The Nantucket Porch
Vintage Brass Letter Opener & Magnifying Glass Desk Set in Brocade Box
Editor's Note
"An engraved brass letter opener and matching magnifier with turned ivory-tone handles, gift-boxed in brocade — the pair I'd leave out on the desk next to the ink and envelopes."
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- The Nantucket Porch
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How our editors have styled the vintage brass letter opener & magnifying glass desk set in brocade box — every piece in each photograph is shoppable.
Room Inspiration № 64
The Nantucket Study & Library
A handsome harbor-side study built around navy millwork, a warm wood writing desk and a deep tufted leather chair. Brass lighting, a working telescope, an island map and shelves of blue-spined books give it the collected feeling of a captain's library without turning nautical into a theme. The desk is styled in five — telescope, books, hydrangeas, compass and notebook — while a tailored rug and cocktail cart soften the room. Every desk, leather chair, rug, telescope, bar piece and masculine coastal accent is linked below.
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Room Inspiration № 81
The Coastal Writing Nook — Blue Tufted Chair & Mirrored Table
A sunlit corner for letters and long thoughts — a powder-blue tufted chair with nailhead trim pulled up to a round mirrored table styled in five: a ribbon-tied stack of letters, a fountain pen on stationery, a silver candlestick, a lit mercury votive and blue hydrangeas in a chinoiserie vase. Behind it, an aged-white writing desk holds a mercury glass lamp, more hydrangeas and a stack of coastal books, with a navy velvet ottoman and a faded blue rug underfoot and the harbor beyond the window. Shop the room and finish your own pen-pal corner with a blue-and-white desk mat, wax seals, letter openers and coastal postcards below.
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