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In The Expanse series, season 4 episode 10, 37 minutes in, Avasarala is sitting at a desk which looks to be the famed "Resolute Desk" used by current day U.S. presidents. On closer comparison to images of the actual "Resolute Desk", the Expanse desk looks very similar but there are several easily spotted differences (aside from the missing center panel commissioned by FDR to hide his braces and presumed to have been later removed.)

Is the desk in The Expanse used by U.N. General Secretary supposed to be the same desk from U.S. history or is it just a big wood desk?

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Dosco Jones
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BradV
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    A picture of the desk in the episode would help. The one I found online is definitely not a copy or recreation of the Resolute Desk (carving and structural elements are different), so I'd say it's meant to just be a big wood desk. – SpaceWolf1701 Feb 11 '23 at 22:38
  • @Lexible Thanks for adding the image to my post. I wanted to get a screen capture of the show's desk but couldn't access Prime account. I had heard that a second similar desk was constructed from the wood of the HMS Resolute. There is indeed a second desk from HMS Resolute wood... but is completely different in style (open bottom framework, taller, overall much smaller). – BradV Feb 14 '23 at 16:40
  • Oh! I did not add the image (I think @DoscoJones did). My contributions were the link to the Wikipedia article, and some minor orthographic editing. :) <3 – Lexible Feb 15 '23 at 00:55
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    @DoscoJones thanks! – BradV Feb 15 '23 at 06:30
  • @BradV No worries – Dosco Jones Feb 15 '23 at 17:33

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It does not look at all the same, even accounting for the middle panel.

Obama at Resolute desk

It's not the same desk.

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  • There could be some inspiration there. It's not some futuristic sci-fi desk, it is carved wood and about as ornate as the real thing. But yes, obviously not the same and not intended to be the same. – Todd Wilcox Feb 12 '23 at 04:44