Explorer Desk Trunk

Stood on end in a stateroom and opened out like a cabinet, a wardrobe trunk once became the furniture of the room: a rail to hang from, drawers for papers, a leaf to write on. The expedition was imagined at that desk long before it was undertaken.

Our Explorer Desk Trunk is handcrafted to the same pattern. Black panels framed in honey-toned hardwood and studded in brass, corners capped, an aged hasp at the lid, a leather handle in the side and castors beneath. It opens into a hanging wardrobe on one side and, on the other, four pigeonholes above two drawers and a deep file drawer, with a writing leaf that draws out on a folding leg.

Its appearance belongs to another century. Its use does not. The leaf takes a laptop as readily as a fountain pen, and at the end of the day the whole study folds back into a trunk you can wheel against a wall.