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2. 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 ...

3. A. Cutler & Son - Wikipedia

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   A. Cutler & Son. Abner Cutler & Son were cabinetmakers in Buffalo, New York who started production in the late 1820s. The firm specialised in rolltop desks and was granted seven patents related to the desk's mechanism. The company was known as 'Cutler & Son' by the 1870s and exhibited some desks at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.

4. Louis XV furniture - Wikipedia

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   The most celebrated new type of desk invented under Louis XV was the Bureau à cylindre or rolltop desk, which appeared in about 1760. The master of this form was Jean-François Oeben. It had no gilded bronze other than a delicate frieze around the top; very fine marquetry of flowers, and an interior with secret compartments.

5. Louis XVI furniture - Wikipedia

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   The bureau à cylinder, or roll top desk, had been invented by Oeben for Louis XV in 1760. The updated versions by Jean-Henri Riesener, were made of oak covered with mahogany, and had simple but elegant gilded bronze drawer handles, keyholes, and a lacy decorative trim fence around the top.

6. List of desk forms and types - Wikipedia

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   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 a frame ...

7. Bureau du Roi - Wikipedia

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   Present location. Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France. The Bureau du Roi ( French pronunciation: [byʁo dy ʁwa], 'the King's desk'), also known as Louis XV's roll-top desk ( French: Secrétaire à cylindre de Louis XV ), is the richly ornamented royal cylinder desk which was constructed at the end of Louis XV 's reign, and is now again in ...