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2. Slant-top desk - Wikipedia

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   Slant-top desk in the block front seashell style, 18th century. The slant-top desk, also called secretary desk, or more properly, a bureau, is a piece of writing furniture with a lid that closes at an angle and opens up as a writing surface. It can be considered related, in form, to the desk on a frame, which was a form of portable desk in ...

3. Portable desk - Wikipedia

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   Most portable desks gradually disappeared during the 19th century, as useful day-to-day writing tools. The introduction of mass literacy during that period, the invention of cheaper and more efficient writing implements, and the mass production of furniture made most portable desks redundant. With the advent of clean writing surfaces in every ...

4. Nightstand - Wikipedia

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   Nightstand. A nightstand, [1] alternatively night table, bedside table, daystand or bedside cabinet, is a small table or cabinet designed to stand beside a bed or elsewhere in a bedroom. Modern nightstands are usually small bedside tables, often with one or sometimes more drawers and/or shelves and less commonly with a small door.

5. Computer desk - Wikipedia

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   Computer desks in a Fermilab control room An uncommon office computer desk with the screen under the top The top of a typical home computer desk. The computer desk and related ergonomic desk are furniture pieces designed to comfortably and aesthetically provide a working surface and house or conceal office equipment including computers, peripherals and cabling for office and home-office users.

6. List of desk forms and types - Wikipedia

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   Bargueño desk; Bench desk; Bible box; Bonheur du jour; Bureau à gradin; Bureau brisé; Bureau capucin; Bureau Mazarin; Bureau plat, see Writing table; Butler's desk; Campaign desk; Carlton house desk; Carrel desk; Cheveret desk; Computer desk; Credenza desk; Cubicle desk; Cylinder desk; Davenport desk; Desk and bench; Desk on a chest; Desk on ...

7. Lap desk - Wikipedia

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   An antique lap desk. As an antique the lap desk is a smaller variant of the writing slope. It is also called a writing box or a writing cabinet. In certain instances it is known as a portable desk, a term which is usually applied to larger forms. Most antique lap desks are meant to be used on a table or some other stable surface.