Partners desk

The C&O desk in the Oval Office of the White House

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 and two sets of drawers, one at each end of the pedestal.

The Wilson Desk in the Oval Office, with Gerald Ford.

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

See also

• List of desk forms and types

References

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

External links

• Media related to Partners desks at Wikimedia Commons