Desk

A desk with forms taken from English furniture, referring to the Chimpendale style, but very over-stylized, large and long, rectangular. The desk is equipped with drawers at the front. Four bent legs, the so-called labriole legs with rounded edges, supported on an animal paw with clearly marked toes. The desk has straight wooden panel. The longer sides of the panel are divided vertically into three parts, the middle one is raised, the sides are of the same height as the shorter sides of the enclosure. There is one drawer in the middle part and two drawers on the sides, one above the other. The lower side of the panel is cut with a wavy line, except for the raised part. Each part of the panel is decorated with profiling, creating a frame for the inner field. The corners of the frame are rounded, as are the corners of the desktop. The desktop protrudes above the frame, the edge is profiled. The desk is decorated with woodcarving decoration and veneering. The woodcarving decoration consists of: leaves and campanulas at the base of the legs, asymmetrical leaves, resembling rooster's combs on the collar - on the frames of the panels and on the bottom cut of the panel, at the bottom of the rosettes and a kind of rope, as well as an ornament resembling pearls, on the edge of the top strongly over stylized plant cymatium. The desk is veneered with walnut, the panels adorn the exterior with brown burlap. The top is lined with dark brown grained leather in a veneer frame. The surface of the leather is decorated with an embossed pattern: three panels, the double frame of which is made of fine lesbian cymatium and the same palmette ornament. The middle drawer covers the entire width of the desk, reaching all the way to the end, as well as the side drawers and it is not very deep. The side drawers are deeper than the middle one. The drawers inside, on the sides and underside are covered with mahogany, on the back they are coloured mahogany.

Joanna Kluz