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Functional Products Students Desk – Douglas Snelling

A few weeks ago I posted about a great Douglas Snelling sideboard manufactured by Functional Products Pty Ltd during the 1950’s.

Tonight I’d like to share another (rare?) piece by Snelling and Functional Products.

Australian Mid Century Desk
1950’s Queensland Maple desk

It’s a students desk, relatively simple in design however sporting those features that become ever so more recognisable each time you see them! Beautiful golden Queensland maple veneer, 4 angled front drawers and to the underside the Functional Products ink stamp.

Mid Century Australian Students Desk
Angular drawers on a Snelling Desk

Now I mentioned above the possibility of the students desk being a rare piece. In my research thus far I haven’t found another. It would of been apart of ‘The Snelling Line’ of furniture, and perhaps because of it’s simple design and looks, may of never really been thought to of had any value or significance?

Where to from here? Well, it joins the ever expanding list of items to ‘restore’. Now just to find a nice matching chair……..