Today i drove and picked up a free desk on of craigslist, not really free as it cost 30$ in gas but the item cost 0$. i picked it up cause i am 99.8% sure it is a real Knoll desk, however, i cant find any label. but there is reminants of a few stickers of some kindfirst of all the thing weighs like 160 lbs. and in order to fit it in my car, i took it fully apart and put all the boxes, drawers and legs in car and the top on my roof rack which it still is onI will take pictures tomorrow, but the modesty panel is held on by 3 screws per side with L shapped black brackets. On the very bottom edge of the modesty panel is 2 stright black brackets with 4 screws per bracket, 2 screws on panel and 2 on deskthe drawer boxes are held on by a total of 10 screws per box into the table top and the chrome legs are held on by 2 7/16ish bolt/ washer/ locking nut with a black plastic spacer strip btween leg and wooden box per leg. and some type of riv nut pressed into chrome leg. no cap on the top of leg, just bottomwalnut wood veneer with solid oak drawers. formica walnut top and the bottom is stamped formica like every 2 feet.standard 3 drawers on the left and 2 on the right with a large one on the bottom right no handle pulls, the edges of the drawers have a profile routered into them. the slides for the drawers are marked grant. there are 2 locks. 1 lock per drawer box. the locks are marked 520 it needs love, do any of you have one in a residental setting? worth me spending tme to fix? the pictures are of 2 of the drawers i brought in the house for detail shots. rest i will deal with in the morning
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I re-used/re-purposed my oversized Knoll desk (similar to yours but with walnut veneer top and a welded black square tube frame) as a work/eating table/island in the kitchen of a 1912 foursquare house. The drawers with partitions are great for flatware and the deep file drawers for pots and pans/other cooking gadgets. I don't expect you or anyone to do the same, I am a non conformist.
Mine was free too courtesy of a well known college in New England. The school have a gravesite of obsolete modern iconic 20th century school furniture (discarded and left to deteriorate outside when the school went digital) open 1 hour per day every Thursday bring a friend and a truck and take everything you can for free.
Any book about Knoll furniture will be able to help you identify if you have a Knoll desk. Sometimes, this place that no one goes anymore will have a copy on the shelf, it is called a public library.
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