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Great desk...and while browsing their site found a great 'look for less.' Atlantico's oak platform bed here:

http://www.atlantico-usa.com/index.php?section=product_detail_oak&id=011

vs. the IKEA Malm bed frame (in oak) here:

http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?topcategoryId=15558&catalogId=10103&storeId=12&productId=60994&langId=-1&chosenPartNumber=S39839352

The difference in quality is obvious...but those looking to spend $149 vs. $1595 (ie, me) can do pretty good here.

Reminds me of the open cubby desks of grade school... tres sharp. I dig it!

Funny, emd13. You beat me to the punch. This reminds me a lot of the 'Stockholm' series finally popping up at Ikea here in the US. Here's the TV bench (from the UK site -- it's not on the US site yet):

http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10103&storeId=7&langId=-20&productId=74426

and glass-door cabinet:

http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10103&storeId=12&productId=76426&langId=-1&news=1&chosenPartNumber=00103791

While not as boxy as the tv bench and cabinet, both the oval coffee table and sofa table tops 'float' as this desk top does. The Stockholm series of furniture is one of the better designed ones I've run across at the big blue and yellow box.

i love the desk, but the chair is making my butt hurt just by looking at it (the chair).

I would highly recommend heading over to de la espada in soho and checking out the Atlantico furniture in person. I find that Ikea looks great in the catalog and can often be a disappointment in person. Atlantico is the opposite. I was not wowed by most of the promotional imagery (maybe its all that wood paneling...) but when I saw the furniture in person, I was really impressed. Truly gorgeous stuff. Even more impressive, its at around the same price point as the Crate and Barrel furniture line (which is not nearly as well executed).

desks like this make me crazy... they look fantastic in photos and catalogs but will never look that good in a space. in the real world, computers/lamps/printers/phones/etc. use something called 'electricity' and it takes 'wires' to bring this 'electricity' to the product in question.

what starts out as a beautiful, open, clean desk quickly becomes a quagmire of wires (a quagwire, if you will).

joeq:

Catalog photos that show no wires make my fiance (a tech guy) bonkers. He giggles that I fall for it all the time - and then later I flip out because of wires. Which reminds me, I think I'll load up the pic of him with his "wire baby" today. Cest la vie.

It looks too high to be ergonomic. Just looking at it is making my elbows hurt... and I'm tall. It's hard to imagine someone who is 5'3" comfortably using this desk.

But it's pretty.

All the above points are spot on. It's lovely. But if you can't really put things on it, or in it, or hide the necessary wires, then it would seem to me to be useless. And, it really is too high, unless that's a very low chair (which also looks uncomfortable.)

The sideboard, on the other hand, on Atlantico's site is to die for. But the prices are simply too rich for me.

We have the Atlantico bed (a wedding present from 5 families pooling money) and it is SOLID and very elegant (though our bedding tends to cover most of it up). We saw the rest of the line down at Karkula in the Meat Packing District and it is gorgeous. The wood is just so fine, something Ikea can't really complete with.

Then again, I certainly couldn't actually afford the bed on my own...