George Nelson, Thin Edge, Rare, Rosewood, Desk
By Herman Miller, George Nelson
Located in South Jordan, UT
An exceptional and architecturally refined Brazilian rosewood pedestal desk designed by George
Aluminum
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
Steel
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
Steel
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
Steel
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
Steel
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
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Maple White
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
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
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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
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Walnut Mustard
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
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
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Walnut Red
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
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
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Walnut White
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
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
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Maple Yellow
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Walnut Pink
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Maple Navy
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
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
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Maple Gray
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
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
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Walnut Brassy Gold
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Walnut Blood Red
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Maple Blood Red
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Maple Prairie Green
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Walnut Prairie Green
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Maple Brassy Gold
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
Williams Hairpin Writing Desk Walnut Rose Copper
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light desk that can be customized to any color desired. This handcrafted item
Steel
$9,600Sale Price|20% Off
H 53 in W 73 in D 42.5 in
Jordan Mozer Sculptural Postmodern Desk from the D’Alba Residence, circa 1996
By Jordan Mozer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An exceptional and highly sculptural Postmodern desk designed by acclaimed American architect and
Aluminum
Arches Desk, Thin Desk in Walnut Veneer
Located in London, GB
The Arches desk has been realised in walnut veneer. As with all our furniture, this desk is made
Wood
George Nelson Rare Thin Edge Desk
By George Nelson, Herman Miller
Located in Chicago, IL
Nelson for Herman Miller, three-drawer desk, model 5494. Deep figured rosewood graining with
Aluminum, Enamel
White Oak & Walnut Thin Frame Desk by Lawson-Fenning
By Lawson-Fenning
Located in Southampton, NY
White Oak & Walnut Thin Frame Brass Desk by Lawson-Fenning. What makes this desk unique is the
Brass
Thin Frame Desk by Lawson Fenning
By Lawson-Fenning
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Writing desk with thin brass frame and brass hardware, ebonized oak case and natural macassar ebony
Desk, Italy, Mid-20th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Desk on thin iron legs with one drawer and a chessboard pattern on the top.
Iron
Roger Sprunger Dunbar Executive Desk
By Roger Sprunger
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A dark ebony finished executive plinth base desk with three thin upper drawers with two smaller
Tall Thin Secretary Secretaire Desk Banded Mahogany One-Piece
Located in West Hartford, CT
Great scale and size to thin banded mahogany secretary with veneer, circa mid-1970s and comes in
Mahogany
Industrial Steel Desk
Located in Culver City, CA
Amazingly simple iron desk with elegant thin legs, perfect patina
Iron
Colorful Ash Desk by Thomas Dariel
Located in Geneve, CH
confidant… Endowed with dainty and thin tabletop and legs, the desk is the very image of delicacy and
Wood
Colorful Ash Desk by Thomas Dariel
Located in Geneve, CH
confidant… Endowed with dainty and thin tabletop and legs, the desk is the very image of delicacy and
Wood
Colorful Ash Desk by Thomas Dariel
Located in Geneve, CH
confidant… Endowed with dainty and thin tabletop and legs, the desk is the very image of delicacy and
Wood
Art Deco German Curved Desk in Walnut
Located in Houston, TX
insert in the middle. There is thin keyed drawer. Desk is supported by 2 wide rectangular wooden legs
Leather, Walnut
Claro Walnut Slab Console or Desk
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very lovely California Claro walnut slab, 2" thick, fitted as a Console table or desk with thin
Walnut
Desk by Gianni Moscatelli for Formanova
By Gianni Moscatelli
Located in Berlin, DE
steel base, three-drawer unit and desk top in thin ebonized mahogany wood. The original Formanova label
Elegant desk by Louis Van Teeffelen for Webe
By Louis Van Teeffelen
Located in Maastricht, NL
Teak desk on elegant, thin legs with three drawers, by Dutch cabinet maker Louis Van Teeffelen for
Teak
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H 29.53 in W 37.01 in D 19.69 in
21st Century Modern Minimalist Walnut & Aged Brass Mila T73B Writing Desk
By Ghyczy, Peter Ghyczy
Located in Swalmen, NL
in the GHYCZY atelier in the South of the Netherlands. The 'Mila' desk features a thin minimalist
Brass
Unusual Form Lovig Desk
Located in San Francisco, CA
A rare form by Lovig, dual cut away thin profile teak desk. Left justified locking drawer and bi
Metal
French Art Deco Executive Demi-Lune Desk in Dark Mahogany
Located in Los Angeles, CA
pedestal legs with demi-lune front and large demi-lune top. The desk features five thin cubby openings at
Brass
Modern Waterfall Glass Desk or Console Table
By Pace Manufacturing
Located in Pasadena, TX
49? waterfall glass desk or console Pace style modern and minimalist glass waterfall desk or console table. We have 2 available that would work perfectly in a shared office space.
Glass
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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Use them as tables or stools, indoors or out.