This desk is a 20th Century ABSOLUTELY STUNNING reproduction of the "Bureau du Roi Louis XV". No other desk is even close to this one in richness and in in Beauty. A brief history of this desk: The "Bureau du Roi" ('King's desk'), known in France as the "Secrétaire à cylindre de Louis XV" ("Louis XV roll-top secretary"), is the name given to the richly ornamented royal Cylinder desk whose construction was started under Louis XV and finished under Louis XVI of France. It is the most lavishly decorated desk ever made, surpassing even the huge decorative "Kunstschrank" secretary desks of Germany.
This desk weighs more than 350 pounds!!!
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