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We are
primarily a higher end consignment
store dealing in
furniture, accessories, artwork, home decor, or just
anything for your home. Any questions about
consignment or inventory please call! |
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Thomasville Furniture,
Ethan Allen,
Henredon Furniture,
Drexel Furniture, and
John Widdicomb to mention a few brand furniture
names. |
A desk is a
furniture form and a class
of table often used in a work or office setting for
reading or writing on or using a computer. Desks often
have one or more drawers to store office supplies and
papers. Unlike a regular table, only one side of a
desk is suitable to sit on, except for some unusual
desks 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, and a
portable desk is light enough to be placed on a
person's lap.
Early desks
Desk-style furniture might have existed in classical
antiquity or in other ancient centers of civilization
in the Middle East or Far East, but there is no
specific proof. Medieval illustrations show the first
pieces of furniture which seem to have been designed
and constructed for reading and writing.
Before the invention of the movable type printing
press in the 15th century, any reader was potentially
a writer or publisher or both, since any book or other
document had to be copied by hand. The desks were
designed with slots and hooks for bookmarks and for
writing implements. Since manuscript volumes were
sometimes large, and heavy, desks of the period
usually had massive structures.
Desks of the Renaissance and later eras had relatively
slimmer structures, and more and more drawers as
woodworking became more precise and cabinet-making
became a distinct trade. It is often possible to find
out if a table or other piece of furniture of those
times was designed to be used as a desk by looking for
a drawer with three small separations (one each for
the ink pot, the blotter and the powder tray) and room
for the pens.
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 complex drawing table or drafting table
of the end of the 18th century.
Industrial era
Refinements to those first desk forms were
considerable through the 19th century, as steam-driven
machinery made cheap wood-based paper possible in the
last periods of the first phase of the industrial
revolution. This produced a boom in the number of, or
some might say the birth of, the white-collar worker.
As these office workers grew in number, desks were
mass-produced for them in large quantities, using
newer, steam-driven woodworking machinery. This was
the first sharp division in desk manufacturing. From
then on, limited quantities of finely crafted desks
have been constructed by master cabinetmakers for the
homes and offices of the rich while the vast majority
of desks were assembled rapidly by unskilled labor,
from components turned out in batches by machine
tools. Thus, age alone does not guarantee that an
antique desk is a masterpiece, since this shift took
place more than a hundred years ago.
More paper and more correspondence drove the need for
more complex desks and more specialized desks, such as
the rolltop desk which was a mass produced, slatted
variant of the classical cylinder desk. It provided a
relatively fast and cheap way to lock up the ever
increasing flow of paper without having to file
everything by the end of the day. Paper documents
started leaving the desk as a "home," with the general
introduction of filing cabinets. Correspondence and
other documents were now too numerous to get enough
attention to be rolled up or folded again, then
summarized and tagged before being pigeonholed in a
small compartment over or under the work surface of
the desk. The famous Wooton desk and others were the
last, monstrous manifestations of the dying
"pigeonhole" era. The new desks can be transformed
into many different shapes and angles, ideal for
artists. DESKS ARE PRETTY
Steel desks
A smaller boom in office work and desk production
occurred at the end of the 19th century and the
beginning of the 20th with the introduction of smaller
and cheaper electrical presses and efficient carbon
papers coupled with the general acceptance of the
typewriter. Steel desks were introduced to take
heavier loads of paper and withstand the pounding
meted out on the typewriters. The L-shaped desk became
popular, with the "leg" being used as an annex for the
typewriter.
Another big boom occurred after the Second World War
with the spread of photocopying. Paperwork drove even
higher the number of desk workers, whose work surface
diminished in size as office rents rose, and the paper
itself was moved more and more directly to filing
cabinets or sent to records management centers, or
transformed into microfilm, or both. Modular desks
seating several co-workers close by became common.
Even executive or management desks became
mass-produced, built of cheap plywood or fiberboard
covered with wood veneer, as the number of persons
managing the white collar workers became even greater.
Student desks
A student desk can be any desk form meant for use by a
student. Usually the term designates a small pedestal
desk or writing table constructed for use by a
teenager or a pre-teen in his or her room at home.
More often than not it is a pedestal desk, with only
one of the two pedestals and about two thirds of the
desk surface. Such desks are sometimes called left
pedestal desks or right pedestal desks depending on
the position of the single pedestal. The height of the
desk is usually a bit lower than is the case for
normal adult desks. In some cases, the desk is
connected from the seat to the table. The table is
also used for sitting before classes.
The desks are usually mass produced in steel or wood
and sold on the consumer market. In addition there is
a wide variety of plans available for woodworking
enthusiasts. There are many novel forms of student
desks made to maximize the relatively restricted area
available in a child's room. One of the most common is
the bunk bed desk, also known as a loft bed.
Impact of computers
Until the late 1980s desks remained a place for
paperwork and business negotiation. Mainframe
computers were relegated to a special "computer room"
and human workers were guests in this space. Furniture
largely separated these two entities except in data
entry departments. Many manager-level workers if they
did have a computer had a small computer desk unit in
the corner of their office.
At the end of this decade though the personal computer
was taking hold in large and medium sized businesses.
New office suites included a "knee hole" credenza
which was a place for a terminal or personal computer
and keyboard tray. Soon new office designs also
included "U-shape" suites which added a bridge
worksurface between the back credenza and front desk.
During the North American recession of the early
1990s, many manager and executive workers had to do
word processing and other functions previously
completed by typing pools and secretaries. This
necessitated a more central placement of the computer
on these "U-shape" suite desk systems.
With computers abounding, "computer paper" became an
office staple. The beginning of this paper boom gave
birth to the dream of the "paperless office", in which
all information would appear on computer monitors.
However, the ease of printing personal documents and
the lack of comfort with reading text on computer
monitors led to a great deal of document printing. The
need for paperwork space vied with the rising desk
space taken up by computer monitors, CPUs, printers,
scanners, and other peripherals. As well, the need for
more space led some desk companies to attach some
items to the modesty panel at the back of the desk,
such as multi-outlets and cabling.
Through the "tech boom" of the 1990s, office worker
numbers skyrocketed along with the cost of office
space rent. The cubicle desk became widely accepted in
North America as an economical way of putting more
desk workers in the same space without actually
shrinking the size of their working surfaces. The
cubicle walls have become new place for workers to
affix papers and other items once left on the
horizontal desktop surface. Even computer monitor
frames themselves are used to attach reminder notes
and business cards.
Early in the 2000s, private office workers found that
their side and back computer-placing furniture made it
hard to show the contents of a computer screen to
guests or co-workers. Manufacturers have responded to
this issue by creating "Forward Facing" desks where
computer monitors are placed on the front of the
"U-shape" workstation. This forward computer monitor
placement promotes a clearer sight-line to greet
colleagues, increases computer screen privacy and
allows for common viewing of information displayed on
a screen. |
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