Partners desk

A partners desk, partner's desk or partners' desk (also double desk) is a mostly historical form of desk, a large pedestal desk designed and constructed for two users working while facing each other. The defining features of a partner's desk are a deep top, two sets of drawers, one at each end of the pedestal.[1]

The Wilson Desk in the Oval Office, with Gerald Ford.
The C&O desk in the Oval Office of the White House

The design evolved from 18th-century library writing tables with drawers on two or more sides.[2]

See also

References
  1. Gloag, 495
  2. Gloag, 495
  • Gloag, John; Clive Edwards (1991). A Complete Dictionary of Furniture (Rev. ed.). Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-414-0.
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