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    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...
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    It is a flatter and "sideways" version of the rolltop desk. Unlike the rolltop desk, the tambour desk uses straight, perfectly vertical rows of shutters...
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  • Rolltop may refer to Rolltop desk A type of equestrian horse jump This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Rolltop. If an internal...
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    complex desks and more specialized desks, such as the rolltop desk which was a mass-produced, slatted variant of the classical cylinder desk. It provided...
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    the working papers when the desk is not in use. Like the rolltop desk, which was invented much later, the cylinder desk usually has a fixed work surface:...
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    adjustments. This kind of armoire desk is a direct descendant of the antique rolltop desk which was common in corporate or government offices three or four generations...
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  • Lectern desk Liseuse desk Mechanical desk Metamorphic library steps Moore desk Partners desk Pedestal desk Plantation desk Portable desk Rolltop desk School...
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    spinet desk could be said to be a smaller, less obtrusive cousin of the rolltop desk and the cylinder desk. Like them, and unlike the secretary desk or the...
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    2023, the desk has been occupied by Indiana Senator Todd Young. The Democrats have also had a candy desk since at least 1985. A rolltop desk located on...
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    a hinged desktop (and unlike closable desks with an unmovable desktop like the rolltop desk or the cylinder desk), all documents and various items must...
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    in the late 1820s. The firm specialised in rolltop desks and was granted seven patents related to the desk's mechanism. The company was known as 'Cutler...
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    Wooton desk, the fall-front desk and others with a hinged desktop, and unlike closable desks with an unmovable desktop like the rolltop desk or the cylinder...
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    him. When the other reporters return, Hildy hides the fugitive in a rolltop desk. Mrs. Baldwin, Hildy's future mother-in-law, enters and berates her for...
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    desks were famous for the mechanical mechanisms and secret compartments rather than their elegance. Rolltop desk by Jean-Henri Oeben (1775) Rolltop desk...
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    of Johnson and Burns, the newspapermen hide the fleeing Williams in a rolltop desk in a room usually occupied by a bevy of newspaper reporters gathered...
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    towers flanking the entrance. Dining Room The Parterre Tower Drawing Room Rolltop desk dated 1777–1781 probably made for Pierre Beaumarchais Jean-Siméon Chardin...
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  • clues about the family, Tess and Opal use the key to open Helen's old rolltop desk, and find a note with an address in Ontario, Canada, and a message that...
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    Provence [2], Waddesdon Manor, UK Bureau à cylindre, 1774, Woburn Abbey, UK Rolltop desk, 1775 [3], Waddesdon Manor, UK Bureau à cylindre, c. 1775, Royal Collection...
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    flowers. The most celebrated new type of desk invented under Louis XV was the Bureau à cylindre or rolltop desk, which appeared in about 1760. The master...
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    (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Detail of the "Tibattant" Lady's Desk (1923) Rolltop desk (1926) (Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris) Room of the...
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  • berating her for losing a brooch, which he had hidden inside his locked rolltop desk. Rough gets wind of Paul's plan to have Bella certified insane and institutionalised...
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  • Kasuga Haruo), a club member who likes to sit inside the clubroom's rolltop desk. He notices Osugi had gone missing after he had dinner with him. He is...
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  • spittoon. In the middle of the painting stand a young couple in front of a rolltop desk filling out their application for a marriage license. The man is wearing...
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    bay doors, which operated very much like the movable enclosure of a rolltop desk, retracted into the fuselage. These types of doors created a minimum...
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    Riesener (1785) Table for Marie-Antoinette by Jean-Henri Riesener (1785) Rolltop desk by David Roentgen (about 1785) The royal tapestry workshop of Gobelins...
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    skis, wagons, step ladders, wheelbarrows, ironing boards, children's rolltop desks and other furniture. On November 4, 1773, when the Proprietors were...
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    Rolltop desk dated 1777–1781 at Waddesdon Manor, possibly made for Beaumarchais...
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    Not until Sterling reached his large office and sat at his mammoth rolltop desk did he commit that morning's words to paper. His long poem's draft in...
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    D. W. Griffith at a rolltop desk, c. 1925...
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  • concerts of 1969 and 1994. The Mahogany Roberts, a rolltop desk designed by Gary Spitzer of Rolltop Desk Works, was named after Daniel Roberts. Roberts has...
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