| It is interesting how, just when a market becomes | | | | any kind, a corner desk or any other piece of their |
| stagnant, someone comes along to freshen it up. So it | | | | furniture uses a patented locking design making |
| is true with a corner desk. All corner desks were | | | | assembly fun, fast and simple. You may worry about |
| starting to look familiar: either a tall space saving tower | | | | the pieces coming apart, but they won't, not until you |
| style, or a lower sprawling style with two work | | | | take them apart, plus they are very strong. They are |
| surfaces and a hutch. After all, what else can you do? | | | | also reverse configured so that they can be |
| Then I came across Legare, office furniture with not | | | | assembled left or right handed, or what if you get a |
| only a unique style, but also a leading edge, eco-friendly | | | | bad scratch on the surface? Just flip that piece over |
| company, and with innovative assembly. | | | | and assemble the other way. |
| First, not only is the furniture unique, but how the | | | | Besides a real nice corner desk, Legare also makes |
| company got started is unique. It all began in 1999 in a | | | | straight desks, desk extenders, bookcases, media |
| new, start-up internet company. Buying office furniture | | | | centers, file carts, small tables, and accessory shelves |
| on a shoe string budget was out of the question, so | | | | that either go on top of the desk or can hook into slots |
| one of the founders, Brock Brandenberg, decided to | | | | on the side of a desk. Both desk styles have small |
| design his own. He questioned the people in the office | | | | shelves under them as part of their design. |
| to know what they wanted in a good office desk, and | | | | Legare has two primary furniture lines: Legare |
| went to work from there. Some of the requirements | | | | Sustainable and Legare Select. |
| included a wrap around corner desk with a work | | | | Legare Sustainable is made from natural bamboo that |
| surface that you could place both arms on, shelves, | | | | is only sourced from GSC Certified mills, and use |
| holes for computer cables, modesty panels along the | | | | bamboo plywood because it is the most efficient use |
| bottom, it should be modular and good looking. | | | | of the bamboo stalks. |
| Within a few months, his new desks were ready, and | | | | Legare Select is their more affordable furniture made |
| the employees had a desk assembling party. His | | | | out of ash and oak veneers, and besides carrying |
| design was so well received at the office, and so | | | | everything mentioned above, it also includes a colorful |
| complimented by everyone who came by, that he | | | | line of children's furniture. |
| knew he had something that could be marketed to | | | | One of my favorite things about a Legare straight or |
| others. Though there have been some small changes, | | | | corner desk is its stylish, smooth, curved lines that are |
| the furniture they manufacture today follows the same | | | | created, I believe naturally, with its tab and slot |
| design principles as the original. | | | | assembly design. It is just different enough to make it |
| Most office furniture today falls in the RTA market, | | | | really stand out from other office furniture. So if you |
| meaning ready to assemble, including all hardware and | | | | are in the market for a new corner desk, this is one |
| everything else you need. But, Legare makes FTA, | | | | brand you definitely want to check out before buying. |
| Fun to Assemble, furniture. There is no hardware of | | | | |