For centuries, the writer’s desk has served as a sacred, solitary space. Virginia Woolf had hers in a garden room, Roald Dahl ...

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 ...

Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe, talking about the 'Tutu Desk' to the AllAfrica staff in Cape ... Without a hard surface for writing, Africa's poorest children only become semi-literate, limiting their ...