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A Wall Desk with a Semi-Circular Drawer (and a UX Challenge to Solve)

Revolver, by Teixeira Design Studio

By Rain Noe - October 17, 2023

in Furniture Design

This wall-mounted Revolver desk is by Portugal-based Teixeira Design Studio.

It offers a novel way to provide a bit more surface area when needed:

Novelty aside, with no handles, I think operating the rotating sections might require a bit of futzing. You'd have to push a section on one edge, then pull from another edge to draw it out—it would drive me nuts in no time. However, this isn't in production yet (the listing on TDS' website says "available soon") so it's possible the design might receive further refinement.

It is an interesting problem. If you were the designer, what modification would you add so that a section could be smoothly manipulated in one go, without requiring push + pull? I'm assuming knobs would spoil the intended aesthetic. A hole drilled through the drawer face (if aesthetically acceptable) would solve it for the drawer, but wouldn't work for the remaining sections. Any ideas?

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Andrew Block

a year ago

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In this case I would suggest that "novel" doesn't necessarily mean good. A semicircular drawer and workspace extension seems less than ideal unless you are only storing items that fit in women's pant pockets. Call me a square all you want, but my vote would be to have a square drawer box that slides out to the side and then the drawer inside it pulls straight forward out of it. Put the novelty into making the drawer pull mechanism smooth despite the odd weight and forces that a 2 sided outermost drawer box form would experience with the whole thing open and loaded. This would give you a square worksurface extension, a square drawer, and a square pocket with the drawer box in "open" config. The whole thing could be managed by one pull or hole on the drawer front to make the whole thing work and maintain the minimal look they seem to be after (not to mention a functional drawer that works all the time), and could be augmented by a second pull on the side of the drawer box for those that don't find it intuitive (or the drawer slide design has issues with racking).

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Zach W

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Circular drawers inside square compartments is not a great use of space.

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Garrett Benisch

a year ago

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A cut channel or a lip on the bottom of each compartment could be a nice way. Might already be there.

If the pieces are CNC'd you could have the lip undulate in depth to create notches for your fingers to get some lateral pressure on too without much change in production time?

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A J

a year ago

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Small hole , the size of finger tips every 2-3 inch on the side walls of the drawers would look good as well it will help to open the drawers easily

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