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Encyclopedia > List of desk forms and types

Any list of desk forms and types encountered in the modern office or home, and in antique stores is incomplete and contradictory given the variations in the naming of desks . Each article discusses the name variations and the most general article of all, desk makes comparisons between several forms and places them in historical context.


The division between "desk form" and "desk type" presented here is arbitrary, since there is no consensus as how to differentiate function, form, type and style in these matters. A form here is something rather specific, while a type can be applied to any given form or all of them.


Desk forms

Desk types


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The desk forms we are familiar with in this beginning of the millennium were born mostly in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The ergonomic desk of the last decades is the newest addition to a long list of desk forms, but in a way it is only a refinement of the mechanically complex drawing table or drafting table of the end of the 18th century.
Refinements to those first desk forms were considerable through the 19th century, as steam-driven machinery made cheap wood-based paper possible in the last periods of auto desk the first phase of the industrial revolution.
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