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Atkinsons Department Store. Atkinsons is a family-owned department store located on The Moor in Sheffield, England.The store has been trading for around 150 years and sells a wide range of merchandise including fashion, furniture, bedding, homewares, curtains, blinds, lighting, gifts, cosmetics & fragrance, beds, domestic appliances footwear, bags, luggage, and cookshop.
By 1700 the English bureaus switched from supporting legs to set drawers all the way to the floor; one of the most popular versions was the bureau-cabinet with a tall cabinet above the desk. [1] The designs from England quickly spread throughout the Northern Europe and Italy, in the process getting elaborate outlines. [2]
A white wooden drawer Filing card drawer. A drawer (/ d r ɔːr / ⓘ DROR) is a box-shaped container inside a piece of furniture that can be pulled out horizontally to access its contents. Drawers are built into numerous types of furniture, including cabinets, chests of drawers (bureaus), desks, and the like.
In 1992 the company began importing products for resale; up until that point, everything sold had been made in Sheffield. This, suggests Bryson, reflected the strained market cutlery manufacturers generally—and Arthur Price particularly—were now operating in. Reflecting the fact that, by now, surveys indicated that most consumers were unwilling to pay more than £100 for a six-person set.
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Most prominent amongst them was the Town Hall extension, erected in the 1970s and disparagingly known as the 'egg-box' because of its design. [4] At the time of its construction, doubts were being cast on the durability of concrete buildings and as a result the Town Hall Extension was built with a projected lifespan of 500 years. [ 5 ]
A Davenport desk, (sometimes originally known as a Devonport desk [1]) is a small desk originating in England with an inclined lifting desktop attached with hinges to the back of the body. Lifting the desktop accesses a large compartment with storage space for paper and other writing implements, and smaller spaces in the forms of small drawers ...
The desk is decorated with carved moldings and carved floral swag designs. [3] [4] There are sets of drawers behind the cabinet doors on each side of the desk pedestals, [5] [6] and the desktop is covered with red leather. [7] Built at the same time as the Grinnell desk, the two desks together cost 380 pounds (equivalent to £47,780 in 2023). [8]