A partners desk, partner's desk or partners' desk (also known as a 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.1
The design evolved from 18th-century library writing tables with drawers on two or more sides.1
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References
- Gloag & Edwards 1991, p. 495.
- Gloag, John; Edwards, Clive (1991). A Complete Dictionary of Furniture (Rev. ed.). Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-414-0.