Trestle desk

They can be dismantled, with the desk top removed from the trestles, for storage or transport.

It is usually very much like the writing table desk form, which offers a simple flat desktop surface with a few drawers underneath it.

Unlike the writing table the trestle desk is supported by two legs instead of four, and the legs are designed to be dismantled easily in order to store or move the desk efficiently.

More precisely, the two legs are two strong side supports which branch out in two feet each (for a total of four) at the bottom.

In shape and manufacture it sometimes resembles certain variations of the antique field desk which was used by officers not too far from the battlefield.