I Know What Day of the Week it is: I sit at my desk for hours a day, so it’s important to have lots of blank surfaces and not too many accessories, as it soon gets overwhelmed with jewelry-making supplies. The calendar is Stendig, the desk was made by us on Ikea legs, the rubber bowl is Neo, and the black paper basket is Siwa. Original source: Design Sponge.

I Know What Day of the Week it is:

I sit at my desk for hours a day, so it’s important to have lots of blank surfaces and not too many accessories, as it soon gets overwhelmed with jewelry-making supplies. The calendar is Stendig, the desk was made by us on Ikea legs, the rubber bowl is Neo, and the black paper basket is Siwa.

Original source: Design Sponge.

Spacious, Sunlit, Simple: This is my favorite room in the house, as all the doors can be opened to welcome the lovely courtyard below. I would absolutely love to be able to work in a room like that.  Original source: Design Sponge, via Minimal Desks.

Spacious, Sunlit, Simple:

This is my favorite room in the house, as all the doors can be opened to welcome the lovely courtyard below.

I would absolutely love to be able to work in a room like that. 

Original source: Design Sponge, via Minimal Desks.

A Lacrosse Lover’s Desk: My grandfather, now 90, is a talented carpenter, and he made this desk for me. It is walnut with Queen Anne legs. I love all the cubbies and that you can fold up the table surface. I coach and play lacrosse, so we wanted a vintage lacrosse stick for our house; this one is from England. The vintage cotton NC flag was a great auction find. I can’t pretend to know anything about lacrosse, but this is a nice example of a very personal desk. Sometimes minimalism can be taken as a very fixed set of aesthetic ideals, and this leads all too often to desks that consist literally of a desk, and a laptop. That isn’t minimalism. Simple Desks aims to demonstrate the balance between beauty and functionality. That, to me, is minimalism: using as little as possible to achieve as much as possible. There’s no point hiding all your tools away if it impedes your work.  Original source: Design Sponge.

A Lacrosse Lover’s Desk:

My grandfather, now 90, is a talented carpenter, and he made this desk for me. It is walnut with Queen Anne legs. I love all the cubbies and that you can fold up the table surface. I coach and play lacrosse, so we wanted a vintage lacrosse stick for our house; this one is from England. The vintage cotton NC flag was a great auction find.

I can’t pretend to know anything about lacrosse, but this is a nice example of a very personal desk. Sometimes minimalism can be taken as a very fixed set of aesthetic ideals, and this leads all too often to desks that consist literally of a desk, and a laptop. That isn’t minimalism. Simple Desks aims to demonstrate the balance between beauty and functionality. That, to me, is minimalism: using as little as possible to achieve as much as possible. There’s no point hiding all your tools away if it impedes your work. 

Original source: Design Sponge.

Basement Desk: Sadly this is another desk that I have no information on, other than its basement locale. We can dream. Original source: Leslie Goodwin Photography, via Houzz.

Basement Desk:

Sadly this is another desk that I have no information on, other than its basement locale. We can dream.

Original source: Leslie Goodwin Photography, via Houzz.

The Light, it Burns: Originally posted 9th May, 2011. For me the most interesting bit of the desk is the ivy. It’s just as integral as the computer really. Submitted by Dylan Mason. Part of the Vault series, a collection of some of the best posts from the previous iteration of Simple Desks.

The Light, it Burns:

Originally posted 9th May, 2011.

For me the most interesting bit of the desk is the ivy. It’s just as integral as the computer really.

Submitted by Dylan Mason.

Part of the Vault series, a collection of some of the best posts from the previous iteration of Simple Desks.