Shortly before he died in 1824, famed poet George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, bequeathed his desk to his valet. He himself had often hated this mahogany desk with its dozen secret drawers, its rickety ...

E. Brady Robinson was waiting to photograph staff members of the nonprofit arts organization CulturalDC for an assignment when she casually took a photo of one staffer’s workspace. She describes that ...

Q — I am seeking information and a value for a “Chautauqua Industrial Art Desk” given to my father in the early 1900s when he was 8. A fact sheet received from the Porter County Public Library System, ...

AMMAN — A project has taken school desks from the classroom, where students start dreaming of their futures by scribbling their random thoughts on them, to an art exhibition representing a new idea of ...

Click to open image viewer. Chatauqua Industrial Art Desk, without slate, produced by the Lewis E. Meyers and Co. The desk has two instructional scrolls, one of which is printed with basic ...