I designed and built this reception desk/cashier station for an art gallery in Owosso, Michigan. The budget was limited, so the choice was made to use economical materials (birch plywood and poplar hardwoods). Fortunately the wood stain chosen for the piece, a translucent acrylic color stain, is a type of stain that evens out color variations in the wood while still allowing much of the interesting grain patterning to show through.
Not shown are the many functional features behind the desk, providing for a cash drawer, filing cabinets, and shelf and drawer storage for office supplies and gift wrapping materials.
The style of the piece is what could be called Unobtrusive Contemporary--with an understated elegance that doesn't toot it's own horn. It's not supposed to upstage the art, after all.
The desk this new one replaces was not very big, not very functional, and not very handsome either, so this is a big improvement, which the people working at the gallery, and their customers too, will use and enjoy for years to come.
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