This small writing desk in the neoclassical Hepplewhite style is rectangular with a gently bowed desktop front. Made of pine, the desk is veneered in a warm, glossy honey-colored satinwood The wavy grain of the wood is visible. Darker cross-banded mahogany inlays make a border on the desktop and lip. There is a center drawer with two bright brass-colored oval knobs. There is a keyhole in the top center of the drawer. On either side of the desk is a pedestal with a doored compartment with a keyhole at the center of the inner aspect of the door. The doors extend about halfway down the height of the desk so that the space beneath is open, giving a light, airy overall appearance. The desk has six slim, square, gently tapered legs: one at each corner front and back and, in the front only, one at each side of the curved kneehole. The decoration is very simple: bands of cross banded mahogany inlay on the outer edges of the center drawer and the pedestal door panels with a thin black line incised just next to the inner side of the inlay on the top, the drawer and the pedestal doors. The upper half of each of the four front legs is decorated with two thin vertical black lines with a small inlaid black circle of inlay at the top and bottom of each line. The lines extend down the legs from the level of the top of the central drawer and side doors to the level of the bottom of the side doors.