A Writing Desk

This writing desk might be the power house of many political diktats, official orders, fiction writing or love letters. It may have launched a thousand ships or shared the butterflies of new love or the mundaneness of daily love. Of power, greed, secrets, gossips, scandals and confidential. Every piece of stationary monogrammed and collected with love, on travels or gifts from friends. In a world before the emails and computers took over, the pen ruled the mind. 

Those days, are they as romantic as they seem in books. Probably sepia coloured nostalgia hides the sharp edges and softens the tones. 

Decorated in a study, it has more tales than the books on the shelves. This magnificent wood work was found in a corner room at Sintra Castle Lisbon.