Furniture with acoustical treatments

A sound absorbing freestanding desk comprising:

• a) a plurality of structures having vertical and horizontal surfaces, said horizontal surfaces including a writing surface;
• b) at least one of said structures consisting of at least one panel having (i) a said vertical surface and comprising a front veneer with a pattern of micro-perforations extending completely through vertical surfaces thereof, (ii) a sound porous core abutted behind said front veneer, and (iii) a rear veneer abutted behind said sound porous core and having a pattern of micro-perforations extending therethrough, said micro-perforations of said front veneer acoustically connected to porous aspects of said sound porous core and to said micro-perforations of said rear veneer, porous aspects of said sound porous core solely consists of a pattern of a plurality of holes larger in diameter than said micro-perforations, said holes extending from a flat front surface of said core through to a rear surface of said holes being isolated from one another
• c) said structures with vertical surfaces chosen from the group consisting of one or more of a door, a drawer front, and a support leg;
• d) said micro-perforations having an average diameter within a range of from 0.25 to less than 0.65 mm;
• d) at least one second veneer facing a storage space defined between said plurality of structures, said freestanding desk configured to be located within a room whereby sounds within said room defined by soundwaves impinging upon said at least one panel are attenuated when they enter said micro-perforations of said front veneer;
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• f) said at least one panel exhibiting enhanced sound absorption measured by increased Sabin values and reduced sound reverberation time as compared to a conventional desk panel.