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Monk Desk 88

Regular price $2,750

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Shipping policy

All pieces are shipped in custom crates and are fully insured. If a custom premium piece, final payment, and shipping are required before the item is shipped. If an in-stock item, it will arrive in 1-3 weeks.

Decades of Design Distilled Into One Desk

The Monk Desk 88 takes everything we’ve worked out over fifteen years and hundreds of custom pieces, and puts it into one compact desk at less than half the price of our most popular premium models.

Full 88-key capacity, up to three 3U rack spaces, optional sit-stand base for when a melody has you pacing the room. Body comes fully assembled; just bolt on the bases.

A desk you won’t need to replace. You will grow with it, then hand it down to someone else one day.

Features

88-key compatibility
up to 3 rack spaces @ 3U each (9U total)
optional heavy-duty sit-stand base
wire flow channel under rack space for clean routing + laptop storage
solid hardwood construction
classic mortise and tenon joinery
age enduring oil + hard wax finish

Specs

64w x 32d x 31h desktop
59w x 15d x 5.5h sliding keyboard drawer
60w x 8d x 5.5h hidden cable shelf
2 trapezoid U-bases in blackened steel

Options

Every option below is priced as what it adds to the starting price. Choose them in the dropdowns and the price updates as you build.

Wood

Included — Sun-tanned poplar
$150 — Goblin poplar (higher contrast with black streaks)
$550 — White oak, walnut or rustic reclaimed
$750 — Apocalyptic blackened reclaimed & walnut

Rack & Screen Shelf

Included — No shelf
$550 — 2 @ 23w x 16d x 7h split shelves (2 x 3U)
$750 — 64w x 16d x 7h shelf w/ 3 rack bays (3 x 3U)

Base

Included — Trapezoid U-bases in blackened steel
$750 — Ergonomic T-bases with embedded wood
$950 — Heavy-duty sit/stand bases (350 lb capacity)

Storage

Included — No additional storage
$250 — Sliding shelf in rack space
$350 — Matching wood drawer in rack space
$450 — Soft-close drawer with shop-made steel pull

All of our pieces are custom-made to order,
and more options to explore in conversation.
Ask us about our 60/40 payment plan.

WoodSun-tanned poplar

Sun-tanned poplar Variant sold out or unavailable Goblin poplar Variant sold out or unavailable White oak Variant sold out or unavailable Walnut Variant sold out or unavailable Rustic reclaimed Variant sold out or unavailable Apocalyptic blackened reclaimed & walnut Variant sold out or unavailable

Rack & Screen ShelfNo shelf

No shelf Variant sold out or unavailable 2 @ 23w split shelves (2 x 3U) Variant sold out or unavailable 64w shelf w/ 3 rack bays (3 x 3U) Variant sold out or unavailable

BaseTrapezoid U-bases in blackened steel

Trapezoid U-bases in blackened steel Variant sold out or unavailable Ergonomic T-bases with embedded wood Variant sold out or unavailable Heavy-duty sit/stand bases (350 lb capacity) Variant sold out or unavailable

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Monk Desk 88

Sun-tanned poplar / No shelf / Trapezoid U-bases in blackened steel

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Timeline & Payment
Shipping
Wood Care

Custom Premium Timelines are 2-3 months from payment.

You can pay in full at checkout if the build you want is here. You will be contacted as things progress.

If you want to reserve with partial payment, get in touch and we'll set it up as 60% down — which secures your place in the seasonal building schedule — and 40% plus shipping on completion, once you've approved the finished photos.

Shipping

Freight is quoted by the width of the piece.

30–39w" — $450 fully insured crated freight, inside delivery to garage · $750 full service white glove
40–60w" — $750 fully insured crated freight, inside delivery to garage · $1,150 full service white glove
61–94w" — $950 standard insured freight, liftgate and placed inside garage · $1,450 full service white glove
95" and over — quoted per piece

Standard freight includes full value insurance and a custom-made crate with an easy-open side hatch.

Full service white glove adds inside room delivery, base assembly, and removal of the crate and all packaging from your premises.Solid wood moves. Every piece is built from solid hardwood, not veneer or engineered panel, and solid wood responds to the room it lives in. It expands slightly in humid months and contracts in dry ones. Our joinery is designed to allow that movement rather than fight it — breadboard ends, floating panels and bolt-on bases all exist for this reason. A hairline seasonal gap that opens and closes is the material behaving correctly.

Day to day. Wipe with a soft dry or barely damp cloth. Blot spills as they happen rather than letting them stand. Skip anything with ammonia, bleach, silicone or wax polish — silicone in particular builds a film that makes refinishing difficult later. Use trivets under hot dishes and something absorbent under anything wet or sweating.

The finish. Hardwax oil, not polyurethane. It sits in the wood rather than on top of it, so the surface still feels like wood and repairs invisibly — a scratch can be spot-treated without stripping the whole top. Refresh high-use areas with a light coat of hardwax oil when the surface starts to look thirsty, roughly every year or two on a dining table, less on a desk. We'll tell you exactly what we used on your piece.

Reclaimed and salvaged wood. Nail holes, checks, insect tracks, old bolt scars and color variation are the record of where the wood has already been. We stabilize anything structural and leave the rest. No two pieces are alike, and photographs of one build won't predict the exact character of yours.

Sun-tanned poplar is poplar left in the California sun until it turns honey and chocolate — a color change in the wood itself, not a stain. It will continue to deepen slightly for the first months in your home, then settle.

Steel bases. Blackened steel is a chemical patina, hand-finished and sealed. Raw sealed steel keeps the mill surface under a clear coat. Both wipe clean with a dry cloth. Avoid abrasives, which will cut through the seal.

Built to be repaired. Mortise and tenon joinery, bolt-on bases and an oil finish all mean this furniture can be taken apart, refinished and put back into service decades from now. That's the point. If something ever needs attention, contact us — we'd rather fix it than see it replaced.