torque desk by Supriya Mankad from uk

The desk was designed as a feature piece for a large space in a holiday resort villa. The dynamic lines and form of the desk creating a sculptural object to be walked around, felt and seen. A traditionally ‘formal’ object with no traditional formal constraints. The whole form is twisted and suddenly one can’t tell the back from the front or the orientation of the sides.
The tensile stresses require the desk to be constructed in a malleable and ductile material. Bringing together clever engineering and hand craftsmanship, all the components of the metal body are structural as well as functional. The flat plane of the desk is folded to support itself at one end while seemingly resting on a stack of drawers at the other end. The rotating drawers are cantilevered around the spine which performs multiple functions of a support, a pivot and a cable management system connecting a floor point all the way up to the desk surface.
An elegant letter and pen holder completes the striking design. The desk is made in metal but was clad in leather with a malachite pen holder for this particular project.