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Desks For Sale
Style: Art Deco
Style: Baroque
Italian Art Deco White Parchment Vanity
Located in New York, 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.
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1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Wood, Parchment Paper

Vargueno, Bargueno, Escritorio, Taquillon, Spanish, Baroque, Walnut, Velvet
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Spanish writing desks of this period are the most distinctive pieces of Spanish furniture conceived as visual displays of incredible virtuosity. The characteristic decoration of the ...
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Early 17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks

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Walnut

Art Deco Steamship Chimney Teak Dining Table Desk
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Solid teak dining table from the Deco era with a beautiful veneer top showing free flowing honey grain. The table top sits on two broad legs that resemble steamship chimneys from the...
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1930s Indian Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Teak

René Prou, Art Deco Desk in Lacquered Wood, circa 1940-1950
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
René Prou, Art Deco desk in lacquered wood, circa 1940-1950 patina to review.
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Velvet, Wood

Carl Malmsten Swedish Grace Executive Desk
Located in Atlanta, GA
An inlaid rosewood and flame birch desk with locking drawer, filing cabinet and pullout drawers. Various wood inlay. Finished on all sides. Knee hole...
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1930s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Rosewood

Art Deco Desk with the Leather Top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Art Deco desk with the green leather top. Oak base and veneer, brass hardware. Desk can be dismantle for easy transport.
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Desks

Materials

Wood, Leather

Elegant Art Deco Mahogany and Gilt Bronze Desk by Jules Leleu
Located in Montreal, QC
Elegant Art Deco mahogany and gilt bronze executive desk by Jules Leleu. Inset with leather top and signed in one of the drawers.
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Mahogany

Art Deco Style Maitland-Smith Faux Ostrich Leather Writing Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
This outstanding Art Deco style desk is crafted by Maitland-Smith, circa 1970s. The company is well known for its use of unusual materials. This desk is beautifully covered in faux o...
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Late 20th Century Art Deco Desks

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Brass

Art Deco Modernist Partners Desk, circa 1930
Located in Devon, England
For your consideration is this superbly stylish 1930s Partners desk. The base wood is Mahogany and veneered in a Bombay Walnut veneers which has a ...
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Mid-20th Century Belgian Art Deco Desks

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Chrome

Custom Blue Shagreen and Bone Desk
Located in New York, NY
Custom made-to-order blue shagreen desk with bone trim. Customization of dimensions and colors is available. The piece shown is in a custom blue color (n...
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21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Art Deco Desks

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Bone, Shagreen, Wood

Donald Deskey Style Art Deco Skyscraper Design Secretary Wall Cabinet or Desk
Located in Westport, CT
In the style of Donald Deskey, Art Deco skyscraper design, cabinet/secretary desk, with draw compartments and desk, book shelf compartment. Functional dark mahogany wood, with nickel...
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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Desks

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Nickel

Eros Desk in Antique Bronze Frame & Novasuede and Marblo Surface
Located in London, GB
Fierce, sensual and sumptuous, the Eros desk has a versatility that is not available in many luxurious furniture designs. Throughout its entire range, Casa Botelho believes that ever...
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21st Century and Contemporary British Art Deco Desks

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Steel, Brass

Gilbert Rohde 'Paldao' Desk for Herman Miller
Located in Middlesex, NJ
Gilbert Rohde 'Paldao' desk for Herman Miller.
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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Desks

Art Deco English Compact Walnut Writing Desk, 1930s
Located in Devon, England
For your consideration is this lovely and totally original walnut desk dating from the 1930s. Compact in size this little desk is perfect if the space available is limited and of con...
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Mid-20th Century English Art Deco Desks

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Walnut

French Mahogany Marble Top Buffet with Mirror Maison Koenig, Liège, 1895
Located in Sofia, BG
Large mahogany Art Deco buffet Maison Koenig Liège made in 1895. There is light beige marble top, three drawers and two front doors with origi...
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Late 19th Century French Art Deco Antique Desks

Materials

Mahogany

Early 20th Century Trumeau Bureau in Ferrara Walnut Briar , from Bovolone Italy
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Italian Early 20th Century small baroque Trumeau Bureau desk cabinet in Ferrara walnut burl , manufactured in Bovolone - Verona ; polished to wax in exc...
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Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Desks

Materials

Walnut, Burl

Swedish Art Deco Intarsia Executive Desk
Located in Atlanta, GA
Swedish inlaid Art Deco or neoclassical executive desk, Sweden, circa 1930s. Exterior golden elm, flame birch, mahogany. The front two doors are paneled and inlaid with intarsia of e...
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1930s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Desks

Materials

Birch, Elm, Jacaranda

Frits Spanjaard Important Asymmetrical Desk in Oak and Macassar Ebony, 1932
Located in The Hague, NL
This unique architect's desk was designed by Frits Spanjaard in 1932. With its generous proportions, striking asymmetry, contrasting woods and the large knobs in solid Macassar ebony, the desk can be considered as an important example of the Haagse School (The Hague School) style. The desk has four large drawers on the right, which can be simultaneously locked with a single key. The interior on the left features six drawers and additional storage, and can be locked altogether as well. Particularly noteworthy are the four cleverly incorporated pull-out shelves of different dimensions creating additional space: two on the front, one on the right side and one large shelf on the back side. The desktop is executed in dark stained oak and features a dark grey leather insert. in 1932, the prosperous Van Stolk & Reese company commissioned Spanjaard to design the interior and furniture of their offices located on the Ceintuurbaan in Rotterdam. This custom desk was most likely designed for the office of the company’s director, which was designed by Spanjaard in a radically modernist way, combining his own sumptuous designs with the functionalist tubular steel furniture made by W.H. Gispen. Between 1925 and 1935 the work of Spanjaard was strongly connected to the Haagse School movement of which he’d become a main proponent. This style was not so much inspired by the Classic European Art Deco capitals such as Paris and Vienna but more by other national and international architectural developments such as the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The influential magazine Wendingen published a series of articles on Wright still relatively unknown at the time in 1925 and the renowned architect Jan Wils also played an important role in the orientation towards Wrights work in The Netherlands. In its particular application of geometric shapes, primary colours and its sophisticated cubist division of the surface, the Haagse School designers were also aware of De Stijl movement, lead by contemporaries such as Gerrit Rietveld and Piet Mondriaan. At the same time the geometry, the harmonious proportions and the understated decorations were primarily based on the rationalist design principles of H.P. Berlage, who would later become one of Spanjaard’s clients himself. Design had to meet the functional demands of the user but purely utilitarian ideas were certainly not the most important. Due to his frequent travels to Germany, Spanjaard was also familiar with the designs of Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe, especially appreciating the simplicity and purity of their designs. Biography Frits Spanjaard (1889-1978) started his career as the artistic director of the LOV furniture...
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1930s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Desks

Materials

Macassar, Oak

Majestic Italian Desk, circa 1820
Located in Budapest, HU
Piece of extreme beauty. It belonged to a famous scholar of Dante Alighieri. On one side desk, above the lectern, behind wardrobe with two pullers. Very fine inlays in almost all s...
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Early 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks

Materials

Walnut

Art Deco Mahogany Desk and Chair by Rene Herbst
Located in New York, NY
Rene Herbst mahogany desk with rectangular top and integrated shelves and bent shelf stretcher base. Two drawers with chrome pulls. Chair mahogany armchair with rectangular padded b...
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Desks

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Mahogany

Italian Baroque Walnut Fall Front Desk
Located in Stamford, CT
Italian fall front desk with burl wood inlay. With six drawers and two hidden storage areas. The top of this desk is 18th century, while the base, beau...
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18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks

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Walnut

Unique Symmetrical Art Deco Desk French Style
Located in Oakland, CA
Unique Art Deco desk has truly unusual and lyrical lines. The undulating base opens to reveal secret storage along with the two drawers on both sides. We like those square drawer pul...
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1930s Argentine Art Deco Vintage Desks

Materials

Burl

Mid-Century Modern Art Deco Vanity Desk ARCA by Guglielmo Ulrich Solid Cherry
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Dressing table mirrored, a desk made of solid cherry. Adjustable bevelled glass mirror. Wide drawer with period original handles. Legs straight with foot stairways. ARCA by Gugliel...
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1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Mirror, Cherry

Maurice Alet, Desk, Bookcase and Armchair in Ebony Macassar
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Maurice Alet, ( 1874-1967 ), desk, bookcase and armchair in veneer ebony macassar and lacquered wood. Marquetry monogram on the top of the desk. Pivoting armchair...
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Desks

Materials

Wood, Macassar

Art Deco Table J.Halabala from 1960
Located in Kraków, Małopolska
Art Deco table by J. Halabala from 1960s. The piece of furniture was made of walnut tree. Art Deco table by the famous Czech designer J. Halabala, 1950. Jindrich Halabala - (a Czec...
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1950s Czech Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Walnut

Italian Baroque Inlaid Early 18th Century Walnut and Fruit Wood Desk-Commode
Located in Troy, NY
Early 18th Century Marquetry Desk-Commode of Italian Origin, having three drawers, the top one having a fall-front featuring a desk compartment fitted...
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Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks

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Fruitwood, Walnut

French Oak Dudouuyt Parquetry Desk
Located in New York, NY
French 1940s oak double pedestal base desk with front panels and a raised ¬Ω round inset top with a parquetry design & sliding side shelves (sign...
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Oak

Paul Dupré-Lafon, Art Deco Desk in Veneer Rosewood and Gilt Bronze
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Paul Dupré-Lafon, (1900-1971), Art Deco desk in veneer rosewood and gilt bronze. Circa 1935 Fully restored. French varnish
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Bronze

Art Deco Table Desk in Palisander, circa 1930
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Art Deco table desk in palisander, circa 1930.  
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Palisander

1920s Italian Console Art Deco by Osvaldo Borsani Blond Walnut and Burl Walnut
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Console Art Deco by Atelier di Varedo, by Gaetano & Osvaldo Borsani in blond walnut and burl walnut veneer. Top and bottom black ebonized. Wide drawer with original handles of the p...
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1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Walnut

Donald Deskey Machine Age Desk
Located in New York, NY
Rare desk in walnut and banded copper-plated aluminum, designed by Donald Deskey and produced by Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company, circa 1929. A strong statement of Machine Age aesth...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Copper

18th Century Baroque Secretaire, Lake Constance Region
Located in Belmont, MA
18th century baroque secretaire, Lake Constance region. Two-drawer body on curved square feet, foldable desk, inside six drawers, a wide shelf and a sec...
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1750s German Baroque Antique Desks

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Walnut

18th Century Baroque Secretaire, South German, 1750-1760
Located in Belmont, MA
Unique 18th century Baroque secretaire, South German, probably Lake of Constance region, circa 1750-1760. Elaborate bombe shaped Baroque secretaire with beautiful walnut, elmwood an...
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1750s German Baroque Antique Desks

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Walnut

Large Art Deco Oak Desk in the Style of Dominique, circa 1930-1940
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Large Art Deco oak desk in the style of Dominique, circa 1930-1940.
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Oak

Studio Craft East Indian Satinwood Desk by Gregg Lipton
Located in Hanover, MA
Spectacular tour de force art deco style desk custom made by Cumberland, Maine studio furniture maker, Gregg Lipton. Inspired by Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann’s Soussa desk. Executed with...
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Late 20th Century American Art Deco Desks

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Satinwood

Baroque Bureau-Desk, Northern Italy, Lombardy, circa 1720
Located in CH
Baroque bureau cabinet or desk, Baroque, Northern Italy, Lombardy, circa 1720. Walnut burl wood and fruitwood veneer and inlaid with reserves and fillets. Front with hinged wri...
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Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks

Materials

Walnut, Burl

Exceptional Asymmetric Student Desk by Eugène Printz, Art Déco, France, 1930s
Located in Paris, FR
This asymmetric desk was designed by Eugène Printz (1889-1948) for the famous Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris (a unique place where multiple residences - one per country -...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Desks

Materials

Wood

Vintage Art Deco Black Vitrolite Glass Desk
Located in Pasadena, TX
A 72" vintage Art Deco desk or table with a black Vitrolite glass top. Combed glass slabs connected by turned mahogany spindles comprise the base. Constru...
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Early 20th Century Unknown Art Deco Desks

Materials

Glass, Wood

Johann Tapp Custom Built Art Deco era Cartoonist Desk with Hidden Compartments
Located in Ferndale, MI
Custom Built Art Deco desk attributed to Johann Tapp of Chicago . Built for Chicago Tribune Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist Carey Orr. Both top side pane...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Chrome

Desk Swedish Early 18th Century Baroque Period Sweden
Located in New York, NY
Desk Swedish Baroque Period Sweden. A rare Swedish Baroque desk in a stunning condition and patina from the Swedish King Fredrik I period. Structu...
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Late 17th Century Swedish Baroque Antique Desks

Materials

Oak, Walnut

Oak Bureau / Desk
Located in Culver City, CA
Oak Bureau / Desk England circa 1930 Dropdown desk with leather surface and space for storage. 30"w x 19.5”d x 38.25”h
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1930s English Art Deco Vintage Desks

Materials

Leather, Oak

Art Deco style office set, Poland, 1930s. After renovation.
Located in Chorzów, PL
An Art Deco style office set from the 1930s. Furniture in very good condition, after professional renovation. Dimensions: Library: height 185 cm / width 200 cm / depth 41 cm Desk...
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1930s Polish Art Deco Vintage Desks

Materials

Walnut

Art Deco Birch Plywood Jewelers Desk, Manner of Alvar Aalto
Located in Buffalo, NY
One of a kind jewelers desk, custom built in the 1930s for upscale gift store and gallery in downtown buffalo New York, beautifully crafted and designed,...
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1830s American Art Deco Antique Desks

Materials

Birch, Plywood

Lebus Art Deco Oak, Restaurant Roll Top Desk Greeting Station
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Lebus Art Deco Oak, Restaurant Roll Top Desk Greeter This Oak restaurant greeting station which is made by Lebus, has roll top tambour which conceals beneath it a fitted interior ...
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Early 1900s Art Deco Antique Desks

Materials

Oak

Art Deco Desk by De Coene Frères, Limed Oak, Belgium circa 1935
Located in Regensburg, DE
Small modernist Art Deco Desk by De Coene Frères, Belgium circa 1930/40. Elegant asymmetrical Art Deco design, Model “Depose”. Limed oak surface. Lockable doors on both sides. Inside...
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1930s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Desks

Materials

Stainless Steel

Italian Desk Veneered in Walnut Briar, Lombardy, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Italian Desk Veneered in Walnut Briar, Lombardy 17th century with ebonized profiles and large contrasting threads arranged to create shaped reserves; floor surmounted by a riser wit...
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17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks

Materials

Walnut

French Art Deco Mahogany Desk by André Arbus and Vadim Androussov
Located in Montreal, QC
Art Deco Mahogany desk by André Arbus and Vadim Androussov decorated with a patinated bronze cartouche representing a female face France: circa 1940 Provenance: this secretary was pa...
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Desks

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Mahogany

French Art Deco Five-Drawer Desk and Armchair Set
Located in Miami, FL
A fine French Art Deco desk constructed of very good quality walnut this desk is comprised of 5 drawers and is embellished with a leather writing surface. The drawers feature very ni...
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Desks

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Chrome

Late 17th Century Flemish Ebonized Walnut & Rosewood Inlaid Table Cabinet
Located in Milford, NH
A beautiful Flemish ebonized walnut and rosewood table cabinet with satinwood inlay, ormolu decoration, and carved gallery. The center door of the cabinet is decorated with carved tw...
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Late 17th Century Belgian Baroque Antique Desks

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Rosewood, Satinwood, 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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