A piece of furniture made up of two separate bodies: a writing desk below and a cabinet above.

This Georgian style pine

 bureau 

a writing desk with a top body containing drawers and pigeonholes which can be closed with a folding or hinged lid. The term was brought into Spain in the 18^th century for the type of writing desks being made in England, France and other European countries.

with oak drawers divided by panels rests on four feet. The original escutcheons and handles have since been replaced, and oval marks can still be observed beneath them. The foldable lid opens to reveal a tier of drawers in

 serpentine 

the serpentine line was introduced into furniture making after the acceptance in Great Britain of the Rococo style brought by the French engraver Hubert-François Bourguignon, known as Gravelot (1699-1773). Its influence can be seen above all in the painter William Hogarth (1697-1764), founder of St. Martin’s Lane Academy, dedicated to teaching drawing and painting, where the curved line became synonymous with the line of beauty. This aesthetic had a particular influence on cabinetmakers, ceramists and jewellers, thanks to which the Rococo style was reinterpreted in England, as is the case of Thomas Chippendale, who also introduced the serpentine line in his designs.

, a door flanked by fluted pilasters and an upper compartmented shelf. The lower larger part has four drawers.

The cabinet, made at a later date, with a mixed straight and curved front, has half-arc blind doors which, when opened reveal a space divided in five tiers with compartments, drawers and doors.

The need to store important papers led to the demand for this type of furniture which was easy to transport and which could be locked. Initially, books and papers were stored in chests and boxes, and these containers gradually evolved towards a set of retractable drawers with handles that made them easy to move and whose folding lid could serve as a writing desk. These boxes or drawers were initially placed on tables or over stands built with that purpose in mind.

Later on, when writing desks were no longer designed to be transported, the feet or stands became a fixed element incorporated into the piece of furniture and different designs began to appear, ranging from those which use the lower part—which had previously been a simple table or legs—to those with closed doors or drawers with a space for the legs when seated with drawers or shelves on either side.