show us pics of your desk

[Ceramicist]

I think it's part of something bigger too; my guess is a dressing table. Perhaps this, and another opposite, were placed either side of the central mirror.

Do you think so? Alone, I love its charms but as part of a dressing table, I imagine I might have overlooked it. It seems as if it would be too hulking, especially with another one.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a215/Fruffles/Art%20Photography/desk01_zps084c82fa.png

 

Took this about a fortnight ago, to serve as the cover of a magazine I'm working on. My desk, at home.

I love the composition!

[sotto2]

The thing I like most about that little desk/box is the word "escritoire". I never heard that before. Kind of like abattoir but without all the mess, and lots more elegant. I do a lot of antiquing, and I will never just call them "portable writing desks" again. Thanks!

[sexauerw]

I have a Black X docking station for connecting internal hard drives externally. I like yours with the built in fan better. Where did you get it?

I got it on Amazon.com, it's made by StarTech.com. Model number SATDOCKU3SEF.

[Tasmith]

I got it on Amazon.com, it's made by StarTech.com. Model number SATDOCKU3SEF.

Thank you!

[Ceramicist]

The thing I like most about that little desk/box is the word "escritoire". I never heard that before. Kind of like abattoir but without all the mess, and lots more elegant. I do a lot of antiquing, and I will never just call them "portable writing desks" again. Thanks!

I love etymology and escritoire originated from the medieval Latin scriptorium.

[sotto2]

I love etymology and escritoire originated from the medieval Latin scriptorium.

 

Well, I can add escritoire to the increasingly long list of words that I never ran across despite taking 4 years of French.

 

Look what I ran across on Sunday at a flea market. I didn't buy it, but I shot some pix for you.

 

http://i61.tinypic.com/k3b2ix.jpg

 

 

http://i59.tinypic.com/n1xr2b.jpg

 

 

http://i59.tinypic.com/5c0cvt.jpg

Edited April 23, 2014 by sotto2

[Ceramicist]

Oh my gosh! That so reminds me of mine! Wow! Thanks so much for sharing!

 

Well, I can add escritoire to the increasingly long list of words that I never ran across despite taking 4 years of French.

 

Look what I ran across on Sunday at a flea market. I didn't buy it, but I shot some pix for you.

 

http://i61.tinypic.com/k3b2ix.jpg

 

 

http://i59.tinypic.com/n1xr2b.jpg

 

 

http://i59.tinypic.com/5c0cvt.jpg

Edited April 23, 2014 by betweenthelens

[sotto2]

Actually, I bet I saw 15-20 escritoires, including a very old leather one that was ornate and complex with a small (possibly ivory) label that indicated it was made by a company in London. It was large enough to be categorized more as a writing chest than just a portable desk. It had many compartments, including one that held an inkwell with a lid and a brass catch. The lid had a rubber stopper built-in to cover the uncapped ink bottle. This inkwell box was marked "Ink", and there was another small box like it in the other corner of the writing surface that was empty, but curiously it was labeled "Light". The lid of the chest lifted to display a rack with a bunch of slots for writing materials and which exposed a leather writing surface, and under the writing surface was another large compartment that held a fairly thick sheaf of large blotter pages. The top layer of blotter was covered with old style flex pen ink marks from possibly decades of blotting. It almost looked like something that Arthur Conan Doyle might have used in preparing his Sherlock Holmes manuscripts.

 

It was $150, and I didn't buy it. I had other frish to fy.

Edited April 23, 2014 by sotto2

[Ceramicist]

You're kidding. Where do you live? Must be nice to have such a selection. The one you've described sounds heavenly. I think I might have made an offer.

 

Actually, I bet I saw 15-20 escritoires, including a very old leather one that was ornate and complex with a small (possibly ivory) label that indicated it was made by a company in London. It was large enough to be categorized more as a writing chest than just a portable desk. It had many compartments, including one that held an inkwell with a lid and a brass catch. The lid had a rubber stopper built-in to cover the uncapped ink bottle. This inkwell box was marked "Ink", and there was another small box like it in the other corner of the writing surface that was empty, but curiously it was labeled "Light". The lid of the chest lifted to display a rack with a bunch of slots for writing materials and which exposed a leather writing surface, and under the writing surface was another large compartment that held a fairly thick sheaf of large blotter pages. The top layer of blotter was covered with old style flex pen ink marks from possibly decades of blotting. It almost looked like something that Arthur Conan Doyle might have used in preparing his Sherlock Holmes manuscripts.

 

It was $150, and I didn't buy it. I had other frish to fy.

[sotto2]

 

You're kidding. Where do you live? Must be nice to have such a selection. The one you've described sounds heavenly. I think I might have made an offer.

SoCal. Big flea markets here, depending.

[Ceramicist]

 

 

SoCal. Big flea markets here, depending.

I love it out there. Growing up, I spent most summers there with my cousin.

[sotto2]

Well, it's hard to beat this area for flea markets. There are a lot of collectors of pen stuff, though.

 

I spent most summers trying to get away from my cousins.

[Ceramicist]

Well, it's hard to beat this area for flea markets. There are a lot of collectors of pen stuff, though.

 

I spent most summers trying to get away from my cousins.

Summers in CA were the best, especially for two pre-teens who were given the freedom to go anywhere and do anything. We'd spend entire days on Toes Beach. We'd take the bus and get a Suzy-Q cake and an orange soda for the day's breakfast and lunch (Makes me gag to think of this and I wonder how we survived on this.) When we were a bit older, our parents would leave us and take a trip somewhere so we'd have some crazy parties at my cousin's. Again, I wonder how I survived some of this. One of my fondest memories is a bunch of us dining at the now probably defunct Rock n Roll Sushi in Manhattan Beach. Such great memories and I'm still very close to my cousin.

[sotto2]

Very cool. Manhattan Beach is the shiznits. You can walk from Hawthorne all the way to the ocean on the heads of all the techies that live down there now without your feet ever touching the ground.

 

When I was a kid in Iowa, we firmly believed that if you were Born Again, went to Sunday School, morning and evening church services, prayer meeting mid-week, and never did anything wrong to anybody, that when you died you'd go to Pasadena.

 

That is not a joke.

Edited April 24, 2014 by sotto2

[Ceramicist]

Very cool. Manhattan Beach is the shiznits. You can walk from Hawthorne all the way to the ocean on the heads of all the techies that live down there now without your feet ever touching the ground.

 

When I was a kid in Iowa, we firmly believed that if you were Born Again, went to Sunday School, morning and evening church services, prayer meeting mid-week, and never did anything wrong to anybody, that when you died you'd go to Pasadena.

 

That is not a joke.

You are seriously funny! Thanks for the !

[USMCMom]

Oh, my stars ... Beak, that is one beautiful desk!!!

Edited May 10, 2014 by USMCMom

[Tasmith]

New desk arrived today - going to be fun rearranging things to suit it. Glorious Australian silky oak throughout. Not yet restored - that's for next weekend!

http://i.imgur.com/lvUXQi9.jpg

My granfather built a small desk back in the 60s made of "special wood from Australia". Never knew what exact species, but now I do! It is very beautiful wood.

[Pelikan Vera]

Beak that is a very cool piece. I love the hidden compartment for the typewriter.

[CowboyBlue]

Now THAT is cool.

[Polyhistor]

OMG, I wish I had a desk like that! It looks great.