For centuries, the writer’s desk has served as a sacred, solitary space. Virginia Woolf had hers in a garden room, Roald Dahl ...

They also found what appeared to be a newspaper with Vietnamese writing underneath it — a testament to the originality of the table. "I do not know how woodworking works and why the newspaper is ...

Last week, my dear husband brought me what he thought was a kind-hearted gift — a treasure from his own grandmother’s writing ...

Jefferson designed the desk while a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776, and had it built by a Philadelphia cabinetmaker. The "writing box," as he later called it, is of mahogany ...