The desk that J.R.R. Tolkien used to write The Lord of the Rings is being auctioned with a hefty guide price of £50,000 to ...

The author used the desk during his tenure as Merton professor of English language and literature.

Today desks have taken a backseat to the computer where so much of what was used on a desk is now internalized in a small machine that can be held on your lap. Even so many like to have a desk and one ...

Which rolltop desk is best? Rolltop desks are typically crafted from heirloom-quality wood and as such, they can be a considerable investment. But a good one will last generations, and while today’s ...

Q: I read your column in The Gainesville Sun. I would like your opinion on the value of this large oak roll top desk I have owned for nearly 50 years. When I first obtained it there were some stickers ...

Question: A friend closed his law practice during the 1980s and gave me an old oak, roll-top desk that was in his office. It is 49 inches high, 37 inches wide and 32 inches deep with four drawers on ...

“That typology [of a roll-top] was one I’ve never played with,” says Stell, who describes his work as typically involving an unusual negotiation between the piece and the user (see his transformable ...

The desk where dozens of literature’s memorable characters were born is in search of an author. “It’s not going very well,” Daniel Bellow, son of Nobel-prize-winning author Saul Bellow, said of the ...