David Sieren, who is a graphic designer and member of the Post Family, has recently taken a novel approach to desk design. This common work and household furnishing is often indispensable to our daily lives, being used for a variety of purposes and tasks. Yet despite this varied use and importance the humble desk has remained essentially unchanged and fairly standard. David Sieren’s designs call for a multi-tiered sliding desk, this is in order to allow the user to have various different projects on the go without having to clear the desk before switching focus. The user merely has to slide one work surface into the wall, and extend another one out in order to change what he or she is doing.
Equally the desk also has the ability to recede fully into the wall if this is needed. Such features make the desk design appealing to small cramped rooms where the desk can often take up the bulk of the space available.
Nevertheless, while the design element is undoubtedly elegant and useful, one may question its efficiency. This is because in order for it to function as designed, it requires enough space in the wall behind it to allow the individual slabs to recede into the wall and disappear.