So what's the question?
| I've been looking at some modular desk. wood finish would be cherry.
One thing to be aware of when you're buying things like desktops and tables:
Unless you're paying a lot for good furniture, "cherry" is taking poetic license. It's probably particle board with a vaguely cherry-ish veneer that could be printed, or even plastic laminate. (Some very expensive furniture is just junk particle board with plastic laminate made to show a fairly convincing wood grain.)
Particle board furniture can have a hidden cost, especially with desks and bookshelves: It has low shear strength (don't sit on it) and if it breaks or cracks there's nothing to fix because there was no real structure in the first place. I used to get a lot of calls from people with Scandinavian Design furniture and had to explain that their fashionable "teak" pieces were junk. Ikea is the new Scandinavian Design.
I was just at a job yesterday in a very "exclusive" condo development. The customer had cabinets from a well marketed company called Poggenpohl, with a store on the high fashion street in Boston. Someone had glued mirrors to the cabinet doors. There was nothing I could to to remove them and restore the doors. It's wood grain plastic laminate over junk particle board.