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 ...

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 ...