Thelonious Piano Desk
Sometimes You Gotta Do It Wrong to Get It Right
Thelonious Monk's playing was considered out of step, out of tune, and childishly simple by plenty of his contemporaries. He could not have cared less about showing off. But man, could he put on a show.
This one is named for him. Gothic modern by way of Art Nouveau, with a little Dune in it. It'll take your brain somewhere else while you play, and it holds a room when nobody is playing at all.
A mobile piano desk with folding accordion doors that keep the studio side out of sight until you want it. Work behind it, or close it up and entertain in front of it. The XL body takes a 60-inch screen and doubles as a television armoire. Books, stereo gear, racks or drawers below — the practical parts hidden in plain sight.
All of our pieces are custom-made to order,
and more options to explore in conversation.
Ask us about our 60/40 payment plan.
Features
- upright piano design inspired by the jazz greats
- on casters for room mobility
- lights with dimmer
- accordion pocket doors
- lower storage
- 3 x 2U rack spaces (6U total), or drawers
- XL body available to take a 60-inch screen
- solid hardwood construction
- classic mortise and tenon joinery
- age enduring oil + hard wax finish
Specs
- 63w x 21d x 64h body
- 57.5w x 16d x 5.5h key drawer
- 3 x 2U rack spaces (6U total)
- 2 x 60w x 9d cable + storage shelves
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 — Mahogany
- $950 — White oak or walnut
- $1,450 — Apocalyptic blackened reclaimed & walnut
Dimensions
- Included — Standard — 64h
- $750 — XL height — 74h, for a large 60-inch screen
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.
- 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.