The Side Quest Mid-Century Modern Executive Desk with Locking Drawers

Default Dimensions - Can be modified down to the inch
Total Height: 30"
Desktop Depth: 30"
Right-hand Drawer Height: 13"
Left-hand Drawer Heights: 6.5"
Desktop to Drawer Top Space: 6"
Ground to Drawer Bottom Space: 8"

Materials:
- 1.5"-thick solid wood tabletop made from locally recovered lumber
- .75"-thick solid wood drawer boxes made from locally recovered solid lumber
- 1"-diameter cylinder iron tube

Finishes:
- Solid wood finished with hard-wax oil
- Low-carbon iron finished with powder coating
- See Care Instructions on Materials page for more information on wood and metal finishes.

Additional:
- Once we receive your deposit we will, upon request, provide a design rendering of your Side Quest Executive Desk in order to clarify dimensions, design and orientation.
- Email us at furniture@parkmanwoodworks.com for additional questions about product specifications.

White glove delivery within Southern California ranges from $150 to $350 for most items, based upon the distance from our workshop at:

641 Gibbons St., Los Angeles, CA 90031

National shipping ranges from $400 to $600 for most items under 150 pounds. National shipping is partial white-glove, meaning the shipper will help arrange the furniture items into your space, but will require assistance from you or another person who is on-site.

This executive desk borrows its bones from midcentury modernism, back when designers treated furniture like small architecture. A thick wood slab floats above twin drawer cabinets on slim steel supports, hovering with just enough air beneath it to make you look twice. The cabinets themselves hang suspended within the frame, flanking an open cavity where you actually sit. Nothing touches the floor except four slender legs.

The drawers lock with actual keys, which is not a nostalgic detail but a practical one. The grain tells you this wood came from somewhere specific. Patterns flow uninterrupted across drawer fronts and wrap around a back panel that looks just as considered as the front. This is a desk you can float in the middle of a room. We cut boards sequentially and arrange them by hand so the figure reads as continuous rather than patchwork.

That gunmetal steel frame stays out of the way on purpose. Thin cylindrical legs and horizontal members trace an outline around the wood without fighting it for attention. The linear drawer pulls follow the same logic, running nearly full width and keeping hardware minimal and horizontal. Everything here earns its presence or gets edited out.

Each desk starts with lumber from trees that fell naturally around Los Angeles. We mill and join everything in our workshop using techniques that let solid wood span open distances without sagging or separating over time. The hard-wax oil finish handles coffee and elbows and late nights without complaint.

This is a wood executive desk for home offices that deserve better than flat-pack particleboard. It suits the self-employed and the finally-promoted and the working-from-home-permanently crowd who figured out that environment shapes output.

Put in the work and sit somewhere worthy of it.