Mission Style Corner Desk – Oak

• Can add elegance of a rugged variety, giving a touch of the craftsman to your home or office
• May be oak, oak veneer, or a combination
• Mission style is a traditional motif, in this case finished in oak
• A corner desk is a space saver and is convenient
• Some have a pull-out tray for your computer keyboard
• Look for extra storage space, perhaps on a lower shelf.

Custom-made Desks

A custom-made desk can be irresistable.  You can pick the features that you want, no matter how special.  These are charming desks, and can be made to have a lot of storage space, hidden or otherwise.

They can be ordered with drawers, keyboard trays, open shelves, or most likely, a combination, and can be made in just about any size you want.

These custom desks are handcrafted, and beautiful.  Look for a reputable company to order from.

Mission Style Writing Desk

A writing desk is a joyful addition to any home.

A good example is one from American Craftsman Design Executive Office Collection.

They’re hand crafted using North American Red Oak.  They’re authentic Mission style design.  And they’re made from solid wood with traditional mortise and tenon joinery and dovetail drawer construction.

This writing desk comes with a pullout keyboard tray and pencil drawer.  Plus, the drawers use full extension ball bearing glides and are interchangeable.

The low hutch has two drawers on wood glides, two open cubbies and a center recesssed power and data module which includes two power outlets, two USB connectors, a data jack and a modem jack.

Classic Mission design, but with technology!

An Important Note:

Always remember to measure any doorways that your desk will need to be moved through before you order.  You don’t want to take a fine piece of craftsmanship apart, just to get it into the room you choose

By the way…

You might be interested in why “Mission” furniture is called “mission”. It’s because it was felt by its proponents to have a “mission”. What was the mission? Utility of design.

It’s an offshoot of the so-called “Arts and Crafts” Movement in the early 20th Century.  It was promoted expecially in the work of Gustav Stickley, J.M. Young & Co., and the Roycroft Community.

Stickley’s furniture was manufactured at a workshop which was formed as a quasi-socialist community.

The Roycroft Community was just a manufacturing company, however.

Mission furniture has a simple, rectilinear design, with what is called “exposed construction” techniques, plain materials (such as oak, with plain cloth, canvas, or leather coverings).  It has little decoration, compared with many styles.

Stickley actually had a magazine, The Craftsman, in which he pushed the Arts and Crafts ideals. 

The Mission style was influenced in the Western U.S. by the works of Greene & Greene, and Arthur and Lucia Mathews.  In the Midwest it was influenced by the Prairie School and even the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who absorbed and developed its theories.