foila desk


- bill 3-12-2013 3:38 am

I don't think it is a good design. First of all who wants a drawer without all four sides? It is a bit appealing to have places to put all the papers that keep piling up all over my desk, but once the papers were stored in all the slots, the clean lines would not look so clean.
- sarah 3-12-2013 6:03 pm [add a comment]


An office set up should include not just a desk and chair but also a credenza (for storing working files) and filing cabinets (for completed files). You could go with open shelving in stead of the credenza and bank boxes for the closed files. Your right, this desk ain't for everyone. I like spare lines and slide out stash trays. This is like a bosses desk who farms out all the real work to the slobs (like me)in the cubicles.
- bill 3-12-2013 9:18 pm [add a comment]


this desk is for fags
- steve 3-12-2013 9:39 pm [add a comment]


  • Thanks Steve, I laughed out loud too.
    - sarah 3-13-2013 7:16 pm [add a comment]



Lol
- bill 3-12-2013 9:45 pm [add a comment]


right on! chop its legs off and burn it to the ground!! sow the earth with the splinters of the non-believers!!!!


- dave 3-12-2013 9:48 pm [add a comment]


it's metal. There will be no burning or splinters.

There are those who work at pristinely tidy desks, with ample writing space and office supplies situated at perfect right angles. And then there are the rest of us—the ones who arrange papers in tilting piles or spread them out so that anything we’re searching for may (at least in theory) be found with a quick visual sweep. But can the right desk tame an organizational misfit? In 2009, Christy MacLear, a self-professed “pile person,” decided to give it a shot by hiring the industrial designer Leon Ransmeier to build a desk that would accommodate her mounds of paper, each of which corresponded to a different project at Philip Johnson’s Glass House, where she was then the executive director.

Ransmeier’s solution is the Folia desk, a sturdy aluminum table with trays that slide out like drawers but have open sides and fronts like shelves. The design addresses MacLear’s habits by keeping her stacks hidden but eas-ily accessible and the work surface relatively clutter-free. Although the desk doesn’t mirror the aesthetic of the Glass House, Ransmeier found the modern landmark to be inspiring nonetheless: “The house was Philip Johnson’s actual home, and he lived there and used it as such for many years,” the designer says. “Folia attempts to capture the openness and austerity of the house and to be both aesthetically and physically durable.” Here, Ransmeier talks more about the ins and outs of his desk, available through Wright 21.

- bill 3-12-2013 11:04 pm [add a comment]


it costs $9,500!
- bill 3-13-2013 12:28 am [add a comment]


CHOP OFF THE LEGS! BURN IT TO THE GROUND!!!
- dave 3-13-2013 2:48 am [add a comment]


  • My friends in Montana light their 'cigarettes' with a magnifying lens when they are out at the beach.
    - sarah 3-13-2013 7:15 pm [add a comment]






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