I bought the desk from a second hand shop, CCA, in Cairns in 2007. It cost about $150. I think it was made in India maybe 40 years ago, or 50. It is a big and heavy thing, but I was very charmed by its simple wood beauty and the fact that it was scratched, gouged and worn by many years of use...and nothing is pre-fabricated at all. The only thing I ever did to improve it was to wipe it down with some oil and water. Each of its 9 drawers only fits into each drawer's individually hand hacked slot. It has 9 wooden drawers. It separates into 3 big pieces...the two pedestals and the big top... and so is manageable to move around, although it does take up a lot of room space in a modern living house life. It had a big crack on the top which made me like it enough to buy it. I moved to live in Asia the next year and so sold it to the neighbours at Trinity Beach for about $150. 6 years later I returned to Cairns and bought it back from exactly the same second hand shop, CCA, I had originally bought it from...for about $150. This is MY desk. It still has the same big crack in the top. I must admit I have added to its overall damage in my time but it still remains a very good desk. Over the years it has been crowded with devices and books and paperwork and attempts at thinking, just now it is quite empty as if just resting quietly in the lounge room...like me. The lamp on the right is from a department store in Thailand, the lamp on the left is from a shop on Mulgrave Road, Cairns, and the picture on the wall is of King Rama IX, of Thailand, when he was a monk and 20 years old. He still rules there. Amazing.