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Desks For Sale
19th Century English Victorian Oak Writing Desk
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a Victorian oak desk, the top inset with a green leather writing surface decorated with blind and gold tooling. Below this there is an arrangement of 9 drawers, with 9 du...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
Chiat Day Desk by Gaetano Pesce, New York, 1994, Rare
Located in Kansas City, MO
Gaetano Pesce Chiat Day desk New York, New York, circa 1994. This desk was produced in a very limited quantity for the TBWA Chiat Day advertising offices in ...
Category
1990s American Post-Modern Desks
Materials
Steel
Apartment-Sized Patterned Osis Desk by Llot Llov
By LLOT LLOV
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Llot Llov's Osis desk was developed specifically for the home office — it has a small footprint yet offers the necessary space to work, and it has a privacy screen to help with both ...
Category
2010s German Modern Desks
Materials
Steel
Arts & Crafts Flame Mahogany Knee Hole Writing Desk
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Arts & Crafts flame mahogany knee hole writing desk.
This superb desk is in one piece it has twin pedestals with a shelved cupboard and a con...
Category
Late 19th Century Arts and Crafts Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
English Kidney Shaped Kneehole Writing Desk of Mahogany with Leather Top
Located in Austin, TX
A fine English kidney shaped kneehole writing desk from the Edwardian era, featuring a demi-lune top with original leather writing surface decorated with gold tooling in a Greek Key ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Desks
Materials
Metal, Brass
French Desk in the Style of André Arbus
By André Arbus
Located in New York, NY
1940s Desk in the style of Andre´ Arbus. Black lacquered, original bronze sabots with three pull-out drawers.
Category
1940s Vintage Desks
Materials
Bronze
Cathedra Desk with Beautiful Original Lacquering
Located in Cesena, FC
Original lacquered cathedra desk, of rare beauty.
Period: mid 1700s
Originally from the marche region
It has in the front 2 doors as if it were a sideboard
Measures: cm 152x...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Desks
Materials
Wood
Macassar Ebony Desk by Margareta Köhler
Located in Borås, SE
Desk by Margareta Köhler (1901-1974).
ca. 1938.
Macassar Ebony.
Desk with detachable top with two drawers.
Designed by Margreta Köhler for...
Category
1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Wood, Macassar
19th Century English Walnut Dickens Desk
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An impressive English Victorian walnut ‘Dickens’ desk, so-called because a desk of similar design used by Charles Dickens. The desk features two banks of ...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
19th Century French Louis XV Style Kingwood & Ormolu Mounted Bonheur Du Jour
Located in Dublin, IE
A very fine 19th century French Louis XV style Kingwood, Walnut and ormolu mounted Bonheur Du Jour, the superstructure fitted with twin panel door applied w...
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Ormolu
American Mid-Century Desk Deisgned by John Van Koert Fro Drexel, circa 1960
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An American mid-century walnut desk with side extension designed by John Van Koert fro Drexel, circa 1960.
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Wood
Late 19th Century English Mahogany and Rosewood Partners Desk
Located in Savannah, GA
This is a partners desk made in England, circa 1890. The top of the desk is beautifully shaped with a nicely molded edge. There are 3 brown leather panels with gold tooling. On the f...
Category
1890s English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Rosewood
Midcentury Italian Arco Desk by BBPR for Olivetti Synthesis
By Studio BBPR, Olivetti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This impressive vintage modern desk boasts a floating top covered in faux textured leather. A stunning Italian Industrial Design that looks amazing in any setting. The metal frame ha...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Metal
Enamel Decorated French Louis Revival Ormolu Mounted Bureau Desk Table Console
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Enamel decorated French Louis Revival Ormolu mounted Bureau plat partner desk table console mint
Both sides symmetrical, yet one side has ability to open.
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Brass
19th Century Satinwood and Inlaid Carlton House Desk
Located in Martlesham, GB
A fabulous quality freestanding 19th century satinwood and inlaid Carlton house desk, the super structure having a decorative pierced brass gallery, below this there is a central cup...
Category
1890s British Edwardian Antique Desks
Materials
Satinwood
Antique Regency Brass Inlaid Mahogany Traveling Desk Wooden Writing Slope Box
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptionally fine quality English well figured Mahogany ladies or gents travelling writing slope of outstanding quality, with lavish brass inlay decoration, twin polished brass c...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Vintage Industrial Desk / Cabinet
Located in Oakville, CT
Moore Industrial cabinet
Overall Dimensions: 18" x 48" x 45" high.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Desks
Materials
Steel
Victorian Golden Oak Green Man Desk
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Victorian Golden Oak Green Man desk
The Desk stands on chunky barley twist turned legs with a long stretcher.
The Desk has one drawer in the centre ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Gothic Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
Dutch Rococo Marquetry Miniature Desk
Located in Essex, MA
With curved lid opening to a fitted interior with three drawers below and bracket feet. Beautifully crafted in a bombe form. Much time and skill went into making this piece. Sometime...
Category
1740s Dutch Rococo Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique Original White Painted Hostess Stand Standing Desk from Sweden
Located in Round Top, TX
Beautiful details abound in this lovely original painted standing desk from Sweden. The carved swag, flourishes and dentil molding gracefully accent the slanted desk/writing/reading ...
Category
Late 19th Century Swedish Antique Desks
Materials
Wood
Neoclassical Marquetry Bureau De Dame in the Style of Giuseppe Maggiolini, Italy
Located in Dallas, TX
Italian Neoclassical style freestanding slant front desk, in the manner of Giuseppe Maggiolini, late 19th c. Exquisite marquetry veneer in rosewood, satinwood and other decorative woods. The rectangular top with inlaid marquetry foliate sits above a sloping fall front centered by a foliate cartouche and corner cartouches, the kneehole. Open to reveal a nicely fitted interior with an arrangement of open compartments flanked by two short drawers and an inlaid hinged writing surface. Below this there are two large graduated drawers. Side panels inlaid with conforming scrollwork all rising on four elegant squared tapering legs finished with the original brass castor cups.
The shape and the inlaid designs are similar to those on pieces of furniture produced by Giuseppe Maggiolini (1738-1814), the foremost cabinet-maker in late 18th-century Milan. Maggiolini and his workshop specialized in marquetry scenes inspired by antiquity, based on drawings by late 18th-century artists and designers such as Andrea...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Very Fine Edwardian Pedestal Desk
Located in Dublin, IE
A very fine Edwardian mahogany and satinwood line inlaid pedestal desk, the moulded top inset with gilt embossed red tooled leather writing skiver surface raised over frieze with two...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Medium Dark Walnut Architect Adjustable Desk with Black or Brown Leather Insets
Located in Ballard, CA
The Iconic Jean Pierre desk named after the famous actor Jean Pierre Aumont is an handcrafted desk in solid walnut with black or brown leather insets,...
Category
2010s North American Campaign Desks
Materials
Leather, Wood, Walnut
Vintage Distressed Burr Yew Wood Military Campaign Twin Pedestal Partners Desk
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this vintage Flamed & Burr Yew wood twin pedestal partner desk made in the Military Campaign style
This is a good looking and well made piece, ...
Category
20th Century English Campaign Desks
Materials
Yew
Austrian Neoclassic Parquetry Pedestal Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular top over a long drawer flanked by small drawers over pedestals each with two drawers. Bracket feet. Finished all around in a design of inlay that gives a striped effect.
Category
Late 18th Century Austrian Neoclassical Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Desk in Oak and Lacquered Metal, 1970s
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Desk in oak and black lacquered metal. Tray standing on a rectangular base and two boxes each opening with three drawers.
French work realized in the 1970s.
Dimensions : H 79 x...
Category
20th Century French Desks
Materials
Metal
Louis XV Style Lacquered Wood Flat Desk by A.E. Beurdeley, France, Circa 1890
Located in PARIS, FR
Stamped twice A Beurdeley a Paris on the crosspieces.
Elegant Louis XV style double-side desk in lacquered wood and gilded bronze. It is adorned on all sides, in foliated bronze car...
Category
1890s French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Desk, Walnut Bonheur De Jour Ladies Desk circa 1880
Located in Potters Bar, GB
-Gorgeous French antique bonheur du jour desk
- We date this to circa 1880
- Hand crafted from walnut this really is a museum quality collect...
Category
1880s Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Shapland & Petter, Arts & Crafts Mahogany Desk with a Pierced Heart to the Top
Located in London, GB
Shapland & Petter. A wonderful Arts & Crafts mahogany writing desk with a pierced heart to the top, shaped back and sides, with upper three quarter shelf and a stylized floral leaded glass back below. A period style leather writing area with hand tooled gilt decoration to the edges. A bow fronted drawer with stylized copper heart...
Category
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
French 19th Century Ladies Writing Desk
Located in Brighton, Sussex
French 19th Century ladies fall front bureau de dame, having wonderful Amboyna, veneers with classical Boxwood inlay to the centre depicting a classical urn with over flowing flowers. Opening to reveal an inset writing tablet...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
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
Late 19th Century French Mahogany Louis XV Style Desk Bureau Plat
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A late 19th century French 'bureau plat' or writing desk, each pedestal with two drawers and standing on elegant cabriole legs with ormolu feet, and united by and 'x' stretcher. Fini...
Category
Late 19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
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
Jacques Adnet Leather Desk and Chair, 1950s France
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Exceptional Art Deco era desk with matching chair by French modernist designer Jacques Adnet. Entire desk is wrapped in leather. Iron frame with 4 po...
Category
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Desks
Materials
Brass, Iron
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
Streamline Mahogany and Rattan Writing Desk with Rattan Pulls & Shelf
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Streamline Art Deco rattan writing desk with a rattan border, Mahogany sides, and top with four pull drawers and 3-tier side shelf along the side.
Restored to new for you.
Tropical Sun Rattan was started in 1934 at 117 West Colorado Blvd in Pasadena. By 1938 we had showrooms in the Los Angeles and San Francisco furniture...
Category
1930s American Vintage Desks
Materials
Rattan
Fine Original Antique Victorian Burr Walnut & Brown Leather Twin Pedestal Desk
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely hand made in England Burr Walnut with age brown leather writing surface twin pedestal desk
This is an important and sophisticated piece of English Victorian furniture...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Gianfranco Frattini Hardwood Writing Desk for Bernini, 1961
Located in Barcelona, ES
Writing desk model 807 designed in 1961 by Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini, Italy. Tambour top that hides small drawers and a pull out leather writing surface, ten drawers in the low...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Aluminum
Walnut Inlaid Bureau de Dame
Located in Cheshire, GB
19th-century French gilt metal mounted walnut and marquetry bombe bureau de dame, in Louis XV style. The fall front encloses a fitted interior and inset...
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Arthur Umanoff Matching Sculptural Desk and Chair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Arthur Umanoff desk and chair. Extremely elegant and timeless design made with an iron frame, walnut slats and rush accents giving it it's classic Umanoff look. One middle drawer, a ...
Category
1950s American Vintage Desks
Materials
Iron
19th Century Mahogany Chippendale Partners Pedestal Desk
Located in London, GB
A high quality partners library table
By H Samuel of Oxford street
The design by Thomas Chippendale
Constructed in mahogany, of hour-glass shape, the...
Category
19th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Howard & Sons London Leather Topped Faux Bamboo Writing Table, circa 1875
Located in Kinderhook, NY
English circa 1875 Aesthetic Movement writing table or desk by London cabinetmakers Howard & Sons having original green leather top; the oval form case with single drawer and origina...
Category
Late 19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Charlotte Perriand Desk for Les Arcs with Matching Stool
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rare Charlotte Perriand desk for Les Arcs. Circa 1960s. Comes with matching stool. This solid pine table can be used as a console or writing desk. Beautiful vintage condition and wea...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Pine
Antiqued Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
An antiqued mahogany writing table, the serpentine parquetry planked top inset with a central burnished leather writing surface, above t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Baroque Desks
Materials
Wood, Leather
Handcrafted Colonial Teak Campaign Table with Folding Legs
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Circa 1890's
Solid teak hand crafted Campaign folding table from the days of the British Raj. Has flaps that pivot outwards and tuck away ben...
Category
Late 19th Century British Indian Ocean Territory Campaign Antique Desks
Materials
Teak
Italian Baroque Walnut and Bone Inlaid Writing Bureau / Chest
Located in Essex, MA
An impressive piece recently purchased from a local family that had it for many years and had inherited it from their grandparents. With rectangular top decorated with trailing flowe...
Category
1740s Italian Baroque Antique Desks
Materials
Bone, Walnut
Original circa 1900 Graves & Sons Naval Military Campaign Parter Desk Map Drawer
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer this very rare original Graves & Son’s stamped Naval Military Campaign officers desk
Graves and Sons were listed at Fore Stree...
Category
Early 1900s English Campaign Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
English Bird's-Eye Maple Desk
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
English bird's-eye maple desk, circa 1835.
This pedestal desk retains its original Moroccan leather top, with fitted internal mahogany drawers across the top and two cupboard doo...
Category
19th Century English Antique Desks
Materials
Leather
Diminutive French Louis XIV Style Walnut Writing Table Desk
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Charming 19th century French writing table or desk made in a diminutive scale or ladies bureau plat size. Crafted in the grand Louis XIV taste from walnu...
Category
19th Century French Louis XIV Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Willy Van Der Meeren Desk by Tubax Belgium 1955
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Nice Industrial desk designed by Willy Van Der Meeren and manufactured by Tubax, Belgium 1955. This typical fifties Industrial desk has a very nice Industrial look with the black metal folded v structure...
Category
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Metal
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
Custom Mahogany Crossed Sabre Leg Writing Table
Located in Woodbury, CT
Bespoke English mahogany crossed sabre leg writing table with gold-tooled leather, hand-rubbed finish with subtle distressing. Three working drawers ...
Category
2010s English Chippendale Desks
Materials
Oak, Leather, Mahogany
Gilt and Bronze Mounted Mahogany Leather Topped Writing Desk
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite writing desk is a true masterpiece of nineteenth century craftsmanship. The desk is constructed of richly grained mahogany and is embellished with exquisite bronze mou...
Category
19th Century Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Petite Slant-Front Bureau in Kingwood with Fitted Interior & Leather Blotter
Located in Atlanta, GA
Petite slant-front bureau in kingwood with fitted interior & leather blotter.
Category
Early 20th Century French Desks
Materials
Kingwood, Tulipwood
19th Century Classical Charles X Burled Mahogany Secretaire a Abattant
Located in Miami, FL
A dramatic Charles X fall front secretary in astounding burled mahogany veneer. The original fossilized marble top is supported by an elliptical molding. The main body contains one u...
Category
Late 18th Century French Charles X Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Hans Von Klier Desk for Skipper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning executive chrome and walnut desk by Hans Von Klier for Skipper. Made in Italy. Massive desktop surface. Circa 1970s. Walnut top with three hidden drawers. Two polished chrom...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Chrome
Sublime Antique Hardwood Pedestal Desk with Green Leather Writing Slope Drawer
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this extremely high quality hand made Victorian Mahogany pedestal desk with green leather top and hidden wri...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
FRAMA Contemporary Scandinavian Design Wall Shelf Library H1852 Desk Section
By Frama
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Shelf Library is a continuation of the recognised shelf design by Frama. Fastened with solid steel screws on oak rails, the shelves can easily be placed and re-styled in a variety of...
Category
2010s Lithuanian Scandinavian Modern Desks
Materials
Stainless Steel
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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