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2. Spinet desk - Wikipedia

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   A spinet desk is an antique desk with an exterior shape similar to a writing table, but slightly higher and is fitted with a single drawer under the whole length of the flat top surface. The spinet desk is so named because when closed it resembles a spinet, a musical instrument of the harpsichord family. This single drawer, however, is a dummy.

3. 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.

4. Rolltop desk - Wikipedia

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   An opened 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(A French Word) or the Carlton House desk.

5. Resolute desk - Wikipedia

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   After the McKim, Mead, & White renovations to the White House, Edith Roosevelt moved the Resolute desk to the former cabinet room, now the Treaty Room, to create a Den, or President's Study, for her husband. [40] [45] Woodrow Wilson also used the Resolute desk in this room. Wilson and his wife called the center drawer on one side of the desk ...

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. Hoover desk - Wikipedia

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   The Hoover desk, also known colloquially as FDR's Oval Office desk, is a large block front desk, used by Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Oval Office. Created in 1930 as a part of a 17-piece office suite by furniture makers from Grand Rapids, Michigan , the Art Deco desk was given to the White House by the Grand Rapids ...