pedestal desk

In form, a writing table is a pedestal desk without the pedestals, having legs instead to hold it up.

A Russian pedestal desk has its own built-in chair.

Very few non-specialists call this form a pedestal desk.

Sir Henry sat behind his rather ugly kidney-shaped pedestal desk.

A mid Georgian pedestal desk is against the North wall.

Pushing the top drawer of the pedestal desk back into place and turning the small aluminum key in the lock.

These gentlemen were usually senior bank officials who wished to work together while keeping the convenience and the prestige of a pedestal desk.

The pedestal desk is also one of the two principal forms of the big campaign desk, used by the military in the past.

The pedestal desk was of gleaming mahogany with brass edging, a nineteenth-century antique.

He was close to one end of a pedestal desk, an arm outstretched with the hand hidden beneath the pedestal.

A table desk, or a pedestal desk?

Unlike the pedestal desk however these precursors had an incomplete stack of drawers and compartments holding up the two ends.

Usually the term designates a small pedestal desk or writing table constructed for use by a teenager or a pre-teen in their room at home.

Makarygin used an antique pedestal desk.

Pedestal desks made of steel sheet metal were introduced in 1946 and were popular in America until the 1970s.

It often is a pedestal desk, with only one of the two pedestals and about two thirds of the desk surface.

The smaller and older pedestal desks with such a panel are sometimes called kneehole desks, and were usually placed against a wall.

Tony Skarpellos from behind an immense Pedestal desk, its base formed from redwood burl.

The shiny personal computer stood on a leather-topped pedestal desk between two glass-fronted bookcases with cupboards below and scrolled pediments above.

Corporations and government bureaucracies typically shun the armoire desk, preferring pedestal desks and cubicles in most instances.

The drawing table used to be a frequent companion to a pedestal desk in a gentleman's study or private library, during the preindustrial and early industrial era.

The tapestry print upholstery on the two chairs across from the pedestal desk and the landscape lithographs all reflected the refined taste of Jennifer Davies.

Both prototypes require considerable work to be adapted to what most managers or professionals consider a "real" desk, that is a pedestal desk, located in a closed office.

A Regency mahogany pedestal desk from around 1805, with gilt-bronze lion mask handles, should bring somewhere between $25,000 and $41,700 by Sotheby's estimate.

The catalogue reports, for example, that lot 47, a George III mahogany pedestal desk ($17,000-$24,000), was purchased at Christie's in 1990.