Sheesham Writing Desk with Two Drawers and Turned Legs

3 kinds of people buy this mez from us. Students and by that I mean the ones doing 12th boards or UPSC where the padhai runs 8 to 10 hours a day and the same person sits at the same table for a year. People working from home who need a proper office table and are tired of doing it on the dining one. And journalists, who want the drawers more than the top, because that is where the notebooks and the newspaper cuttings go and no one else in the house opens them.

The 2 Drawers

Both sit side by side under the top, full depth, with a plain wooden pull cut from the same sheesham so there is no metal handle to tarnish. Inside, A4 files lie flat with room to spare. Between the 2 you can keep a year of notebooks, the calculator, the admit card you will otherwise lose in March and everything you do not want on the top when somebody walks past.

Why It Does Not Wobble

Look under it. The legs are turned, square where they meet the top and ring turned below and between them runs an H stretcher, 2 side rails and 1 across the middle. That stretcher is what stops a table this wide from racking when you lean on one corner, which is what a person does all day while studying, leaning, pushing back, leaning again. Cheap study tables leave it out to save wood and that is why they go loose inside a year. Ours is pegged into the legs and glued, so after 5 years of somebody's elbows it still sits square.

In The Box

• 1 desk, fully assembled, no fitting needed.
• Top approx 120 cm by 60 cm, height 76 cm.
• Clearance under the drawers approx 60 cm for the knees.
• Solid sheesham, polished on all 4 sides.
• Drawers run on wooden runners, no metal slides.
• Grain darkens with time, the black streaking varies piece to piece.