The cylinder desk is a form of desk which resembles a Bureau Mazarin or a writing table equipped with small stacked shelves in front of the user's main work surface, and a revolving cylinder part which comes down to hide and lock up the working papers when the day is done. A desk is a Furniture form and a class of table often used in a work or Office setting for reading or Writing on or using a Computer The bureau Mazarin is a 17th century Desk form named more or less in memory of Cardinal Mazarin, regent of France from 1642 to 1661 A writing table (French bureau plat) has a series of drawers directly under the surface of the table to contain writing implements so that it may serve as a Desk Like the rolltop desk which was invented much later, the cylinder desk usually has a fixed work surface. A rolltop desk is a 19th century reworking of the Pedestal desk with in addition a series of stacked compartments shelves drawers and nooks in front of the user much like This means that unlike a secretary desk the paperwork does not have to be stored before shutting up the desk. A secretary Desk is made of a base of wide drawers topped by a desk with a hinged desktop surface which is in turn topped by a Bookcase usually closed with a Some designs however, have the capacity to slide out the desk surface a few inches to expand the available working area.
The cylinder desk is also called "bureau Kaunitz", as it was allegedly introduced in France in the first half of the 18th century by Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, then the ambassador of the Habsburg Empire to the French court. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The 18th century lasted from 1701 to 1800 in the Gregorian calendar, in accordance with the Anno Domini / Common Era numbering system Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz (Václav Antonín hrabě Kounic-Rietberg ( February 2, 1711 &ndash June 27, 1794) was an Austrian Statesman Regardless of the authenticity of its origin, the French court adopted this type of desk with great enthusiasm. The difficulty of producing wooden cylinder sections which would not warp over the years ensured that such desks were reserved for the rich and the very rich. A few variants of this form have slats instead of a one piece cylinder section.
The most famous cylinder desk, and perhaps the most famous desk of all times is the Bureau du Roi manufactured for the French royalty in the 18th century. The Bureau du Roi ('King's desk' known in France as the Secrétaire à cylindre de Louis XV ("Louis XV roll-top secretary" is the name given
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See also the list of desk forms and types. Any list of desk forms and types encountered in the modern Office or home and in antique stores is incomplete and contradictory given the variations in the naming
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