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Desks For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1930s
19th Century French Bureau de Dame Napoleon III Ladies Writing Desk
Located in Milano, MI
A late 19th century Napoleon III bronze-mounted mahogany bureau à cylinder, an elegant French Bureau de Dame or Bonheur du Jour, a ladies writing desk with cartonnier which opens up ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Desks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century English Burl Walnut Tunbridge Writing Slope Box
Located in Pearland, TX
A superb antique English burl walnut and ebony inlaid tunbridge writing slope box / lap desk, circa 1870. This handsome box opens to reveal a leather...
Category
19th Century English Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique English Regency Mahogany Fold-Over Games Card Tea Side Table 19Ct
Located in Dublin, Ireland
A Fine Well Figured Rosewood Fold-over Games Table of outstanding quality, early Nineteenth Century, possibly Regency Period and of English origin.
The rectangular top with rounded...
Category
Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Biedermeir Coffee Table or Writing Desk in Walnut, Denmark
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects.
Danis...
Category
Mid-19th Century Danish Biedermeier Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Italian Empire Desk
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exquisite 19th-century Italian Empire desk is a beautifully crafted piece that exemplifies the neoclassical elegance of the Empire style. Made from richly grained walnut, the de...
Category
19th Century Italian Empire Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut, Giltwood
19th Century Vermis Martin Style Bonheur Du Jour Secretary Desk
Located in Germantown, MD
A 19th Century Vermis Martin Style Bonheur Du Jour Secretary Desk. Hand Painted and with original functional key.
Measures 24" in width, 17" in depth and stands 47" tall. Knee cleara...
Category
19th Century French Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Velvet, Hardwood, Paint, Ribbon
Antique Partners Desk with Provenance
Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
A fine quality partners desk in exceptional figured mahogany veneers, original dark green leather, bramah locks, ratchetted writing slope and mahogany lined drawers
Provenance: from ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Quality Antique French 19th Century Mahogany Fold Down Desk
Located in Suffolk, GB
Quality antique French mahogany fold down desk having the original pretty brass gallery, two glazed doors, two drawers with original brass handles. The base boasts a fold down writin...
Category
19th Century English Antique Desks
Materials
Other
Fine English 19th Century Mahogany Secretary-Desk
Located in Long Island City, NY
A fine English table with a "hidden" writing desk/ secretary opening via three articulated compartments.
Category
Late 19th Century British Edwardian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Gillows of Lancaster Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Whaley Bridge, GB
R043 Exceptional Regency mahogany 3 drawer writing table by the world renowned cabinet maker Robert Gillow.
This writing table is constructed from the finest quality Cuban mahogany, ...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Fine Biedermeier Walnut Drop Front Desk. Vienna, c. 1825.
Located in Vienna, AT
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This exceptional Biedermeier drop front desk is the best example of top-quality Viennese piece from circa 1825.
Viennese Biedermeier is distinguished by their sophisticated p...
Category
Early 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Desks
Materials
Maple, Walnut
19th Century Hampton & Sons Chinese Chippendale Cylinder Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely gorgeous mid-late 19th century British Chinese Chippendale style cylinder desk from the renowned maker of Hampton & Sons, of Pall Mall, London.
This stunnin...
Category
Late 19th Century English Chinese Chippendale Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century English Knee Hole Desk
Located in High Point, NC
19th century English knee hole desk made from oak with a beveled edge around the top following down to a single drawer over two banks of three d...
Category
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Italian 19th Century Ebony, Bone and Exotic Wood Center Table / Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning Italian 19th century ebony, bone and exotic wood center table / desk. The table is raised by fine bun feet below unique and most decorative carved spiral legs...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Desks
Materials
Bone, Ebony
Carved Chinese Bureau Desk Hardwood 1860
Located in Potters Bar, GB
You are viewing a gorgeous Chinese carved hardwood desk or bureau
Circa 1860
Skillfully carved from hardwood, look at all the details like lilly motifs and winged creature legs
Top o...
Category
1860s Antique Desks
Materials
Hardwood
Antique Regency Mahogany Occasional Snap Top Table possibly Irish 19th Century
Located in Dublin, Ireland
A Very Imposing example of an English well figured Mahogany late Regency Period snap-top Occasional Table of small proportions, in our opinion is of Irish Manufacture. Circa 1815-20....
Category
Early 19th Century Irish Regency Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Regency Brass Inlaid Mahogany Traveling Desk Wooden Writing Slope Box
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An Exceptionally Fine Quality English Well Figured Rosewood Ladies or Gents English Georgian Travelling Writing Slope of outstanding quality and unusually large proportions, with lav...
Category
19th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Italian Art Deco White Parchment Vanity
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Art Deco white parchment diminutive triangular form lady's vanity /dressing table with a drawer centered by 2 side drawers and 2 doors.
Parchment is separating from the piece
Category
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Desks
Materials
Wood, Parchment Paper
Edwards and Roberts Antique Inlaid Secretary Desk, 1860-1875, London
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Stately Mahogany inlaid leather top secretary desk, London England 1860-1875 by Cabinetmakers Edwards and Roberts. Moulded cornice over arched glazed panel doors with green fabric lined interior above a rolled front inlaid fan, shell and scroll decoration.
Pull out embossed green leather writing surface above graduated drawers on narrow feet: stamped "Edwards and Roberts" on top drawers edge. Famous cabinetry makers.
The firm Edwards and Roberts were among the best English antique furniture cabinet makers of the second half of the nineteenth century. The company was founded in 1845 and by 1854 was trading as ‘Edwards and Roberts’, 21 Wardour Street, ‘Antique and Modern Cabinet...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Leather, Glass
Mid 19th century Swedish burr birch escritoire
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Stunning birch root escritoire circa 1855.
We are pleased to offer this piece for sale. Profusely using birch root veneers on every surface.
Matched birch veneers used which span ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Swedish Empire Antique Desks
Materials
Birch
Bamboo and Birch Satinwood Secretary Desk
Located in Downingtown, PA
Faux Bamboo and Birch Satinwood Desk
19th century
An exotic faux bamboo and satinwood desk in a Chinese Chippendale style. The upper section is topped with a pierced gallery accente...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Chippendale Antique Desks
Materials
Bamboo, Birdseye Maple, Satinwood
English Mahogany Secretary Desk, 19th Century
Located in Southampton, NY
English Mahogany secretary desk, 19th century
Three pieces: Crown, upper drawers and lower cabinet. Lowest draw pulls out as a secretary desk.
Measures: 21" deep x 46.5" wide x 80.5"...
Category
19th Century British Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Federal Partners' Desk in Mahogany, Philadelphia, circa 1820
Located in Miami, FL
A beautiful Philadelphia partners desk in mahogany with gadrooned top and apron resting on center pedestal with carved baluster and legs, and ending in brass casters with lions' paw ...
Category
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
19th Century English Burr Walnut Victorian Pedestal Desk w/ Tooled Leather Top
Located in North Salem, NY
A statement piece for any home office, den or living room! This attractive 19th century English made Burr Walnut pedestal desk has a gilt tooled leather top with a shaped break on th...
Category
19th Century English Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique English Regency Mahogany Davenport Writing Desk Occasional Side Table
Located in Dublin, Ireland
A Very Imposing example of an English well figured Rosewood late Regency Period Davenport Desk or occasional side piece of compact proportions, in the manner of renowned Cabinet Make...
Category
Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Louis XV Style Burlwood Ormolu Mounted Lady’s Desk
Located in Vero Beach, FL
French 19th century Louis XV style Burlwood Ormolu Mounted Lady’s Desk.
Elegant French burlwood and ormolu mounted Lady’s cylinder desk. The single door cabinet is raised by slend...
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century Italian Console Hand-Carved Solid Walnut Two Drawers Natural Color
Located in Buggiano, IT
Late 19th century console in hand-carved solid walnut with two drawers in original natural color.
Umbertine style, with intermediate shelf.
The carvings are all done manually.
In anc...
Category
1880s Italian Rustic Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut, Fir
French Secretaire à Abattant, First Empire Period
Located in Montreal, Quebec
French first Empire period Secretaire à Abattant, also known as a drop-front secretary, fall front or cantilevered desk. Under the dark grey marble top is a secret, entablature drawe...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Desks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Sheraton Ladies Desk Bureau Mahogany 1890
Located in Potters Bar, GB
A delightful Sheraton style ladies desk dating to 1890
Rich flame mahogany wood with deep patina
Sheraton style tapering legs typical from this period
Seven drawers giving ample room...
Category
1890s Sheraton Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Federal Curly Tiger Figured Walnut Butler's Fall Front Desk
Located in Germantown, MD
A 19th Century Curly Tiger Figured Walnut Butler two-part Fall Front Desk. Hand-rub refinished recently. Drawers operating smoothly.
Measures 42" in width,
22" in depth and 88" in ...
Category
19th Century Unknown Federal Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Louis XVI Style Cylinder Bureau, By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Rare Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Cylinder Bureau. By François Linke, Paris. Index Number 100. France, Circa 1890.
The top with three quarter pierced gallery. The cylinder front centred by a gilt-bronze foliate framed oval decorated with floral marquetry and a harp and books representing lyric poetry. Flanked by twin-light gilt-bronze candelabra. The roll-top enclosing an arrangement of four small drawers and five small compartments above a gilt-tooled green leather writing surface. The frieze fronted by a central drawer with spring-loaded secret release and faced with a relief-cast plaque of cloudborne putti representing the arts. The flanking drawers with gilt-bronze acanthus cast handles and fruiting cornucopia...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Antique English Walnut Military Campaign Chest or Lap Desk with Brass Mounts
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique campaign box is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from England and date to approximately 1820 and done in the period Victoria...
Category
Early 19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
English 19th Century Oak Pedestal Desk
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Good Quality, One Piece, Mid 19th Century Oak Pedestal Desk Of Eleven Drawers Having Replacement Gilt Tooled Leather Top And Original Turned W...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
A Fine George III Style Mahogany Partners Desk
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A massive partners desk having a black leather tooled inlay and gilt embellishments. The whole having twelve drawers and brass pulls in three parts.
Lacking a key.
Dimensions: 60" ...
Category
Late 19th Century George III Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Napoleon III Bureau Plat Desk Mahogany Writing Table 1890
Located in Potters Bar, GB
A Napoleon III mahogany bureau plat desk on cabriole legs
Circa 1890
The desk has been finished with ormolu mounts and the legs with winged lions
At each end is an intricate laurel r...
Category
1890s Napoleon III Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Swedish 19th century hand painted pine escritoire writing desk
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Swedish 19th century painted pine escritoire writing desk circa 1870.
We are pleased to offer this rustic escritoire, made from solid pine and hand painted on the outside using a ra...
Category
Late 19th Century Swedish Rustic Antique Desks
Materials
Pine, Paint
Antique Anglo Indian Military Campaign Camphor Wood & Brass Bureau Desk Drawers
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely late Victorian Anglo Indian campaign Camphor wood with brass inlay Military bureau desk
This piece really is exquisite. It’s a genui...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Campaign Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Bureau Plat with Ormolu Bronze Mounts
Located in Tarry Town, NY
This elegant Louis XVI-style bureau plat, crafted from rich mahogany wood and adorned with exquisite ormolu bronze mounts, epitomizes classic French sophistication. The desk features...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Desks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Period Regency Mahogany Mechanical Gentleman's Desk
Located in Hudson, NY
This very fine desk made during the Regency period in England is of great design and exceptional quality. Constructed of Mahogany solids and veneers with fine figure and color. The d...
Category
Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Biedermeier Walnut Secretary
Located in Hudson, NY
Biedermeier Walnut Secretary Chest, Biedermeier walnut secretary with cabinet below. Desk has four small drawers and a letter shelf. Cab...
Category
19th Century Czech Biedermeier Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique English Georgian Mahogany Fold-Over Games Card Tea Side Table 19Ct
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stylish English Georgian Flame Mahogany Games Card Table of outstanding quality, early Nineteenth Century. Circa 1820.
The crossbanded fold-over top of rectangular form with round...
Category
Early 19th Century British Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Spanish desk/table 19 th c walnut hand carved
Located in Houston, TX
Fine carving makes this piece really special. It has an iron stretcher connecting the the carved legs. It has two drawers
That work well with locks and key. It has the original finis...
Category
Late 19th Century Spanish Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Modernist Tubular Steel Desk, Walnut Veneer, Chromium Plated Metall, circa 1935
By Vichr & Co.
Located in Berlin, DE
Modernist tubular steel desk, walnut veneer, chromium plated metal, circa 1935
This desk is restored on request, delivery time 6-8 weeks.
Category
1930s Czech Bauhaus Vintage Desks
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Modernist Tubular Steel Desk with 2 Chests of Drawers, Chromed Metal, Oak Veneer
Located in Berlin, DE
Modernist tubular steel desk with two chests of drawers, chrome plated metal, oak veneer, circa. 1935.
Category
1930s Czech Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Fine Quality French Antique Victorian Kingwood and Ormolu Mounted Bureau/Desk
Located in Suffolk, GB
Fine quality French antique Victorian kingwood and ormolu mounted bureau/desk having the original ornate ormolu gallery above two drawers and boasting ormolu beading above the kingwo...
Category
19th Century French Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Other, Ormolu
19th Century French Kingwood Writing Desk Bureau Plat
Located in Essex, MA
19th century French kingwood Bureau plat writing desk. Beautiful Louis XV Form. Lacquered Bronze Mounts are original. Grand proportion. Embossed Plum leather.
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Bronze
19th C. Louis XV Style Kingwood Marquetry & Ormolu Bonheur Du Jour Writing Desk
Located in Germantown, MD
A 19th Century French Louis XV Style kingwood and Walnut marquetry, ormolu mounted and galleried bonheur du jour, the top marquetry and galleried details. Two upper smaller drawers m...
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Rare Fine Antique Early Victorian Military Campaign Writing Slope Davenport Desk
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this early Victorian Military Campaign writing slope in the form of a Davenport desk circa 1840-1860 in solid mahogany
I’ve only ever seen one o...
Category
1840s English Early Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
Pair of important Georgian satinwood cylinder cabinets
Located in Cheshire, GB
Pair of Georgian cylinder cabinets/bookcases, the raised pierced gallery, and well-figured satinwood tops to the glazed doors opening to reveal an adjustable shelf. The freeze having...
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Desks
Materials
Satinwood
Outstanding Louis XV-Style Mahogany Bureau Plat
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An outstanding Louis XV-style mahogany bureau plat after a model by Jacques B. Dubois, from the estate of Phyllis McGuire, the shaped leather-inset top...
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Shop Counter Sarreguemines Porcelain
Located in Vosselaar, BE
This late 19th century French shop counter is extremely rare because of its custom made Sarreguemines porcelain panels. Every panel is a bit different and fits seamlessly with bolts ...
Category
19th Century French Baroque Revival Antique Desks
Materials
Wood
Japanese Carved Desk Writing Table Meiji Era Hardwood Asian 1860
Located in Potters Bar, GB
You are viewing an elaborate hand carved Japanese desk in hardwood
Hopefully the photos illustrate the levels of workmanship that have gone into the crafting of this work of art
Carv...
Category
1860s Antique Desks
Materials
Hardwood
Early 19th Century Regency Mahogany Partners Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Period early 19th century Regency Mahogany Partners desk. Drawers on both sides. Great proportion. Excellent quality...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Diminutive Renaissance Revival Walnut & Burl Cylinder Secretary, c1880
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Renaissance Revival diminutive cylinder desk offers walnut and burl construction with upper case having carved cartouche over double glass door bookcase...
Category
Late 19th Century European Renaissance Revival Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut, Glass
Antique 19th Century Anglo-Chinese Bamboo Lacquered Desk
Located in London, GB
Antique 19th Century Anglo-Chinese Bamboo Lacquered Desk
Aesthetic Movement, England, C.1880
Leather inset surface
Presented in excellent condition commensurate of age.
Category
19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Bamboo, Lacquer
19th Century Buffet Secretaire, Escritoire Cabinet Cherrywood, France
Located in Labrit, Landes
Antique buffet escritoire secretaire cabinet, made circa 1900
Desk very convenient to store and close in a room with several functions
A good quality centre work and writing table: t...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Desks
Materials
Cherry
Antique Pewter Inlaid Burl Amboyne Coromandel Desk Wooden Writing Slope Box 19Ct
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An Exceptionally Fine Quality English Well Figured Burl Amboyne and Coromandel Ladies or Gents English early Travelling Writing Slope of outstanding quality and unusually large propo...
Category
19th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
20th Mid-Century Spanish Buffet Secretaire, Escritoire Cabinet Oak
Located in Labrit, Landes
Vintage buffet escritoire secretary cabinet, made circa 1960 in Spain.
Oak, wrough iron, brass and moleskine.
Desk very convenient to store and close in a room with several functions...
Category
Mid-19th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Antique Desks
Materials
Wrought Iron
Vintage and Antique Desks for Sale — Shop Handcrafted Mid-Century Modern Desks, Art Deco Desks and Other Desks and Tables on 1stDibs
There’s no reason that the corner of your home you’ve dedicated to work shouldn’t also reflect your personality and sense of style. A collection of unique vintage and antique desks can be found on 1stDibs today.
The right desk can be a good fit for your space and help keep you organized when you need it most. For many, the word “desk” can have a negative connotation. Derived from the Latin desca, meaning “table to write on,” the word can understandably evoke memories of stuffy classrooms or monotonous workdays.
As working from home has become more widespread for part of the workforce, many professionals who work remotely park themselves at the dining-room table or at the kitchen countertop to do so. If you’ve got the space, it's healthy to set aside an area in your home designated for work. A good desk can keep you on track and keep your newly minted home office free of clutter and distractions.
Within your own walls, an office area can be both personal and productive, decorated exactly to your taste or just an unobtrusive addition that aligns with the energy of the space as is. When shopping for a desk, keep height, space and specs in mind. It’s helpful to know if you’ll need the desk to offer storage, such as drawers or a hutch, or if it should fit alongside your bedroom wall as cleanly as possible.
An antique writing desk, for example, will offer a spacious, streamlined work experience with a desktop that affords real estate for your notebooks, pens, laptop and research materials. Secretary desks reveal small inner storage compartments — pigeonholes, cubbies, recesses or drawers — when their hinged leaves are folded out.
Maybe you'd prefer a vintage mid-century modern desk that seamlessly incorporates drawers for storage.
Nebraska-born designer Don S. Shoemaker became inspired by Mexico’s tropical woods, such as cocobolo, a Mexican rosewood, and he decided to work with the material in the postwar years to create desks and other furnishings. Elsewhere, made according to the same high standards as the company’s chairs, celebrated mid-century manufacturer Herman Miller produced desks over the years in a number of versions, created by designers like George Nelson, Gilbert Rohde and Bruce Burdick.
Whether you want a dramatic rolltop-style furnishing akin to the 18th-century secretary commissioned by Louis XVI or a contemporary piece made of everything from linoleum to fallen trees, a new desk and clever arrangement of desktop accessories can brighten the workday in any home.
For every passion project, year-end report or spontaneous million-dollar app idea, find the desk you need on 1stDibs.
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