Jean-Christophe Fischer was a French cabinetmaker from the early nineteenth century. He had an established business in Paris from 1820 until his death in 1854. From this workshop, he fulfilled commissions from French King Louis-Phillipe and made various masterpieces which were exhibited at the Exposition de l’Industrie Française.

This desk corresponds with the article written in 1834 by engineer Stéphane Flachat; “A grand desk which transforms through some ingenious mechanism into an architect’s atelier (…) we were delighted to remark here, a new system which replaces that of a cylindrical desk. When one wants to write, one pulls the two knobs on the desk’s façade, extending a plateau and the parallel rosewood covering surface simultaneously retracts. The mechanism is as comfortable as it is ingenuous. (…) The general execution, of this piece of furniture, as in all works displayed by Mr. Fischer, is of exquisite perfection.”

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- L’Industrie, Exposition de 1834, Stéphane Flachat, 1834, L. Tenré, P. 88.

H: 37 in. L: 58 in. W: 28.75 in.

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