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Desks For Sale
Period: 18th Century
Period: 17th Century
Period: 15th Century and Earlier
Period: 16th Century
18th Century Massachusetts Mahogany Chippendale Desk with Shell Drop & Ogee Feet
Located in Milford, NH
A fine mahogany Chippendale slant front desk with serpentine case, dovetailed construction, compartmentalized interior with fan carving, v...
Category
18th Century American Chippendale Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
18th century burr walnut bureau
Located in Penzance, GB
Here we have a very good quality early 18th century burr walnut bureau, with a well and stepped interior, a door and drawers on the inside. Sitting on bracket feet it also has a cr...
Category
17th Century English Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Charleston Chippendale Mahogany Slant Top Desk with Fitted Interior, C. 1770
Located in Hollywood, SC
Charleston Chippendale mahogany slant top writing desk with four graduated drawers, fitted interior, original brasses, and resting on the origin...
Category
1770s American Chippendale Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Early Antique English Georgian Secretary, circa 1750
Located in Big Flats, NY
An early antique English Georgian secretary offers lift top and drop-down desk over two long drawers, circa 1750
Measures - 29.25" x 26" x 16.25".
Category
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Wood
French Bureau Plat Marquetry Leather Top Desk with Orig. Ormolu Mounts, C. 1770
Located in Hollywood, SC
French bureau plat marquetry leather top three drawer desk with hearing bone inlays, three opposite side faux drawers, original floral ormolu mounts, brass escutcheons, brass knobs, ...
Category
1770s French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
Antique 18th Century French Directoire Style Cylinder Desk
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Dimensions- H: 42 3/4in W: 36 1/2in D: 20 3/4in
This antique 18th century French Directoire style cylinder desk is made of the highest quality and is perfect for you and your home!...
Category
18th Century French Directoire Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Louis XV Ladies Writing Desk
Located in Bradenton, FL
A very nice 18th century Walnut and Tulipwood leather top French writing desk. This is a beautiful petite size piece made of French Walnut with Tulipwood cross banding on the top edg...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
C18th Mahogany `Grendy` Kneehole Desk
By Giles Grendey
Located in Shipston-On-Stour, GB
A well made early Geo III mahogany kneehole desk in the manner of Giles Grendy, of unusual form and features. Slightly oversized it holds a presence of quality craftsmanship, with c...
Category
1760s English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique Italian Neoclassical 18th Century Slant Front Desk
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A beautiful 18th century painted northern Italian slant front desk. Wonderful aged patina. It features two large drawers underneath and a slant front top. The slanted front opens to ...
Category
18th Century Antique Desks
Materials
Wood
Georgian Style Wood & Hogan Burr Walnut Partners Desk Bench-Made in England
Located in North Salem, NY
For the person who appreciates high quality in all details. This desk will make the impreessive statement needed.
English Bench-Made Wood & Hogan Walnut Early Georgian Style Partner...
Category
Early 18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Hermes Letter Opener, 1960s, France
By Hermès
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Elegant Hermès letter opener with a detailed horse head handle in solid metal.Beautiful light patina to the silver and a blade that tapers gently towards...
Category
Early 1600s French Art Deco Antique Desks
Materials
Metal
English Country House George I Walnut Double Dome Bureau Bookcase
Located in Salisbury, GB
Very rare George I double dome walnut bureau bookcase, it is of a smaller than the regular size and so can fit in most homes.
This George I walnut bureau bookcase...
Category
1720s British George I Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Captains Desk
Located in San Francisco, CA
A George III period mahogany kneehole captains desk. Rare example of 18th century campaign furniture. Rich, dense Cuban mahogany inlaid with ivor...
Category
18th Century George III Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
French 18th Century Louis XV Period Ebony And Ormolu Bureau Plat Partner's Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional and most elegant French mid 18th century Louis XV period Ebony and ormolu Bureau Plat partner's desk. The six draw desk is raised cabriole leg...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Large Antique William and Mary Burr Walnut Herringbone Inlaid Two Part Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Large antique William and Mary burr walnut Herringbone inlaid two part bureau having a quality burr walnut Herringbone inlaid top above a burr walnut full opening to reveal a fitted ...
Category
17th Century English William and Mary Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Dutch Marquetry Inlaid Cylinder Desk/Bureau 18 Th Century, Bombe’ Chest Form
Located in Houston, TX
The exceptional cabinet work plus the extraordinary marquetry
Art work that is exhibited throughout this piece is very rare to
Find. The cylinder door rolls back to reveal an interior gallery with
Stepped drawers, a double interior door...
Category
Late 18th Century German Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
George III Mahogany Kneehole Desk
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine George III period mahogany kneehole desk having richly grained top with canted corners and molded edge, the long drawer flanked by two rows of s...
Category
Mid-18th Century English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
18th Century Swedish Neoclassical Painted Secretary Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
18th century Swedish neoclassical painted secretary desk will make the perfect addition to your home whether your decor is modern, traditional,...
Category
1790s Swedish Gustavian Antique Desks
Materials
Steel
Cassetone Bureau Desk Ebonised Rosewood Bone Rome Baroque Bird Flower Lion Tulip
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Exceptional Roman Baroque Ebonised, Rosewood Cassettone with bone inlay and magnificent brass handles
Magnificent transition piece displaying classical ornamentation within a tradit...
Category
1690s Italian Baroque Antique Desks
Materials
Bone, Ebony, Rosewood
Rococo 18th Century Yew and Elm Bureau Desk
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Rococo 18th century yew and elm bureau desk circa 1750.
Stunning Swedish rococo period bombe shaped bureau. Beautifully made from yew wood and elm, using various techniques such...
Category
Mid-18th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Desks
Materials
Elm, Yew
Antique Walnut 18th Century Queen Ann 3 Drawers Low Boy Good Condition
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Antique Walnut 18th century Queen Ann 3 drawers low boy good condition.
Category
Mid-18th Century American Queen Anne Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique Knee Hole Desk, Georgian Mahogany 18th Century
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Georgian Mahogany Kneehole Desk.
Standing on bracket feet.
This piece features 7 Oak lined drawers and a central recessed cupboard.
Each drawer ha...
Category
18th Century Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Georgian 18th Century Mahogany Kneehole Desk
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A superb quality and extremely attractive 18th century, Chippendale period, georgian mahogany kneehole desk, having well figured rectangular top over slide, central cupboard and arrangement of drawers, retaining original rococo brass handles, raised on original shaped bracket feet.
Generally, kneehole deeks are regarded as a smaller, more compact version of the more typically found pedestal desk, with some form of an arrangement of drawers around a central set recessed cupboard being the form which one can expect to come across. There are of course various different designs to be found along the same theme, but as a general rule that is the form you will usually find in a georgian kneehole desk...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
New England Tiger Maple Slant Front Desk circa 1780-90
Located in Milford, NH
A fine example of a New England curly or tiger maple slant front desk with compartmentalized interior, including a central fan carved pros...
Category
Late 18th Century American Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
18th Century Spanish Bureau Desk Walnut Wood
Located in Madrid, ES
This is a beautiful Spanish desk from the 18th century, Carlos III era. Made of walnut wood in complete pieces of wood, both on the sides, drawer fronts and...
Category
Mid-18th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks
Materials
Bronze
Antique George I Quality Figured Walnut Herringbone Inlaid Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George I quality figured walnut Herringbone inlaid bureau having a quality antique George I walnut bureau with a walnut herringbone inlaid fall opening to reveal a fitted int...
Category
18th Century English George I Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Small 18th Century Mahogany Kneehole Desk George III
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Superb small chest of drawers/writing desk/secretaire in mahogany from the 18th century called Kneehole desk from the George III period
Indeed, these small pieces of furniture are...
Category
18th Century British Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
George II Style Walnut Pedestal Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular top with inset brown leather over a cushion frieze with three drawers, the reverse finished but no drawers, pedestal base each containing three drawers. Bracket feet.
Category
1740s English George II Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Bureau Desk Fall Front Japanning Tortoishell Gilding Chinoiserie
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A rare, late-17th century / early-18th century, fall front bureau with gilded Chinoiserie Japanning & faux tortoishell ground.
“Before Japan was made in England, the imitation of tortoise-shell was much in request for cabinets, tables and the like“. John Stalker and George Parker, a treatise on Japanning and varnishing (originally published in 1668), Alec Tiranti, 1998, p. 75.
- This bureau is decorated in one of the most fashionable styles of the Baroque period, Chinese lacquer with gilded decoration and tortoiseshell imitation ground and would have been a statement piece within the interior.
- The colours, which have become muted from atmospheric conditions over time, are still striking and colourful evoking warm and richness.
- It has come from a private collection where it has reputedly been for many generations which explains why it is in such original condition retaining the original hinges, lock and catches.
- Pieces of imitation tortoishell with gilded lacquer decoration are rare, the last piece I handled was a chest of drawers about 20 years ago.
- Tortoishell furniture was only affordable by royalty and the elite and the height of fashion in the 17th century, as was producing things that were not what they seemed. One of the oldest examples of faux material from the Baroque period is at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen where, in 1667, the royal bed...
Category
17th Century Italian Chinoiserie Antique Desks
Materials
Lacquer
Mahogany Desk by Thomas Chippendale
Located in New Orleans, LA
This writing desk from the highly esteemed Thomas Chippendale is exceptionally rare and unique. The renowned cabinetmaker was the first craftsman to exhibit such a strong following that an entire style bears his name and not that of a monarch. He was famous for using the highest quality timbers, the finest quality mounts and for striving for perfection in every piece of furniture he created. Chippendale's clients included Catherine II of Russia, famed actor David Garrick...
Category
18th Century English Chippendale Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique Quality Burr Walnut Floral Marquetry Inlaid Bombe Shaped Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique 18th century quality burr walnut floral marquetry inlaid bombe shaped bureau having a fantastic quality large burr walnut floral marquetry inlaid bureau with a shaped fall op...
Category
18th Century English Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Anglo Chinese/Chinese Export Qianlong Bureau
Located in Folkestone, GB
An exceptionlal and very rare Qianlong period Chinese export Bureur, Constructed in Hauli and Huanghuali wood in China during the first half of the 18th century for a wealthy English...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese George II Antique Desks
Materials
Padouk
Fine Quality Antique George I Figured Walnut Bureau with Original Handles
Located in Suffolk, GB
Fine quality antique George I figured walnut bureau with original handles having a fine quality figured walnut bureau with walnut inlay stringing, 2 short and 3 long oak lined drawer...
Category
18th Century English George I Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique 18th Century Quality Mahogany Floral Marquetry Inlaid Cylinder Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique 18th century quality mahogany floral marquetry inlaid cylinder bureau having a fantastic quality mahogany floral marquetry inlaid cylinder bureau opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of ten shaped drawers, bookends and a door opening to reveal a single drawer above three long bombe...
Category
18th Century English Antique Desks
Materials
Other
Antique 1780s George III English Oak Bureau
Located in EDENSOR PARK, NSW
Drop down front with 5 small drawers and 9 pigeon holes in desk bureau, 4 larger drawers comes with original key.
Circa: 1780s
Material: Oak
Country Of Origin: England
M...
Category
18th Century Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
Georgian Butlers Desk
Located in Bradenton, FL
George III Mahogany Butlers Chest. Solid Mahogany molded top over three cock beaded drawers with the top drawer housing a nicely fitted desk int...
Category
Late 18th Century Unknown George III Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Wood & Hogan English Bench-Made Chippendale Style Mahogany Writing Table
Located in North Salem, NY
Fine Wood & Hogan English bench-made mahogany Chippendale style three drawer writing table with tooled leather shaped top and pull out slides on each end. Each fitted drawer with sol...
Category
18th Century English Chippendale Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique Walnut Queen Anne Period Writing Bureau
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This exquisite English walnut bureau hails from the remarkable Queen Anne period, dating back to approximately 1710. It exudes an air of rarity a...
Category
Early 18th Century British Queen Anne Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
18th Century George II Yew Wood Secretary Bookcase
Located in Essex, MA
Period early 18th century George II Yew Secretary bookcase. Original Mirrors and interior. Integrity throughout. Beautiful compartmented interior. Original carved and gilded framing around mirrors. Retains original extremely high quality Georgian hardware...
Category
Early 18th Century English George II Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut, Yew
18th Century English Chippendale Mahogany Chest with Desk Drawer
Located in Milford, NH
A fine example an English Chippendale four drawer mahogany chest with a rectangular top with molded edge surmounting a case with four graduated drawers, the top of which converted to...
Category
18th Century English Chippendale Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Chippendale Metamorphic Chest with Pull Out Writing Desk, 18th Century
Located in Charleston, SC
A Regal English Chippendale Metamorphic Chest having a Pull Out Writing Desk made in the Late 18th Century. The Georgian Chest has an unusual Faux Pair of Cabinet Doors on the back, so that the Metamorphic Desk...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chippendale Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Queen Ann Walnut Metamorphic Chest with Pull Out Writing Desk, 18th Century
Located in Charleston, SC
An extraordinarily rare English Queen Ann Walnut metamorphic chest of drawers with pull out writing desk made in the early 18th century. This remarkable George I period queen Ann chest...
Category
Early 18th Century English Queen Anne Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Bookcase Bureau Walnut Burr Original Mirror Plate Bevelled Double Dome Finials
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
AN EXCEPTIONAL, GEORGE I, BURR WALNUT & FEATHER BANDED, DOUBLE-DOMED BUREAU BOOKCASE WITH ORIGINAL BEVELLED MIRROR PLATES, GILDED FINIALS, FROM THE COLL...
Category
1720s English Baroque Antique Desks
Materials
Mirror, Walnut, Giltwood
Queen Anne Walnut Dome Top Secretary with Mirrored Doors
Located in Milford, NH
A fine two piece Queen Anne walnut dome top secretary with two arched mirrored doors opening to an upper compartment with six valanced open cubbies ...
Category
18th Century English Queen Anne Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique Mahogany Georgian Architect's Drafting Drawing Desk Table Chest 1780
Located in Portland, OR
A rare George II mahogany architect's desk/chest, circa 1750.
The desk/ top slides forward, thus allowing the sitter to work, the top having a drafting table that has an easel support to place the top at three different heights, the highest being 47" floor to top. The chest having a plan drawer which is flanked by two pen drawers...
Category
Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century English Bureau
Located in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
18th C English painted oak bureau with numerous secret drawers and original brass fittings. 1780.
Height to underside of desk is 29".
Reference: 7605
Dimensions
36.5 inches...
Category
18th Century English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
17th Century Antique Quality Oak Bureau with Outstanding Interior
Located in Suffolk, GB
17th century antique quality oak bureau boasting an outstanding interior and having a quality oak fall with a reading slope opening to reveal an incredible serpentine shaped interior...
Category
1680s English Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
Louis XVI Satinwood Roll Top Desk by Macret - Stamped - 18th Century circa 1780
By Pierre Macret
Located in GRENOBLE, FR
Louis XVI mahogany roll top desk, ormolu ornamentation, France, late 18th century, circa 1780.
Roll top desks were created at the end of Louis XV reign ; they are mechanical pieces of furniture, which allows - once closed - to keep the work spread on the desktop confidential.
Stamp of Pierre Macret - stamped twice on a crosstie.
Pierre Macret was a great Parisian cabinet...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Desks
Materials
Ormolu
George III Satinwood and Marquetry Harlequin Writing Table
Located in Essex, MA
With a serpentine divided top with oval inlaid panel with hunting scene with hounds and hares with floral medallions at the corners , hinged outer sections fitted with a well and central section lifting and fitting into a recess , leather top of Tiffany blue. A button released the pop up desk...
Category
1770s English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Satinwood
Childs Exceptionally Rare Satinwood Bureau Desk circa 1770
Located in Lincoln, GB
This small satinwood bureau desk circa 1770 is only 75cm tall, making it a very unique piece. It is of the George II / III period with beautifully ori...
Category
18th Century British George II Antique Desks
Materials
Satinwood
19th Century Manner of George Bullock, Regency Brass Inlaid Rosewood Lap Desk
Located in Morristown, NJ
c.1800, England, Regency brass inlaid rosewood lap desk in the manner of George Bullock. Rectangular box with double-hinged lid, opening to tooled navy leather and gold embossed writ...
Category
Early 18th Century English Regency Antique Desks
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
18th Century Maple and Tiger Maple Slant Front Desk
Located in Milford, NH
A fine example of a tiger maple and maple slant front desk with compartmentalized interior, including two hidden compartments with faux split co...
Category
Late 18th Century American Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Louis XVI Mahogany And Ormolu Mounted Bureau Plat By Martin Carlin
Located in Essex, MA
This desk is by one of the finest makers in France during the fourth quarter of the 18th century under the reign of Louis XVI.
Stamped M.CARLIN and JME on underside. Two commodes...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Venetian Painted Desk
Located in Newport Beach, CA
A rare, Venetian, serpentine painted writing desk. Six drawers with 4 original keys. Hand painted foliate swags decorate the sides which meet relief profiles
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks
Materials
Wood, Paint
Exceptional Rare and Fine Padouk Wood Bureau in the Chippendale Manner, c. 1780
Located in Heathfield, GB
In superb original condition, with a fantastic colour, and retaining the original fine quality brass hardware. This is a very high quality solid Padouk bureau...
Category
18th Century Chippendale Antique Desks
Materials
Padouk
Mahogany Kneehole Desk
Located in Folkestone, GB
A good quality George III period mahogany kneehole desk with moulded edge top above a long drawer and arrangement of three graduated small drawe...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Italian Ladies Desk
Located in Charleston, SC
Charming and rare 18th C. Italian painted small ladies desk having deep yellow, maroon and and gold/ochre scrolling foliate in chinoiserie motifs wit...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Desks
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
George I Walnut Bureau Bookcase
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular cornice over a single door with mirror, the desk section with fold down writing surface opening to a nicely fitted interior and sliding panel opening to a well, all over ...
Category
1720s English George I Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
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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