- A
writing table (French
bureau plat) has a
series of
drawers directly under the
surface of the
table, to
contain writing implements, so that it may serve...
-
indented corners", Riesener's
French Writing-
Tables were
normally extremely fine in the
modelling of gilt-bronze mounts.
Table à écrire, c. 1770s, delivered...
-
September 1785 by the
usually critical Horace Walpole, he was impressed,
writing that when completed,
Carlton House would be "the most
perfect in Europe"...
- semicircular. A
combination of a
small round table and a
lectern seemed very po****r as a
writing table. In
western Europe,
although there was variety...
- flat
table-style work
surface used in a school, office, home or the like for academic,
professional or
domestic activities such as reading,
writing, or...
- The
periodic table, also
known as the
periodic table of the elements, is an
ordered arrangement of the
chemical elements into rows ("periods") and columns...
-
table,
drafting table or architect's
table) is, in its
antique form, a kind of
multipurpose desk
which can be used for any kind of drawing,
writing or...
- and
sometimes is also
known as a
Carlton House writing table. The desk
resembles a
normal writing table, but
small drawers above the
surface form a "U"...
-
variants of the
secretary desk and the
writing table in
sheer numbers. The
French sta****
faithful to the
writing table or
bureau plat ("flat desk"), which...
-
earliest writing was
invented during the late 4th millennium BC.
Throughout history, each
writing system invented without prior knowledge of
writing gradually...
