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The Desk Gets A Facelift

Thursday, October 30th, 2014

Images courtesy of Grovemade

Text by Sam Willett

In a nine-to-five job, an office desk can be a second home. When luck has you down, a picture of family or friends can perk a smile. Maybe a cartoon from the last week’s paper can lend a much-needed laugh. Style, on the other hand, isn’t as easy to come by.

When Ken Tomita and Joe Mansfield, the founders of handcrafted goods purveyor Grovemade, visited a college friend—and co-founder of AirBNB—at the apartment-sharing company’s San Francisco headquarters, they were in awe of the “most amazing office ever with the nicest of everything.”

“However, they were all using shoeboxes to elevate their computer monitors,” Tomita says. “We both noticed immediately that we could solve that problem and do it well, appealing to the designer crowd.” Once they settled on the structure for a sleek, all-natural monitor stand, the opportunity for a larger assortment of office accessories became obvious.

And thus the brand’s “Desk Collection” was born. Crafted largely from Eastern Hardrock Maple and Black Oregon Walnut, it includes—in addition to the monitor stand—a keyboard tray, keyboard wrist pad, mouse pad, pen pot, ruler, desk lamp, planter, and paper-clip holder. The result? All of your office materials living in polished, convenient harmony.

“We want the customer to be able to make their workspace both comfortable and beautiful,” Tomita says. “It’s difficult to put together a collection of products from different companies and make them look good together. We solve that problem by providing an entire collection that has great design continuity built in.”

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