Tag Archives: Desks

Southern Lady’s Desk

This North Carolina beauty exemplifies the style of the early South.

By Glen D. Huey
Pages: 24-33

From the November 2011 issue #193
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I don’t consider myself a furniture snob, but until recently, I’d not studied furniture from the South beyond pieces featured in “Southern Furniture 1680-1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection” by Ronald L. Hurst and Johnathan Prown (Colonial Williamsburg).

After spending a few days combing through file cabinets at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), I found I’ve been missing a vast array of gorgeous furniture.

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I Can Do That: Lap Desk

Portable productivity with a nod to steampunk style.

By Mag Ruffman

The glorious thing about being self-sufficient is that you can usually figure out ways to create what you need.

My latest need arose after a bad case of Burning Thighs Syndrome, a malady caused by sitting on the couch typing on a laptop computer. With my quadriceps performing as heat sinks for the laptop’s toiling battery, I had the hottest legs in Canada.
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I Can Do That Laptop Desk SketchUp Model

This is a model of a laptop desk that was the “I Can Do That” project in the August 2011 Issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. Project design and construction by Mag Ruffman. Read more »

Providence Writing Desk Sketchup Model

This is a model of a writing desk that was featured in an article in the April 2009 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. Read more »

Computer Desk Sketchup Model

A woodworking model, each entity is a seperate component so that it can be manipulated and measured individually. Read more »

Shaker Trestle Desk Sketchup Model

This is a model of a Shaker Trestle desk featured in an article in the August 2003 issue of Popular Woodworking magazine. Read more »

Portable Writing Desk

Writing letters longhand is one of life’s simple pleasures, as is building this traditional lap desk. By David Thiel Pages: 70-75 From the June 2004 issue #141 Buy this issue now The portable writing desk was an integral part of 18th and 19th century life, when writing was the only form of long-distance communication. As … Read more »