Rare Gems: Specialist Office Furniture

Bisley Plan Chests - Specialist Office Furniture

Many items in the world of office furniture can be samey, featureless, and unoriginal to the eye. It can be a barren landscape of boring desks and chairs, with little or nothing left to the imagination. However, if you know where to look and you have a keen eye, you will find rare hidden gems, niche items of specialist office furniture, and rare antiques. Read on to discover more about these unusual pieces, and maybe even get some ideas for your own office space!

Draughtsman Chair

Draughtsman Chair

The draughtsman chair, unlike your average operator chair, is generally more suited to schools, laboratories, art studios, and workshops, rather than your average office space. The much higher seat height means they are so often popular with professionals who work with larger scale plans and drawings, such as architects. The draughtsman chair also usually comes with glides rather than wheels, a footrest, and like the classic office chair, it can come in a wide variety of materials and colour finishes.

Bisley Plan Chest

Plan Chests

Unlike your typical office storage, such as stationery cupboards, bookcases, and desk pedestals, plan files, or plan chests, as they are also known, are again very popular with artists, architects, and photographers, to name a few. This is because they are capable of storing much larger format documents, like maps, photographs, paintings, or blueprints.

Eames Soft Pad Chair

Rare Originals

Every now and then a specialist office furniture design is so innovative or practical that the whole industry agrees it must be a timeless classic. The likes of the Herman Miller Aeron Chair, or  Eames’ classic designs such as the Ribbed Leather Office Chair, or the Soft Pad Chair, are all held in such high esteem by the office furniture world. If you can find a rare original in good condition and for a discounted, second-hand price, then you truly are winning!

Antique Kneehole Desk

Antique Office Furniture

The rarest of the rare specialist office furniture would, of course, be antique office furniture gems! Once in a blue moon you will find an incredibly old piece that’s been made well, looked after, and remains in good condition. An old solid oak desk from back in the day will always look and work better than a factory-made wood MFC desk of the modern era. Similar to the rare originals, what you want when it comes to antique office furniture is to find something in good condition, for a reduced price.

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