Designed, not assembled.
The executive desk is the piece an office is built around — so it shouldn't be assembled from a parts bin. Ask most manufacturers for something custom and you get their standard parts, pulled from a warehouse and made to fit. Obsidian has no kit of parts. When the design calls for a drawer, a controller housing, a power zone, it’s drawn in from the start, as if it had always belonged. Nothing is added on, because nothing was left out.
The Edge
Obsidian’s edge is milled from solid wood and thick enough to carry the equipment, cabling and power a large desk holds out of sight. The gentle rounding does two things: it draws that mass down into a thin, elegant edge — so the desk looks lighter than it is — and it supports the wrist rather than pressing into it. Solid wood, so it can be repaired rather than replaced.
You feel the difference the first time you sit at it.
You feel the difference the first time you sit at it.
The drawer.
A slim privacy drawer, flush to the edge and invisible until needed — sensitive papers out of sight the moment someone enters the room.
The controller.
Every sit-stand desk has a height controller, and on most it’s screwed to the underside, in the wrong place. Here the edge thickens to hold it within the form, so your hand finds it without looking.
The power zone.
At the rear, the wood widens into a zone where monitor arms, power and cable management clamp in and reposition freely — nothing exposed that doesn’t need to be.
The base.
The sit-stand mechanism is heavy and functional. The base hides it behind tapered legs, with equipment storage built in, so nothing intrudes from the front.
Configured to you.
L-shaped as standard — straight or U-shaped when the room asks for it, dimensioned to your floor plan. The surface can be wood, stone, metal, glass, lacquer, or a combination. Have a material in mind, or a scheme to match? We’ll tell you if it’s possible — and it usually is.
One partner, drawing to delivery.
Design and engineering sit under one roof, so the desk you’re shown is the desk that gets built — no hand-offs, no chasing. Specifying it? We work from your drawings and treat your client relationship as our own, so the work reflects well on you. Sitting at it? You approve the piece; we handle everything else.
One partner, from the first drawing to the day it’s installed.
One partner, from the first drawing to the day it’s installed.
Obsidian was first commissioned for senior executives at one of the world's largest financial institutions — someone who could have had any desk made.
They chose this one.
They chose this one.