DESIGN MUSEUM GENT X MACGUFFIN
Exhibition THE DESK
Gent, 27 March 2021 - 12 September 2021

The desk is more than just the piece of furniture that many of us spend a great deal of time sitting at. It is also a reflection of our ideas about life and work. Its design through the ages says something about social status, roles, and power, sometimes also about the emancipation of its users.

Featuring exceptional pieces that MacGuffin selected from the Design Museum Gent's collection, the exhibition The Desk showed the evolution of writing furniture: from wandering nomad to prestigious show­piece, from civic icon to CEO cock­pit and from efficient factory to the centre of our domestic life.