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- Le bureau à pente, dit aussi secrétaire à pente ou à dos-d’âne, est une forme de bureau qui ressemble à un bureau plat fermé par un volet qui sert de plan de travail une fois rabattu. (fr)
- The slant top desk, also called secretary desk, or more properly, a bureau is a piece of writing furniture with a lid, when closed stays at an angle, and opens up as a writing surface. It can also be considered related, in form, of the desk on a frame, which was a form of portable desk in earlier eras. In the United States, the slant top desk is sometimes called a Governor Winthrop desk, in memory of John Winthrop, the 17th century governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. As Winthrop died in 1647, he had no actual connection to this style of desk, which originated in the 18th century and is especially associated with Chippendale. The name "Winthrop" was attached to this kind of desk by the Winthrop Furniture Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, who offered their "Gov. Winthrop" desk in 1924, during the colonial revival period. Like the 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 desk) all documents and various items must be removed from the work surface of the slant-top desk before closing up. The slant-top desk has been handcrafted in a variety of styles, one of them being the block front seashell desk of the 18th century which was popular among the well-to-do of Colonial America. The slant-top desk has also been mass-produced in a great quantity of sub-forms and materials. For instance, some slant top desks have very crude chains or levers to hold the desktop in an open working position, while others have elegant sliders ("lopers") which are manually or automatically extended to give support. (en)
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- Le bureau à pente, dit aussi secrétaire à pente ou à dos-d’âne, est une forme de bureau qui ressemble à un bureau plat fermé par un volet qui sert de plan de travail une fois rabattu. (fr)
- The slant top desk, also called secretary desk, or more properly, a bureau is a piece of writing furniture with a lid, when closed stays at an angle, and opens up as a writing surface. It can also be considered related, in form, of the desk on a frame, which was a form of portable desk in earlier eras. Like the 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 desk) all documents and various items must be removed from the work surface of the slant-top desk before closing up. (en)
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