Description
the rectangular top above above a central drawer flanked to one side by two further drawers and a panelled door and to the other with an open shelf and corresponding panelled door, the whole raised on square legs, cast brass drop handles
Dimensions
96cm wide, 78cm high, 46cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Crawford, Alan 'C.R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist', Yale University Press, 1985, p. 449, note no.2 on Chapter 11 where this desk is mentioned 'a desk to a design of 1890'.
Note: The design for this table appears in the Guild Workshop Record Book dated 1890, and, although furniture was probably made from the earliest days of the Guild and certainly before the move to Essex House in 1891, this desk may have been made up later than 1890.