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Gazette

Office furniture, minus the homework. Buying guides, honest product talk, and notes from behind the scenes at Deskwell, written by the people who actually do the job. Some of it will save you a bad purchase. Some of it is Ben talking about the website again.

What We Look For in a Supplier (So You Don't Have To)

Guarantees by part, weight ratings in writing, spare parts you can buy and a lead time the supplier will stand behind. The checklist every range passes before it goes on our shop.

Chris15 October 2026

Ex VAT Prices: What the Number on the Page Actually Means

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Ben2 October 2026

Reviews Are Live: What You Think, on the Page

Customer reviews are now on every product page. How they work, why the three-star ones stay up, and what we do with what you tell us.

Ben25 September 2026

Search, Filters, and Finding the Right Chair in Three Clicks

How search and filtering work on deskwell.co.uk, why the categories are named for how people shop rather than how suppliers file, and what the site deliberately does not do.

Ben4 September 2026

Our online office furniture shop is live, by the numbers

The shop is open. Here is exactly what sits behind it: 440 listings, 20,366 variations, 676 technical sheets and 383,765 individual specification lines.

Chris1 September 2026

Nearly There: Our Online Shop Is About to Open Its Doors

443 listings, 21,397 product codes, full specifications on all of it and 167 things you can spin round in 3D. What is live now, what lands next, and where the rough edges are.

Ben14 August 2026

Product Photos, 3D Models, and Why We Bother

What does the back look like? A photograph rarely says. How we build product pages, why we model furniture in 3D, and the fiddly parts nobody is meant to notice.

Ben6 August 2026

Why We're Building Our Own Shop Rather Than Renting Someone Else's

Renting a shop from a big platform would have had us trading months earlier. Here is what it would have cost us, and why we built the thing ourselves instead.

Ben30 July 2026

What "Delivered Direct" Actually Means for Your Order

Your order travels from our supplier straight to your door. Here is what that does to the price, the lead time, and the five minutes that matter when it arrives.

Sarah29 July 2026

Answers, Not Homework: Why We Publish Every Spec We Can Find

Hiding product information behind a phone call is bad manners. Here is what goes on a Deskwell product page, and what happens when the numbers will not come.

Sarah22 July 2026