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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. List of desk forms and types - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of different types and forms of desks. Desk forms and types. Armoire desk; Bargueño desk; ... L'art de vivre au bureau. Paris: Flammarion, 1995. ...

4. Bowery Savings Bank Building (130 Bowery) - Wikipedia

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   The middle of the banking room had a Siena-marble teller's desk measuring 8 feet (2.4 m) high. [11] [12] It was shaped like a "U", with a men's counter to the north, a women's counter to the south, and a cashiers' window to the east. [8] Behind the tellers' desk was a raised platform with a steel bank vault and the president's and secretary's ...

5. Standing desk - Wikipedia

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   A height-adjustable desk or sit-stand desk can be adjusted to both sitting and standing positions; this is purported to be healthier than the sit-only desk. Sit-stand desks may be effective at reducing sitting time during the work day between 30 minutes and two hours per working day but the evidence is low quality.

6. New York Savings Bank Building - Wikipedia

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   [20] [21] An L-shaped beige-marble tellers' counter was placed about 15 ft (4.6 m) away from the west and south walls. [20] This counter had been removed by the 1990s. [22] The banking room's ceiling is coffered and contains a transverse rib, which is supported by an engaged column on the north and south walls.

7. Resolute desk - Wikipedia

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   A panel was installed in the kneehole of the desk in 1945 and a plinth, or base, was added to raise the height of the desk in 1961. [ 11 ] The panel was designed by White House architect Lorenzo Winslow and constructed and carved out of hard oak in 1945 by Rudolph Bauss, a National Park Service employed model-maker and designer.