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2. Desk - Wikipedia

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   Desk; c. 1765; mahogany, chestnut and tulip poplar; 87.3 x 92.7 x 52.1 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) A desk or bureau is a piece of furniture with a flat table-style work surface used in a school, office, home or the like for academic, professional or domestic activities such as reading, writing, or using equipment such as a computer.

3. Solid surface material - Wikipedia

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   Solid surface material kitchen countertop. Solid surface material, also known as solid surface composite, [1] is a man-made material usually composed of a combination of alumina trihydrate (ATH), acrylic, epoxy or polyester resins and pigments. It is most frequently used for seamless countertop installations. A solid surface material was first ...

4. 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 ...

5. List of materials properties - Wikipedia

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   A material property is an intensive property of a material, i.e., a physical property or chemical property that does not depend on the amount of the material. These quantitative properties may be used as a metric by which the benefits of one material versus another can be compared, thereby aiding in materials selection.

6. Furniture - Wikipedia

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   The scarcity of wood necessitated innovation in construction techniques. The use of scarf joints to join two shorter pieces together and form a longer beam was one example of this, [17] as well as construction of veneers in which low quality cheap wood was used as the main building material, with a thin layer of expensive wood on the surface. [18]

7. Secretary desk - Wikipedia

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   Wooden secretary desk, American, 1836–50. A secretary desk or escritoire is made of a base of wide drawers topped by a desk with a hinged desktop surface, which is in turn topped by a bookcase usually closed with a pair of doors, often made of glass. The whole is usually a single, tall and heavy piece of furniture.

8. Writing table - Wikipedia

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   Antique versions have the usual divisions for the inkwell, the blotter and the sand or powder tray in one of the drawers, and a surface covered with leather or some other material less hostile to the quill or the fountain pen than simple hard wood. In form, a writing table is a pedestal desk without the pedestals, having legs instead to hold it ...

9. Metal furniture - Wikipedia

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   The resulting furniture designs by Breuer and others using this material are some of the most important of the period. In the United States during the 1930s, designers such as Gilbert Rohde and Wolfgang Hoffman specialized in indoor tubular chrome plated furniture, while Warren McArthur was the preeminent maker of high-end aluminum tubular ...