String Works Collection, Work Desk oak

String Work Desk Fixed.

Design by Nils Strinning from 1946.

The desk from String is ideal for your home office or at work.

The desk is equipped with a white steel base as standard. For the top, you can choose from oak veneer, ash veneer, white laminate or light gray linoleum. A cable duct is incorporated in the top so that the cables are never in the way. Desk Material: white steel frame, oak veneer top.

Dimensions: Height 72.5 cm. Top is available in 120 x 78, 140 x 78, 160 x 78 and 180 x 90 cm. String Work Desk is available in fixed and in height adjustable option.

Also available to order is a Works Tray and Works Screen / Screen. The Works Screen can be used as a semi-transparent partition between workstations and as a bulletin board or holder for organizers.

About the designer:

Nils "Nisse" Strinning (December 8, 1917 - May 10, 2006) was a Swedish architect and designer.

Strinning was born in Kramfors and came from a Swedish family that originated in Ångermanland in the 16th century. The name was adopted at the beginning of the 20th century by the family farm "Strinningen" north of Härnösand.

Nisse Strinning was best known for the String bookshelf system that he and his wife, the designer Kajsa Strinning, designed in 1949 for a competition initiated by Bonnier, a leading Swedish magazine.

In the 1940s he studied architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH). As a student, he designed a drainer consisting of plastic-coated metal wires. The drainer, which was called elfa (not to be confused with electronics company ELFA), became very popular and started when he and his wife created the famous String shelf.

Nisse and Kajsa Strinning are rightly seen as icons of Scandinavian modern design and the String Shelving System as a modern contemporary design classic.