show us pics of your desk

[Parkerfan1]

My great-grandfather's desk, now mine, complete with built in inkwell just above the Triomphe pad. It's a spinet style, so it folds shut like an old-fashioned piano. The base where the paper is sitting pulls out to give a deeper writing surface.

 

 

What a wonderful thing to have! Very nice.

[pavoni]

Well this is a picture of my desk in my home office, which is far prettier than the one in my works office.

 

It is a 'A.Cutler & Son' desk from the Desk Factory in Buffalo, New York, made in 1901. Not sure how it got to Cheshire in England but I loved it on first sight. The chair is around 1898.

 

 

On the left is a 1920s Bankers Lamp and on the right is my renovated telephone 1934 bakerlite 232 pyramid model (imagine, no caller ID, no ring back, no speed dial, no touch dial....fabulous

 

Pens are kept in this superb case. The calendar on the top is circa 1910

 

 

All-in-all I find it a pleasing place to write (or escape to!)

 

Pavoni.

[USMCMom]

Beautiful desk and I LOVE the phone!!!

[pavoni]

Beautiful desk and I LOVE the phone!!!

 

Thank you. I love listening to this particular phone ringing. My view is that if someone really needed me when I was at home, they would call me on my mobile.

 

Pavoni.

[Cookie Addict]

For my wife's birthday last year, we went and perused jewelry stores, had lunch and coffee downtown, window shopped for a new Persian/Morrocan carpet, and eventually wandering into our favorite antique market… Damn! I bought another desk. In my defense though, this is the coolest desk I have ever touched!! No, really. It is a solid wood 1960 build of a English/Swedish cabinet desk – a modern interpretation of a Moore or Wooten folding wing desk. It unfolds and slides like an Optimus Prime Transformer! The minute I saw it, I felt all funny inside.

 

Now, to get my little bride to agree to this purchase, I had to promise to sell the Federalist secretary ('80s copy) and a 5-drawer quarter-sawn oak dresser that was in my office, but it was SOOO worth it. Additionally, when I went back a couple of days later to pick up the desk, I also brought home an additional 2’ section of library card catalog that completed my catalog cabinet - the book press pictured is now on top on the catalog. Sorry, the pictures were all snapped with my cell at the shop when I first got it and then at home recently. They do not do my desk any justice at all.

[pavoni]

Wow! Cookie Addict, that is a fantastic find :clap1: Congratulations indeed.

 

Pavoni.

[raging.dragon]

Cookie Addict, that's a great desk!

[Cookie Addict]

Thank you! I look forward to sitting at it SO much more than my cube at work....

[raging.dragon]

Thank you! I look forward to sitting at it SO much more than my cube at work....

 

Is there any chance you could work from home?

[Carrie]

It's been a while since I dipped into this topic. Some very beautiful desks out there. Plus I can't get over USMCMom's ink shelves.

My desk was posted way back when I first moved to the Island. It's done three house moves since then and is now in its permanent home - the house we bought in November and are currently in the process of doing up. Whenever we're finished and decorated I'll have to post updated photos of my desk.

[skoorbleumas]

This is my home desk (I have two others at work!).

 

[Cookie Addict]

Thank you! I look forward to sitting at it SO much more than my cube at work....

 

Is there any chance you could work from home?

 

Not a chance. While I could do 40-70% of what I do from home in my robe and PJs, it is completely against company policy.

[raging.dragon]

Thank you! I look forward to sitting at it SO much more than my cube at work....

 

Is there any chance you could work from home?

 

Not a chance. While I could do 40-70% of what I do from home in my robe and PJs, it is completely against company policy.

 

[Saintpaulia]

OK. Here's my desk, at least part of it. There is a secretary table that meets it at a right angle, as can be seen off left. I don't keep much of my stuff on the desk: I have two drawers for that. And I hate clutter.

 

You can see my Rosetta 4-pen leather case in front of the lamp and printer and my Sheaffer Student next to it. The printer has as a "dust cover" a tea towel map of western Scotland.

Edited August 12, 2012 by Saintpaulia

[pavoni]

Yours looks like a good place to write Saintpaulia. Love the look of that 4-pen Rosetta case (I don't know this brand but it looks very much like a vintage 4-pen vintage Montblanc case I have).

 

Thanks for sharing your space.

 

Pavoni.

[Mill_Burray]

My two desks at home couldn't be any more different from each other.

 

Writing/Drawing

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7122/7731143878_b568a50f45_z.jpg

 

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8425/7731141580_2c8b16da0c_z.jpg

 

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8292/7731142790_273e933ec0_z.jpg

 

Music/Design

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8167/7132937979_221f35b0c0_z.jpg

 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7200/7132937827_7c4df48da8_z.jpg

Edited August 13, 2012 by Mill_Burray

[pavoni]

Gosh Mill_Burray, the term 'creative' certainly springs to mind upon seeing your desks (I note you are also into photography!). Thank you for sharing.

 

Pavoni.

[Mill_Burray]

Thanks Pavoni. Yes, I am into photography as well. That takes up a whole other corner of my house.

Edited August 14, 2012 by Mill_Burray

[pen2paper]

Great desk, and work space for a small area!

waterbrush in the case? mind if I inquire which one?

edited to add, Thanks +++ for the DC photos!

Edited August 14, 2012 by pen2paper

[Mill_Burray]

Great desk, and work space for a small area!

waterbrush in the case? mind if I inquire which one?

edited to add, Thanks +++ for the DC photos!

 

Thanks! I wish my other desk was as space efficient.

That's a Pentel Aquash - Large in the case. I usually keep two around. I fill one with diluted black ink and the other with water for use with my Derwent Inktense pencils. You may also like the Kuretake No. 13. It looks nicer and takes a converter.

Glad to share the photos!