Country House Library Partners Desk
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
A fine 18th century Chippendale period country house library fitted partners desk. The paneled cupbards opening to one end with fitted folio shelves and one front cupboard is fitted ...
Leather, Mahogany
Super French Oak Partners Library Desk
Located in Swadlincote, GB
A very good French freestanding oak three drawer library desk, dummy drawers to the rear, green leather, in excellent overall condition. 31" high 59" length 29" depth Knee height 24...
Oak
Monumental 19th Century Mahogany Campaign Partner’s Library Desk
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an impressive 19th century mahogany campaign partner’s desk, library desk, executive writing desk, military campaign desk, colonial office desk, green leather top desk, brass...
Brass
Antique Victorian Partners Writing Library Table Desk 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This elegant Victorian antique partners writing table is crafted from beautiful flame mahogany and dates from Circa 1860. It features a striking inset green leather writing surface ...
Brass
Antique 6ft Victorian Partners Writing Library Table Desk 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This gorgeous Victorian antique partners library table is crafted from beautiful flame mahogany and dates from Circa 1860.
Mahogany, Leather
Antique Pine Leather Top Partners Desk, Library Table
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Antique Pine Leather Top Partners Desk, Library Table This is a very sturdy double sided writing desk, very rare and very attractive, the desk top has a new tooled sage green inset ...
Pine
Antique English Oak & Leather Top Double-Sided Library Table Partner's Desk 1860
Located in Portland, OR
An exceptional antique 19th-Century double sided oak and leather topped library table, partner's desk, circa 1860. The overhanging top with a molded edge and is fitted with a three s...
Leather, Oak
$5,736Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Georgian Mahogany Partners Library Writing Desk With Leather Slide
Located in Suffolk, GB
An antique Georgian mahogany partners library writing desk with pull out leather writing slide and drawers to both sides.
Brass
19th Century Large French Oak Library Conference Table Partners Desk
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous and beautifully carved large oak library table or partners desk with two drawers on each side.
Oak
$13,125Sale Price|30% Off
Antique RJ Horner Figural Carved Mahogany Griffin Library Table Partners Desk
By R.J. Horner & Co.
Located in Dayton, OH
An exceptionally carved mahogany partners desk by R.J. Horner & Co, circa 1890s. Drawing inspiration from Victorian & Italian Baroque Styling.
Mahogany
18th Century George III Period Mahogany Partners Desk
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
Equally suited to an office, library or study, this partners desk makes a superb focal point and a highly functional working piece.
Brass
19th Century English Regency Mahogany Library Table Writing Desk
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in Essex, MA
Period Early 19th Century English Regency Leather Top Partners Desk or Library Table. Three Drawers each on opposite long sides.
Mahogany
$20,647Sale Price|40% Off
Rare Victorian Holland and Sons Double Sided Hardwood Partner Desk Writing Table
By Holland & Sons
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning rare and original early Victorian Holland and Son’s mahogany double sided library table or partner desk fully stamped. A very rare...
Leather, Hardwood
Antique Rare Form English Mahogany Queen Anne Style Partners Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Here is an antique, rare form English mahogany Queen Anne style partners desk or library table with a tooled and worn gold decorated brown leather top.
Mahogany
Sally Sirkin Lewis Neoclassical Marble Top Library Table Desk
By Sally Sirkin Lewis, Robert Scott
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Opulent marble top library table or partners desk designed by Sally Sirkin Lewis for J.
Marble
Antique Victorian Oak Bentwood Frame Revolving Desk Chair With Tan Leather Seat
Located in Reading, Berkshire
An excellent statement chair for a library, study, home office or partner's desk, and equally effective when incorporated into a more contemporary interior.
Brass, Iron
A Louis XIV Style Bureau Plat By Cueunières, Paris, After the Model by Cressent
By L. Cueunieres Ebeniste.
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
This fine bureau plat has the nice distinction of functioning drawers to both sides making it useful as a partners desk or library table. The angled as headed by sculptural gilt-bron...
Ormolu
Jacques Adnet, Attributed — French Stitched-Hide and Brass Desk Lamp, circa 1950
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Henley-on Thames, Oxfordshire
The result is sculptural but unshowy: equally at home on a partner's desk, a library table, or a console where it can be read in the round.
Metal, Brass
Unavailable
H 1 in W 1 in D 1 in
Chippendale 18th Century Mahogany Library Partner's Desk with Red Leather Top
Located in Hudson, NY
This desk not only has many features of an original Chippendale desk for example 3 roller casters to plinths, but was removed from the war office London and may have come from the wa...
Mahogany
Mahogany Victorian Partners Library Table
Located in London, GB
Polished Mahogany top with unusual legs on Original casters. Drawers Both sides.
English Victorian Oak Partners Library Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
Early Victorian oak library or writing table with boldly carved end supports resting on carved scroll feet with recessed casters. There is one drawer on each side of the table. The w...
Oak, Leather
Unavailable
H 30.32 in W 71.86 in D 41.93 in
Large Walnut Partners Desk by Whytock and Reid, Edinburgh
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Large walnut partner’s desk/library desk by Whytock & Reid of Edinburgh, circa 1920.
Walnut
George III Rosewood Library Partner's Desk
Located in Lymington, GB
An exceptional George III period rosewood library partner's desk, circa 1810. It is unusual to find these in made in rosewood - almost invariably they are in mahogany.
Rosewood
Sold
H 32 in W 66.5 in D 38.25 in
George III Period Mahogany Library Partner's Desk with Green Leather Top
Located in London, GB
A fine late 18th century well figured mahogany library partner’s desk, having gilt tooled green leather moulded edge top, above six cockbeaded drawers.
Mahogany
Partners Desk / Library Table
Located in Dallas, TX
a large pine partners desk with embossed leather top with brass edge, campaign type pedestal desk / library table with four drawers on either side of opening and one center drawer on...
Brass
19th Century Mahogany Partners / Library Desk
Located in Cheshire, GB
19th Century mahogany partners/library desk, the very large rectangular inverted bow front top inset with black hide and gilt-tooled border enclosed by a molded edge over an arrangem...
Mahogany
Regency Partners Desk Walnut Library Desk
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Fantastic large partners desk in the Regency manner True partners desk with drawers and cupboards on both sides Features solid oak drawer linings and brass drop handle Good size so p...
Walnut
Walnut Partners Desk Library Table Regency Style
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
WALNUT PARTNERS DESK LIBRARY TABLE REGENCY STYLE EYGPTIAN INFLUENCED LIBRARY TABLE WITH 3 DRAWERS AND EBONISED LEGS KNEE HEIGHT: 24"
Walnut
19th Century Mahogany Partners or Library Desk
Located in Cheshire, GB
19th century mahogany partners ooor library desk, the very large rectangular black hide top with a gilt-tooled border enclosed by a moulded edge over an arrangement of four frieze dr...
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Mahogany Partners, Library Desk
Located in Cheshire, GB
Early 20th century mahogany partners / library desk, the rectangular green hide top with a gilt-tooled border enclosed by a moulded edge over an arrangement of three freeze drawe...
19th Century Pollard Oak Partners/Library Desk
Located in Cheshire, GB
19th century Pollard oak partners/library desk ,the rectangular brown hide top with a gilt-tooled border enclosed by a moulded edge over an arrangement of three freeze drawers ab...
English Late Regency Mahogany Partner's Desk Library Table
Located in Essex, MA
Mahogany Late Regency Double Sided Library Table or Partner's Desk. Turned Neoclassical Sheraton Legs of Regency Period.
Very Large Oak Partners Library Desk
Located in Cheshire, GB
Tall oak partners or library desk the rectangular hide top with a gilt-tooled border enclosed by a moulded edge over an arrangement of six freeze drawers all fitted with leather writ...
Oak
Antique Victorian Leather Top Partners Desk / Library Table
Located in London, GB
A superb and very impressive antique Victorian partners desk / library writing table. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1840-1860 period.
Leather, Wood
George III Mahogany Partners Desk or Library Table
By Thomas Chippendale
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
An impressive George III mahogany partners desk. The desk stylistically has strong resemblance to plate LXXXl in 'Chippendales Director'. The trefoil corners to the rectangular t...
Mahogany
19TH C. Campaign Style Partners Desk or Library Table
Located in Palm Beach, FL
A late Regency library table or partners desk with 3 operating drawers on one side and 3 faux drawers with hardware on the reverse.
Antique Victorian Partners Writing Library Table Desk 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This gorgeous Victorian antique partners library table is crafted from beautiful flame mahogany and dates from Circa 1860.
Brass
English William IV Partner's Writing Desk or Library Table
Located in Essex, MA
Period English Mahogany Writing Desk, Regency or William IV. Drawers on Both Long Sides. Neoclassical Carved Legs. Leather Top
Mahogany
19th Century Georgian Style Mahogany Partner's Desk or Library Table
Located in Essex, MA
Mahogany Georgian Partner's Desk or Library Table of Large Size --Four Corinthian Columns Support Extensively Tooled Brown Leather Top --Three Drawers on Both Sides for a Total o...
Mahogany
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English Partner's Writing Desk or Library Table with Leather Top
By Maple & Co.
Located in Austin, TX
An English partner's writing desk or library table of mahogany, featuring a leather top embossed with gilt design, over a frieze of three drawers on opposing sides, resting on tu...
Sold
H 30.71 in W 41.74 in D 60.04 in
Victorian Golden Oak Library Table / Partners Desk with Leather Top
Located in King's Lynn, GB
An antique Victorian golden oak library table / partners desk with a red leather top writing surface finished with gold embossed edging.
Leather, Oak
Sold
H 29.53 in W 59.45 in D 36.23 in
Antique William IV Mahogany Partner's Library Table Desk, circa 1840
Located in London, GB
This is a gorgeous antique William IV partner's library table, circa 1840 in date. It is crafted from beautiful solid mahogany and features a striking faded green and gold tooled ...
FINE WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY PARTNERS DESK/LIBRARY TABLE
Located in valatie, NY
A Fine William IV Mahogany Desk/Library Table with a later gilt-tooled leather inset writing surface over two long sides fitted with three long drawers above bulbous reeded ring turn...
Antique English Partners Library Table
Located in Hopewell, NJ
A handsome crotch grain mahogany table with crossbanded veneer, gorgeous and masculine William 4th legs on big brass egg casters; 3 drawers on each side, middle drawer opens to a wri...
Mahogany
Sold
H 29 in W 48 in D 30 in
Antique Victorian RJ Horner Quartersawn Oak Lion Library Table Partners Desk
By R.J. Horner & Co.
Located in Dayton, OH
"Antique American Victorian RJ Horner partners desk or library table. Made from quartersawn oak featuring rectangular serpentine form with four low relief acanthus carved drawers, or...
Oak
Sold
H 29.5 in W 48 in L 29.5 in
William IV Mahogany Double-Sided Partner's Library Writing Table or Desk
Located in Downingtown, PA
The leather lined rectangular top above two frieze drawers on each side, raised on tapering reeded legs ending in brass casters. Provenance: Private collection; Originally sol...
Mahogany
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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