Almost everyone who has had a desk job has suffered at the hands of cheap office furniture - wobbly desks with broken handles and drawers that fall apart, chairs which sqeak and rattle until a castor drops off, shelving which just isn't up to the job. And what do we do when they finally collapse? Cart them off to the tip to end up as land fill and then go replace them with more poorly made rubbish. Well things used to be done differently.
Here is a good simple oak pedestal desk made in Liverpool by the fatastically named manufacturers Rumney & Love around 1890. The handles are solid brass, the drawers are solid oak. It has already done over 100 years of sterling service and after a new leather and and a polish over from our restorer it is ready for more.
£1195.
