Show me your desk?

[Horsewright]

That's a unique desk. I was scrolling through this thread looking at photos and not reading much text or who posted. When I came to this one I stopped to check it out, and I thought "I wonder if that belongs to...". Sure enough it did.

Same for me, except I didn't have to wonder about it. I imeediately knew.

Somehow this looks exactly how I imagined it! Awesome lol.

Great thread OP

Thanks guys! We call it the Epic desk

1) Because it is so large and really fits that wall so well. When they delivered it recently, the wife says to me; "Ya ever see a desk this big before?" I said I think JR on Dallas had one just like it.

2) The EPIC FAILURE. So we designed the desk to fit along the wall in another room. It was replacing a desk that was in an L shape and half of it sat into the room. We wanted to get rid of that so we could have a bed in the room too and use it as a spare bedroom as well as an office. So basically we flattened out the L shape and put drawers were we wanted them and measured here and measured there as we designed this desk. So our friend Alma whom along with her husband Enrique own MI Hacienda, a Mexican furniture store down the hill, that we've been buying furniture from for years, took our chicken scratchings and turned it into a set of plans and then translated it into Spanish and sent it off to one of their makers in Mexico. Couple months later it was ready and they brought it up to deliver. Its epic! The epic failure? We forgot to measure the door that it had to go through to get into the other room! Its 29.5" and the desk is 32.5"x 32.5"x 8', with the shelves being a separate piece. Wasn't gonna work! After several moments of sheer panic we quickly came up with a Plan B. We moved some sewing machines and other workshop stuff and freed up this wall. This room doesn't have a door. It has an 8 foot wide arch to enter it. Plenty of room to get the Epic desk in. Worked out better anyhoo.

3) More JR stuff. This desk was made in a village outside of Guadalajara, where they've been making furniture since Cortez as I understand it. Anyhoo, when Enrique was down there picking this up as well as a truck load of other furniture for their store, another guy from Texas, who also has a similar type furniture store, saw this desk as Enrique and their son were loading it. He ordered two on the spot for his store. Store is in TX, JR, Dallas .Kinda cool.

4) The wife and I are not allowed to design furniture any more!

 

[Piso Mojado]

When I saw this desk at Chicago's Art Institute, I thought "Well f*** me, I gots to get me one!"



Ditto for the chair.



In 1936, SC Johnson Co. hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design a new corporate headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin. You've heard of SC Johnson Co.? Glade, Kiwi, OFF!, Pledge, Raid, Ziploc, Windex, Mrs. Meyers, etc.? It's a family business and H.F. Johnson Jr. (3rd generation) was a contemporary of Frank's and one of his richest fans. Frank gave him a complete design including the office furniture, on which he collaborated with Steelcase. He wanted the cheapest possible desks and chairs, recyclable, space-saving and comfortable, and he wanted them to look good on their own and with all the other desks and chairs in the Great Workroom of his building in Racine.



Steelcase makes the desks and chairs today, but I'll warn you in advance that they aren't cheap. That is because they are works of art. And when do desks and chairs become works of art? When they have the right name. As my friend Jimmy Art told me in Boy Scouts, "Piso, everything I do is a work of art."

https://www.steelcase.com/products/desks/frank-lloyd-wright-racine-collection/

Be prepared. Frank was notoriously resistant to changing his designs for mere practicality, but he finally admitted that the three legged chairs could be unsteady and he added a fourth leg.

 

[Arkansawyer]

Search Amazon for Vari Electric Standing Desk 60" x 30". It's a modern style, no drawers, but it's extremely stable with a nice surface. You can move it up and down with a button and store 4 heights. I rarely stand at it and it includes comfortable sitting heights in its range. I use it for work, but do a little knife making finish work on it occasionally.
I'm very happy with it, but it's annoying to see that they seem to want $850 for it now. I only paid $600.

I’ve been looking for a new desk for the house and didn’t even know they made these. They even have ones shaped like an “L” that raise up. Thanks for sharing this as we are most likely going to be getting on of these.

 

[GB940Rookie]

Need to add 4 doors to the bottom unit. Waiting to finish the kitchen first and make them all at the same time.