A desk is a piece of furniture, which can be located either in a private dwelling, in an office or in an institute. Often several drawers for write implements, paper or documents are underneath a write plate. In an office the use of this piece of furniture is rather coined/shaped of functionality. Thus for example some employee pursues the principle to leave at the end of one working day an empty desk in Japan.

Desks of writers

On desks of writers often are articles, which animate them during the writing. That completely banal everyday life implements can be, in addition, - every now and then skurrile - unusual objects. A picture of such a desk is very important for fans of the writer. Many biographies also illustrate such desks. And in poet museums they have a prominent place.

A description of the desk of Thomas's man reads itself in such a way: "“On the roomy noble wooden plate of the Mbels, again-polishes and mirror bright, pushed themselves thousand things: a read lamp; a tearing off calendar (stopped on 11 February); the portrait Fritz August Kaulbachs of Katias youth; Photography of it as young nut and of Medi Elizabeth; the gold-inserted Schildpatt Tabaksdose of the senator, which its son filled the used neither nor; a small silver plaque with the profile of the old Tolstoi; a Savonarola profile; two Empire "“to of the manuscript"”, as with Schiller); an old Russian cigarette box from those Thomas Buddenbrook and madame Chauchat avail themselves, decorated "“with a there-rushing Troika"”; a siamesischer Krieger, whose beautiful shoulder line did it Thomas's man; a bronze Buddha, always on the rear disk edge center; the painted Holzfigurine of a walking Egyptian servant with and Lendenschurz; Medals, further Statuetten, cans; everything of the opened unfold read eyeglasses guards. Place hardly remained for the recorder, those on the - outside inhibitions called inside out - selected means of the daily use. That most by far were of all kinds, without practical use, but not without value and higher purpose. From the firm place, which was strictly assigned to everyone, and sparkled they played in the magic over there, there, where only Wortschamanen are been versed so quite. Were Amulett and talisman, charm-strong guardians of the Kalligraphie, which avoided the mischief of bad expression, before malpractices protected and likewise very much to the "“epischen domestic appliance"” (XI, 408) belonged like smooth paper, liquid ink and easy-sliding feathers/springs."” (Out: Thomas's speaker: Thomas's man in Zurich. Zurich: Publishing house new one inhabitant of zurich newspaper 1992, P. 36 f.)

To the topic desk marked Umberto Eco once: "“Does not note you the thoughts, which come you at the desk, but those, you on the Klo come."”

Order and disorder

Desks - not only of writers - vary substantially. While some users a rather empty, with others the desk with objects prefers, is large surface and reference books overload.

An empty desk applies with 60 per cent of the German high-level personnel - all the same whether from the middle class or from large-scale enterprises - according to an inquiry as indications of success.

Designs

For a detailed list of the different desk forms in the English Wikipedia see: : EN: List_of_desk_forms_and_types.

Other pieces of furniture, which can serve also as desk

• In authorities and enterprises ideal-proves ergonomically aligned desks used, which are partially
• In private households the kitchen or living room table is often used as desk.
• The desk in form of the secretary today hardly still occurs.

Related links

• Desk of the course agent of a narrow-gauge railway
• domestic desk with computers
• Hermann Hesses desk
• Eleanor Roosevelt at their desk

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