Drop Front Desk 

The Drop Front Desk is one of the archetypal pieces of Arts & Crafts furniture in that the vocabulary of the style makes it easy to construct a piece that's both useful and beautiful.

One way to make sense of a drop front desk like this one is to think of it as the PDA of its age. In many ways it's an accurate but unfair comparison. A drop front desk provides a place for all the little jottings that make up the majority of the contents of a desk ...or a PDA. It provides places to categorize and store things you need to keep track of.

Unlike the PDA, the desk closes up to hide the clutter and makes a handsome addition to your study or home office.

Like the PDA, the desk's features are purely functional. The tusk and tenon joinery on this desk actually holds it together. Unlike the PDA, however, they're also visually interesting. The desk is what it appears to be. The PDA appears to be a lump of very expensive plastic.

Like the PDA, our desk offers various places to put various categories of things. Unlike the PDA it doesn't offer places for thousands of categories of things. But if we're being honest, how many of us actually use more than a dozen or so? The desk has seventeen pigeon holes and drawers. And like the PDA, the desk has a path for you to connect to more powerful computer devices.

Unlike a PDA, this is what you have to look at even if you're just paying bills or writing an email to your Grandmother. Finally, you can put a PDA in a drop front desk and close the front. So it's the best of both worlds, this Drop Front Desk.