Benjamin Ripple Grand Desk - Matt Black

The Benjamin Ripple Grand Desk in Matt Black is 200cm wide, 70cm deep and 76cm high, on pillars with a rippled surface. The ripple is cut into the base rather than applied to it, so it catches light along the length. At 200cm it is a desk for two screens and a clear area to write.

Two hundred centimetres is the width at which a desk stops being a compromise. The screen, the keyboard and an open notebook all fit at once, and there is still somewhere to put a cup that is not next to the keyboard.

At 70cm deep the screen sits far enough back to be read without leaning, and at 76cm high it takes a standard desk chair. The pillars are set in from the ends, so the legroom is genuinely the full width rather than the gap between two legs.

The caveat is that there is no storage at all. That is deliberate on a desk this size, since a drawer under a 200cm top is a place things go to be forgotten, but it means a separate drawer unit or shelves are part of the plan rather than an afterthought.