Desks

Writing · Console desks

A desk is two things joined: a working plane and a base that carries it. The base is built in layers and polished until the layers read as a single reflective mass, or drawn in one continuous curve. Worktops are African zebrawood, eco-board painted by hand, or a lacquer plane that curves down at both ends.

Writing desks run to 2.8 metres and want 700–750mm of depth against a wall. The dressing table is made as two pieces — a desk and a separate asymmetric mirror intended to be hung off-centre — because a mirror fixed to the desk locks the room's layout in place. Depth and length are open to change; the way the base is built is not.

Made to order in one workshop, 8–14 weeks, plus 6–9 weeks in transit.

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