The summer of 2007 brought us two more gothic commissions, a dining table and a desk. The dining table was completed and delivered in October of 2007 - the desk is now complete and shown above!
The New Wave Gothic desk above is in solid quarter sawn white oak featuring our classic gothic tracery panels, also known as piercing or fretwork. The table edges feature hand carved rope patterns, with corbels and rosettes finishing the ornamentation.
This desk fits periods for gothic, tudor, renaissance, medieval, jacobean, or in simplified form a mission or heavy farm style trestle table. We design and build these pieces by custom commission, making size requirements, selection of materials, and stain/finish all options to suit your requirements. Each piece is solid with mortis and tenon joints that are both glued and pegged.
Desks, library tables, or other configurations of this piece for use in dining rooms, kitchens, or even as a poker table are available in oak, walnut, cherry, or even mahogany or other materials upon request.
We've been told that our gothic pieces would look their best in English brown oak, and yes we can get that as well by special order.
See our Gothic Tables Gallery for more images and details!
School Masters
Desk
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This custom pine
schoolmasters desk features a slant top, extendable
writing leaf, a main drawer, and various storage
nooks& compartments. An early Stanley piece,
if the black and white photos didn't already give
you the hint!
Far more elegant is, shown below,
a Queen
Anne walnut desk was a project made by Stanley
and one
of his
apprentices,
Bill "Charlie" Troutman.
Desks can be made in any size
and any material, common to Queen Anne are walnut
and mahogany.
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This reproduction of a Duncan Phyfe roll
top desk is almost as rare as the circa 1830 original.
Duncan Phyfe developed the first of the roll top desk
line, consisting of a cloth backed grouping of solid
wood sticks bound against the cloth.
Although it stands
in appearance with simplistic elegance, this desk
is was one of the most complex pieces completed by
Stanley as an example of a Master's work.
Proudly displaying detailed carving
and fluting work on the feet and turned spindle legs
in solid
walnut.
Later enclosed pedestal bases were
developed, leaves were employed to extend writing surfaces
and
leg room
from the new form of compacted storage. Encasements
were developed to secure the entire desk as one locked
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Hand Carved
Poplar Women's Writing Desk
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A simple style, mission/country
combination this flat top poplar desk features a
full size lid to conceal the implements of creative
writing and a solid mortis and tenon construction.
Hand carving ornaments the simple light finished
piece, and a mitered banding on the lid provides
a finishing touch.
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