This is starting to get out of hand. We have six desks in our home and I need more. It may have now turned from fetish into a sickness. We are using them for all sorts of stuff: a work table, a liquor cabinet, a sewing/project center, paper repository, and for their intended purpose of writing and surfing the interwebs. Whenever I travel I have a wandering eye for bicycles and desk-like furniture – imagine Ron Jeremy leering at the contestants in a beauty pageant and you will have a good idea of what happens to me when I see a brazed bike frame or a Georgian secretary… I have seen a couple of pieces lately that I NEEDED! I needed them WAY down deep inside – like the Pope needs Jesus.
The one and only thing that keeps me from being more of a desk hoarder is my epic lack of proper funding. It makes me sad to leave them in the store all alone, where no one caresses their tops, opens the drawers slowly, tells them that they are pretty, and where they will end up with someone who will not treat them as nice as I would have.
Below is a selection from of desk-p0rn from the Sherlock Holmes Museum, the Charleston Antique district, Harrods in London, Restoration Hardware, misc. furniture shops, and my favorite Seattle antique store.
Can you tell me the manufacturer of the rotary roll top desk on the bottom, left side? I have one very similar and would like to know if it is a Wooton rotary desk.
Man, that is going back a ways… However, I still have the original picture files from that trip and that particular desk had a REMINGTON RAND metal tag in. It was a sweet desk that I REALLY wanted, but we have 6 desks at home. Two are used for their original purpose and the others have been reassigned to liqure cabinet, cutting table, 3D printer stand duties. I would have been in SERIOUS trouble if I would have come home with another desk, no matter how stunning.
I hope that you do have a Wooton. I have a friend with one and she loves it. There is also one, a very fine example, at the MOHAI in Seattle.