20th Century Luxurious White Bureau Plat / Writing Desk in Louis XV Style
Located in Berlin, DE
Frame base with four-sided curvature. 3 drawers and wide knee compartment ending on elegantly curved square legs in sabots. Slightly protruding, profiled table top and gold-embossed...
Bronze
English George III Mahogany & Leather Pedestal “Rent” Writing Desk ca. 1800
Located in Shippensburg, PA
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Brass
19th Century Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Writing Table
Located in Berlin, DE
Strong cambered, four-sided passively curved three-bar frame base with wide knee patch on elegant curved squares in sabots. Slightly protruding tabletop with a fantastically curved, ...
Wood, Beech
Early 19th Century Empire Greek Vanity or Ladies' Desk
Located in Berlin, DE
An early 19th century gilt bronze and walnut veneer ladies desk or dressing table or vanity, with a rectangular grey fossil marble top above two mirror paneled doors and two drawers,...
Bronze
20th Century Elegant Veneered Bureau Plat or Writing Desk in Louis XV Style
Located in Berlin, DE
Frame base with four-sided curvature. 3 drawers and wide knee compartment ending on elegantly curved square legs in sabots. Slightly protruding, profiled table top and gold-embossed...
Bronze
French 1800s Walnut Desk with Three Drawers, Carved Floral Motifs and Patina
Located in Atlanta, GA
These drawers showcase a thin narrow one in the center (the desk's knee height is 24"H) flanked by two taller ones of square shaped and adorned with carved floral motifs.
Walnut
$5,471Sale Price|20% Off
19th Century Satinwood Ladies Writing Table
Located in Martlesham, GB
19th century satinwood ladies writing table in the Sheraton style, having a shaped leather writing surface decorated with blind tooling, decorative stepped sides which has secret pul...
Satinwood
$2,560Sale Price|20% Off
Baroque Table, Switzerland, 1770
Located in Belmont, MA
The cherry wood veneer has square shaped kingwood inlays. This geometric design creates a nice contrast to the curved design of the legs and apron of this beautiful piece.
Cherry, Kingwood
French 19th Century Charles X Period Rosewood and Brass Inlaid Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
The unique and most decorative desk is raised by eight lovely topie shaped feet below beautiful square baluster-shaped supports. Each support displays intricately detailed foliate br...
Brass
Solid Wood Writer's Desk Maple with Steel Joinery and Removable Legs
By Stefan Rurak
Located in Biddeford, ME
The solid wood top of this fully customizable piece features inlays and/or hand-hammered quote. Choice of square floating drawers with or without dividers and/or circular pencil draw...
Steel
French Mid-Century Style Parchment Covered Vanity/ Desk, Jean-Michel Frank Style
Located in New York, NY
Elegant and Sober French Mid-Century Modern Style parchment covered vanity / desk / console with a lacquered steel frame and utilizing squares of light parchment covering wood. the a...
Wrought Iron
Antique Writing Table by Beurdeley After a Model by Adam Weisweiler
By Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley
Located in London, GB
In the central panel, a striking carp moves through stylised waves and foliage, surrounded by a wide geometrical border that features several foliage-filled gold-coloured squares. Th...
Steel, Ormolu
Early 19th Century Empire Mahogany Architects Table by Jean-Joseph Chapuis
By Jean Joseph Chapuis
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
The double ratcheted hinged rectangular top lined with dark green oilcloth above a frieze drawer, enclosing an open compartment and further slide covered in green felt, on square tap...
Brass, Bronze
$3,150Sale Price|20% Off
19th Century Satinwood Ladies Writing Table in the Sheraton Style
Located in Martlesham, GB
A super quality 19th century satinwood ladies writing table in the Sheraton style, having a shaped superstructure with two short over one long oak lined drawers with original turned ...
Satinwood
Ladies Desk or Secretary in Louis Quinze Style
Located in Berlin, DE
Ladies desk / table / secretary in Louis Quinze style Inlays on solid softwood. Ending high, curved square legs in sabots. Slightly overhanging, framed in wide, matching profiles...
Brass
English Hepplewhite Mahogany Three Drawer Writing Table. Circa 1790
Located in Charleston, SC
English Hepplewhite mahogany three drawer writing table with circular brasses and terminating on squared tapered legs. Late 18th Century
Brass
Ladies Desk or Table in Louis Quinze Style
Located in Berlin, DE
Inlays on solid softwood. Ending high, curved square legs in sabots. Slightly overhanging, framed in wide, matching profiles, tabletop with inset filigree maple inlays.
Wood, Fruitwood
A Stunning Edwardian Desk in the Carlton House Style by Maple of London
By Maple & Co.
Located in Dublin, IE
Supported on elegant square tapering leg terminating spade foot with brass casters, stamped 'Maple & Co'.
Brass
Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Tulipwood and Amaranth Bureau Plat
By Philippe Claude Montigny
Located in Kittery Point, ME
In the style of Montigny (Philippe-Claude Montigny, maitre in 1770), the rectangular tooled leather-lined top surrounded with a later ormolu border, above two frieze drawers and simu...
Bronze
A rare French Louis XIV large pewter and fruitwood inlaid marquetry desk
By Pierre Gole
Located in PARIS, FR
The corners as well as separations between drawers are inlaid with pewter on ebonized wood background. It is raised on square section eight legs, which are connected by two flat, X-s...
Bronze, Pewter
Neoclassical Marquetry Bureau De Dame in the Style of Giuseppe Maggiolini, Italy
Located in Dallas, TX
Side panels inlaid with conforming scrollwork all rising on four elegant squared tapering legs finished with the original brass castor cups.
Brass
$14,000Sale Price|20% Off
Pierre Paulin Bird's-Eye Maple and Walnut Inlay Executive Desk
By Pierre Paulin, Baker Furniture Company
Located in Chicago, IL
Wood grain is exquisite, as are the solid brass double-square pulls. In the mid-1980s, Baker retained Pierre Paulin to design a singular collection of furniture.
Birdseye Maple, Walnut
20th Century Luxurious White Bureau Plat / Writing Desk in Louis XV Style
Located in Berlin, DE
Frame base with four-sided curvature. 3 drawers and wide knee compartment ending on elegantly curved square legs in sabots. Slightly protruding, profiled table top and gold-embossed...
Bronze
Porcelain and Ormolu Mounted Bonheur Du Jour by Donald Ross
By Donald Ross
Located in London, GB
This beautiful example is raised on four tapered square profile legs, which feature ormolu edges and feet.
Ormolu
$1,174 / item
Fem Work Desk, Natural Ash by Made by Choice
Located in Geneve, CH
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Ash
$1,174 / item
Fem Work Desk, Stained Black by Made by Choice
Located in Geneve, CH
Halikko is home to our 4000 square metre campus where we turn abstract concepts into tangible objects.
Ash
Large, Airisto Work Desk, Stained Black by Made by Choice
Located in Geneve, CH
Halikko is home to our 4000 square metre campus where we turn abstract concepts into tangible objects.
Wood, Ash
Medium, Airisto Work Desk, Stained Black by Made by Choice
Located in Geneve, CH
Halikko is home to our 4000 square metre campus where we turn abstract concepts into tangible objects.
Wood, Ash
Large, Airisto Work Desk, Natural Ash by Made by Choice
Located in Geneve, CH
Halikko is home to our 4000 square metre campus where we turn abstract concepts into tangible objects.
Wood, Ash
Dia Chrome and Incised Glass Canted Leg Dining Table
By Design Institute America
Located in Chicago, IL
Glass top is cut in a square grid pattern and has canted corners to mirror the legs.
Chrome, Steel
English Mahogany Tambour Satinwood Inlaid Writing Desk, Circa 1780
Located in Charleston, SC
English mahogany tambour desk with sliding leather writing surface, interior satinwood compartmentalized drawers with the original bone knobs, five lower drawers with the original br...
Brass
Table Rent Center Desk Tavolino Tuscan Italian Walnut Oval Baroque
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
The frieze fitted with a single, moulded drawer with one original fruitwood knob and one later, probably C19, elm bottom boards and fruitwood sideboards. Standing on square section l...
Walnut
19th C. Italian Writing Desk w/Decorative Inlay & Sliding Top for Hidden Storage
Located in Atlanta, GA
The table is raised on four squared legs with stylized knees, and gently taper towards their feet.
Fruitwood
18th Century George III Mahogany Writing Table with Leather Inset
Located in Kittery Point, ME
In the French taste‚ the rectangular tooled leather inset writing surface with a three-quarter gallery‚ above two frieze drawers‚ with sham drawers to the reverse‚ raised on square t...
Brass
Early 19th Century American Sheraton Mahogany Campaign Officers Desk
Located in Forney, TX
A work / writing surface with two disc shaped alternating wood grain inlay and overhanging top, step molded edge, leading to a single frieze drawer with original turned pulls, flanke...
Cherry, Mahogany, Poplar
Howard & Sons London Leather Topped Faux Bamboo Writing Table, circa 1875
By Howard & Sons Ltd
Located in Kinderhook, NY
In 1848 the company moved to 22 Berners Street, expanded in 1853 into 26 Berners Street, and from 1861-89 additional workshops were at Tottenham Street, Charlotte Mews, and Fitzroy S...
Brass
Mastercraft Bernhard Rohne Acid-Etched Brass Table
Located in Chicago, IL
Geometric shaped Mastercraft dining table base in black lacquered wood with Bernhard Rohne acid etched brass panels. Each open square is supported by a pair of radiused edge brass bl...
Wood, Glass
19th Century English Satinwood Carlton House Desk Attributed to Gillows
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in Dublin, IE
The design of this desk similar to known Gillow’s stamped models, the type of construction and the typical square brass handles strengthen an attribution to this firm.
Satinwood
Paul Frankl Eight-Drawer Desk, Mahogany & Cork, Art Deco, Circa 1940
By Johnson Furniture Co., Paul Frankl
Located in Miami, FL
Exposed concave cut-out to center back of desk for storing books, much like a sculptural effect of a Sol LeWitt or Donald Judd floating square cut-outs piece of art and we say art, b...
Brass
Gillow's of Lancaster Regency Military Campaign Kidney Desk Brass Gallery Rail
By Waring & Gillow, Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
He financed the building of the Catholic church in Dalton Square, Lancaster in 1798. The family's Catholic history was important in building up a customer base within Lancashire's...
Brass
Stamped Gillows Lancaster Double Sided Twin Pedestal Partner Desk Figured Oak
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
He financed the building of the Catholic church in Dalton Square, Lancaster in 1798. The family's Catholic history was important in building up a customer base within Lancashire's...
Amboyna
B Talbert for Gillows Aesthetic Movement Davenport with Central Carved Rosette
By Bruce James Talbert
Located in London, GB
An Aesthetic Movement Davenport with a brass gallery to the back and an inkwell and pen compartment below, a recent leather to the lift up slope with a bank of four drawers to the ri...
Mahogany
Very Rare Gillow Breakfront Library Desk Brass Gallery Burr Amboyna Wood
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
He financed the building of the Catholic church in Dalton Square, Lancaster in 1798. The family's Catholic history was important in building up a customer base within Lancashire's...
Burl, Mahogany
Rare 1794 George III Gillows of Lancaster Double Sided Postmasters Sorting Desk
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
He financed the building of the Catholic church in Dalton Square, Lancaster in 1798. The family's Catholic history was important in building up a customer base within Lancashire's...
Mahogany
Mid-Century Modern Mengel Limed & Cerused Oak Telephone Bench by Raymond Lowey
By Mengel Furniture Co., Raymond Lowey
Located in Topeka, KS
It is comprised of a limed oak veneer case, a limed oak cube or cubby with top drawer that slides both ways with charcoal colored cerused oak drawer fronts on both sides, straight bl...
Metal
Georgian Adams-Style Carlton House Marquetry Inlaid Desk by Edwards and Roberts
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This remarkable 19th century George III satinwood and marquetry "Carlton House" desk presents two structures separated by a large molding, the lower section with three frieze drawers...
Brass
Louis XVI Style Pietre Dure Mounted Ebonised Writing Table, circa 1870
By Edwards & Roberts
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
The table is raised on tapering square section legs united by an 'X'-frame stretcher centred by a gilt bronze vase.
Agate, Bronze
Original Thomas Chippendale George III Hardwood Architect's Work Desk Table
By Thomas Chippendale
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
There is a statue and memorial plaque dedicated to Chippendale outside The Old Grammar School Gallery in Manor Square, in his home town of Otley, near Leeds, Yorkshire.
Hardwood
Arts & Crafts Satinwood Writing Table by Marsh and Jones
By John Marsh and Edward Jones
Located in London, by appointment only
They established a showroom in London in Cavendish Square. The commission from Salt, to celebrate his recent marriage, came in 1866, early in their career and it must have been very ...
Satinwood
Frank Brangwyn. A rare desk originally designed for the 1931 Pollard exhibition
By E. Pollard & Co, Frank Brangwyn
Located in London, GB
Their discovery of Brangwyn back in 1882, lead to collaborative and group work at the Century Guild, where shortly after he was taken under the wing of Morris to practice in his work...
Sycamore
An Important George III Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Hudson, NY
It also featured on the trade card for "Jno Macklane Cabinet Maker and UPHOLDER in Little Newport Street near Leicester Square, London, and this is almost certainly the same cabinet ...
Ebony, Mahogany
$33,386 / item
Linley Pedestal Desk
Located in London, GB
Each drawer features a square handle and the center drawer under the writing surface is lockable with satinwood stringing details.
Satinwood, Walnut
Vintage desks and writing tables span centuries of design. The writing table came first, a simple surface built for correspondence, while the drawered desk followed as record-keeping at home and in the office grew more demanding.
Styles to Know
Any desk at least 20 years old falls under this broader vintage category. If you want a tapered-leg, mid-century look specifically, browse mid-century modern desks; Louis XVI and Art Deco secretary desks bridge the writing-table and desk forms. A vintage table lamp adds task lighting to either.
How to Choose the Right Vintage Piece
Writing tables often carry little to no storage of their own, so a separate file cabinet or desk organizer may be worth planning for, alongside a close look at the surface dimensions against the space available. Each piece comes from a vetted 1stDibs seller, with era, designer and condition detailed, and every purchase is covered by the 1stDibs Promise.
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