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Desks For Sale
Shanghai Desk in Ziricotte Wood, Leather Top and Silver Patined Leg
Located in SENLIS, OISE
Shanghai desk in Ziricotte wood, leather top and silver patined leg. The inside is made in Sycomore.
Information about the covid 19.
At this point, the ...
Category
2010s French Modern Desks
Materials
Metal
Original Pierre Jeanneret Partners Desk from the Offices of Chandigarh, India
Located in Stamford, CT
Original Pierre Jeanneret 'X' Leg Desk from the Offices of Chandigarh, India Designed by Le Corbusier. Hand-crafted from teakwood, the floati...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Teak
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
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
Large Double Face Desk in Oak, 1950's
Located in LYON, FR
Very large mid-century oak desk, from the 1950s, fully restored. This is a superb double-sided desk, so it can be placed in the middle of a room and / or serve as an executive office...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Oak
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
Midcentury Action Office Roll Top Desk George Nelson for H Miller
Located in Pasadena, TX
Herman Miller George Nelson action office series drafting desk
1965 design
This vintage roll-top writing desk is from the Herman Miller "Action...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Aluminum
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
20th Century Italian Louis XVI Style Inlaid Walnut Writing Desk
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Elegant Italian Louis XVI style writing desk. Rare and precious solid walnut wood. Comfortable size for a practical use. The desk has elegant straight legs. Equipped with four practi...
Category
1950s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique Walnut Gothic Revival Drop Front Writing Desk Hastings Furniture Co
By Hastings
Located in Toledo, OH
Antique walnut Gothic Revival drop front writing desk by Hastings Furniture Co. circa 1920's. Hand painted sailing ship on leather front. Wroug...
Category
1920s North American Gothic Revival Vintage Desks
Materials
Walnut
Gio Ponti Desk
By Gio Ponti
Located in New York, NY
Gio Ponti custom eight-drawer desk. From a small edition created for administrative offices in Forli, Italy. Blonde wood desk with red linoleum top,...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Wood
French Leather Top Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A French neoclassic style mahogany, cerejeira veneered and crossbanded writing desk, the rectangular burnished leather inlaid top above one long and one short frieze drawers, and an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Neoclassical Desks
Materials
Leather, Wood
Unusual Antique Burr Walnut Marquetry Inlaid Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Unusual antique burr walnut marquetry inlaid bureau having a quality burr walnut rectangular top above a pretty crossbanded marquetry inlaid fall...
Category
1920s English Vintage Desks
Materials
Walnut
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
Louis XVI /Directoire Cylinder Desk with Bookcase Top, France, 1790-1800
Located in Belmont, MA
Directoire cylinder desk with a book case on top, France 1800, mahogany veneer. The desk has its original brass fittings. The leather on the writing surface is original as well. The surface of the desk will be carefully refinished, without touching the original patina. It will be shipped from Europe...
Category
1790s French Directoire Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Fine Antique circa 1880 Victorian Pollard Oak Partner Desk Green Leather Top
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely sublime exceptionally rare circa 1880 Pollard oak partner desk with green leather top
What can I say, a 140+ year old desk, in ...
Category
1880s English High Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Oak
19th Century Oak Partners Desk, Leather Writing Surface, Brass Hardware
Located in Toronto, CA
A wonderful probably, 19th century oak partners desk, with a leather writing surface. Each side has a bank of drawers and a cupboard door for serious storage, or you can put both ban...
Category
1890s English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
Mid-Century Modern Gianfranco Frattini Secretary for Bernini, 1950s
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Gianfranco Frattini Secretary for Bernini, 1950s
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Wood
I Do desk from the Alexandre Arrechea SoShiro collaboration
Located in London, GB
'I do' is a desk made of pear wood and aluminium as part of Alexandre Arrechea and SoShiro’s collaborative Layers collection. It is inspired by the installation CHAOS, which communic...
Category
2010s Italian Desks
Materials
Aluminum
Biedermeier Secretary
Located in South Salem, NY
Stunning example of a Biedermeier secretary. There is some missing veneer on the front and both sides, part of the upper right-hand rail is loose...
Category
19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
19th Century French Cylinder Desk in Louis XVI Style Marquetry
Located in Madrid, ES
19th century cylinder desk in Louis XVI style Marquetry,
rich gilded bronze ornamentation.
Three drawers in the belt.
The office is ope...
Category
19th Century French Baroque Antique Desks
Materials
Wood
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
Antique Deep Pine Sloping Clerks Writing Desk
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Antique deep pine sloping clerks writing desk
A Lovely old piece, the desk is made in solid pine, it has a sloping lid which encloses a large s...
Category
Mid-19th Century Country Antique Desks
Materials
Pine
Mid-Century Modern Asian-Influenced Pagoda Desk by The Northern Furniture Co.
By RWAY
Located in Lafayette, IN
Rare pagoda writing desk by The Northern Furniture Company /Rway. Desk features a floating, pagoda-inspired top, unique Bakelite/silver drawer pulls...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Silver
French First Empire Period, circa 1805, ‘Secretaire Abattant’
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most powerful and of the highest quality French First Empire period, Circa. 1805, "Secretaire Abattant'. The secretary is solid Cuban mahogany and fire gilded ormolu mounts with tw...
Category
19th Century French Antique Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Charles-Boulle Style Mounted Tortoiseshell Engraved Brass and Ebony Desk, 1900
Located in Florence, IT
Charles- Boulle style ormolu-mounted tortoiseshell engraved brass and ebony finish desk.
Center or parlor table with serpentine-shaped top, inlaid with foliate brass scrollwork...
Category
Early 20th Century French Baroque Desks
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Mid-Century Modern Desk Sideboard Bureau Secretaire Belgium Design, 1960s
By Jos De Mey
Located in Antwerp, BE
Vintage Mid-Century Modern desk sideboard, bureau secretaire.The honey-colored sideboard desk has been made of an ash veneer wood and brass feet. It ...
Category
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Brass
Maison Jansen Attributed Neoclassical Steel Quartz Marble Top Desk
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Opulent stainless steel mahogany writing table, bureau plat, or desk attributed to Maison Jansen, France. The desk features a thick slab of quartz Carrara style marble on top with thick polished brass trim. The case is crafted from rich radiant grained mahogany and covered with stainless steel. Fronted by three drawers and two large, locking storage...
Category
20th Century French Neoclassical Desks
Materials
Quartz, Brass, Steel
Modern Pedestal Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A modern pedestal desk with quartered oak veneer and with a basalt finish. With brass slab legs and handles having a long center drawer and three gradua...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Desks
Materials
Brass
Small Georgian Elm Bureau
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A delightful early 18th century George I Period Elm
bureau of diminutive proportions having well figured
fall front enclosing drawers and pigeon holes over
two short and three lo...
Category
Early 18th Century English George I Antique Desks
Materials
Elm
Modern Desk with Brass Supports
Located in Westwood, NJ
Modern desk with rectangular starburst veneered walnut grain top with a Macadamia finish, four shagreen inlaid drawers with brushed brass handles and side supports.
Dimensions: 63...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Metal
Rectangular Desk in solid ash wood, scandinavian design by Eric Gizard, Paris
By Éric Gizard
Located in Landivy, FR
This dark blue rectangular console desk/table is designed by Eric Gizard in Paris. Eric is well know for its beautiful sleek design adapted for French craft brands and luxury groups....
Category
2010s French Scandinavian Modern Desks
Materials
Lacquer, Wood, Ash
Rare 20th Century Mahogany Dressing Table with Electrical Lights
Located in London, GB
A remarkable ladies dressing table made by the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. of London for his Highness Nawab Sir Sadiq Mohammed Khan Abbasi the V of Bahawalpur.
Constructed in mahogany in the form of a kneehole desk with a modesty screen, rising from Chippendale style carved bracket feet, the banks of pedestals fitted with lockable faux drawers to the left, concealing a safe, and drawers to the right, fitted with ormolu chased swan neck handles; the lockable and hinged panelled top rising to reveal an adjustable triptych bevelled dressing mirror, with provisions for a pair of scallop shaded electrical lights, and having an enclosed body, fitted with an array of cut-glass unguent bottles, all with silver tops, Hall marked for 1929/30, enamelled with an Art Deco design, and bearing wonderfully detailed portraits of His Highness in regal dress...
Category
20th Century English Art Deco Desks
Materials
Silver, Enamel, Ormolu
Rustic Country Walnut Desk, Driftwood Finish
Located in Westwood, NJ
A rustic country-style solid driftwood finished rectangular desk with a rustic finish revealing exposed saw marks. Three small oak-lined drawers to front with mortice and tenon joint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Rustic Desks
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Modern AT-305 Desk by Hans J. Wegner for Andreas Tuck, 1950s
Located in Elshout, NL
Design desk
Beautiful Mid-Century Modern Danish vintage desk. A classic! This model AT-305 was designed in 1955 by Hans J. Wegner en and produced and branded by Adreas Tuck. The design desk has an oak base with three drawers. The right drawer can be locked and the left drawer has a pen tray. See pictures.
The top is made of teak with folding drawers...
Category
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Oak, Teak
French design & connected executive desk in solid wood, by Christophe Lecomte
Located in Landivy, FR
This minister's desk is part of the TRAPEZ collection designed by the Vendée designer Christophe Lecomte, who combines noble materials, aesthetics and uptodate office functionalities.
This collection includes several desks and storage units to equip personal offices, private practices and companies.
This large writing table is made of French high-valued solid and veneer ash wood sourced in sustainable managed and PEFC certified French forests.
With TRAPEZ, work free and with only 1 single wire on the floor between your desk and the wall.
With the integrated power strip (3 electrical plugs and 2 USB chargers), you will be able to plug your office electronical...
Category
2010s French Modern Desks
Materials
Wood, Ash
Greta Magnusson-Grossman Desk for Glenn of California
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Greta Magnusson-Grossman desk for Glenn of California, c.1950s, USA. This stunning desk features a mixed base of walnut and iron with a black laminated writing surface and cabinet do...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Iron
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
Louis XV Style Dore Bronze Mounted Boulle Marquetry Secretary Desk or Cabinet
Located in New York, NY
A gorgeous Louis XV style French dore bronze mounted Boulle Marquetry secretary desk or cabinet. With a cylindrical form in ebonized veneer a...
Category
1830s French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Bronze
Fine Chippendale Period Satinwood and Marquetry Desk
Located in Lymington, GB
A fine Chippendale-period satinwood and marquetry desk.
English, George III period, circa 1770.
The considerable use of the best quality mahogany in the carcass is typical of the very fine work of Thomas Chippendale.
It is rare today to find an 18th-century satinwood and marquetry-inlaid desk of this quality. (Most offered on the market are 19th/ 20th century). Major, period satinwood pieces have become almost unobtainable.
The superbly-controlled and delicate marquetry inlays are reminiscent of the fine decoration on the famous Diana and Minerva Commode by Chippendale at Harewood House...
Category
18th Century English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Satinwood
French Inlaid Ladies Desk
Located in Wilson, NC
French inlaid ladies desk, with bombe shaped sides and have elaborate satinwood and boxwood inlays with floral and arabesque designs as well as inlaid diap...
Category
1890s French Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Mid-Century Modern Italian Desk with Drawers , Wood and Chrome, 1970s
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Italian desk, wood and chrome, 1970s
Tablet : 6cm.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Wood
Handsome English 9-Drawer Mahogany Campaign Desk with Sage-Green Leather Top
Located in San Francisco, CA
In three pieces, with hand-tooled inset leather top above an apron fitted with 3 drawers; all resting on dual 3-drawer pedestals raised on bracket feet.
Category
Late 19th Century English British Colonial Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Jeannette Laverrière and Maurice Pré, Bookcase/Desk, France, 1950
Located in Catonvielle, FR
Jeannette Laverrière and Maurice Pré, bookcase / desk in gilded ash, France, 1950. Equipped with 4 shelves, two of which are adjustable and a drop...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Ash
Vintage Josef Frank Mahogany Desk, Sweden, circa 1930
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Josef Frank sweeping crotch mahogany four-drawer desk in good condition with brass hardware; circa 1932.
Category
1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Brass
Rustic Country Walnut Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A rustic country-style solid walnut rectangular desk with a rustic finish revealing exposed saw marks. Three small oak-lined drawers to front with mortice and tenon joints to X-frame...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Rustic Desks
Materials
Wood
John Widdicomb for Mastercraft Black Lacquered and Brass Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
This Classic writing table or desk by John Widdicomb for Mastercraft. Composed of a large black lacquered wood top with canted corners that sits atop a brass frame. Brass legs swoop ...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Brass
Rúna Large Desk, by Isabel Ahm from Warm Nordic
By Isabel Ahm
Located in Viby J, DK
Timeless desk with a poetic idiom and a neat little drawer. With its pure and classic design, Rúna creates a space around itself and boosts your entire interior design whether the de...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Slovenian Modern Desks
Materials
Wood
Teak Desk, Danish Design, 1960s
Located in Chorzów, PL
A desk made of teak wood, produced in Scandinavia in the 1960s.
Unique Danish design. Desk in very good condition, currently under renovation.
Measures: height 73cm, width 150c...
Category
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Teak
Antique Georgian Bureau, Oak Desk, Writing Table, Scotland 1800, H163
Located in Vancouver, BC
Antique Georgian Bureau, oak desk, writing table, Scotland 1800, H163
Scotland 1800
Solid oak
Original finish
Rectangular top with moldings
Ca...
Category
Early 1800s Scottish Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
Mid-Century Wooden Scandinavian Desk with Drawers, 1960s
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-century wooden scandinavian desk with drawers - 1960s.
Category
1960s Scandinavian Vintage Desks
Materials
Wood
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
Antique Georgian Irish Mahogany Demi Lune Games Card or Tea Table George III
Located in Dublin, Ireland
A superb example of an Early Irish Mahogany Georgian Demi-lune Fold-over Games Table of outstanding museum quality. Made in Ireland during the last quart...
Category
Late 18th Century Irish George III Antique Desks
Materials
Ebony, Mahogany, Walnut
Early 19th Century Sheraton Style American Bowfront Sideboard with Dropdown Desk
Located in Savannah, GA
In fifty-two years in business we have never seen a piece like this rare bowfront sideboard with a top drawer that folds out to reveal a writing surface with leather top.
Other feat...
Category
1810s American Sheraton Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Modern Organic Desk Made from Sustainable Ancient Wood & Blackened Steel
By Tréology
Located in Papanui, Christchurch
The folded steel base for the Milford desk was inspired by the plunging mountains that create the Milford Sounds and the way the light catches shadows on the ridges and valleys of Mitre Peak.
The Milford Desk is made from matai, a New Zealand native...
Category
2010s New Zealand Organic Modern Desks
Materials
Steel
19th Century English Regency Davenport
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
A good quality Regency rosewood davenport, the top inset with an antique leather, opening to reveal storage space and a single drawer. Below this there are four graduated drawers, ea...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Desks
Materials
Rosewood
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
Superb Sheraton Revival Satinwood Desk
Located in Whaley Bridge, GB
Sn4637 Fine late Victorian satinwood bureau, having arched tambour top which open to reveal pigeons holes, small inlaid drawers and slide out, green leather writing surface, all abov...
Category
1890s English Sheraton Antique Desks
Materials
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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