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Desks For Sale
Style: Hollywood Regency
Style: Georgian
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
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
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
Baker Mahogany Executive Partners Desk, Georgian, Writing Table
Located in Stamford, CT
Large mahogany executive partners desk by baker, writing table in the Georgian Fashion.
A stunning new Baker mahogany partners desk having fu...
Category
2010s American Georgian Desks
Materials
Mahogany
French Hollywood Regency Style Ebony Lacquer Executive Desk / Writing Table
Located in Stamford, CT
French Hollywood Regency Style Ebony Lacquer Executive Desk / Writing Table
A spectacular Executive Desk that can sit Center of any room or office. The finest ebony finish having b...
Category
2010s American Hollywood Regency Desks
Materials
Bronze
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
18th Century Mahogany Bureau
Located in Martlesham, GB
A superb quality 18th Century mahogany Georgian bureau, the hinged fall lifting down to reveal a lovely fitted interior consisting of eleven oak ...
Category
1780s British 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
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
Antique English Kidney Form Leather Top Desk
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Mahogany kidney form desk with gilt-embossed brown leather top (The Leather top replaced at a later time). The desk with a center drawer flanked by 4 drawers each side on front. Fini...
Category
Late 19th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Georgian-Style Walnut Partners Desk
Located in Locust Valley, NY
A Georgian style three section walnut partners desk, with one center drawer and four drawers on each side. The top is inset with three sections of...
Category
20th Century Georgian Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique Georgian Walnut Slant Front Desk, Bureau, Scotland 1810, H528
Located in Vancouver, BC
Antique Georgian walnut slant front desk, bureau, Scotland 1810, H528
Scotland 1810
Solid walnut
Original finish
With pigeon holes and drawers
Enclosed by a fall front lid
With four...
Category
1810s Scottish Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique George I Quality Figured Walnut Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George I quality figured walnut bureau having a quality figured walnut fall with herringbone crossbanding opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of five walnut drawer...
Category
1720s English George I Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
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
18th Century English Mahogany Leather Top Partners Desk with Carved Birds
Located in Milford, NH
A fine proportion mahogany rectangular partners desk with brown leather top with a crossbanded border with delicate carving, surmounting a frieze with two fitted and cockbeaded document drawers...
Category
18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
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
Late 19th Century Georgian Style Burl Walnut and Leather Top Desk
Located in Charleston, SC
Gorgeous wear and patina on this burl walnut and leather top Georgian style desk from late 19th century. Early Georgian style with burl walnut and leather top raised on pad feet with...
Category
Late 19th Century English George I Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Walnut
English Mahogany Partners Desk of the Georgian Period
Located in London, GB
Constructed in a well patinated San Domingo mahogany of rectangular form, rising from a plinth base, the pedestals with laterally opposed banks of four oak lined lockable drawers, fi...
Category
18th Century English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
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
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
Kittinger Georgian Mahogany Slant Front Secretary Desk From the White House
Located in South Bend, IN
Offering a rare opportunity to own a piece of American history. This gorgeous Georgian slant front secretary desk was commissioned by the Wh...
Category
1970s American Georgian Vintage Desks
Materials
Brass
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
Antique Victorian Watchmakers Desk Georgian Taste Hardwood & Brown Leather
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely circa 1880-1900 Watchmakers desk in the Georgian taste with period brown leather top and sorting drawer...
Category
1880s English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
19th C. Knee Hole Partners Desk With Tooled Olive Leather Top
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A fine mahogany knee hole desk, the top with carved edge and inset olive green embossed leather writing surface. The front with three frieze drawers over three short drawers on each ...
Category
19th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
English Walnut Burl Two-Drawer Writing Table
Located in Woodbury, CT
This two-drawer walnut writing desk is made for us by our English cabinetmaker. Using time-honored techniques, this table is created in just the same fashion as it would have been 20...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Georgian Desks
Materials
Leather, Walnut, Burl
Antique George I Quality Figured Walnut Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George I quality figured walnut bureau having a quality figured walnut crossbanded fall opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of six drawers, six pigeon holes and a ...
Category
1720s English George I Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Fine Quality Yew Wood Writing Table
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A well-made and handsome Writing Table in Banded Yew Wood. The elevated back section with small banded drawers flanking the cubby holes with carved frames, and a center banded door. ...
Category
20th Century Georgian Desks
Materials
Brass
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
Vintage Thomasville Georgian Flame Mahogany Blockfront Secretary Desk
By Thomasville
Located in Germantown, MD
This Georgian style traditional block front secretary desk is matched flame grain mahogany is signed Thomasville
Original finish in fine c...
Category
Late 20th Century Georgian Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Mahogany Leather Top Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A mahogany and flame veneered writing table, the tooled leather inset top with protruding rounded corners above three frieze drawers on turned legs with brass castors.
Dimensions:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese George III Desks
Materials
Leather, Wood
Chippendale Style Mahogany Partners Desk
Located in Montreal, QC
This superb desk is a copy of one made by Thomas Chippendale in 1766 for Sir Rowland Winn . The original masterpiece of English cabinetry is at his residence, Nostell Priory in Yo...
Category
1940s English George III Vintage Desks
Materials
Leather, Wood
Gampel Stoll Style Stone Top Carved Elephant Desk and Chair
By Gampel-Stoll
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Stone top carved elephant desk and matching chair. All tusk are completely removable for safe transportation. Reupholstery is recommended on the chair. No chips or nicks to the stone...
Category
1970s Unknown Hollywood Regency Vintage Desks
Materials
Stone
Baker Georgian Walnut Drop Front Secretary Desk with Mirrored Bookcase Hutch
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Georgian or Queen Anne style bureau with drop front secretary desk and mirrored bookcase hutch top
By Baker Furniture
USA, Circa 1960s
Walnut, with mirrored doors...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Georgian Desks
Materials
Brass
Superb Quality Large Antique George III Mahogany Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Superb quality large antique George III mahogany bureau having a superb quality mahogany fall opening to reveal a fitted interior co...
Category
Early 1800s English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Other
English Walnut Burl Three-Drawer Writing Table
Located in Woodbury, CT
Created for us by an English cabinetmaker with whom we have been associated for over 30 years, this walnut writing desk has Classic lines that would blend well in a modern setting. I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Georgian Desks
Materials
Leather, Walnut, Burl
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 C. Late Georgian Mahogany Secretary Bookcase
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Ca. 1780. A fine figured mahogany classic Georgian secretary bookcase with the broken bonnet in openwork foliate scrolls flanking a fluted short pedestal (it appears that it never ha...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
BAKER Georgian Walnut Bonnet Top Secretary Desk with Mirrored Blind Bookcase
Located in Charlotte, NC
A Georgian style secretary desk by Baker Furniture. Walnut with brass hardware, double bonnet arched top with three finials, crown molding and bracket feet. Upper blind bookcase...
Category
Late 20th Century American Georgian Desks
Materials
Brass
George I Walnut Kneehole Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Nicely figured walnut, rectangular quarter veneer top over top over a drawer and kneehole with door and small drawer flanked by drawers raised on bracket feet.
Category
Early 18th Century English George I Antique Desks
Materials
Other
Fine circa 1800 Pollad Oak Writing Bureau Desk Claw & Ball Hand Carved Legs
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely exquisite circa 1800 English made Pollard oak writing bureau with ornately hand carved claw & bal...
Category
Early 1800s English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
18th Century Desk in Mahogany and Marquetry--Georgian Period
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Elegant writing desk with two drawers in mahogany and lemon tree inlays -English -Georgian period
Superb desk decorated with wooden marquetry as well as lemon tree inlays
Straight ...
Category
18th Century British Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
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
George III Mahogany Tambour Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Nice old piece very nicely polished and tuned up in good working order. Rectangular top with tambour roll top opening to expose a pull out writing surface with adjustable ratcheted c...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
circa 1880 George III Style Carved Solid Oak Chest, Green Man Writing Desk
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this 19th century heavily carved dark oak kneehole desk. An impressive green man desk with flowers and scrolls, the s...
Category
1880s English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
Small George I Walnut Bureau on Stand
Located in Lymington, GB
George I period walnut bureau or desk on stand, of compact proportions, ca 1720.
This small early Georgian desk is veneered in walnut an...
Category
Early 18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Very Fine Re-Creation Leather Top Partners Desk with Banding
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A large and very well made re-created Partners Desk with an authentic Antique English Style. In a honey tone wood with a three-sectioned green gilt-embossed leather top. With a cente...
Category
20th Century Georgian Desks
Materials
Brass
Very Rare and Fine Early 19th Century Georgian Inlaid Bureau Bookcase
Located in Dublin, IE
A very rare and fine early 19th century Georgian mahogany bureau bookcase, line inlaid throughout and with intricate marquetry depicting Neoclassical motifs of swags, garlands, flowe...
Category
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
George II Staircase Fall Front Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A George II style flame mahogany bureau, the sloping fall enclosing a fitted interior of faux book and hidden drawers and cabinets, the staircase gallery interior, above a short frie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese George II Desks
Materials
Wood
Stunning Restored circa 1800 Georgian Oak & Brown Leather Partners Pedestal Desk
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer this stunning original and restored Georgian English pedestal desk in oak with a hand dyed brown leather writing surface, circa 1800
A very well made and...
Category
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Oak
18th Century Mahogany Cylinder Desk
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very good quality late 18th century Georgian mahogany cylinder desk having well figured roll top, enclosing baize sliding writing surface with...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Fine Yew Wood Wood Gilt-Embossed Leather Top Desk
Located in Bridgeport, CT
The top with fine satinwood string inlaid carved edges and three-part gilt embossed leather surfaces. The frieze with three drawers over twin leather top slide pull returns. The side...
Category
20th Century Georgian Desks
Materials
Leather, Yew
Very Fine 18th Century George I Period Burr Walnut Bureau Bookcase
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
A very fine George I period walnut and feather banded bureau bookcase, circa 1720, the moulded cornice above a pair of mirror panelled doors, ope...
Category
Early 18th Century British George I Antique Desks
Materials
Mirror, Walnut, Burl
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Architect's Desk
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Architect's Desk.
Category
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Wood
Georgian Crossbanded Walnut Console
Located in Charleston, SC
19th Century Georgian crossbanded walnut kneehole console. Rich color burl top with herringbone inlay and crossbanding over graduated drawers and kneehole cabinet resting on bracket ...
Category
19th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
George II Burr Walnut Kneehole Desk, c.1735
Located in London, GB
A George II Burr walnut and feather banded kneehole desk with caddy moulded top, c.1735. Of exceptional patina & colour.
Measures - 75cm H x 74cm W x 47cm D.
Category
18th Century British George I Antique Desks
Materials
Oak, Walnut
English Leather Top Partners Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
19th century English partners desk hand crafted in mahogany with a tooled leather top and brass hardware, one side with nine drawers, the other side with three drawers and two cabine...
Category
19th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century English George III Mahogany Kneehole Desk
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a George III mahogany kneehole desk, having a total of 11 drawers and a cupboard to the centre, the desk stands on small ...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
George III Red Japanned Slant Lid Desk
Located in Essex, MA
With later decoration with hinged slant lid and fitted interior, drawer below and square section legs.
Category
1780s English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Pine
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.
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