Secretary desk - Desks & Tables

Linked to advances in techniques and a search for amenities, the secretaries offered, from 1735 to 1760, a wide variety of forms: secretary to Burgundy on the broken plateau, secretary in cabinet placed along the wall, office in donkey back, happiness-of-the-day with a drawer bleacher, cylinder desk, finally, created by 'ben for Louis XV in 1760 which , equipped with a quarter-circle flap with slats, allows the papers on the table to be concealed with a gesture. The cabinetmakers also compete for invention in the decorations: marqueteries, oriental hairshdy, Martin varnish, rich bronze ornamentation. From the Empire to the present ...