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Desks For Sale
Period: Early 20th Century
Period: 1990s
Edwardian walnut bon heur du jour
Located in Salisbury, GB
Edwardian walnut bon heur du jour
This Edwardian walnut bon heur du jour (in French, bonheur-du-jour, meaning "daytime delight") was made circa 1910.
The top with the stationery box...
Category
1910s English Edwardian Vintage Desks
Materials
Walnut
Chippendale Desk Writing Table Pedestal 1910
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Refined mahogany desk or writing table in the Chippendale manner
Features swan neck handle draw fronts terminating on blood ball and claw legs
The top finished with a tooled leather inset
Classic Chippendale pie crust...
Category
1910s Chippendale Vintage Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Georgian Desk Mahogany Pedestal Bureau
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Mahogany Georgian revival desk. This desk stands upon a plinth base and has an arrangement of 9 graduated drawers.
Each of the drawers having brass swan neck handles. The top of the ...
Category
Early 1900s Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
California Studio Sculpted Walnut Executive Desk by Anthony Khan
By Anthony Kahn
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Transforming a piece of Mid-Century Modern furniture is like bringing history back to life, and we take this journey with passion and precision. With over 17 years of artisanal exper...
Category
1990s American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Ebony, Walnut
Fabulous Antique English Flame Mahog. Chippendale Style Large Desk w/leather
Located in Charleston, SC
This is an extraordinary Old/Antique English highly figured flame or crotch mahogany Chippendale Style Very Large Desk. It may be used as a partner's desk, but the back side is fini...
Category
Early 20th Century English Chippendale Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
High Polished American Mid-Century Aluminum Folding Army Desk
Located in New York, NY
WWII Aluminium Military Campaign Desk-Collapsible
This desks was originally painted in a sea foam blue color for use in US military field hospitals. The desk is designed to Collapse...
Category
Early 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Aluminum
Art Nouveau Writing Desk with 9 Drawers (Vienna, 1910)
Located in Wien, AT
Objekt: Schreibtisch
Ausführung: unbekannter Hersteller, Wien um 1910
Maße in cm (H x B x T): 79 x 125 x 78
Material: Messing, Eiche furniert (ebonisiert), Leder
Zustand: guter Zusta...
Category
1910s Austrian Art Nouveau Vintage Desks
Materials
Brass
Large Bauhaus Partners Desk, Green Lacquer, Metal, Steeltube, Germany circa 1930
Located in Regensburg, DE
Large Bauhaus “Partners desk” (usable from two sides) from Germany around 1930
High gloss lacquered in the original green color (British Racing Green).
Polished steel tube and partly...
Category
1920s German Bauhaus Vintage Desks
Materials
Sheet Metal, Steel, Chrome
Early Chinoiserie Japanned Leather Top Desk and Chair Set - Nichols and Stone
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful japanned Nichols & Stone chinoiserie desk and matching chair set. The desk itself is swoon-worthy with its painted traditional scenes of a forest and stenciled gold detai...
Category
Early 20th Century American Chinese Chippendale Desks
Materials
Metal
Oak Store Counter with Two Brass Slots for Money Storage
Located in Chicago, IL
Oak store counter with two money slots made of brass. Lots of storage. Great condition.
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Early 20th-Century Scriban in Chinese Lacquer
Located in NICE, FR
This two-part scriban cabinet showcases an exquisite combination of cream and gold Chinese lacquer, representing exquisite Italian craftsmanship from the early 20th century. The lower section is equipped with a chest of drawers featuring five drawers arranged in four rows. Above it, there's a slanted writing desk...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Chinoiserie Desks
Materials
Wood, Paint
Antique Figured Walnut Pedestal Desk
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality antique figured walnut desk, having a shaped, hand coloured leather hide writing surface, above two long drawers in the ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Desks
Materials
Walnut
Medium Oak Hotel Restaurant Reception Hostess Greeting Station, Greeter
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Medium Oak Hotel Restaurant Reception Hostess Greeting Station, Greeter
A very neat Front of House Reception Greeter, the front of the desk has a sh...
Category
Early 1900s Art Deco Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
Antique Moorish Style Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Desk and Chair Set
Located in Miami, FL
Very fine antique Moorish style mother-of-pearl inlaid writing desk and chair set, circa 1920's. This hand-carved, intricately detailed example has absolutely incredible inlay work o...
Category
Early 20th Century Syrian Moorish Desks
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Early 20th Century Oak Store Paneled Counter or Desk w/ Birds Eye Drawer Fronts
Located in Milford, NH
A nice example of an oak store paneled counter or six drawer kneehole desk, each dovetailed drawer with round wooden pulls and birdseye maple drawer fronts, a molded edge rectangular...
Category
Early 20th Century American Desks
Materials
Birdseye Maple, Oak
French Mahogany Art Nouveau Writing Desk Signed Louis Majorelle
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Signed ‘Louis Majorelle’ Art Nouveau desk with the sinuous lines and curves typical of the style. Four curved-front drawers retaining their original ormol...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Louis XV style walnut roll top desk with large drawer and upper compartments.
Located in Oakville, ON
A charming roll top desk in the style of Louis XV made in walnut having interesting and attractive hand carved elements. The size is perfect to fit in smaller place in your home. it is highly decorative and functional. There is a large drawer as well has a leather table top that will accommodate a laptop...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Walnut
Edwardian inlaid mahogany desk
Located in Salisbury, GB
Edwardian inlaid mahogany desk
This Edwardian inlaid mahogany desk was made circa 1910, the ‘age of elegance.’
The desk with the green gilt tooled writing surface with the mahogany s...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Art Deco Bar J.Langer
Located in Kraków, Małopolska
Art Deco bar Szczepan Lojek, Julian Pietrzyk from Poland Krakow, from 1910-1920.
Category
1910s Polish Art Deco Vintage Desks
Materials
Palisander
1920s United States Roll Top Office Desk with Drawers and Wheels
Located in Marbella, ES
1920 United States roll top office desk with drawers and wheels.
Category
Early 20th Century North American Desks
Materials
Wood
Art Nouveau desk in walnut , Viennese Secession, circa 1900
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Art Nouveau desk in walnut , Viennese Secession, circa 1900
patina to be redone, small lack of plating
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Vienna Secession Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Early 20th-Century Neoclassical Writing Desk Inlaid with Brass
Located in Opole, PL
Early 20th-Century Neoclassical Writing Desk Inlaid with Brass
We present you a Neoclassical writing desk from the early 20th century.
It is...
Category
Early 20th Century European Neoclassical Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique Figured Walnut Bureau
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality antique figured walnut bureau, having a fall front opening to a fitted interior, above three oak lined drawers, standing on elegant cabriole legs the burea...
Category
Early 20th Century English Queen Anne Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique French Neo Classic Art Deco Writing Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive French writing desk having a dramatic mixed wood top crafted with a burled walnut center crossbanded in zebra wood with brass borders on a mahogany case having five drawe...
Category
Early 20th Century French Neoclassical Desks
Materials
Brass
Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Galleried Mahogany Burl and Marquetry Desk
Located in Germantown, MD
An outsanding Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted , Mahogany Burl and Marquetry Desk with top gallery. Very good antique condition. Intricate Marquetry work all over to the legs terminati...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
Turn of the Century Carlton House Desk
Located in Pasadena, TX
Inlaid Mahogany Turn of the Century Desk
1905
Mahogany Carlton House style desk. Moulded and curved upper section with three quarter pierced...
Category
Early 20th Century European Edwardian Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique Walnut Desk, Slant Front Desk, Drop Front Bureau, Scotland 1910
Located in Vancouver, BC
Antique Walnut Desk, Inlaid Walnut Slant Front Desk, Drop Front Bureau, Antique Furniture, Scotland 1910, H1141
+ Scotland 1910
+ Solid Walnu...
Category
1910s Scottish Vintage Desks
Materials
Walnut
English Georgian style walnut pedestal desk
Located in Salisbury, GB
Georgian style walnut pedestal desk
This fine quality Georgian style walnut pedestal desk was made circa 1910.
It is a rare design with the stepped top above the pedestals below. A l...
Category
1910s English Georgian Vintage Desks
Materials
Walnut
Painted French Provincial Ivory and Green circa 1920s Secretary/ Desk
Located in Essex, MA
In an all-over ivory paint with a wonderful light green interior throughout this beautiful turn of the century, a French provincial secretary...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown French Provincial Desks
Materials
Wood, Paint
Antique Carved Mahogany Drop-Front Secretary with Brass Gallery, circa 1910
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique secretary offers mahogany construction with upper brass gallery over upper case with drawers over slant-front desk with carved patera reserve, raised on cabriole legs, c19...
Category
Early 20th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Whimsical rustic Adirondack child’s Vanity Mirror desk and chair studio craft
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
Whimsical rustic Adirondack child’s Vanity Mirror desk and chair American studio craft. Very beautiful vanity desk for kids great for a cabin or rustic de...
Category
1990s American Adirondack Desks
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Edwardian Chippendale Style Pedestal Desk
Located in Salisbury, GB
Edwardian Chippendale style pedestal desk.
This Edwardian Chippendale style pedestal desk was made circa 1900.
A sumptuous desk of this type gives a room or office a feeling of s...
Category
Early 1900s English Chippendale Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Adam Decorated Satinwood Ladies Cylinder Desk, Circa 1900
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Adam decorated ladies desk offers satinwood construction with roll top opening to interior with storage compartments and pull-out writing surface, over three drawers, rais...
Category
Early 20th Century Adam Style Desks
Materials
Satinwood
Aesthetic Movement Tiger Tortoise Bamboo Secretary Desk With Rice Mat Shelves
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Turn-of-the-century Tiger Bamboo Secretary desk with handwoven rice mat top, center drawer, Bottom shelf, and three-tier split-level overhead shelving.
1900, United States
We only ...
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Desks
Materials
Bamboo
Antique H.T. Cushman Betumal Oak Telephone Stand Small Child's Desk
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique H.T. Cushman Betumal Oak Telephone Stand Small Child's Desk. Item features a pull out seat, glass top, storage cubby to stand, solid woodconstr...
Category
Early 1900s Arts and Crafts Antique Desks
Materials
Glass, Oak
Antique Lap Desk with Stand
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Lap Desk with a leather top inset.
Category
Early 20th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Antique Chippendale Carved Mahogany Knee Hole Desk, Claw & Ball Feet, C1920
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Chippendale style knee hole desk offers mahogany construction with top having rope twist trim over central drawer with flanking smaller drawers and reeded columns, raised ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chippendale Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Queen Anne Walnut Revival Bureau on Stand, circa 1920s
Located in Dereham, GB
Queen Anne Walnut Revival Bureau On stand circa 1920s
Figured Walnut Top with herringbone inlay & Cross Banding,
Wanut Book Match Veneer on Fall fron...
Category
Early 20th Century British Queen Anne Desks
Materials
Walnut
Edwardian Oak Pedestal Desk
Located in Salisbury, GB
This Edwardian oak pedestal desk was made circa 1900.
A high-quality desk of this size is not easy to find. It was made for the home of a professional...
Category
Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
Restored Aesthetic Movement Tiger Tortoise Bamboo Secretary Hutch Desk
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Late VictoruiaTiger bamboo secretary desk with handwoven rice mat coverings and cut bamboo floral sculpture along the front, center drawer, and flip-d...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century French Walnut Writing Table Desk, Cabriole Legs Banded Top, Drawer
Located in Toronto, CA
A beautifully proportioned 19th century French style writing table or desk, crafted in walnut with a lovely pattern walnut top with a walnut edge band. The carving is nicely detailed...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique English 1920s Bureau with Drawers
Located in EDENSOR PARK, NSW
Drop front top with pigeons holes and small drawer, leather insert, three large drawers on bottom, brass fittings. there is not key to top.
circa: 1920s
Material: Oak
Count...
Category
Early 20th Century Desks
Materials
Oak
H.E. SHAW Antique Early 20th Century Mahogany Georgian Secretary Desk
Located in Charlotte, NC
A Georgian style secretary desk by H.E. Shaw Furniture. Mahogany with brass hardware, wood drawer knobs, scroll pediment top with three finials, an e...
Category
Early 20th Century American Georgian Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique Kittinger Jacobean Spanish Revival American Walnut Carved Secretary Desk
By Kittinger
Located in Dayton, OH
Extremely rare one of a kind early Kittinger Jacobean Revival fall front secretary writing desk. Made from American walnut with a carved and paneled...
Category
Early 20th Century Jacobean Desks
Materials
Oak, Walnut
Antique Fine Quality Small Georgian Revival Satin Birch Writing Table Desk
Located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Antique fine quality small Georgian revival satin birch and mahogany writing table desk C1920.
No loose joints and no woodworm. Full of character and charm. A rare and attractive ...
Category
1920s Vintage Desks
Materials
Wood
20th Century Oak Desk with Grapes and Vine Leaves Carvings & Sliding Shelves
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning very solid and heavy, early 20th century carved oak desk in one piece.
The practical desk is well decorated with vine leaves and g...
Category
Early 20th Century English Victorian Desks
Materials
Oak
English Mahogany Leather Top Partners Desk
Located in Milford, NH
A fine 3-piece large mahogany partners desk with olive green leather top and gilt tooled border, the top section with single frieze drawer flanked by two smaller fitted drawers, supp...
Category
Early 20th Century English Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Secretary Desk, Northern Europe, circa 1920, After Renovation
Located in Chorzów, PL
Secretary desk, Northern Europe, circa 1920
Very good condition, after professional renovation.
Dimensions: height: 101 cm, width: 94 cm, depth: 52 cm.
Category
1920s Scandinavian French Provincial Vintage Desks
Materials
Walnut
Outstanding Quality Large Antique Mahogany Serpentine Shaped Partners Desk
Located in Suffolk, GB
Outstanding quality large antique carved figured mahogany serpentine shaped partners desk having a three section brown leather top crossbanded in mahogany with an outstanding quality...
Category
Early 20th Century English Desks
Materials
Other
Oak Table or Desk Attributed Gilbert Pelletier, France, 1930s
By Chanaux & Pelletier
Located in Austin, TX
Finely crafted solid oak desk with exposed joinery in simple waterfall form attributed to French craftsman Gilbert Pelletier. Known best for his part...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Desks
Materials
Oak
Early French Art Deco Desk in Nutwood, circa 1925
Located in Ulm, DE
Small desk with fluting
Walnut, shellac hand polished
Early Art Deco, France around 1925
Dimensions:
Width: 90 cm
height: 72 cm
Depth: 55 cm.
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Desks
Materials
Nutwood
Jugend-Stil Desk, Sweden 1910
Located in New York, NY
A stunning Jugendstil desk in original condition with all working locks and hardware. Ebonized oak provides an amazingly sturdy writing surface which is at 29.75". Two base cabinets ...
Category
Early 20th Century Swedish Jugendstil Desks
Materials
Bronze
Antique Burled Wood Petite Desk with Brass Gallery Rail
Located in Locust Valley, NY
A petite burled wood antique desk with brass gallery rail and brass decorated hardware surrounding each drawer's keyhole. Beautiful burled wood on th...
Category
Early 20th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Outstanding Gothic Revival Tiger Oak Desk w. Quality Carved Church Window Panels
Located in Lisse, NL
Wonderful Gothic Revival desk with an amazing presence and patina.
If you like Gothic Revival furniture then we are certain you will like this quality carved Gothic desk. This good size and highly practical specimen comes with very attractive, church-window-like panels in the perfect condition cabinet doors. This intricate and predominantly solid tiger oak desk...
Category
Early 20th Century European Gothic Revival Desks
Materials
Brass, Iron
Lovely Antique Victorian Burr Walnut Cushion Drawer Brown Leather Partner Desk
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this very fine fully, Antique circa 1900, Burr Walnut twin pedestal partner desk with hand dyed brown leather top.
It’s been lightly restored to...
Category
Early 1900s English Late Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Antique British Colonial Leather Top Partners Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Handsome British Colonial partners desk hand crafted in mahogany with a brown tooled leather top, two drawers on either side and elegant turned legs on brass casters.
Category
Early 20th Century English British Colonial Desks
Materials
Brass
Bauhaus Era Kneehole Desk Attr. Thonet, Europe, 1930's
By Thonet
Located in Austin, TX
Bauhaus era kneehole desk with Thonet style bentwood frame. Solid maple trim with inset panels of book matched European walnut veneer. Finished on all sides with inset faux ink black leather writing...
Category
Early 20th Century European Bauhaus Desks
Materials
Walnut, Maple, Faux Leather
Edwardian Mahogany and Satinwood Lady's Desk
Located in Pewsey, GB
An Attractive Mahogany and Satinwood Edwardian Ladys Desk with two small drawers each side on top piece and two small drawers each side with larger middle dr...
Category
Early 20th Century British Edwardian Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood
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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