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The more commodious pedestal type sideboard returned to favor during the louis xiv bedroom furniture sale early nineteenth century. Sheraton had stated ‘the most fashionable sideboards’ to be ‘those without cellarets, or any kind of drawer, having massy ornamented legs, and molded frames’. But George Smith, a few years later, showed in Household Furniture (1808) [...]

DESKS About 1810-1840
Classical period (known at the time as ‘Grecian’): Immigrant craftsmen - notably Lannuier in New York, Bouvier and Quervelle in Philadelphia -introduce French Empire style.
Mahogany secretaire-a-abattant, about 1815.
Desks embody features of the grand Napoleonic manner. Some are flat, leather-topped library tables, others are a new version of the secretary desk with a vertical [...]

DESKS About 1620-1680
The Pilgrim period: Desks in the sense of specialized, substantial pieces of furniture are virtually unknown, but a portable writing-slope of the kind used since the Middle Ages is commonplace.
A shallow box about 24 inches wide, 20 inches deep and 12 inches high (60 cm by 51 cm by 30 cm), with sloping [...]