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Desk Accessories For Sale
Avatar UR Demo Amber Fountain Pen
By Pineider
Located in Milan, IT
Fashioned of transparent, amber-hued UltraResin - an incredibly shock-resistant and pure material developed by Pineider - this fountain pen with soft-close cap lock was designed to k...
Category
2010s Italian Desk Accessories
Materials
Resin
$236 / item
Hermes Pheasant Letter Opener, 1960s France
By Hermès
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A stunning and eclectic addition to your office or display, this silver plated Hermès letter opener is incredibly rare. In the shape of a pheasant, with an elegant blade of tail feat...
Category
1960s French Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal, Silver
Curzio Desk Set
By Giobagnara
Located in Milan, IT
Exquisitely distinguished by a clean and essential design, this desk set will infuse subtle sophistication in any home office or study. Composed of a ruler, t...
Category
2010s Italian Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
$3,191 / item
Set of 3 Calligraphy Brushes Blue and White
Located in Somis, CA
A set of 3 beautiful porcelain handle Chinese calligraphy brushes. The handles with hand painted round and oval porcelain balls of longevity motifs and basketweave, in classic, timeless blue and white...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Desk Accessories
Materials
Porcelain
$95 Sale Price / set
45% Off
Vintage Red Swivel Desk Storage Organizer by Rino Pirovano for Art 900
By Rexite
Located in East Quogue, NY
This vintage red swivel desk organizer, designed by Rino Pirovano for Rexite in the mid-1970s, is a celebrated example of Italian design. Made of ABS plastic, it features four rotati...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Cartier 18ct Gold Plated & Brushed Steel Ballpoint Pen in Original Box
By Cartier
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Cartier Brushed Steel & 18ct Gold Plated Stylo Bille Must II
Comes With Original Paperwork & Red Cartier Presentation Box
2003, brought from Selfridges...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Art Deco Desk Accessories
Materials
Gold Plate, Steel
French Art Nouveau Rene Lalique Grey Stained Dragonfly Knife Rest c1919
By René Lalique
Located in Worcester Park, GB
An very rare and very early signed (R Lalique France -see image 5) original grey stained Rene Lalique 'Libellule' knife rest -depicting a dragonfly in flight, dating from 1919 (See ...
Category
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Art Glass
Mid-Century Modern Crystal Owl Paperweight by Baccarat of France
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
This elegant paperweight was realized by Baccarat- one of the world's finest makers of crystal products since 1765 in France, circa 1960. Artisanally created in translucent crystal, ...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Crystal
Collection Four Jelly Fish Murano Italian Art Glass Aquarium Paperweights Statue
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Beautiful set of four Murano hand blown aquarium design Italian art glass paper weights or statues. Showing Jelly Fish inside, in different colors, floating on controlled bubbles. Co...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Murano Glass
$336 Sale Price / set
40% Off
Set of Moroccan Letter Openers Brass & Stone, late 19th Century
Located in Labrit, Landes
Pair of two morrocan letter openers
The two pieces are made of white and yellow brass
Geometrical motifs
One of the items is adorned of red stones
Dimension dagger letter opener...
Category
Late 19th Century Moroccan Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Stone, Brass
Decorative French Vintage Ceramic Thermometer and Casing by Mithé Espelt
By Mithé Espelt
Located in London, GB
Decorative, French vintage ceramic thermometer and casing by Mithé Espect (circa 1960s). A delightful piece with stylised bird and flower blossoms....
Category
1960s French Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Ceramic
$1,564 Sale Price
30% Off
Vintage Black Bakelite Rotary Wall Cradle Telephone & Dictograph 1940s
Located in London, GB
This is a rare vintage GPO desktop or wall cradle fire emergency telephone 164 in black Perspex Bakelite together with a Dictograph system sub station, serial number 21858 circa 194...
Category
1940s Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Other
Cartier Trinity 18ct Gold Plated Ribbed Ballpoint Pen With A Red Cartier Box
By Cartier
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Cartier Trinity 18ct Gold Plated Ribbed Ballpoint Pen With A Red Cartier Box
Stunning Example of a Must De Cartier ballpoint pen, featuring the classic trinity rings and an enamel i...
Category
Late 20th Century French Art Deco Desk Accessories
Materials
Gold Plate
$1,043 Sale Price / set
30% Off
English Equestrian Horseshoe Silver Plate & Oak Desktop Inkwell Inkstand c. 1900
Located in Pearland, TX
A superb antique English Edwardian silverplate and oak inkwell inkstand with a pen rest, circa 1900. This fine inkstand has the original lovely cut cr...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Crystal, Silver Plate
Paperweight Corn Sculpture in Green Malachite Italian Marble, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Magnificent paperweight corn sculpture fully made in green Italian malachite. This stylish and unique piece was made in Italy during the 1970s.
In amazing conditions, the Malachite ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Malachite, Marble
Carl Aubock Art-Deco Salt and Pepper Shaker Set, Pre-War Production, Early 1930s
Located in Vienna, AT
Art-Deco Salt and pepper shaker set. Prewar production - very early 30s.
The body of the shakers (apple and pear) is made of coloured Bakelite, the stems are of silver plated brass....
Category
1930s Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver Plate, Brass
Vintage Beautiful Glass Paperweight Made Around 1960
Located in Oirlo, LI
Vintage Beautiful Glass Paperweight Made Around 1960
Additional information:
Dimensions: 6 W x 6 D x 5 H cm
Period of Time: 1960
Condition: Good
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass
Seguso Murano Sapphire Blue Gold Flecks Italian Art Glass Love Birds Figurine
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown sapphire blue and gold flecks Italian art glass love birds figurine. Documented to designer Archimede Seguso. The two birds are attached to each o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Gold Leaf
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Tiffany Studios Pine Needle Bronze Doré and Slag Seven-Piece Desk Set
Located in Northport, MI
An exceptional seven-piece desk set by Tiffany Studios New York, crafted circa early 20th century in the iconic Pine Needle Pattern. This finely detailed ensemble features warm bronz...
Category
1910s American Art Nouveau Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Movado1948 Calendermeto Triple Date & Moonphase Travel Purse Clock With Leather
Located in Miami, FL
Rare calendermeto travel clock designed by Movado.
Beautiful and very rare calendermeto travel purse clock, created in Switzerland by the Movado Clock Factories, back in the 1948-1954. Crafted in stainless steel and leather with the purpose to use in desks, travels, in the pocket or a purse. Patented Ermeto winding device by means of the sliding case, with all original parts.
The Movado Ermeto watch...
Category
1940s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Steel, Stainless Steel
$2,212 Sale Price
25% Off
Empire Inkwell in Mahogany and Walnut with Gilt Bronze Mounts, circa 1820
Located in Knivsta, SE
Empire Inkwell in Mahogany and Ebonized Walnut with Gilt Bronze Mounts, circa 1820
A rare and finely crafted Empire inkwell, dating from around the 1820s. Made of richly grained ma...
Category
1820s French Empire Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
In Stock in Los Angeles, Green Killer Shark Mini Portable Charger
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Killer shark mini power bank battery charger
In stock in Los Angeles
"Mr Holder was a shark who loved swimming but could not do it. He was mocked by all the other sharks who call...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
$23 Sale Price / item
64% Off
Pair of Large Carl Auböck Model #4219 'Hands' Brass Bookends
Located in Glendale, CA
Pair of Large Carl Aubo¨ck Model #4219 'Hands' Brass Bookends. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in polished brass. Hand ful...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Italian White Onyx Marble Round Box
Located in New York, NY
A small 1970s Italian Modern white onyx marble round box. A great piece to hold small items on a desk or vanity area for paperclips or jewelry, such as ring...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Onyx, Marble
$220 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Mr. Peanuts Dispenser, USA, Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Mr. Peanuts Dispenser is an original decorative object realized in the mid-20th century.
This vintage object was realized by Tarco Company and it was used as a real peanut...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Antique Georgian Brass Mounted Double Inkwell Stand With Two Hand-Blown Inkwells
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Rare Set of 19th Century Antique Georgian Mahogany & Brass Mounted Double Inkwell Stand With Original Handblown Glass Inkwells Brass Topped Inkwells...
Category
Early 19th Century British Georgian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Aircraft Engine Gold Speaker
Located in Paris, FR
Speaker Aircraft Engine Gold is inspired by radial aircraft engines
from early 20th-century radial aircraft engines. Structure in aluminum
alloy wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Desk Accessories
Materials
Aluminum, Gold Plate, Chrome
$50,715
G. Giacobbe Murano Millefiori Glass Paperweight / Vase, Italy, 1950s
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
G. Giacobbe Murano Millefiori Glass Paperweight / Vase, Italy, 1950s.
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
Magnifying Glass
Located in New York, NY
A magnifying glass in brass with a turned rich wood handle, circa late-20th century. A great piece for a desk, office, library, etc. Very good condition ...
Category
Late 20th Century English Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
$675
French Art Deco Dancer Sculpture by Alexandre-Joseph Derenne for Max Le Verrier
By Max Le Verrier, Alexandre-Joseph Derenne 1
Located in Ulm, DE
Danseuse Païenne (pagan dancer)
graceful sculpture of a dancer
Design by Alexandre-Joseph Derenne for Max Le Verrier
Patinated spelter
Marble base
Original Art Déco, Franc...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble, Spelter
Bronze Lizard and Lapis Lazuli Paperweight
Located in North Hollywood, CA
French cast bronze / brass lizard in lost wax technique on a solid polished Lapis Lazuli. Can be used as a paperweight or decorative desk accessory.
Lizard itself is 5.5" wide, 3" de...
Category
1920s French Belle Époque Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Underwood Vintage Manual Typewriter
By Underwood Universal
Located in Pasadena, TX
Underwood ” Vintage manual typewriter
The Underwood Typewriter Company was a manufacturer of typewriters headquartered in New Yor...
Category
1940s North American Industrial Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Steel
Cartier 18ct Gold Plated & Brushed Steel Ballpoint Pen With Cartier Box
By Cartier
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Cartier Brushed Steel & 18ct Gold Plated Stylo Bille Must II Ballpoint Pen
Comes With Original Red Cartier Presentation Box
Cartier REF 2025 Z1
Category
1980s French Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Gold Plate, Steel
Shoehorn brass around 1950s
Located in Wien, AT
Shoehorn brass around 1950s
Original condition
Category
1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Anient Traditional Fan, Italy, 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Traditional Italian fan is an original decorative object realized in Italy in the half of the 18th century.
The fan is realized completely in gilded silk, decorated gilded wood an...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Silk, Wood
Antique 1920s Silver & Tortoise Shell Page Turner by Grey & Co. London, England
Located in Andernach, DE
Antique English page turner from sterling silver and tortoise shell.
Most rare piece, made and stamped by Grey & Co. London, possibly for Asprey London.
The Stamp is the London Lion,...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
$726 Sale Price
37% Off
Yellow Raymor Ceramic Box, 1960s Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Glaze ceramic box made in Italy by Raymor, circa 1960s. Stunning bright yellow glaze covers the entire exterior of the box as well as the inside of the box. Great vintage condition. ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Ceramic
Snow Globe Black White Chanel Number 5
By Chanel
Located in Munich, DE
Rare limited edition of a Chanel Snow Ball with white bags on a white base, which are only for VIP Customers in excellent condition and with the original bo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic
Desk Accessories, Letter Holder by Jacques Adnet and Letter Tray Paper Holder
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Handsome saddle leather letter holder by Jacques Adnet. Signature contrast stitching. Great patina to leather. Excellent vintage condition. Paris...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Leather
$425 Sale Price
20% Off
Space Age Acrylic and Chrome 'Teledome' Rotary Telephone
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This futuristic Teledome (model #3005) phone was patented and manufactured in 1972 by Teleconcepts and included internals made by Northern Telecom Inc. Chrome-plate handset with blac...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Chrome
Art Nouveau Sterling Vanity Brushes, Set of 6
Located in Stamford, CT
Set of 6 Art Nouveau Sterling silver vanity brushes. American circa 1900.
All stamped Sterling. Original horsehair bristles.
Each brush features a sli...
Category
Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,200 / set
Giorgio Soave Paper weight for Olivetti, Italy 1970s
By Olivetti
Located in Milan, IT
Giorgio Soave Paper weight for Olivetti, Italy 1970s
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver Plate
Hermes Paris 1960 Vintage Modernist Desk Box Round Covered Dish In silver
By Hermès
Located in Miami, FL
Round covered dish designed by Hermes.
This is a very beautiful and highly decorative piece, created in Paris France by the luxury house of Hermes, back in the 1960. This useful des...
Category
1960s French Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver
$1,800 Sale Price / set
25% Off
Carl Auböck #4330/1 Polished Brass Hook
Located in Glendale, CA
Carl Auböck #4330/1 polished brass hook. Designed in the 1950s, this versatile and Minimalist Viennese hook is executed in polished brass by Werkstätte Carl Auböck, Austria.
Produc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
$192 / item
2000s Barovier Toso Italian Emerald Green Murano Glass and Brass Picture Frame
Located in New York, NY
A sophisticated Venetian modern design vertical picture frame in thick blown Murano glass worked in a luscious emerald jewel green color, by Barovier & Toso, signed piece. The elegan...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Beautifully Styled Ceylonese Porcupine Quill, Lidded Dark Wood Conical Pot
By SILVA (Sri Lanka)
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Superb Ceylonese porcupine quill lidded pot in a most unusual conical shape
Fashioned in dark wood and decorated with quill pieces
All quills are present and in excellent order. Int...
Category
1950s Sri Lankan British Colonial Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Hardwood
Brass Globe Cigarette Holder and Ashtray/Coin Dish, circa 1960
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
An original mid-century brass cigarette holder with ashtray or coin dish. The lid slides open on the globe's axis to reveal a metal interior designed to hold cigarettes.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal, Brass
Baccarat French Blue Crystal Paperweight Decorative Object
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful multifaceted French paperweight in sapphire blue and clear crystal from luxury Maison, Baccarat, circa late-20th century, France. This clear crystal and sapphire blue pap...
Category
Late 20th Century French Desk Accessories
Materials
Crystal
In Stock in Los Angeles, Purple Kong Mini Portable Charger
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Kong mini power bank battery charger
In stock in Los Angeles
Easily transportable, Kong mini becomes a stand hugging the mobile phone and an external battery for fast charging mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
$23 Sale Price / item
64% Off
Vintage Christmas Nutcracker Figure Wood Erzgebirge Germany
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Vintage wooden nutcracker figure from the Erzgebirge. The region Erzgebirge formerly Eastern Germany is famous for this special kind of nutcrackers, where intricate carving has been ...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Arts and Crafts Desk Accessories
Materials
Wood
Hermes Desktop Magnifier Paperweight in Silver, 1960s
By Hermès
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage Hermes Paris magnifying glass desk accessory with domed lens ensconced in a silver frame with a belt design. We've left the oxidation and patina untouched and simply added a ...
Category
1960s French Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
Schatz Germany 8 Day Domed Mantle Desk Clock Mid-Century
By Schatz
Located in Torquay, GB
Schatz Germany 8 Day domed mantle/desk clock.
Beautiful kinetic movement.
Made of solid brass with a detachable lucite acrylic and brass domed cover.
Ideal as a mantle or desk clo...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Hollywood Regency Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass, Steel
Auspiciousness Eggs by Ango, the Art&Craft of Feng Shui Egg for Home Decor items
By Ango
Located in Bangkok, TH
Auspiciousness Eggs by Ango is Feng Shui Egg Stone hand-weld and crafted for feng shui home decor items. Kotchakorn Promchai, the renowned Feng Shui master in Thailand invited Ango to create auspiciousness elements to enhance the Feng Shui of a space in a special collaboration. With their sophisticated craft these objects create a beautiful energy around them as well as commanding auspiciousness.
The meaning of Auspiciousness Feng Shui Eggs
Harmony, safety and a smooth path towards achieving goals are overall meaning of Auspicious Feng Shui Egg. The proportion of 52 to 54 mm in length signifies a wealthy life and the width of 42 to 44 mm signifies happiness and prosperity, while the coins placed inside each egg signify good fortune, good luck harmony and spiritual support.
• Silver Auspicious Egg
The colour of peace, justice, intelligence, future-facing, communication, maternity, happiness and prosperity.
• Gold Auspicious Egg
The colour of power, virtue, prestige, leadership, happiness and prosperity.
• Copper Auspicious Egg
The colour of elegance, happiness, charm, popularity, imagination and wealth.
The three colours of Auspiciousness Eggs
The three different colours of Auspiciousness Eggs reflect different aspects in the creation of new energy, happiness and prosperity. Bringing Auspiciousness Eggs into your home or place of work can bring harmony in love, along with good family relations and good fortune in your career, at the same time enabling wealth generation for you, your parents, children and the team who you work with.
The significance of the numbering used in creating the Auspiciousness Eggs
Number 1 signifies success, victory, smoothness in life, leadership and recognition.
Number 6 signifies unexpected fortune, divine blessing, imagination and happiness.
Number 8 signifies wealth, power, popularity and spiritual support.
Number 9 signifies a plenty of propitiousness and auspiciousness.
Each egg is then designed to house 8 silver coins, that are doubled so 16 coins in total; 9 gold coins that are then doubled, so 18 coins; and 10+9 copper coins so 19 coins in total. The technique of doubling is used to increase auspiciousness along with power, and the sequence 8, 9, 10 signifies an increasing power of auspiciousness. So with each piece of Auspiciousness Egg, the propitiousness is maximised in every way and it is recommended you can try one Auspiciousness Egg or one set of three eggs, to gain energy and then build up to 9 elements.
How to place by Auspiciousness Eggs for Feng Shui within your home.
One recommendation is to place the eggs on the desk space or study table. And for stock market investments, it is recommended the eggs are near to the computer. Another suggestion is on the cashier table, by the safe, or on a shelf with the other decorative items.
Who should have Auspiciousness Eggs?
The Auspiciousness Egg is a Feng Shui element that gains in energy starting with the determination patience and meditative skill shown by the artisans who create each piece by hand. This good fortune is for everyone no matter what year...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Thai Arts and Crafts Desk Accessories
Materials
Steel
Red Cobra Table Phone, Ericofon by LM Ericsson
Located in Vienna, AT
Vintage Rotary dial red ericofone. This is the model Cobra. It is made of thermoplastic ABS
Designed in the 1950s in Sweden by Hugo Blomberg, Ralph Lysell and Gösta Thames, LM Ericsson...
Category
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Steel
Midcentury Typewriter / Zeta, 1950s.
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia
Made of metal, steel, plastic
The packaging of the machine has surface defects that are associated with the age of use,cannot be locked,there is no key.
Re-...
Category
1950s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal, Steel
Antique Nautical Rolling Ruler, English, Maritime, Draughtsman, Captain Field
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique nautical rolling ruler. An English, ebony maritime or draughtsman's instrument of the Captain Field's Improved type, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 190...
Category
Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Gucci Geometric G Paperweight
By Gucci
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gucci Geometric G red white and blue glass paperweight / Made in Italy
Original mark stamped underside, comes in original box
Diameter: 4 inche...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass
Antique Century Traditional Sewing machine Vibrating, circa 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Antique sewing machine Vesta Handcrank vibrating shuttle
Serial Number: 2655227
Made in Germany
Ideal for sewing most materials such as denim, canvas, silk, calico and the like,
Could be used as was intended for sewing or recycled as a small office ornament...
Category
1950s European Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
$1,133 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian Leather Jewelry Box Scalloped Edge
Located in New York, NY
An Italian leather jewelry box with a Kelly-green velvet interior, circa early to mid-20th century, Italy. Box, with scalloped edge design,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Desk Accessories
Materials
Leather, Velvet
French Set of Champleve Enameled Small Inkwell and Letter Opener
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a small bronze champleve enamel set of an inkwell and letter opener. Both of them depicts colorful hand painted flowers, “C” scrolls and foliages. The resting plate of the in...
Category
Early 20th Century French Classical Roman Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
$316 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Antique, New and Vintage Desk Accessories
Whether you’ve carved out a space for a nifty home office or you prefer the morning commute, why not dress up your desk with antique and vintage desk accessories? To best tiptoe the line between desk efficiency and desk enjoyment, we suggest adding a touch of the past to your modern-day space.
Desks are a funny thing. Their basic premise has remained the same for quite literally centuries: a flat surface, oftentimes a drawer, and potentially a shelf or two. However, the contents that lay upon the desk? Well, the evolution has been drastic to say the least.
Thank the Victorians for the initial popularity of the paperweight. The Industrial Revolution offered the novel concept of leisure-time to Europeans, giving them more time to take part in the then crucial activity of letter writing. Decorative glass paperweight designs were all the rage, and during the mid-19th-century some of the most popular makers included the French companies of Baccarat, St. Louis and Clichy.
As paper was exceedingly expensive in the early to mid-19th-century, every effort was made to utilize a full sheet of it. Paper knives, which gave way to the modern letter opener, were helpful for cutting paper down to an appropriate size.
Books — those bound volumes of paper, you may recall — used to be common occurrences on desks of yore and where there were books there needed to be bookends. As a luxury item, bookend designs have run the gamut from incorporating ultra-luxurious materials (think marble and Murano glass) to being whimsical desk accompaniments (animal figurines were highly popular choices).
Though the inkwell’s extinction was ushered in by the advent of the ballpoint pen (itself quasi-obsolete at this point), there is still significant charm to be had from placing one of these bauble-like objets in a central spot on one’s desk. You may be surprised to discover the mood-boosting powers an antique — and purposefully empty — inkwell can provide.
The clamor for desk clocks arose as the Industrial Revolution transitioned labor from outdoors to indoors, and allowed for the mass-production of clock parts in factories. Naturally, elaborate designs soon followed and clocks could be found made by artisans and luxury houses like Cartier.
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