A workstation of one’s own. At the beginning of lockdown makeshift home offices sprang up wherever a surface could accommodate a laptop, while we pondered more permanent arrangements. Most home-workers had to carve out a quiet niche from an interior that was already in use as a kitchen, bedroom or living room, and so discreet desks were much in demand. Designs that look like dressing tables are still popular, as are leaning desks, desks hidden within shelving and desktops that fold up or disappear into chests of drawers. Wooden desks with a suggestion of old-fashioned writing tables, in darker finishes, proved the surprise hit of the summer, selling out at price points from under £500 (Atkin and Thyme’s Stanley, back in

Source: The Times September 08, 2020 16:07 UTC