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How to find the right desk height for your body
The elbow test, and what to do when the desk is fixed.
★☆☆ · 5 MIN
How To: Gaming
THE HOW TO CO. — EDITION 10
How To: Gaming
THE HOW TO CO. — EDITION 10
THE DETAIL
A desk is defined by two measurements and neither is the one on the product page. Height decides whether your elbows land at ninety without your shoulders lifting. Depth decides whether a monitor can sit far enough back to be comfortable, which on a shallow desk it simply cannot, no matter what arm you buy.
5 PIECES · IN THE WORKSHOP
Five pieces about two measurements and where everything else follows from them.
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The elbow test, and what to do when the desk is fixed.
★☆☆ · 5 MIN
02
Screen size against viewing distance, and the depth that follows.
★★☆ · 6 MIN
03
Clamp depth, edge thickness, and the desks that cannot take one.
★★☆ · 6 MIN
04
Trays, channels and the routing order that keeps it tidy.
★☆☆ · 5 MIN
05
The honest answer, and the cheaper thing that helps as much.
★★☆ · 6 MIN
FROM THE CURATOR
Two numbers, thirty seconds: how thick is the rear edge of your desk, and how much clear space is there behind whatever is on it. Half the monitor arms sent back are sent back because the desk edge is forty millimetres thick and the clamp opens to thirty-five, or because there is a wall six centimetres behind and the arm needs twelve. Neither is on the product page in a way anybody reads.
BY POPPY — CLASS: CURATOR · THEPINKPIPER.GG
SLOT 07 / 08 · DESKS & CHAIRS
Every station in this room has its own chapter. This one is 07. Back to the room to walk to another.
