For most of us, working time dominates the majority of our everyday lives. We sometimes spend more time at work or in our home office than with our own family. You should therefore consciously set up your work space and design it intentionally so that you feel comfortable in it and can concentrate as best as possible. Natural materials in particular, such as marble tables and wood, have been scientifically proven to have a positive effect on our health and well-being .

In this article we would like to focus on the interior design of the office. We'll give you information and inspiration on how you can benefit from a marble or natural stone desk, how to decorate your office and why a marble desk is the new stress ball.

Setting up the office - About marble desks, concentration & stress

When you move or want a change of scenery, you are often faced with the exciting but challenging task of redesigning your office. It is not irrelevant what type of job you do. For example, if someone has a job that requires a lot of concentration and is technical, then you should make sure that the furnishings do not impair concentration and you should rather keep the office quiet, clean and tidy.

Imagine you are a tax advisor and there are patterns, shapes and colors swirling around you - that can be a bit distracting. An artist or a person with a creative job profile can certainly use their own workplace as inspiration for their own work and furnish and decorate it accordingly.

In any case, it is advisable to choose a desk made of natural stone for your office. In addition to the aesthetics that a marble desk adds to the workplace, marble desks and work tables made of natural stone also offer many other advantages. We would now like to explain what these are and why this is the case.

Natural stones have a positive effect on health

We don't need to explain in more detail that natural stones are unique and aesthetic. But beautiful desks are also available in other materials - so why should you choose a desk made of marble or natural stone?

In fact, scientific studies have shown that natural materials, including natural stone, can have positive effects on our mental health. In 2008, for example, a study was published in the “Health Environments Research & Design Journal” that found that contact with natural materials such as stone or wood can have a stress-reducing effect on people and that natural materials improve our well-being and relaxation support financially. These are of course ideal conditions for a home office. But it gets even better!

Another study published in the Journal of Physiological Anthropology in 2015 examined the effects of the Japanese practice of Shinrin-Yoku, or "forest bathing," on human health. It found that contact with natural materials such as Stones, trees and the earth can have a positive influence on our blood pressure, heart rate and stress level.

Apart from the fact that a desk made of marble or another natural stone is a purely natural product and absolutely unique, the tables are also particularly robust, durable and valuable . Natural stones also have a dense structure that absorbs sound well. Reducing ambient noise and creating a quieter working environment can be beneficial during business calls and online meetings. This can also help to support concentration.

These findings and the potential effects of natural stone on our mental and physical health and our concentration are of course good arguments for choosing a desk made of marble or another natural stone for your own workplace. We would like to explain with a few tips and tricks how you can design the living space around your unique and high-quality natural stone table and what you should pay attention to when doing so.

Office furnishing tips – marble desk, plants & decorative elements

First, you should think about how you can best adapt your office to your everyday work routine before you start with the actual furnishing and design. Think about both practicality and aesthetically pleasing elements.

What colors do you like? What is particularly important to you in your workplace? What style of interior design do you want to design your office in? If you have answered these questions and still don't know exactly where to start, you can certainly start by choosing a desk.

The desk is definitely the focal point of your study and should therefore be the focus. Try to imagine the entire room where your natural stone desk will stand.

Ask yourself the following questions: Where should the natural stone desk be? Where are the sockets and light sources in your office? On which walls would you like to place pin boards or whiteboards? What shape should the table be?

Since natural stones come in many different colors and each individual slab is unique, created by Mother Nature, you have a free choice to design and decorate the space around your marble desk. There are no limits to different tastes and furnishing styles when it comes to natural stones - red, green, black, white or brown - you can choose the natural stone slab of your desk to match the rest of the room concept or align the other elements in the room with the desk.

The grains of the different types of natural stone in particular enable us to create a central focus or a decorative highlight in the room with a natural stone desk. 

Take the Emperador Marron marble (seen here on the Pittsburgh desk ), for example, which has a strong and striking grain - a desk made of this special and striking marble can become the focal point in the room. This decoration concept is particularly suitable for minimalist interior design styles if you want to deliberately interrupt the calm of minimalism. If you prefer things to be a bit louder and more exciting, you can also use striking grain to breathe even more life into the room.

Hopefully these considerations will help you design your office. You are also welcome to view ours Articles about different interior design styles and our great decor guide Read through for more inspiration.

Marble desks from the MAGNA Atelier

Browse through all our desks and side tables made of marble, quartzite and other natural stones .

We would also be happy to make you a custom-made copy if you cannot find what you are looking for in our range.