What wood are Art Deco desks usually made from?

Walnut in some form names 75 of the 182 titles, making it close to a default material for the category. Oak follows, then maple. Where walnut is qualified, it's burr or figured. Beyond those, listings turn up satin birch, macassar ebony, rosewood, amboyna and sycamore, usually toward the upper part of the range.

How are these desks dated?

The dated field is unusually complete for furniture, with 178 of 182 listings carrying a clean year. The spread runs 1910 to 1950, but 142 fall in the 1930s and 30 in the 1920s. Dates are dealer-entered and often approximate. Nine titles say "c1930", others "Circa 1930" or "1930's", so a 1930 date reads as inter-war rather than exact.

Are Art Deco desks mostly French?

No. The category is overwhelmingly British, with ten titles simply saying English. Only about half a dozen sampled titles say French. Scandinavian and Swedish origins are the rarest of all: a satin birch desk, a Swedish burr walnut desk and a Scandinavian birch pedestal desk between them.

What is a partners desk?

A desk worked at from both sides, with drawers on both fronts, so two people can sit opposite each other. Nine titles in the archive use the term. They account for roughly one in twenty-five listings and sit mostly in the upper part of the range, particularly burr walnut examples with leather tops.

Which forms turn up besides pedestal desks?

Kneehole, corner, roll-top and partners desks all appear, alongside single-pedestal writing desks. Sizes run from children's desks up to large partners desks. Odd forms surface once and then vanish: a kidney desk, an oval desk, a bureau plat, a metamorphic writing desk, a three-part desk and a corner desk with a matching stool.

Do these desks carry maker's names?

Rarely. The great majority of titles name nobody. Heal's is the only name to clear three dealers across the whole archive. Others turn up once or twice apiece, sometimes stamped or labelled, sometimes only attributed. Those desks sit near the top of the range.

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A freestanding writing or office desk in the Art Deco taste, made between the wars as veneered case furniture for the home study and the modern office.