Cantilever Lacquered White Tessellated Bone Tile File Drawer Desk Writing Table
By Jimeco ltda
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern white tile bone desk, weighted bottom study cantilever design.
Bone
Paris Bureau Gray and White Study Desk Writing Table by Matteo Cibic
By Matteo Cibic, Scarlet Splendour
Located in Kolkata, IN
Paris Bureau Gray and White Study Desk Writing Table by Matteo Cibic is an extraordinary console/writing table, with two drawers. It is available in a range of colors, which can be c...
Resin
$841Sale Price|20% Off
Student Oak & Iron Writing Table Slant Top Desk France, Mid 20th C
Located in Labrit, Landes
French slant top desk writing table for student, circa 1950. Oak and iron pupitre Good vintage condition with nice patina. Authentic condition with engraved marks made by the studen...
Iron
Danish Rosewood Desk by Svend Aage Madsen for Sigurd Hansen Writing Table
By Svend Åge Madsen, Sigurd Hansen Møbelfabrik
Located in Uxbridge, GB
We have for sale a very elegant rosewood writing table by Svend Aage Madsen for Sigurd Hansen c1958. This is a really nice, really well made piece. The piece was originally designed ...
Rosewood
Vintage Italian Burl Wood Writing Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This vintage Italian writing desk showcases rich burl wood with swirling, honey-toned grain across its desktop, paired with gracefully curved cabriole legs that lend an elegant, scul...
Burl
1960s Art Deco Mid-Century Italian Walnut Glass Top Writing Desk Table
By Guglielmo Ulrich, Vittorio Dassi, Paolo Buffa, Gio Ponti, Ico & Luisa Parisi
Located in Carimate, Como
Beautiful Italian Art Deco Mid-Century Modern desk writing table, in beautiful veneer burl wood, with black glass top and decorated beveled edges, four elegant legs completed by two ...
Glass, Wood
Studio Craft Writing Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
A nicely crafted studio desk with pencil drawer. Signed by the artist.
Wood
Desk or Writing Table Crystal Glass Origami Design Collectible Made in Italy
By Barberini & Gunnell
Located in Ancona, Marche
The desk 'Origami' is made of extra-clear crystal glass. Each sheet of extra-clear crystal glass is cut and ground with extreme precision, then the sheets are assembled by hand, havi...
Crystal
RALPH LAUREN SIGNED & STAMPED MADE IN ITALY LEATHER & MAPLE WRiTING TABLE DESK
By Ralph Lauren
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning, highly collectable, hand made in Italy Leather strapped and Maple writing table or...
Leather, Maple
1960s Italian Art Deco Midcentury Walnut Brass Small Desk Writing Table
Located in Carimate, Como
Very elegant Italian Art Deco Mid-Century Modern small desk or writing table secretaire, in beautiful decorated and veneer wood with three drawers and covered sides.
Brass
$10,500 / item
Richard Watson Writing Desk in Walnut
By Richard Watson
Located in Brookline, MA
The writing desk is inspired by a classic writing table originally intended for writing letters by hand. As in the traditional table, there are discreet drawers under the writing sur...
Wood
Danish Mid Century Teak Box Wooton Folding Desk Writing Table File Cabinet MINT!
By Skovby Møbelfabrik A/S 1
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Danish Mid Century Teak Box Wooton Folding Desk Writing Table File Cabinet MINT!
Teak
Gianfranco Frattini Rosewood Writing Desk
By Gianfranco Frattini, Bernini
Located in Washington, DC
A beautiful Midcentury rosewood writing desk by an Italian design icon, Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini was made in Italy in 1957. This sleek proportioned desk is model 530 and featu...
Rosewood
Modernist Italien writing desk with drawers and light blue Formica table top.
Located in Wolfurt, AT
Rare modernist desk with mahogany veneer and light blue Formica table top. The three drawers are also laminated with formica. Italian manufacture from the 1960s. It looks best free-s...
Formica, Wood
$6,304 / item
writing desk model Roman Medium
Located in Courbevoie, FR
Roman is an elegant and minimalist furniture line inspired by the values of Scandinavian functionalism. Entirely made in France, each piece is individually produced according to you...
Walnut
$5,649 / item
writing desk model Roman Large
Located in Courbevoie, FR
Roman is an elegant and minimalist furniture line inspired by the values of Scandinavian functionalism. Entirely made in France, each piece is individually produced according to you...
Oak
$4,745 / item
writing desk model Roman Medium
Located in Courbevoie, FR
Roman is an elegant and minimalist furniture line inspired by the values of Scandinavian functionalism. Entirely made in France, each piece is individually produced according to you...
Oak
$5,064 / item
writing desk model Roman Small
Located in Courbevoie, FR
Roman is an elegant and minimalist furniture line inspired by the values of Scandinavian functionalism. Entirely made in France, each piece is individually produced according to you...
Walnut
$3,812 / item
writing desk model Roman Small
Located in Courbevoie, FR
Roman is an elegant and minimalist furniture line inspired by the values of Scandinavian functionalism. Entirely made in France, each piece is individually produced according to you...
Oak
Heavy Fluted Carved Oak Legs 1 Drawer Arts & Crafts Desk Writing Table Clean!
By J. Horner
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Heavy Fluted Carved Oak Legs 1 Drawer arts & Crafts Desk Writing Table CLEAN! Carved edge unusual pumking shape feet.
Oak
Modern Black Lacquer Occasional Table
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Vintage modern occasional table and desk, in black lacquered wood, featuring a glass top shelf, lower wooden shelf, and brass fixtures.
Brass
Midcentury Bamboo and Rattan Desk Writing Table Vivai Del Sud Style, Italy 1970s
By Vivai del Sud
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury amazing desk writing table in bamboo, rattan and wood with one drawer in the style of Vivai Del Sud. Made in Italy in the 1970s. Vivai del sud, Gabriella Crespi and Arpe...
Metal
1940s Art Deco Midcentury Italian Walnut Burl Wood Glass Top Writing Desk Table
By Ico & Luisa Parisi, Vittorio Dassi, Gio Ponti, Paolo Buffa, Guglielmo Ulrich
Located in Carimate, Como
Beautiful Italian Art Deco Mid-Century Modern desk writing table, in beautiful veneer burl wood, with black glass top, elegant curved sides completed by three drawers.
Glass, Wood
Italian Rationalist writing desk, 1940’s
Located in Sittard, LI
Wonderful Italian Rationalist Writing Desk from the 1940s This beautiful writing desk from the 1940s is a superb example of Italian Rationalist design. Showcasing the movement’s sig...
Elm, Lacquer
Vintage Gio Ponti BNL Writing Table / Desk in Italian Walnut, Beech and Brass
By Gio Ponti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Iconic writing table designed in the 1940s by Gio Ponti for Schirolli to furnish BNL (Banca Nazionale del Lavoro) offices across Italy. This early 1950s model was acquired directly f...
Brass
Silvio Cavatorta Writing Desk in Mahogany
By Silvio Cavatorta
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Silvio Cavatorta, writing desk, mahogany, brass, Italy, design 1948-1949 This elegantly shaped mahogany office table, designed by Silvio Cavatorta in the late 1940s, is a testament ...
Brass
$7,749 / item
Gentile Writing Desk by Dale Italia
Located in Geneve, CH
Gentile Writing Desk by Dale Italia Dimensions: D 80 x W 158 x H 76 cm. Materials: Walnut. Writing Desk in solid Canaletto walnut with five drawers. Available in grey or natural wal...
Walnut
$3,662 / item
Ideale Writing Desk by Dale Italia
Located in Geneve, CH
Ideale Writing Desk by Dale Italia Dimensions: D 65 x W 105 x H 88 cm. Materials: Walnut. Writing desk with top in walnut veneer blockboard. Structure and legs in solid walnut Inclu...
Walnut
$106,278 / item
Zemlia Pratsya Ceramic Writing Desk by Makhno
Located in Geneve, CH
Zemlia Pratsya Ceramic Writing Desk by Makhno Dimensions: D 360 x W 260 x H 78 cm.
Ceramic, Wood
Italian desk writing table glass top metal brass structure by Romeo Rega 1970
By Romeo Rega
Located in Nicolosi, IT
Italian dining table with glass top and metal brass structure by Romeo Rega 1970
Metal, Brass
Italian Postmodern Round Rolling Writing Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This round Postmodern writing desk is on casters for easy mobility and transportation. The half-moon seat of the desk is attached to the half-moon table top to create a complete circ...
Steel
1970’s French Elm Writing Desk
Located in Chicago, IL
Postmodern French writing desk. Made of Elm.
Elm
$840 / item
Williams Writing Desk Maple Orange
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a bevelled wooden top. The irregular b...
Steel
$840 / item
Williams Writing Desk Walnut Black
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top. The irregular be...
Steel
$840 / item
Williams Writing Desk Walnut Gray
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top. The irregular be...
Steel
$840 / item
Williams Writing Desk Walnut Green
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top. The irregular be...
Steel
$840 / item
Williams Writing Desk Maple Mustard
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top. The irregular be...
Steel
Modern Kidney-Shaped Table
Located in East Hampton, NY
Sculptural handcrafted table or desk in a kidney shape with a beautiful layered base that resembles wings...... think crafted Zaha Hadid., Wendell Castle...... new satin poly finish...
Wood
Writing desk in mahogany by Frits Henningsen
By Frits Henningsen
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Writing desk in patinated mahogany with black leather top. Designed by Frits Henningsen.
Leather, Mahogany
$18,179 / item
Mistral Writing Desk by Studio Bazazo
Located in Geneve, CH
Mistral Writing Desk by Studio Bazazo Dimensions: D 65 x W 180 x H 75 cm. Materials: French oak, Alcantara, and steel. Light as a breeze with the force to shape landscapes, the “Mi...
Steel, Other
Jules Leleu- A French 1950s 3 Drawer Walnut Writing Table with Brass Details
By Jules Leleu
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jules Leleu - A fine French Mid-Century three drawer walnut desk with brass details. A similar desk is shown page 137 of the book "Jules et Andre Leleu" by Vivianne Jutheau - Edited...
Brass
Rosewood and Brass writing desk by Svend Langkild
By Svend Langkilde
Located in Esbjerg, DK
All original, excellent condition writing table with black leather details. Made in Brazilian rosewood with brass handles.
Brass
Jack Cartwright Writing Desk by Founders Furniture
By Jack Cartwright, Founders Furniture Company
Located in Highland, IN
A beautiful design by Jack Cartwight from his "Decorum" line for Founders Furniture, this lightly scaled desk features a bow-tie shaped top, a shallow center drawer flanked by two de...
Cane, Walnut
Writing Desk in High Gloss Lacquer
Located in Norwalk, CT
This is a wonderfully versatile and useful piece of furniture. I personally used it as a desk in our showroom for several years. It is now newly lacquered in high gloss dove white. S...
Wood
Freestanding Modernist Writing Desk in Wengé, 1960s
By Tijsseling
Located in Antwerpen, VAN
Lovely writing desk produced in The Netherlands around 1965. It is made of beautiful wenge wood with a unique and decorative drawing. The metal legs and pulls provide a modernist tou...
Metal
1950s Art Deco Mid-Century Italian Walnut Burl Wood Glass Top Writing Desk Table
By Ico & Luisa Parisi, Guglielmo Ulrich, Paolo Buffa, Gio Ponti, Vittorio Dassi
Located in Carimate, Como
Beautiful Italian Art Deco Mid-Century Modern desk writing table, in wooden structure, with black glass top, elegant legs completed by three side drawers.
Glass, Wood
Vintage 1980s Deco Postmodern Burlwood Writing Desk
By Milo Baughman, Maitland Smith, Ward Bennett, Karl Springer, Steve Chase
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A striking vintage 1980s burlwood desk featuring a clean-lined postmodern silhouette and beautiful burl veneer throughout. Finished in warm cognac and caramel brown tones, the veneer...
Wood, Burl
Louis Majorelle Writing Desk, France 1930's
By Louis Majorelle
Located in New York, NY
Very Unusual Majorelle Art Deco writing desk, the modernist line are a departure from the organic lines usually associated with the artist. Signed with a marquetry. 37.5X22X34 Top 29
Walnut
Vintage Ercol Writing Desk in Solid Elm
By Ercol
Located in London, GB
A beautiful and extremely well made vintage Ercol writing desk in solid elm. This was made in England, it dates from the 1960’s. As with all Ercol products, the quality is superb. T...
Elm
Postmodern Memphis Design Writing Desk, Germany, 1980s
Located in Antwerp, Antwerp
This striking postmodern writing desk exemplifies the bold aesthetics of the Memphis design movement. The desk features an asymmetrical green laminated wood surface supported by a bl...
Metal
Italian Inlaid Renaissance Revival Writing Desk, 1920s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Finely crafted walnut desk with intricate inlays referencing Renaissance motifs. Featuring small drawers and compartments, embodying Italian revivalist elegance.
Wood
Mid-Century Walnut and Formica Top Writing Desk
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Elegant mid-century modern writing desk featuring a warm walnut wood frame and a durable Formica top. The clean lines and minimalist silhouette reflect the functional beauty of mid-c...
Walnut
$840 / item
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Maple Pink
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top. The irregular be...
Steel
$840 / item
Williams Writing Desk Maple Rose Copper
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a bevelled wooden top. The irregular b...
Steel
$840 / item
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Walnut Orange
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top. The irregular be...
Steel
Late 19th Century French Barley Twist Writing Desk
Located in Nürnberg, Bayern
Late 19th Century French Barley Twist Writing Desk
Birdseye Maple
$840 / item
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Maple Black
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top. The irregular be...
Steel
$840 / item
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Maple Green
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top. The irregular be...
Steel
$840 / item
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Walnut Navy
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top. The irregular be...
Steel
$840 / item
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Walnut Yellow
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top. The irregular be...
Steel
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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