Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Furnishings (hierarchy name)
5. furnishings (works)
6. [furnishings by form or function]
7. furniture
8. [furniture by form or function]
9. [storage and display furniture]
10. case furniture

Narrower term/s

• counting-house desks[+]
  • double counting-house desks
• desks and bookcases[+]
  • cylinder desks and bookcases
  • bureau-bookcases
• secretaries (furniture)[+]
  • ladies' secretaries
  • gentlemen's secretaries
• desks-on-frames
• ladies' desks[+]
  • ladies' cabinet dressing tables
• pedestal desks
• reading desks
• traveling desks
• Wooton desks[+]
  • Wooton cabinet office secretaries
  • rotary desks
• writing desks[+]
  • escritoires (writing desks)
• writing tables[+]
  • bureaux plats [+]
    • bureaux à gradin
  • Carlton House tables
  • crofts (writing tables)
  • ladies' writing tables [+]
    • bonheurs-du-jour
    • bureaux de dame
    • ladies' screen writing tables
    • ladies' secretaries [NP]
    • ladies' cylinder writing tables [NP]
  • library tables (writing tables)
  • sofa writing tables
  • kidney tables [NP]
  • cheverets
  • tables à écrire (leather-covered writing tables)
  • bureau tables [NP]
  • bufetillos
  • chamber tables [NP]
  • rising-top writing tables
  • gentlemen's writing tables
  • bureaux en pupitre
• davenports (desks)
• partners' desks
• tambour writing tables
• fall-front desks[+]
  • vargueños
  • slant-front desks [+]
    • bureaux en pente
    • standing desks [NP] [+]
      • tables à la tronchin [NP]
      • bureaux debout
    • bureaus (slant-front desks)
    • Governor Winthrop desks
  • secrétaires à abattant
• tambour desks
• rolltop desks
• kneehole desks (recessed center desks)[+]
  • bureaux Mazarins
• bureau tables
• secrétaires à la Bourgogne
• portable desks
• desks-over-bookcases
• cylinder fall desks[+]
  • bureaux à cylindre
  • ladies' cylinder writing tables
• spinet desks
• standing desks[+]
  • tables à la tronchin [NP]
  • bureaux debout
• wall desks
• scrutoires
• school desks

Anotations

Scope note:

Various forms of furniture for readers or writers, generally having a flat writing surface and often drawers and other compartments.