This Hardwood Desk Is Cold, Hard Proof That You’ve Finally Arrived

You know that old saying, “Dress for the job you want, not the job you have?” It’s an adage because, quite frankly, it works.

And we’re here to argue that the same holds true not just for clothes, but for the very office you’re working in — design for success, and success you shall have. By that logic, every man should have — or at the very least, covet — the Vogel desk.

Designed by Etel Carmona, the famed Brazilian designer and bon vivant, the Vogel stands as one of the world’s truest expressions of executive power — a massive slab of sustainably harvested hardwood forged into piercing, industrial-straight lines. It’s at once humble and imposing, simple but perfectly thought out. Whatever your work, this is the desk you need.

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Vogel desk ($28,730), Sherlock chair ($5,350), and PSP lamp ($2,505) at Avenue Road.
Photography: Lane Dorsey