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Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Queens, NY
Louis XVI style (19th-20th century) gilt bronze mounted 3-drawer bureau plat desk having a center
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Maison-Jansen Attributed French Leather, Top Bureau Plat Desk
By Maison Jansen
Located in New York, NY
Vintage French leather top bureau plat desk with pull-out slides.
The table extends 12.5" on each
Category
Vintage 1950s French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
French Empire Bureau Plat Desk 1880 Directoire
Located in Potters Bar, GB
French Empire Bureau Plat desk circa 1880 in the Directoire manner
Top quality mahogany with a
Category
Antique 1880s Empire Desks
Materials
Wood
Antique French Inlaid Bureau Plat Desk
Located in London, GB
An absolutely exquisite antique French inlaid bureau plat desk. This was made in France, it dates
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Mahogany & Gold Bronze "Bureau Plat" Desk.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fine Quality Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Mahogany & Gold Bronze "Bureau Plat" Desk.
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Leather Top Ormolu Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Chicago, US
Bureau Plat desk in the style of Louis XVI. Original inset brown leather writing surface with
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Bronze
Elegant veneered bureau plat / desk in Louis XV style
Located in Berlin, DE
Elegant veneered bureau plat / desk in Louis XV style
Solid beech wood and veneer. Very fine
Category
20th Century Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass, Bronze
French Bureau Plat / Desk in Louis XV, Paris, circa 1880
Located in Berlin, DE
French Bureau plat / desk in Louis XV, Paris, circa 1880.
Solid beech wood veneer. Extremely
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Baker Furniture Modern Regency Writing Desk or Bureau Plat Desk
By Michael Vanderbyl, Baker Furniture Company
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional modern Regency style writing desk or bureau plat desk
By Michael Vanderbyl for
Category
1990s American Modern Desks
Materials
Nickel
Napoleon III Bureau Plat Desk Mahogany Writing Table 1890
Located in Potters Bar, GB
A Napoleon III mahogany bureau plat desk on cabriole legs
Circa 1890
The desk has been finished
Category
Antique 1890s Napoleon III Desks
Materials
Mahogany
A French Louis XVI style three drawer mahogany bureau plat desk C 1930
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A Louis XVI style French three drawer mahogany bureau plat desk having extensive bronze decoration
Category
Vintage 1930s French Louis XIV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Baker Furniture Egyptian Revival Rosewood Leather Top Executive Bureau Plat Desk
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Egyptian Revival, Neoclassical, or Empire style executive writing desk or bureau plat
Category
Late 20th Century American Egyptian Revival Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Karges French Louis XV Chinoiserie Cream Lacquered Leather Top Bureau Plat Desk
By Karges Furniture
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous French Louis XV Chinoiserie style writing desk or bureau plat desk
By Karges
USA
Category
Vintage 1980s American Louis XV Desks
Materials
Brass
19th Century Bureau Plat Desk in Kingwood Att. to Francois Linke
Located in New York, NY
A sublime Bureau Plat Desk in Kingwood with crisp ormolu mounts in the Louis XV style. A set of
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
Large Antique Quality Kingwood Ornate Ormolu Mounted Partners Bureau Plat-Desk
Located in Suffolk, GB
Large Antique Victorian quality freestanding kingwood ornate ormolu mounted partners bureau plat
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Desks
Materials
Other
Superb Chinoiserie Paint Decorated French Louis XV Mirrored Top Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This superb Chinoiserie painted decorated French Louis XV bureau plat desk is a stunning example of
Category
Vintage 1920s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass, Bronze
French Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze-Mounted Kingwood Three-Drawer Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A French Louis XV style gilt bronze-mounted kingwood bureau plat (desk). The gilt banded
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Kingwood
$18,950 Sale Price
44% Off
Directoire-Style Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Chicago, US
Directoire/Napoleon III style desk composed of one large center and two side dovetailed drawers
Category
Early 20th Century Directoire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique French Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Potters Bar, GB
This rather impressive French bureau plat stands upon shaped legs Circa 1920
Featuring 3 working
Category
Vintage 1920s French Provincial Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Large Antique French Louis XV Bureau Plat Desk After Charles Cressent
Located in New York, NY
Monumental antique bureau plat (desk) in the French Louis XV style after the original design by
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Bureau Plat/Desk high gloss white with gold after C. Boulle
Located in Berlin, DE
20th Century Bureau Plat/Desk high gloss white with gold after C. Boulle
This model was built by
Category
20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Magnificent Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Leather Top Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This antique 19th century French Louis XV bureau plat desk is a magnificent example of fine
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Boulle Ormolu and Ebony Bureau Plat/Desk by Mathieu Béfort, France
By Befort Jeune, André-Charles Boulle, Mathieu Béfort
Located in North Miami, FL
Late 19th century Regency Boulle-style ormolu and ebony wood bureau plat/desk by Mathieu Béfort
Category
Antique 1880s French Regency Desks
Materials
Metal, Silver, Bronze, Copper, Ormolu
A French 19th century Louis XVI st. Mahogany and Ormolu Bureau Plat desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive French 19th century Louis XVI st. Mahogany and Ormolu Bureau Plat desk, stamped by
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th century Louis XV st. Tulipwood, Kingwood and Ormolu Bureau Plat desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Bureau Plat desk. This most handsome desk is raised by four cabriole legs decorated by top Ormolu mounts
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Bureau Plat Desk Kingwood Antiques
Located in Potters Bar, GB
This quality bureau plat stands upon elegant shaped legs with ormolu mounts.
circa 1930
The
Category
Vintage 1930s Desks
Materials
Kingwood
French 19th Century Louis XV St. Mahogany, Tulipwood and Ormolu Bureau Plat Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
bureau plat desk. The three drawer desk is raised by elegant cabriole legs with handsome fitted paw feet
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XV Style Flamed Mahogany and Ormolu Bureau Plat Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A magnificent French 19th century Louis XV style flamed mahogany and ormolu Bureau plat desk. The
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Regency Style Bureau Plat Desk with Bronze Figures
Located in Dallas, TX
Fine Bureau Plat with Parquety top and bronze figures all in excellent conditions.
Category
Antique 1890s French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Outstanding Pair of Red Laquered Bureau Plat Desks
Located in Swadlincote, GB
A wonderful pair of French red laquered partners bureau platt desk, with outstanding ormolu mounts
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XIV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
$8,229 / item
Early 19th century French Empire Bureau Plat / Desk
Located in Troy, NY
French Empire Bureau Plat of Stately Size, the top inset with a dark leather writing surface
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Louis XVI Tulipwood Leather Top Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive late 18th century French writing desk with a tooled black leather top, probably original
Category
Antique 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Tulipwood
French Bureau Plat Desk, Empire Dummy Partners Desks
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Gorgeous French Empire bureau plat
Classic French antique desk in kingwood with ormolu fixtures
Category
Vintage 1930s French Empire Desks
Materials
Kingwood
19th Century Napoleon III Ladies Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Berlin, DE
shaded precious wood, veneered. Extremely fine, floral, bronze fittings. On slanting, curved legs, on all sides with perforated corner fittings. On the other hand, a fully curved, si...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Desks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Oak Barley Twist Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Spectacular 19th century French bureau plat writing table or desk featuring barley twist legs and
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XIII Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
$3,840 Sale Price
20% Off
Signed Paul Sormani French Leather Top Bureau Plat Desk
By Paul Sormani
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
A very Fine Writing Desk by Paul Sormani. Sormani, counted among the most elite Parisian
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Empire Napoleon III Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Miami, FL
A fine large sized flat desk otherwise referred to as a "bureau de ministre" or ministers flat desk
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Desks
Materials
Bronze
Vintage French Ormolu Mounted Marquetry Bureau Plat Desk 20th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a gorgeous vintage French Louis Revival walnut, ormolu mounted, marquetry bureau plat
Category
Late 20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Louis Revival Ormolu Mounted Bureau Plat Desk 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a gorgeous antique French Louis Revival gilt bronze mounted amaranth bureau plat, Circa
Category
Antique 1860s French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Bureau Plat Desk Ladies Writing Table
Located in Potters Bar, GB
You are viewing a gorgeous French desk or bureau plat in the Louis XVI manner
Elegant design with
Category
Antique 1870s Louis XVI Tables
Materials
Wood
Victorian Period Walnut Bureau Plat Desk with Maroon Leather Top
Located in Pasadena, TX
This is a nice Victorian period bureau.
Its made of walnut and has fluted legs.
The stretcher has
Category
Antique 1880s English Victorian Desks
Materials
Walnut
Fine Antique French Ormolu Bureau Plat Desk After Linke 19th Century
By François Linke
Located in London, GB
A fine antique French wood, porcelain and ormolu mounted bureau plat, in the manner of Linke, Circa
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Expressionist Rococo Berlin Deko Bureau-Plat/Desk, Lacquered in Saffron Yellow
By Bruno Paul
Located in Petershagen, DE
This Berlin Deko Bureau-Plat represents the evolution of women's writing furniture from the private
Category
Vintage 1920s German Art Deco Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Maple
Antique Monumental French Empire Bureau Plat Desk Writing Table 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a fine antique French Empire ormolu mounted mahogany bureau plat, circa 1870 in date.
The
Category
Antique 1870s French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XV Style Ormolu-Mounted Bureau Plat Desk
By Paul Sormani
Located in Los Angeles, CA
-drawer bureau plat attributed to Paul Sormani (French-Italian 1817-1877). The shaped rectangular top
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Baker Furniture French Regency Louis XVI Walnut Leather Top Bureau Plat Desk
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in Southampton, NJ
Louis XVI style Regency Bureau Plat writing desk on brass casters boasting striking tooled leather
Category
20th Century American Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Louis XV Style French Kingwood Parquetry and Gilt Bronze Bureau Plat 'Desk'
By Jean-Pierre Latz
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A late 19th century French Bureau Plat in kingwood and amaranth parquetry with three drawers to one
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Kingwood
French Louis XV White Painted Provincial Bureau Plat Desk with Six Drawers
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Elegant French Louis XV White Painted Provincial Table or Desk with Six Drawers - could sit in the
Category
Antique 19th Century French French Provincial Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
François Linke French Louis XVI Ormolu Kingwood Bureau Plat Desk, c.1889
By François Linke
Located in King's Lynn, GB
1889, this bureau plat represents one of François Linke’s earlier works. The desk bears his workshop
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
RESTORED ANTiQUE LATE 19TH CENTURY LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MOUNTED BUREAU PLAT DESK
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Bureau Plat with new hand dyed brown leather, gold leaf embossed writing surface
Please note the
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Late Victorian Desks
Materials
Bronze
Bureau Plat
Located in London, England
Paris made French walnut bureau plat / desk.
France Circa 1940
Category
Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
$3,882
French 19th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze-Mounted Kingwood Bureau Plat Desk
By H. Conquet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
bureau plat by H. Conquet after a model by Charles Cressent. The shaped rectangular top inset with a
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French 19th-Century Louis XV Style Figural Gilt-Bronze Mounted Bureau-Plat Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
-drawer bureau-plat cartonnier with Dual clock-works by Lenoir, Paris, surmounted with a pair two-light
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Ormolu
19thc French Louis XVI Style Bureau Plat Desk with Ormolu in Diminutive Size
Located in Savannah, GA
legs. There are three drawers, one large in the middle with a smaller one on either side. The desk is
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th C.Louis XV Style Ormolu Mounted Bureau-Plat Desk Attr. Paul Sormani
By Paul Sormani
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bureau Plat - After a model by Joseph Baumhauer (died 1772) - Attributed to Paul Sormani (French-Italian
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
French Bureau Plat Desk Antique Parquetry Writing Table Napoleon III
Located in Potters Bar, GB
You are viewing a gorgeous antique French bureau plat in the Napoleon III manner
Features intricate
Category
Antique Early 1900s Napoleon III Tables
Materials
Wood
"Buerau Plat" Desk by Linke
Located in Madrid, ES
"Buerau Plat" desk by Linke
"Bureau Plat" desk by linke elegant 19th century desk in light and
Category
Antique 1890s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Fruitwood
$10,239
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With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the bureau plat desk you’re looking for. A bureau plat desk — often made from wood, metal and animal skin — can elevate any home. If you’re shopping for a bureau plat desk, we have 815 options in-stock, while there are 1 modern editions to choose from as well. Your living room may not be complete without a bureau plat desk — find older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. Each bureau plat desk bearing Louis XV, Louis XVI or Empire hallmarks is very popular. Many designers have produced at least one well-made bureau plat desk over the years, but those crafted by François Linke, Maison Jansen and Paul Sormani are often thought to be among the most beautiful.
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Finding the Right Desks-writing-tables for You
Choosing the perfect writing desk or writing table is a profoundly personal journey, one that people have been embarking upon for centuries.
Queen Atossa of Persia, from her writing table circa 500 B.C., is said to have been the originator of the art of handwritten letters. Hers was reportedly the first in a long and colorful history of penned correspondence that grew in popularity alongside literacy. The demand for suitable writing desks, which would serve the composer of the letters as well as ensure the comfort of the recipient naturally followed, and the design of these necessary furnishings has evolved throughout history.
Once people began to seek freedom from the outwardly ornate styles of the walnut and rosewood writing desks and drafting tables introduced in the name of Queen Victoria and King Louis XV, radical shifts occurred, such as those that materialized during the Art Nouveau period, when designers longed to produce furniture inspired by the natural world’s beauty. A prime example is the work of the famous late-19th-century Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí — his rolltop desk featured deep side drawers and was adorned with carved motifs that paid tribute to nature. Gaudí regularly combined structural precision with decorative elements, creating beautiful pieces of furniture in wood and metal.
Soon afterward, preferences for sleek, geometric, stylized forms in furniture that saw an emphasis on natural wood grains and traditional craftsmanship took hold. Today, Art Deco desks are still favored by designers who seek to infuse interiors with an air of luxury. One of the most prominent figures of the Art Deco movement was French decorator and furniture designer Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann. With his use of neoclassical motifs as well as expensive and exotic materials such as imported dark woods and inlays of precious metals for his writing desks, Ruhlmann came to symbolize good taste and modernity.
The rise in appreciation for Scandinavian modernism continues to influence the design of contemporary writing desks. It employs the “no fuss” or “less is more” approach to creating a tasteful, sophisticated space. Sweden’s master cabinetmaker Bruno Mathsson created gallery-worthy designs that are as functional as they are beautiful. Finnish architect Alvar Aalto never viewed himself as an artist, but, like Mathsson, his furniture designs reflected a fondness for organic materials and a humanistic approach. Danish designers such as Hans Wegner introduced elegant shapes and lines to mid-century desks and writing tables, often working in oak and solid teak.
From vintage desks to contemporary styles, 1stDibs offers a broad spectrum of choices for conducting all personal and business writing and reading activities.
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