INDOCHINE - Secretary desk, chromed-plated hardware

Reference : STAR-0024-CR
Dimensions : W90 x D38 x H100 cm

Originally designed to be the perfect « fellow-traveller » enabling its owner to exchange correspondance anywhere in the world, this campaign secretaire will fit wherever you want it to.

€3,066.67

Custom manufacturing

Premium materials

Traditional assemblies

Exceptional finishes

Features

  • Furniture in two parts : fold-down writing cabinet and trestles
  • Desk blotter
  • Writing desk with key lock
  • Seven removable drawers 
  • Eights niches

Finishes

  • Wood varieties : prunus avium (cherry), Entandrophragma cylindricum (sapelli), Entandrophragma utile (sipo), Juglans nigra (black walnut)
  • Rosewood varnish finish
  • Chromium-plated brass hardware : decorative carrying handles, flushed corners, lock and key, drawers handles, compass hinges
  • Full grain leather desk blotter
  • Engraved and inked Starbay bone logo
  • Inlaid compass rose marquetry (cherry veneer)

Technical information

  • Easy assembly of top and legs
  • Parcel Top : W100 x D48 x H43 cm / 38 kg
  • Parcel Legs : W92 x D23 x H94 cm / 11 kg

Maintenance tips

  • Remove dust with an anti-static or slightly damp cloth
  • Do not apply wax to avoid clogging the varnish
  • Avoid cleaning with products that could potentially be abrasive to varnish
  • Always protect surfaces before applying liquids or heat
  • Nourish leather with body milk (for baby ideally)

Travel diary

Extract from « France-Indochine : journal quotidien » dated 07/02/1936

Hanoi Chronicles" section Air mail: Air France is pleased to inform the public that mail from France will arrive in Hanoi today a few hours late. Arrival will probably be at Gia Lam around 2pm. Mail notice: The "Bernardin de St Pierre" carrying postal parcels for Metropolitan France and correspondence to Tourane, Saigon, the Somali Coast, Reunion and Madagascar will leave Haiphong for Tourane and Saigon on Friday 14 February at 6am. Postal parcels will be sent from Hanoi to Haiphong on Thursday 13 February by train No11 at 6.05am at the latest, and correspondence will be sent by train No113 at 8.05pm. Lawn Tennis: On Sunday 9th and 16th February, selection matches will be held in Hanoi to choose the best tennis players in Tonkin to take part in the Pierre Pasquier Cup and the Indochina Championship in Hué in March 1936.

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