Boomerang Executive Office Desk | c. 1960 | Alma Desk Company | High Point, North Carolina
Vintage Boomerang Executive Desk was manufactured by the Alma Desk Company of High Point, North Carolina.
The desk is made of walnut wood with brass Art Moderne drawer pulls.
The burl walnut boomerang shaped top is trimmed with straight cut walnut veneer and rests upon two brass sabot footed walnut legs joined by a shaped stretcher at the right and a row of drawers at the left. The left side is supported by an ebonized stretcher foot.
The right-side legs may be adjusted to sit at an angle under the desk.
The left side features a pull-out shelf at top that was promoted by the company as able to hold up to 100 lbs., a shallow drawer, a file cabinet, and a bottom shallow drawer with side grooves for spacers.
At center is a single locking drawer. The lock is original to the piece and is numbered B614. When locked, all drawers in the desk are locked. The brass locking mechanism was made in the U.S.A. by the Chicago Lock Company. The desk comes with keys.
The case is constructed of straight cut walnut wood.
78ʺW × 36ʺD × 29.25ʺH
3595
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Remploy Bureau from England
Remploy Mid-Century Modern teak bureau has a flat top, a lockable drop-front secretary desk, two frieze drawers, and a double-doored cabinet on a plinth base.
The fitments include vertical and horizontal pigeon holes for letters and correspondence inside the desk and one adjustable shelf in the cabinet.
Keyhole insert and hinges are brass.
The Remploy label is inside the right cabinet door.
36" wide x 16" deep x 41.75" high
SKU# 135-REMPLOY
1695
Remploy was set up under the 1944 Disabled Person's Employment Act by then Ministry of Labour Ernest Bevin.
The firm was formally founded in April 1945 and in 1946 the first factory opened in Bridgend, South Wales. The factory workers, mostly disabled miners, produced violins and furniture.
"REMPLOY" was a brand name derived from "re-employ". The name was originally registered by the Ex-Services Employment Corporation and was adopted in 1946 when the Disabled Persons Employment Corporation became Remploy.
Remploy employed badly disabled and scarred soldiers returning from World War II. Clement Attlee's Labour government did not want a repeat of post-World War I limbless soldiers playing mouth-organs on the streets. Then Minister of Labour George Isaacs opened the first factory and said upon opening:
"One of the finest Acts of Parliament ever put on the statute book is to see that these people are not left like flotsam and jetsam on the beach of society, but are put somewhere where they can be happy and of use to the community."
The fitments include vertical and horizontal pigeon holes for letters and correspondence inside the desk and one adjustable shelf in the cabinet.
Keyhole insert and hinges are brass.
The Remploy label is inside the right cabinet door.
36" wide x 16" deep x 41.75" high
SKU# 135-REMPLOY
1695
Remploy was set up under the 1944 Disabled Person's Employment Act by then Ministry of Labour Ernest Bevin.
The firm was formally founded in April 1945 and in 1946 the first factory opened in Bridgend, South Wales. The factory workers, mostly disabled miners, produced violins and furniture.
"REMPLOY" was a brand name derived from "re-employ". The name was originally registered by the Ex-Services Employment Corporation and was adopted in 1946 when the Disabled Persons Employment Corporation became Remploy.
Remploy employed badly disabled and scarred soldiers returning from World War II. Clement Attlee's Labour government did not want a repeat of post-World War I limbless soldiers playing mouth-organs on the streets. Then Minister of Labour George Isaacs opened the first factory and said upon opening:
"One of the finest Acts of Parliament ever put on the statute book is to see that these people are not left like flotsam and jetsam on the beach of society, but are put somewhere where they can be happy and of use to the community."
Executive's Desk | 1960s
Vintage Scandinavian Modern style teak floating-top, pedestal, kneehole executive desk.
Kneehole desk has three storage drawers down each pedestal, for a total of six drawers. Below the floating top are pigeon holes for storage or your keyboards.
84" w | 30" d | 30.25" h
SKU# DESK-567
2395
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