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2. Resolute desk - Wikipedia

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   32.5 in (83 cm) Width. 72 in (180 cm) Depth. 48 in (120 cm) The Resolute desk, also known as the Hayes desk, is a nineteenth-century partners desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the eight most recent presidents. The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford ...

3. List of Oval Office desks - Wikipedia

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   90 by 53.5 inches (229 by 136 cm) [4] This desk was created in 1903 for then President Theodore Roosevelt. It was first used in the Oval Office by William Howard Taft and remained there until the West Wing fire in 1929. It remained in storage until 1945 when Harry S. Truman placed it in the modern Oval Office.

4. Tambour desk - Wikipedia

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   Tambour desk (Boston, 1793-1798) by John Seymour and Thomas Seymour with the tabletop folded up, handles of supporting sliders visible on the sides of the top drawer Pigeonholes behind the left shutters. A tambour desk is a desk with desktop-based drawers and pigeonholes, in a way resembling bureau à gradin.

5. Davenport desk - Wikipedia

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   Davenport desks of the 19th century had a variety of different leg designs. The desk shape is distinctive; its top part resembles an antique school desk while the bottom is like one of the two drawer-pedestals of a pedestal desk turned sideways. The addition of the two legs in front completes the odd effect.

6. Rolltop desk - Wikipedia

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   Rolltop desk. A rolltop desk is a 19th-century reworking of the pedestal desk with, in addition, a series of stacked compartments, shelves, drawers and nooks in front of the user, much like the bureau à gradin or the Carlton House desk. In contrast to these, the compartments and the desktop surface of a rolltop desk can be covered by means of ...

7. Pedestal desk - Wikipedia

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   However, unlike the pedestal desk, these precursors had an incomplete stack of drawers and compartments holding up the two ends. The cases of drawers were raised about 15–30 cm (6–12 inches) from the floor on legs. When a pedestal desk is doubled in size to form a nearly square working surface, and drawers are put on both sides to ...