List of desk forms and types

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

Armoire desk
Bargueno desk
Bible box
Bureau a gradin
Bureau Mazarin
Carlton house desk
Carrel desk
Cheveret desk
Cubicle desk
Cylinder desk
Davenport desk
Desk and bench
Desk on a chest
Desk on a frame
Drawing table
Ergonomic desk
Fall front desk
Fire screen desk
Lap desk
Lectern desk
Liseuse desk
Moore desk
Partners desk
Pedestal desk
Plantation desk
Rolltop desk
Secretaire en portefeuille
Secretary desk
Slant top desk
Spinet desk
Standing desk
Tambour desk
Telephone desk
Trestle desk
Typewriter desk
Wooton desk
Writing slope
Writing table

Desk types

Metamorphic library steps which sometimes were meant to be transformed as a writing table

Patent desk

Portable desk

School desk

Student desk

Rolling desk