show us pics of your desk

[Sipurahava]

Hi, sorry for the really shaky camera, hopefully it's not too bad. Everybody here has really nice desks, (and pens!) so mine looks pretty bad anyway.

 

P.S. Note the bookworm!

 

[Thornton]

Sipurahava, I love all the books. It reminds me of my room at home. Are you a student as well? I noticed some academic looking books in the mix. Thanks for sharing.

[Rena]

I like your desk setup also, Sipurahava. Books and desks certainly go well together — LOVE the charming bookworm.

 

This is a great topic, which has been an ongoing thread for so long that I cannot comment on all. I enjoy seeing each and every unique desk space people have carved out for themselves.

 

 

[skrivarn]

Skrivarn, what's the box on the lefthand side of your desk? Some sort of writing box? Love your desk too.

Carrie,

It is a box where I keep my ink bootles, some fountain pens and the wax for my seals.

[Sipurahava]

Sipurahava, I love all the books. It reminds me of my room at home. Are you a student as well? I noticed some academic looking books in the mix. Thanks for sharing.

 

 

Nah, I just like to read,

[AndyH]

I wonder what Sherlock Holmes would make of this thread? So much insight into peoples' tastes, interests, lifestyles, etc. provided through the clues of our personal space. Just fascinating, although I feel like a voyeur looking at some of these.

 

So here goes - my office and multiple desks at work. There is pen stuff everywhere if you look carefully, and if I hadn't reduced the pictures sufficiently, you could probably steal my identity, abduct my family, and screw up my job! (I guess I'll just have to hope that FPN members are nicer than the average stalker, huh? )

 

ETA - In the high rez versions you could actually read my name, and the addresses on some of the files, not to mention book titles, political buttons, etc.

 

Top photo is a my-eye view from behind my desk. You can see the Levenger desk set, and tabletop book right to the right. Ball points and "guest pens" in a black marble cup kind of obscure the fountain pens in a Levenger Cherry pen cup behind it. There's also a bottle of MB Blue, Parker Penman, some polished stone spheres, obelisks, and pyramids, as well as several other mineral and stone artifacts. Some of them I made myself. On the wall in front of my desk are naval prints of originals that hung in FDR's study at Hyde Park.

 

The second picture shows my drafting table, with cups full of various technical tools and an Ansel Adams calendar behind it. That's a Speed Graphic perched atop the bookshelf and a set of nautical chart weights at the back of the drafting board. Oh yeah, and a turkey that appears to be attacking George W. Bush.

 

Finally is the view that shows the messiest part of my office - my computer table and bookshelves. The prints over it are by myself and my sons, the pictures on the bookcase of my family, and the baseball cards and balls are Brooklyn (and a few LA...) Dodgers. You can see my Levenger Shirtpocket Briefcase and a Parker Duofold to the left of my keyboard and an Earle very fine point and a small beaker that I use to dip and moisten pens right next to it.

 

In editing this post I noticed that I had copied in a third view of my actual desk, so I added the fourth pic to show the computer desk and bookcase. If we have a good year, maybe I'll be able to replace those with real wood!

Edited January 29, 2009 by AndyH

[Rena]

AndyH,

 

I kind of like the Indiana Jones hat you've got perched up there to the left of your drafting table... Nice working area with lots of space — I'm envious of all that space. Thanks for the tour!

 

 

 

[MLKirk]

Hi all

Do hotel desks count?

Here is my hotel desk with antique mall booty after pillaging around the midwest on this week's business trip.

 

A small "diorama" desk.

 

The desk features:

A 1919-1920 Nat Geo Magazines with Sheaffer & Waterman ads.

A 1947 Life with full page P-51 ad featuring Norman Rockwell.

A 1959 Saturday Evening Post featuring a full page ad of Sheaffer Lady Skripsert's.

2 books directly out of Parker's company research library in Janesville (stamped first like a community library book).

Pen booty in Sheaffer Milady, select 70's Jotters a $1 black Estie (can't seem to resist those), my modern Sonnet.

Find of the week (a light week), A pristine CRAIG ring top in correct period box (see inset).

 

The books are: "Metal Cleaning"(1964) and "An Introduction To Color" (1948) by Ralph M. Evans, Color Control Departures Head of Eastman Kodak Company. The first stamp says: RESEARCH LIBRARY, THE PARKER PEN COMPANY and second says: "DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT". Yep, I'm in Janesville today.

 

And finally, my vintage Parker Quink find of somewhat scarce colors in both 2 ounce & 4 ounce bottles with intact but fragile boxes. More where that came from.

[pen2paper]

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Edited January 31, 2009 by pen2paper

[pen2paper]

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Edited January 31, 2009 by pen2paper

[HyacinthLo]

Is it weird for me to totally love looking at pictures of other people's desks? :embarrassed_smile:

 

anywho

here is my little work place. I'm an unofficial graphic designer so some days I spend more time sitting here than anywhere else.

and this is seriously how I work, I usually have The Office on the laptop while I'm either graphing or writing a paper on the other.

I've had this desk since I was 8 so that explains the little painted on stars all over it.

I really want another desk cause mine looks so immature compared to my boyfriends whose is insanely elegant and classy, but he has some years on me so I should be ok for a couple more years

http://fc37.deviantart.com/fs40/f/2009/035/5/4/wodesk_by_Moloko19.jpg

a little more zoomed in

http://fc24.deviantart.com/fs41/f/2009/035/4/8/desk2_by_Moloko19.jpg

^^^

look it's Dwight!

(sorry for the darkness but that's the only source of light in that room)

 

[mana]

Oooo, my eye spies something familiar. Nice Wacom Intuos3 you got there (A5 ?). Using one right now.

[HyacinthLo]

Oooo, my eye spies something familiar. Nice Wacom Intuos3 you got there (A5 ?). Using one right now.

 

Yah!!

You are using the same one?

I'm sure you love yours as much as I love mine!!

It took me a while to get use to it but now I can't picture graphing without it.

[mana]

Yup, been using wacom products for... over ten years now? Whew, time flies... But yeah, wouldn't imagine living without one It is pretty much irreplaceable for me (I earn my living as an AD and Visual Designer).

[lucentstreak]

Perpetually messy - this is just half the desk...

 

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3321/3227335985_1779a5e96d.jpg

[Splicer]

Yup, been using wacom products for... over ten years now? Whew, time flies... But yeah, wouldn't imagine living without one It is pretty much irreplaceable for me (I earn my living as an AD and Visual Designer).

 

I'm still using my Intuos2, which I think is my third digitizer tablet. Before the Intuos2 I had an ArtPad II and before that, a Kurta tablet which had a big heavy tethered pen (later got an even heavier battery-operated model) with not 1024, not 512, not 128, but ONE level of pressure sensitivity. It was either clicking or it was not! Those were the days! (Note, I didn't specify what kind of days...)

[SweetieStarr]

Don't have a computer desk anymore because I've only got a laptop now. Thought it was about time I showed off my writing desk though (complete with postcard swap postcards ready to go out).

 

The desk I'd guess is 1930s, it's oak and cost me £15, my inks are all in the drawer under the writing part. If I'm not using my desk then I have an 1880s writing box in ebony and mother of pearl, my pictures of that were taken at my old house with it sitting on top of my old desk. The chair cost nothing, a beat up old Ercol thing that I sanded down and stained.

 

 

One of my aims this year is to acquire a nice desk set pen to go with my desk, keep looking at Sheaffers and Parkers, but so far I keep being outbid on Ebay and I always find them on here after they've been sold.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/IMG_1026.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/Pens%20and%20Inks/PIC_0016.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/Pens%20and%20Inks/writing_box.jpg

 

I'm sitting here drooling over your desk.

It's gorgeous.

I'd probably be afraid to use it though. I'd manage to find a way to scratch it up or something, which would have me in tears.

 

What is the black/red box? Is it for stationary? It's stunning!

 

[Vulcan1066]

Don't have a computer desk anymore because I've only got a laptop now. Thought it was about time I showed off my writing desk though (complete with postcard swap postcards ready to go out).

 

The desk I'd guess is 1930s, it's oak and cost me £15, my inks are all in the drawer under the writing part. If I'm not using my desk then I have an 1880s writing box in ebony and mother of pearl, my pictures of that were taken at my old house with it sitting on top of my old desk. The chair cost nothing, a beat up old Ercol thing that I sanded down and stained.

 

 

One of my aims this year is to acquire a nice desk set pen to go with my desk, keep looking at Sheaffers and Parkers, but so far I keep being outbid on Ebay and I always find them on here after they've been sold.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/IMG_1026.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/Pens%20and%20Inks/PIC_0016.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/Pens%20and%20Inks/writing_box.jpg

 

I'm sitting here drooling over your desk.

It's gorgeous.

I'd probably be afraid to use it though. I'd manage to find a way to scratch it up or something, which would have me in tears.

 

What is the black/red box? Is it for stationary? It's stunning!

 

I am drooling over your writing slope. None of mine look as nice as yours does.

[slowhand]

This room serves double duty: I work from home and is a 'man-cave' when my daughters take over the family room in the evening to watch their shows. Cheers, Steve

[dennis_f]

lucentstreak - what kind of pen is that on the letter?

Edited February 18, 2009 by dennis_f