Corner Folding Desk 700mm on Each Side in Solid Ash

Two 700mm tops that meet in a corner and fold independently, so half of it can stay up and half can go away. Completely freestanding, nothing touches the wall.

A folding piece earns its place only if folding it is quick enough that you actually do it. Every mechanism here has been chosen on that basis rather than on how clever it is. Gas struts where a hinge would be heavy, friction stays where a lock would need two hands, and a positive stop at both ends of the travel so nothing drops the last centimetre and marks the wall. If it takes more than five seconds, people leave it open, and then they have bought a piece of furniture that is permanently the size they were trying to avoid.

Specification

• Dimensions: 700mm wide by 450mm deep open, 220mm deep folded, 740mm high
• Floor footprint: 0.15 square metres folded
• Material: solid English ash, pale and straight grained, finished in hardwax oil
• Finish: hardwax oiled or sprayed, hardware in your chosen finish
• Capacity: 60kg evenly distributed on the open top
• Assembly: flat packed, about 45 minutes
• Getting it in: Flat packed in 1 carton, largest 760mm by 780mm by 160mm. Through a standard 762mm door: on its side, yes. Into a small lift: yes
• Weight: approximately 32.0 kilograms
• Height: 740mm, or specify 720mm or 760mm at no extra charge
• Mechanism: friction stays, one hand, positive stop at both ends
• Folding time: about three seconds, which is why people actually do it
• Cable notch in the back edge with a removable cover
• Wall fixing: none, it stands on its own

What you get

• The desk, flat packed
• Friction stays and catches, pre fitted
• Hardware in your chosen finish
• Levelling feet and felt pads
• Hex key, spanner and printed instructions

Assembly

Flat packed, with a hex key, a spanner and printed instructions in the box. Fittings are cam locks and threaded steel inserts rather than chipboard screws, which is what lets a piece be taken apart and reassembled without the joints going loose. We reckon on three moves and have tested to ten.

If you are renting

Freestanding, no wall fixing needed and no holes in anybody's plaster. An anti tip strap is in the box if you want it and there is nothing to make good if you never use it. Felt pads are fitted to every foot as standard, because the other way to lose a deposit is a scratch across a floor you did not lay.