List of desk forms and types

This is a list of different types and forms of desks.

Desk forms and types

• Armoire desk
• Bargueño desk
• Bench desk
• Bible box
• Bonheur du jour
• Bureau à gradin
• Bureau brisé
• Bureau capucin
• Bureau Mazarin
• Bureau plat, see Writing table
• Butler's desk
• Campaign desk
• Carlton house desk
• Carrel desk
• Cheveret desk
• Computer desk
• Credenza desk
• Cubicle desk
• Cylinder desk
• Davenport desk
• Desk and bench
• Desk on a chest
• Desk on a frame
• Drawing table
• Ergonomic desk
• Escritoire
• Fall-front desk
• Field desk
• Fire screen desk
• Games table desk
• Lap desk
• Lectern desk
• Liseuse desk
• Mechanical desk
• Metamorphic library steps
• Moore desk
• Partners desk
• Pedestal desk
• Plantation desk
• Portable desk
• Rolltop desk
• School desk
• Secrétaire à abattant, see Fall-front desk
• Secretaire en portefeuille
• Secretary desk
• Shtender
• Slant-top desk
• Spinet desk
• Standing desk
• Student desk
• Tambour desk
• Tanker desk, see Pedestal desk
• Telephone desk
• Treadmill desk
• Trestle desk
• Typewriter desk
• Wooton desk
• Writing armchair
• Writing desk
• Writing table

See also

• Bureau du Roi
• Henry VIII's writing desk
• Resolute desk

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