Office Furniture in the Victorian Era

When it comes to office furniture and design, the Victorians knew how to make an impression.  Their large, lavish furniture design carried its way into the office.  Heavy, expensive oak was generally the material of choice.

Design were particularly intricate, and very time consuming to make too, so their office furniture genuine pieces are considered a work of art and are valuable today.

In the Victorian era, if you had the money it would show through your intricately designed, heavy wooden office desk.

Ergonomics had not been invented yet, however, it was not as important anyway as the Victorians did not work the eight hour days that we do now!

Offices were very lavish, including rich rugs adorning the floor, velvet tasselled curtains from ceiling to floor and large bookcases.

The office would not be complete without a large grandfather clock standing in pride of place, many offices even had this as their centrepiece as it was a commonplace item in the office.

Nowadays, things have changed a lot, but if you are designing your home office, then you can have it how you like, so you may like to choose heavier, wooden office furniture items and a lavish office chair so you can really enjoy the time you spend there.