page_title: Standing desk
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Standing desk / History
caption_attribution_description: French, Paris; Mechanical table; Woodwork-Furniture
context_page_description: A standing desk or stand-up desk is a desk conceived for writing, reading or drawing while standing up or while sitting on a high stool.
context_section_description: Several writers and statesmen wrote standing up: Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, and Vladimir Nabokov. Some of them had specially made desks or lecterns.
caption: 1778 sit-stand desk made for Marie Antoinette to use while pregnant.[1]
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