The Antique Secretary Desk Through Four Centuries — From the Baroque Bureau to the Biedermeier Secretaire
There is no piece of antique furniture more personal than the secretary desk. A chest of drawers stores linen. A dining table feeds a household. A wardrobe holds clothes. But a secretary holds a person’s correspondence, their financial records, their contracts, and sometimes their secrets. For four centuries, the educated European kept the documentation of […]