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DOUBLE DESK:
Erica Castro, 26, surfs the Internet while her mother, Isabel,
pays bills. Their desk, crafted by Parnian Furniture, features
two workstations and fits easily against the circular wall.
Toru Kawana Tribune | |
| Desks become 'functional art' |
| By Marija Potkonjak, Tribune |
| April 1, 2006 |
| Buying a desk in the paperless world
means style trumps function every time. “Anyone can find a
boxshaped, rectangular desk,” says Ali Parnian, owner of Parnian
Furniture in Scottsdale. |
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“But when you put
something in your home you want it to reflect your
lifestyle.”
Today’s desk is more than a piece of furniture
passed from generation to generation.
“It’s functional art,”
says Parnian, whose family has been in the furniture business since
1977. “If it’s in the den, you want to show off that desk. You want
it to be the focal point and show off the work you’re doing and the
level of your success.”
Clean lines, high gloss and exotic,
dark woods such as ebony and Carpathian elm are the trend right now,
says Parnian. It’s in complete contrast to the light maples used
five years ago. Most of his customers are spending upwards of
$20,000 on a desk that’s made to order.
“We couldn’t find
anything to fit in this room because of the radius,” says Isabel
Castro, who purchased a desk and credenza for the office in her Mesa
home. “A square desk is not going to work in a round room.”
Parnian’s design team created a circular desk with walnut
and mapa burl wood and two workstations (another popular trend right
now). While Castro is paying her bills, her daughter can surf the
Internet or check her e-mail.
“It goes so nicely with the
room,” says Castro. “I love the statement it makes.”
People
who don’t have a home office to showcase their desk are opting for
the opposite approach — hiding it. A functional desk is put away in
a corner, camouflaged to look as it it were just another cabinet.
“People are looking at desks in their kitchen,” says Tim
Allison, showroom sales manager at IKEA in Tempe. “They want to
download Emeril’s latest recipe while trying to make it.”
A
clean work surface is another must for homeowners.
“We have
a lot of desks that don’t have any drawers because you’re saving it
(your work) to the server or e-mailing it,” says Allison. “We
thought by now there wouldn’t be any paper, but there still is. You
just don’t need as much of it.”
Resources
Parnian
Furniture
16219 N. 82nd St., Scottsdale (480) 991-5166 or
www.parnian.com
IKEA
2110 W. IKEA Way, Tempe (480)
496-5658 or www.ikea.com |
| Contact Marija Potkonjak by email, or
phone (480) 898-6818 |
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