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Desk Accessories For Sale
Color:  Orange
Minimal Bottle Opener Made in Brass, Stainless Steel and Raw Steel
Located in Chicago, IL
Strong in form and heavy in weight, the bottle openers are elegant in their simplicity and precision. Solid bar stock is transformed through the most minimal intervention possible, c...
Category

2010s American Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass, Stainless Steel, Steel

Ghidini 1961 Medium Rabbit in Polished Brass by Stefano Giovannoni
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Decorative object medium in brass "The rabbit is the latest iconic object I have designed. For Ghidini it has turned into a family of precious metal objects: salt and pepper, paper...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Mr.Peanut, Vintage Peanut Butter Maker, USA, Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Mr.Peanut - vintage peanut butter maker is an original decorative object realized in the mid-20th century. This vintage object was realized by Emenee and it was used as a real pea...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Desk Accessories

Materials

Plastic

Honeycomb Desk Set, Hand Blown Contemporary Glass, in Stock
Located in New York, NY
The honeycomb desk set is comprised of four separate organizing containers that create a contemporary look on any desk environment. Made with gold topaz color, the set includes a large catch all (2.5" x 8.5") and three accompanying smaller containers...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Blown Glass

Italian Design Ghidini 1961 Brass Rabbit Paperweight
Located in Brescia, IT
This is the latest iconic object designed by Stefano Giovannoni, for Ghidini 1961. An Italian contemporary design factory. Its designers: Campana Brothers, Mendini, Studio Job and mo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Minimalist Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Pair of Carl Auböck Model #1937 'Bamboo' Bookends
Located in Glendale, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #1937 'Bamboo' bookends. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed hand cut and polished bamboo and brass....
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21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Ghidini 1961 Knotted Cherry Medium Box in Brass by Nika Zupanc
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Fiasco. Guilt. Fear of love. A place to hide all the things we secretly desire yet are too scared to utter. The luscious things the perfect lover knows are never to be told. She drea...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Robert Indiana Brushed Aluminum Red Love Paperweight Sculpture Desk Accessory
Located in North Miami, FL
This very rare rendition and small edition of the vintage Robert Indiana love paperweight sculpture is rarely seen version in red brushed aluminum. This may have only been a very sma...
Category

1970s American Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Aluminum

Vintage French Ceramic Vase by Raymonde Leduc 'circa 1970s', Small
Located in London, GB
Vintage ceramic vase (or pencil holder if you prefer) by Raymonde Leduc (circa 1970s). Sandstone coloured small vessel with plant motifs inlaid on all four sides. In good overall con...
Category

1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Ceramic

Vienna Bronze Clown Acrobat Figure Match Holder
Located in Danville, CA
Vienna Bronze Clown Acrobat Figure Match Holder Here is a bronze match holder in the form of clown acrobat figure, in good condition, with fine patina....
Category

Late 20th Century Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Globette-EV by Ango, Handcrafted Silk Cocoon Table Lamp
By Ango
Located in Bangkok, TH
Globette-EV table lamp one of Ango earlier explorations in using the silk cocoon to form an “atomised” light diffuser, where we found that light was refracted by the natural Material...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Thai Organic Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Organic Material

Teign Valley Glass English Sculptural Art Glass Paperweight
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An unusual sculptural form English art glass paperweight made by Teign Valley Glass in Devon dating from the latter 20th or early 21st century. Foun...
Category

20th Century English Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Art Glass

Daphne Small Tray Design by Uniqka Design House for Uniqka
Located in Türkali, 34
Daphne is a tray, expressing the elegance, structure, and delicacy of leather. In addition to serving as a place mat on a classy dining table, Daphne may serve as a valet tray in any room at home or at work. Daphne is a beautiful and functional tray with a simple yet meaningful shape and exquisite leather knitting. The special bordering leather knitting decorates the tray, amplifies the storage function, and strengthens the standing base. Daphne is handcrafted with two layers of the eco-friendly vegetable-tanned leather. The exquisite, twisted leather...
Category

2010s Turkish Desk Accessories

Materials

Leather

Ghidini 1961 Knotted Cherry Medium Box in Copper-Plated Brass by Nika Zupanc
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Fiasco. Guilt. Fear of love. A place to hide all the things we secretly desire yet are too scared to utter. The luscious things the perfect lover knows are never to be told. She drea...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Copper

Danese Milano Flores Orange Box in Stainless Steel by Enzo Mari
Located in Hicksville, NY
Orange Flores is a rounded, plastic pencil case. It is made up of two parts in polystyrene. The hinges are the distinctive invention of the designer and with their interlocking mecha...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Polystyrene

Daphne Large Tray Design by Uniqka Design House for Uniqka
Located in Türkali, 34
Daphne is a tray, expressing the elegance, structure, and delicacy of leather. In addition to serving as a place mat on a classy dining table, Daphne may serve as a valet tray in an...
Category

2010s Turkish Desk Accessories

Materials

Leather

Frank Stella Abstract Artist Metropolitan Museum of Art Book, 1970, New York
Located in New York, NY
A hard-cover book with dust-jacket on abstract American artist Frank Stella, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970, New York, NY. This book presents a decade of Sella's work from 1959 - 1...
Category

1970s American Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Paper

Carl Auböck Handcrafted Paperweight Jingle Bell #5039, Brass, Leather, Austria
Located in Vienna, AT
A handmade paperweight in the shape of a sleigh bell, model #5039, originally designed by Carl Aubock III back in the 1960s. A very charming piece, reissued by Werkstätte Auböck...
Category

Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Orange Pen Holder by Royal Haeger
Located in Houston, TX
Vintage Mid-Century Modern ceramic orange pen holder / desk accessory by Royal Haeger. Measures: Height: 2 7/8 in. Width: 9 in. Special Characteristics...
Category

1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Ceramic

Pair Italian Neoclassical Grand Tour Sienna Marble Souvenirs of Temple Ruins
Located in New York, NY
A very fine and early pair of Roman Neoclassical Period Grand Tour Sienna marble models of the Temple of Castor and Pollux and the temple o...
Category

1820s Italian Greco Roman Antique Desk Accessories

Materials

Siena Marble

Brass Key Corkscrew by Carl Aubock
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
For five generations the design house of Carl Auböck has been turning ordinary objects like paperweights and bookends into extraordinary objects of beauty in an old town house in Vienna. Mixing old world craftsmanship with Bauhaus design, materials such as brass, leather, wood and horn are transformed in eccentric, imaginative modern objects. This solid brass key...
Category

2010s Austrian Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Antique Amber Orange Bohemian Cut Crystal Box with Lid
Located in Toronto, ON
A large antique Bohemian amber glass box with cut crystal ornate floral patterns. The artistry of the cut crystal makes this vessel as beautiful a...
Category

Early 20th Century Czech Desk Accessories

Materials

Crystal

Ghidini 1961 Knotted Cherry Small Box in Brass by Nika Zupanc
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Fiasco. Guilt. Fear of love. A place to hide all the things we secretly desire yet are too scared to utter. The luscious things the perfect lover knows are never to be told. She drea...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Geometric Sculpture in Polished Orange Resin by Paola Valle
Located in Ciudad De México, MX
Geometric sculpture made in polished resin in variety of colors. It is a modern and colorful piece that will liven up any space. This sculpture is very versatile and fun! You can cr...
Category

2010s Mexican Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Resin

Orange Semi Sphere Sculpture in Polished Resin by Paola Valle
Located in Ciudad De México, MX
This Geometric sculpture is handmade in polished resin in a variety of colors. It is a modern and colorful piece that will liven up any space. Our Se...
Category

2010s Mexican Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Resin

Brass Oval "25" Paperweight from De Vera New York
Located in Chicago, IL
Brass oval paperweight with "25" on top, stamped 2015 DE VERA on the bottom with the gallery's prior Crosby Street address.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Carl Auböck Paperweight #5378-1 "Razor Blade", Austria
Located in Berlin, DE
Brass paperweight #5378-1 in the shape of a razor blade by Carl Auböck, New.
Category

2010s Austrian Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Archimede Seguso Murano Sommerso Red Orange Italian Art Glass Owl Bird Figurine
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown Sommerso yellow orange over red Italian art glass horned owl baby bird figurine, paperweight. Documented to designer Archimede Seguso. Similar one...
Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Sommerso, Art Glass, Glass, Murano Glass, Blown Glass

Ghidini 1961 Small Rabbit in Polished Brass by Stefano Giovannoni
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Decorative object in brass "The rabbit is the latest iconic object I have designed. For Ghidini it has turned into a family of precious metal objects: salt and pepper, paperweight ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Papper Basket Designed and Manufactured by Laurids Lønborg in Denmark, 1950s
Located in Hägersten, SE
Papper basket designed and manufactured by Laurids Lønnborg in Denmark. Made during the 1950s. Made from rattan and hand weaved cane. Good vintage condition with few signs of age rel...
Category

1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Cane, Rattan

Tusk Candle, Set of Two, Natural Beeswax
Located in Oakland, CA
Set of two candles, small and medium. 100% beeswax, organic hemp wick and coloring, unscented. The tusk candle takes its inspiration from natural mo...
Category

2010s American Minimalist Desk Accessories

Materials

Hemp

Pair of Antique Italian Grand Tour Models of Ruins in Sienna Marble
Located in New York, NY
A very fine and early pair of Roman neoclassical period grand tour Sienna marble models of the Temple of Castor and Pollux and the Temple of V...
Category

19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Desk Accessories

Materials

Siena Marble

Ghidini 1961 Omini Cards Holder in Polished Brass
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Business cards holder in brass, ideal for holding cards.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Ghidini 1961 Omini Pen and Cards Tray in Polished Brass by Stefano Giovannoni
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Pencils tray in brass Omini is a family of products that plays on the inclusion and the relationship between the human figure with a series of monolithic ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

1970s Painted Crystal Vase from the Kosta Wedding House
Located in Marbella, ES
1970s Painted crystal vase from The Kosta Wedding House.
Category

Late 20th Century Swedish Desk Accessories

Materials

Glass, Art Glass

Mid-century Typewriter/Consul, 1960's
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia Made of Metal,Plastic With aged patina Re-polished Fully Functional Good Original condition.
Category

1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Metal

Fluted Twisted Brass Mid-Century Modern Box with Ball Lid
Located in North Miami, FL
This fabulous vintage fluted and twisted brass Mid-Century Modern box has a lid with a ball on top. The box is from the 50s and has been professionally polished. it makes a great des...
Category

1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

German Brass and Leather Desk Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Classic leather desk set with brass and chrome letter opener and scissors. Saddle leather holding case with felted bottom. Marked Germany on scissors. Good vintage condition to metal...
Category

1960s German Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Metal

Collection Gilt Leather Bound Library Book Set
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Decorate your sturdy / Library room with this collection set of gilt leather bound library book set of eighteen volumes. Germany in storm and stress ...
Category

1910s Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Paper, Leather

Murano Blue and Amber Controlled Bubble Paperweight by Galaxy D’Arte
Located in Chicago, IL
Murano blue and amber controlled bubble paperweight by Galaxy D’ Arte.
Category

1950s Italian Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Murano Glass

Tusk Candle, Medium, Natural Beeswax
Located in Oakland, CA
100% beeswax, organic hemp wick and coloring, unscented. The tusk candle takes its inspiration from natural motifs: Ivory, tusks, canines, teeth and oth...
Category

2010s American Minimalist Desk Accessories

Materials

Hemp

Ghidini 1961 Axonometry Set 2 Large Cube Tray in Polished Brass
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Trays in brass. The compositional scheme of this family of small trays is the axonometric isometric projection of two parallelepipeds which creates a three-dimensional optical effect...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Ghidini 1961 Knotted Cherry Small Box in Copper-Plated Brass by Nika Zupanc
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Fiasco. Guilt. Fear of love. A place to hide all the things we secretly desire yet are too scared to utter. The luscious things the perfect lover knows are never to be told. She drea...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Copper

Carl Auböck Monumental Brass Foot Sculpture, Werkstätte Auböck, Austria
Located in Vienna, AT
We are offering this impressive 13“ long and 8“high brass foot sculpture, designed and manufactured by Werkstätte Carl Auböck, Vienna, Austria. This the second ever-made piece of this giant foot...
Category

Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Ghidini 1961 Axonometry A4 Tray in Polished Brass
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Trays in brass. The compositional scheme of this family of small trays is the axonometric isometric projection of two parallelepipeds which creates a three-dimensional optical effect...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Cream Leather Desk Set by Longchamp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fantastic 6-piece French leather desk set by Longchamp. All pieces wrapped in cream leather with incredible patina and character and accented with solid brass. Desk set includes: desk pad, mail holder, paper tray, picture frame, red ceramic ashtray...
Category

1960s French Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Ghidini 1961 Omini Pen and Cards Tray in Polished Brass
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Made from brass the pen and card tray is suitable for storing pens, pencils and cards and adds a touch of whimsy to your home office.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Ghidini 1961 Axonometry Rectangular Small Tray in Polished Brass
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Tray in brass. Elegant in living and dining spaces alike, this tray can be used to display objects in the living room and bedroom, store papers in the ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Ghidini 1961 Axonometry Squared Small Tray in Polished Brass
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Tray in brass. Tray in brass. Elegant in living and dining spaces alike, this tray can be used to display objects in the living room and bedroom, store papers in the office or necess...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Unit Boy Table Lamps, Stylish Modern Rattan Handcrafted Light created by Ango
By Ango
Located in Bangkok, TH
Unit boy, table lamp in rattan, created in the unique random weaving technique developed by Ango, is a one of a kind art piece table lamp. The diffuser form evokes a lotus bloom, whi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Thai Organic Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Stainless Steel

Ghidini 1961 Bullet Table Lamp in Brass by Studio Job
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Table lamp in brass and metalized glass. Materials: Brass and metallic glass Net weight: 4.8 kg Dimensions: Diameter 17 x 54 height cm.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Modern Photo Frame in Yellow and White Plexiglass , Sharing Yellow
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Sharing yellow is a photo frame Art with Heart collection by Laura G Italy. It is beautiful wherever you look at it, its surface is decorated front and back, a typical example of Art with Heart photo frame. It is realized in yellow and white artistic plexiglass, with guilloche' rays hand worked into yellow fluo plexiglass, giving light to the whole piece. Sharing yellow is a postmodern photo frame where traditional crafts are combined with contemporary material, plexiglass and create an unexpected and quite new concept of photo frame. Photo size diameter 5 inches (13 cm). If you like Italian artisanal craftsmanship, you will find out that Photo Frames Laura G are an example of quality and beautiful design. Collectors of Art with Heart photo frames...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Plexiglass

Leather Basket by Lancel Paris, Signed and Made in Italy
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This basket, or trash can, is signed Lancel Paris underneath, and has been made in Italy in the 1970's. The leather as a beautiful old patina. It is in good condition.
Category

1970s French Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Leather

Heavy Polychrome Glass Egg Sculpture
Located in bari, IT
1960s solid glass egg-shaped paperweight.
Category

1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Glass

Elephant Design Porcelain Jewelry Dish by Rosenthal
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful German white porcelain jewelry dish with Elephant design by Rosenthal, circa 20th century, Germany. Dish is square with large elephant at c...
Category

Late 20th Century German Desk Accessories

Materials

Porcelain

Hermès Visionaire Limited Edition Case
Located in Chicago, IL
Visionaire collaboration with Herme's for issue #32. A set of 53 postcards in a leather shell. Strap is damaged.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary French Desk Accessories

Materials

Leather

Ghidini 1961 Axonometry Small Rectangular Tray in Copper by Elisa Giovanni
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Axonometry rectangular small tray in copper by Elisa Giovanni. Materials: Copper Net weight: 0.4 kg Dimensions: W 18 x D 12 x 2 H cm.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Copper

Ghidini 1961 Omini the Climber Clips Holder in Brass by Stefano Giovannoni
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Paper clips holder in brass Omini is a family of products that plays on the inclusion and the relationship between the human figure with a series of...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

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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