Indonesian Colonial Style Desk

The top is one long argument for keeping your elbows on the table.

Here is a colonial style desk from Indonesia, 20th century, made of teak wood. Desks in this manner took a European office form and rendered it in Southeast Asian hardwood, for working rooms in a hot, damp climate. The broad plank top shows a dark, mottled surface with paler grain along its thick edge. Two paneled drawers with iron bail handles flank a molded arch. The four legs are turned and carved with vertical gadrooning, swelling below the apron before tapering down. Seventy-nine inches long, 38 deep, 32 high.

Everything on it will look less important than the desk.