RAMSAY Decorateur Desk/Cabinet

Baroque cabinet with Secretary desk, coming from Southern Germany and dating back to end of the 18th century. In two parts, the top with hinged door opening to adjusting shelves with four shaped drawers flanking on each side, the lower part with mechanical roll top and extending writing surface, the lower part with reverse serpentine...

Swedish antique Biedermeier writing desk chiffonier secrétaire cabinet in highly quilted golden birch veneers and finished in the Classic light h...

A fine Chinese Chippendale style two-piece mahogany lighted display cabinet with fitted butler’s desk by John Widdicomb Co, Grand Rapids, Michigan, featuring a beautifully carved ret...

Mid century Borge Morgensen teak secretary desk is part desk, part storage. Bottom part has three drawers. Top leaf drops down into a writing surface. Multifunctional and elegant, this desk can serve as both a desk and an entryway piece. Great hidden storage and workspace. Has working lock with key. About the designer: Among the great mid-20th century Danish furniture designers, Børge Mogensen distinguished himself with his faith to traditional values of craftsmanship and honesty of materials. While peers such as Hans Wegner, Finn Juhl and Arne Jacobsen designed some of the most striking and now iconic furnishings of the era, Mogensen focused on making pieces that were simple, durable and comfortable — and in the long run perhaps more useful and better loved. Mogensen studied under and later worked for Kaare Klint, a master cabinetmaker whose chief tenets were quality of construction and simplicity of line. Klint was a classicist, who believed that furniture forms should evolve from those of historical models. So, too, in his way was Mogensen, as two of his best-known earlier pieces attest. His 1945 Spokeback Sofa, with hinged arms that can be lowered to facilitate lounging, is a reinterpretation of the venerable Knole settee. With the oval silhouette of its plywood backrest and waterdrop-shaped cutouts, Mogenson’s Shell chair, designed in 1949, can be seen as a novel take on early 19th century Empire side chairs. Yet Mogensen shared the aesthetical sensibilities of his most forward-looking colleagues. His cabinets deploy the same spare geometries and lushly figured woods as those of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his disciple Florence Knoll, the chief difference being that Mies and Knoll used...

This is an antique specimen cabinet, a French, oak cupboard offering a secretaire desk dating to the late 19th century, circa 1850. In a de...

Elegant antique cabinet in precious mahogany 1880s. The openable floor allows a support to write. Inside eight small drawers. In front of both ...