List of desk forms and types

Any list of desk forms and types encountered in the modern office or home, and in antique stores is incomplete and contradictory given the variations in the naming of desks . Each article discusses the name variations and the most general article of all, desk makes comparisons between several forms and places them in historical context.

The division between "desk form" and "desk type" presented here is arbitrary, since there is no consensus as how to differentiate function, form, type and style in these matters. A form here is something rather specific, while a type can be applied to any given form or all of them.

Desk forms

• Armoire desk
• Bargueno desk
• Bible box
• Bonheur du jour
• Bureau a gradin
• Bureau Mazarin
• Butler's desk
• Carlton house desk
• Carrel desk
• Cheveret desk
• Credenza desk
• Cubicle desk
• Cylinder desk
• Davenport desk
• Desk and bench
• Desk on a chest
• Desk on a frame
• Drawing table
• Ergonomic desk
• Fall front desk
• Fire screen desk
• Lap desk
• Lectern desk
• Liseuse desk
• Moore desk
• Partners desk
• Pedestal desk
• Plantation desk
• Rolltop desk
• Secretaire en portefeuille
• Secretary desk
• Slant top desk
• Spinet desk
• Standing desk
• Tambour desk
• Telephone desk
• Trestle desk
• Typewriter desk
• Wooton desk
• Writing armchair
• Writing slope
• Writing table

Desk types

• Bunk bed desk
• Campaign desk
• Computer desk
• Field desk
• Games table desk
• Mechanical desk
• Metamorphic library steps which sometimes were meant to be transformed into a writing table
• Patent desk
• Portable desk
• School desk
• Student desk
• Rolling desk