Antique Burr Walnut Kidney Shaped Desk, Writing Table, Scotland 1870, H1178
Located in Vancouver, BC
Antique Burr Walnut Kidney Shaped Desk, Writing Table, Scotland 1870, H1178 Scotland 1870 Solid Walnut and veneer Original finish Free standing kidney shaped writing desk Having a s...
Walnut
Kidney Shaped Desk, Walnut Desk, Edwardian Writing Table, Scotland 1910, B967
Located in Vancouver, BC
Kidney shaped desk, Walnut desk, Edwardian writing table, Scotland 1910, B967 Scotland 1910 Solid Walnut Original finish Green leather insert on shaped top over an arrangement of mi...
Walnut
Beautiful Mahogany Inlaid Late Victorian Period Kidney Shaped Writing Desk
Located in Darwen, GB
A beautiful mahogany inlaid late Victorian period kidney shaped desk. Having a solid fiddleback mahogany kidney shaped top with an inset olive green gilt and blind tooled leather wit...
Kidney-Shaped Table Firmly Attributed to Gillows
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in Sundridge, GB
Constructed in finely figured burl elm, the "hockey stick" end supports each enclosing three tapering, ebonised and turned ‘triple spindles’ and terminating in original brass castor...
Russian Jacob Style Neoclassical Kidney Table. Circa 1810
Located in New York, NY
# W106 - Russian Neoclassical brass-mounted mahogany table in the Russian Jacob style having kidney shaped top with fluted brass edge above shallow frieze drawer, raised on square ta...
American Kidney Desk
Located in San Francisco, CA
Bleached walnut desk top on three bent steel boomerang shaped legs.
Sold|$3,914
Late 19th Century Writing Table
Located in Peterborough, Northamptonshire
An unusual late 19th century kidney shaped Writing Table, very much Gillows of Lancaster in design, the top edge cross banded with a highly figured central section on elegant swept e...
Mahogany
Sold|$10,022
George III Period Writing Table
Located in Peterborough, Northamptonshire
An elegant George III period faded rosewood kidney shaped writing table of the finest quality, the lyre end supports with gilt bronze rods with a double cross banded top and well tur...
Mahogany
Sold|$680
Edwardian Kidney Shaped Desk
Located in Buckinghamshire, GB
Edwardian mahogany kidney shaped desk having a black leather scriber and single drawer raised on tapering legs with castors
Sold|$4,350
Italian Walnut Kidney Shaped Desk
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Italian walnut and inlaid kidney shaped one drawer writing table
Sold|$4,839
Edwardian Mahogany Kidney Shaped Desk
Located in Whaley Bridge, GB
This antique writing table is polished and inlaid throughout enabling freestanding.
Mahogany
Sold|$3,200
WOOD AND MARBLE WRITING TABLE / DESK
Located in St.amford, CT
Kidney form writing table/desk, with zebra pattern marblized top.
Wood
Sold|$960
Burl Walnut Kidney Shaped desk
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Victorian English Burl Walnut Kidney Shaped Desk.
Burl, Walnut
Sold|$3,250
Bronze mounted Kidney Shaped Desk
Located in Miami, FL
Early 20th C kidney shaped bronze mounted French desk
Sold|$3,847
Gillows Kidney Shaped Sloped Desk
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in Altrincham, Cheshire
Gillows kidney shaped sloped desk with side drawer and turned and reeded leg with brass castors, circa 1820 (later Victorian inlays) Measures: 33" W x 20" D x 33" H (back) - 29" H (...
Leather, Mahogany
Sold|$4,100
Kidney-Shaped Danish Modern Desk
Located in New Rochelle, NY
One of the finest examples of Danish Modernism in the form of a writing desk. Striking rosewood bookmatched grain throughout, with tambour door, cubbies for books or decorative objec...
Wood
Sold|$19,500
An English Rosewood Kidney Form Desk
Located in Woodbury, CT
An English rosewood kidney shaped writing table in the manner of Gillows.
Rosewood
Sold|$14,000
Russian Neoclassical Kidney Desk Circa 1800
Located in New York, NY
See similar examples of occasional tables, kidney tables, side tables, desks, writing tables and end tables on our website Florianpapp.com Florian Papp, fine antiques in our New Y...
Antique Directoire Walnut Writing Table & A Copy.
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very nice early 19th century kidney shaped one drawer writing table in walnut with camel inset tooled leather.
Wood, Leather
Sold|$4,100
Kidney Shaped Rosewood Danish Modern Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Danish Modern kidney shaped desk. Beautiful Midcentury Modern Piece. Rosewood desk with revolving mirrored bar, and seperate utilities sorter (rotating) above. Drawers to left side a...
Rosewood
Midcentury Teak Kidney Shaped Desk, 1950s
By Kai Kristiansen
Located in Nyborg, DK
Teak desk manufactured in Denmark in the 1950s featuring an organic kidney shape top plate, bar with tambour door, bookshelf on the back and three drawers one lockable. Apart from a ...
Teak
Sold|$4,500
1950s Kidney Shape Top Cerused Desk
Located in Pasadena, CA
1950s desk has been newly refinished in black and white cerusing. This charming desk has a kidney shaped top with enclosed easel-style legs which curve at the bottom on one side. The...
Oak
Sold|$2,250
Danish Mid-Century Kidney Desk in Teak
By Kai Kristiansen
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Danish Mid-Century kidney desk in teak. Excellent example of a sought after design. Teak desk in the kidney shape with an exciting tambour door on the right-hand side which reveal...
Mid Century Modern Kidney Shaped Brass Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Mid Century modern brass kidney shaped desk with glass top attributed to Mastercraft. Sculptural and attractive from all angles this desk may be floated in a room.
Kidney shaped hand painted detail. 19th C. desk
Located in Vancouver, BC
Kidney shaped satinwood desk with hand painted detail. Circa 1890-1900
Satinwood
Late 18th Century Sheraton Style, Kidney-Shaped Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
Sheraton style kidney-shaped desk of faded mahogany with banding and stringing.
Fine Quality Coromandel and Marquetry Inlaid Victorian Period Kidney Desk
Located in Darwen, GB
A fine quality Coromandel and marquetry inlaid Victorian period kidney shaped writing table. The kidney shaped top having a fine quality velum green leather writing surface with gilt...
Good 19th Century Mahogany Rococco Style Kidney Shaped Desk
Located in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire
A good C19th mahogany rococco style kidney shaped desk, the inset gilt tooled black leather top bordered in a figured mahogany crossbanding, the concave central drawer with a foliate...
19th Century English Victorian Burr Walnut Ladies Desk Writing Table, 1850
Located in Roma, RM
Victorian burr walnut kidney shaped ladies writing table. Fantastic example of an English ladies desk writing table, from the early Victorian period.Fantastic quality walnut burr wo...
Walnut
Midcentury Rosewood Kidney Shaped Desk, H.P. Hansen, 1960s
By H.P. Hansen
Located in Nyborg, DK
This rare Danish modern atomic midcentury rosewood writing desk was manufactured by H.P. Hansen Møbelfabrik in the 1960s. Looking good from every angle, this gorgeous piece features ...
Rosewood
Early Teak Kidney Desk by Kai Kristiansen, Model No.54
By Kai Kristiansen
Located in Handewitt, DE
Freestanding kidney / organic desk in teak with home bar and hidden drawer. Model 54. Designed 1956 by Kai Kristiansen for FM Furniture, Feldballe Denmark.
Brass
Kidney Shaped Teak Desk, Danish Mid-Century Modern Design, 1950s
Located in Berlin, DE
Organic teak desk with rolling shutter and bookshelf on the back. Very rare sophisticated Mid-Century Modern Design from the Danish 1950s. Fully restored, in excellent original con...
Teak
Art Deco Amboyna Wood Kidney Form Desk in the Manner of Ruhlmann circa 1925
By Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann
Located in New York, NY
# Y061 - Art Deco kidney shaped Amboyna wood desk in the manner of Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann. The top is finely veneered with Amboyna wood surrounded by a checkered border. The front...
Amboyna
Antique Edwardian Walnut Kidney Shaped Writing Desk Table
Located in Longdon, Tewkesbury
Antique Edwardian walnut kidney shaped writing desk standing on four turned legs all with original porcelain casters.
Walnut
Sold|$7,800
Kidney Shaped Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Mississauga, ON
An English Sheraton George III Period Late 18th Century Kidney Shaped Mahogany Writing Table
Regency Style Kidney Desk Writing Table, Mahogany Furniture
Located in Potters Bar, Herts
Stunning antique Regency style kidney desk in flame mahogany. Such a good look to this handsome piece which we date to circa 1920. Kidney desks are very comfortable to sit at as th...
Sold|$1,957
Edwardian Hall Table
Located in Altrincham, Cheshire
Edwardian mahogany, kingwood and tulipwood crossbanded kidney shaped writing or dressing table, fitted with a drawer with low stretcher, scroll feet and brass gallery.
Kingwood, Mahogany, Tulipwood
18th-19th Century French Kidney Shape Leather Top Writing Table
Located in Atlanta, GA
18th-19th century French kidney shape leather top writing table.
Leather, Wood
Antique French Chinoiserie Kidney Writing Desk, circa 1860
Located in Paddock Wood, Kent
Antique French chinoiserie kidney writing desk, circa 1860 A solid oak Ladies writing desk with five drawers, the desk has ornate brass handles, feet tips and gallery around the top...
Wood, Oak
Sold|$3,600
Mid-Century Modern Danish Teak Kidney Desk
Located in Pasadena, CA
Influenced by Scandinavian minimalism, Mid-Century Modern style features organic, quirky geometric and curvilinear shapes, as well as clean, sculptural lines, made from a mix of natu...
Rare 19th Century French Marble-Topped Kidney-Shaped Desk
Located in Woodbury, CT
Dating to the late 19th century, this beauty features a large kidney-shaped and beveled-edge Carrara marble top atop a pair of trifid cast iron table bases welded together for a stro...
Carrara Marble, Wrought Iron
Hollywood-Regency Style White Lacquered Kidney-Shaped Desk, Gampel Stoll
By Gampel-Stoll
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Hollywood-Regency style kidney-shaped, elephant motif desk in white by Gampel Stoll and has been professionally lacquered in white and will make the perfect statement piece in you ho...
Wood
Gorgeous Georgian Style Carved Mahogany Kidney Shaped Desk by Maitland-Smith
By Maitland Smith
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gorgeous Georgian style carved mahogany kidney shaped desk by Maitland-Smith. Fitted with one long center drawer, flanked by pull-out work surfaces and three brass handled drawers at...
Brass
Quality Victorian Walnut Kidney Shaped Writing Table
Located in Stutton, GB
Quality Victorian walnut kidney shaped writing table, having a green leather top with burr walnut crossbanding and boxwood inlay, supported by lovely solid walnut shaped turned and c...
Walnut
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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