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Desks For Sale
Mid-Century Modern Desk, 1970s
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Desk, 1970s
Category
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Wood
Late 18th-early 19th Century Georgian Architect's Stand
Located in Richmond, VA
Very unique late 18th-early 19th century Georgian architect's stand. The Stand resembles a kneehole desk, yet is 40.5" tall. The center drawer is over a Gothic shaped door concealing 2 shelves. There are 5 graduated drawers on either side and fluted quarter columns framing the interior and exterior sides.
Would make a great stand up desk, work station or host stand.
Category
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Small Modernist Writing Table, Chromed Steel, Veneered/ Lacquered Wood, Bespoke
Located in Berlin, DE
Small modernist writing table made of chrome plated tubular steel, stained/ veneered/ lacquered wood. The table can be customized and is available in different amounts. Delivery time...
Category
2010s German Bauhaus Desks
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Lamb of Manchester, An Aesthetic Movement Walnut Writing Desk.
Located in London, GB
Lamb of Manchester. An Aesthetic Movement walnut and leather writing desk with a bank of four graduating drawers to the left and a large upper drawer to the right with turned and flu...
Category
1880s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Walnut
American Mid Century Modern Solid Walnut 5 Piece Desk Set
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful 1970's handcrafted solid walnut desk set, letter tray, pencil holder, envelope holder, card holder, and clip holder, elegant excellent condition incredible craftsmanship an...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Walnut
1960's English Regency Style Pecan Desk Console by Thomasville
Located in Chattanooga, TN
This English Regency style pecan writing desk by Thomasville would be perfect in any room. Desk, console, or entryway table to name a few. The stain / tone appears to be in the fam...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Brass
American Empire Writing Table with Carved Acanthus Legs, circa 1840
Located in Southampton, NY
American empire writing table with carved acanthus legs, circa 1840
Casters, Missing ormolu on right side of centre drawer. Beautiful ornately carved acanthus legs with casters with...
Category
Early 19th Century American American Empire Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
British Colonial Style Demi-Lune Leather Top Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
British colonial style desk crafted in mahogany in a demilune form with a tooled tan leather top, four drawers and featuring bold turned an...
Category
Late 20th Century American British Colonial Desks
Materials
Brass
Turn of the Century Carlton House Desk
Located in Pasadena, TX
Inlaid Mahogany Turn of the Century Desk
1905
Mahogany Carlton House style desk. Moulded and curved upper section with three quarter pierced...
Category
Early 20th Century European Edwardian Desks
Materials
Walnut
Rare Restored Bespoke Modernist Stacked Rattan & Mahogany Secretary Desk
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This beautifully restored Paul Frankl-inspired mid-century bespoke stacked rattan secretary desk made with Filipino mahogany drawer fronts, side panels, and top and a rattan frame. T...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Rattan
19th c. French Marble Topped Inlaid Escritoire
Located in Worcester, GB
19th c. French marble topped Inlaid Escritoire
Original Breche d' Alep marble top. Upper drawer. Fall front opening to reveal leather writing surface. Shelf space and four drawe...
Category
19th Century French Antique Desks
Materials
Kingwood
Marc Newson “Riga” Desk for Cappellini
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Designer/Artist; Manufacturer: Marc Newson; Cappellini
Markings/Notes: no marking(s) apparent
Country of Origin & Materials: Italy; wood, metal
Dimensions: 31″h, 55″w, 28.5″d
Additio...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desks
Materials
Metal
vintage desk dressing table 1960s Swedish
Located in Lemmer, NL
vintage desk dressing table 1960s Swedish
period 1960s
design unknown Sweden
condition good minor signs of use
size 71 x 201 x 45 (hxbxd)
details oak; glass;
item number...
Category
1960s Swedish Vintage Desks
Materials
Glass, Oak
Splay Leg Mid-Century Modern Style Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
White lacquered splay leg writing desk with chrome hardware. Newly lacquered white finish. This three-drawer desk will fit in many different style decors.
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Wood
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...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Bureau Jean Nouvel Edition Ligne Roset plateau bois pieds aluminium 1980 Design
Located in London, England
Le bureau en hêtre, conçu par le célèbre architecte Jean Nouvel pour l'hôtel Relais et Châteaux "Le Saint-James Bouliac de Bordeaux", incarne à la fois l'élégance et la fonctionnalité. Édité par la renommée maison Ligne Roset, ce meuble séduit par son design raffiné et ses détails astucieux, comme une prise intégrée pour allumer la lampe de chevet...
Category
1980s French Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Beech
Carlton House Desk Satinwood 1880
Located in Potters Bar, GB
This Rather Impressive Satinwood Carlton House Desk Stands Upon Tapered Legs With Brass Castors.
Circa 1880
The Desk Features 3 Mahogany Lined Drawers.
The Shaped Superstructure Havi...
Category
Early 1800s Antique Desks
Materials
Satinwood
Georgian Revival Knee Hole Desk Mahogany
Located in Potters Bar, GB
You are viewing a Georgian Revival knee hole desk in mahogany
We date this fine piece of English furniture to circa 1920
Mahogany Writing Desk
With Leather insert
This has been fully...
Category
1920s Revival Vintage Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Oak Arts and Crafts Reception Desk Greeting Station
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Oak Arts and Crafts Reception Desk Greeting Station
This one is dated 1903 and has a very Gothic Look, the sloping top has a rail to hold menus or similar from slipping off and ther...
Category
Early 1900s Arts and Crafts Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
French Desk
Located in Annville, PA
This Chippendale style Mahogany and Leather French Desk is produced by Niagara Furniture. A high quality writing desk that sets the standard for beauty and function among antique rep...
Category
2010s Renaissance Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Victorian Secretaire Chest Desk Walnut 1840
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Gorgeous walnut secretaire with pull out writing slope with tooled leather top
Also lots of small drawers around the leather writing surface
Great space saving piece as it's both an ...
Category
1840s Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique Victorian Quality Inlaid Rosewood Freestanding Davenport Desk
Located in Ipswich, GB
Antique Victorian quality inlaid rosewood freestanding Davenport desk, Having the original brass gallery above a lift up stationary box above a writing slope with the original leathe...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Empire Drop Front Desk, Kopenhagen, 1820
Located in Belmont, MA
Empire drop front desk, Copenhagen 1810-20.
This unique Danish secretary desk is embellished with mahogany veneer. The lower part has three cur...
Category
1810s Danish Empire Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Danish Modern Teak Desk with Metal Details
Located in Sacramento, CA
Danish Modern teak desk with metal details. Crafted from rich, warm teak wood, this desk showcases clean lines and minimalist form, the desk has a large writing surface with a metal ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Desks
Materials
Metal
Venetian Rococo Style Walnut Secretary Lacquered by Ira Yeager
By Ira Yeager
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic late 19th century Italian secretaire cabinet or bookcase made in the Venetian Rococo taste. Crafted from walnut the two-part case features a speckled lacquer finish centered by a cartouche shaped window with a painted bust by artist Ira Yeager (American 1938-2022). The bureau cabinet has a bombe shaped dresser base with a drop front diminutive writing table. The drop front has two storage drawers and a small pigeon hole storage above. Below the desk are two small drawers and two large storage drawers with rocaille patinated brass pulls. The dresser is supported by small cabriole legs with scrolled feet. The dresser is surmounted by a bookcase with a painted door depicting a nobleman holding a chicken. The painting is painted on board titled "Venezia" and signed by Yeager with a fictitious date of 1725. The door opens to a three-shelf bookcase. The case is topped with a pediment having a cartouche shaped window and corniced top. The entire secretary is speckled with a mustard yellow tone over a taupe background. This whimsical cabinet...
Category
19th Century Italian Rococo Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Bertha Schaefer for Singer & Sons American Mid-Century Angle Top Writing Desk
Located in Queens, NY
American Mid-Century walnut writing desk with an angular top and two left-hand drawers, supported by five tapered dowel legs connected by stretchers. (BERTHA SCHAEFER FOR SINGER & SO...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Wood, Walnut
Modern Karl Springer Style Three-Drawer Faux Shagreen Desk/Writing Table, Chrome
Located in Manhasset, NY
Modern Karl Springer style three-drawer faux Shagreen desk on a chrome plated x form base.
Sleek desk or writing table in a Springer style finish w...
Category
1980s Unknown Vintage Desks
Materials
Chrome
MCM Desk by Robert John Co. Walnut & White Painted Steel Frame & Laminate Top
By Knoll
Located in Topeka, KS
Handsome Mid-Century Modern smaller writing desk by the Robert John Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania featuring walnut cabinet with white painted steel frame and white laminate top. This is from their Steelwood collection. It desk is in wonderful restored condition. We have sanded and put a new finish on the walnut and the metal frame. The laminate has been cleaned and polished. There are still signs of age but nothing major. Please see photos, circa 1960s.
This wonderful Mid-Century Modern smaller size office desk has been a real puzzle. It has taken much research and I’m still not sure I know about the Robert John Co. from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their tag says Makers of Contemporary Furniture and that this desk is. When I google them all I come up with is other pieces of furniture being offered that were made by them, but I can’t find any history on the company. And, several listings say the piece was designed by Robert John but made by Knoll. I have not found supporting evidence of that statement! No matter. This is a fabulous desk with a walnut box cabinet containing three equal size drawers that are adorned with cool black and white handles. It is surrounded by a white painted metal frame which accents the walnut wonderfully and a white laminate work surface. This was originally in an architect’s office. I can see why. It has awesome lines and is beautifully designed. This desk is just the right size for a home office. Not as big as an executive desk but a little bigger than a writing desk. Fabulous! Fabulous style! Fabulous size! Fabulous condition! Make it yours.
Attn: Since originally writing this I have obtained three vintage brochures...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Metal
English Chippendale Style Oval Mahogany Desk
Located in Queens, NY
English Chippendale style (19th Century) oval mahogany desk with gallery top and drawer.
Category
19th Century British Chippendale Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Ernst Schwadron, a Vladimir Kagan Made Unique Desk, circa 1945
Located in Sharon, CT
When showing this desk at a 'Modernism Show', Vladimir Kagan related to me that this desk was executed by him as a teenager in his father's New York City workshop, for the Austrian/A...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Poplar
Rationalist Desk by Giuseppe Pagano for Maggioni, Veneered Wood, Italy, c. 1940
Located in Berlin, DE
Rationalist wooden desk designed by Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig and manufactured by Maggioni, Varedo, circa 1940. The desk was designed for the Bocc...
Category
1940s Italian Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Wood
18th c. Partners Desk
Located in Atlanta, GA
An exceptional 18th-century ebonized petite partners desk, richly adorned with finely cast ormolu mounts. This rare and refined piece is a testament to the exquisite craftsmanship of...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Desks
Materials
Bronze
Austro-Hungarian Chest of Drawers in Walnut Root Veneer
Located in Woodbury, CT
The handsome lines of this chest augment its wonderful proportions with drawers flanking the center drop down writing surface. Deeper than the two below, the top drawer is supported ...
Category
19th Century Hungarian Biedermeier Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut, Pine, Burl
'Cache Desk Organiser' Wood and Steel by Paul McCobb for Karakter
By Paul McCobb
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
'Cache Desk Organiser' Wood and Steel by Paul McCobb for Karakter
Storage unit designed by Paul McCobb in 1952.
The foundation of the Cache series, p...
Category
2010s Danish Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Steel
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
Cantilever Executive Desk by Ward Bennett for Lehigh Furniture
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A rosewood and steel executive desk with single pencil drawer with lock and key.?Base is lacquer and steel.
Category
20th Century American Desks
Materials
Rosewood
George I Bureau Desk Walnut Chest Drawers
Located in Potters Bar, GB
George I Walnut Bureau.
This Bureau Stands Upon Bracket Feet and Features an Arrangement of 2 Over 2 Oak Lined Drawers.
18th Century
The Drawers and the Fall Having Herringbone Inlays.
The Interior Having an Assortment of Drawers and Pigeonholes.
The Bureau Retails its Original Handles, Escutcheons and Loper Pulls.
The Bureau is of a Good Warm Antique Walnut Colour.
Category
18th Century George I Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Danish Cabinetmaker Table Desk
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
The Danish cabinetmaker dining table or desk features a light wood top and round black legs. The tabletop is crafted from a high-quality light wood, which exhibits a natural and warm...
Category
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Wood
Rorimer Brooks Art Deco Moderne lacquered bookcase Writing desk with chair
Located in Ferndale, MI
Manufactured by obscure Rorimer Brooks co. of Cleveland Ohio . Art Deco or Moderne Writing desk in matte black lacquer with cream accents . Bank of five...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Desks
Materials
Wood
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.
Category
2010s French Modern Desks
Materials
Metal
Mid-Century Brown Leather Covered 2-Drawer Desk
Located in Queens, NY
Mid-Century leather wrapped rectangular desk with two drawers with brass drawer pulls.
Vintage condition. Large scuffs in leather.
Category
20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Wood
Vintage Midcentury Desk by Widdicomb
Located in Pasadena, TX
Widdicomb
Vintage midcentury desk by Widdicomb
Oak with caramel Naugahyde top.
The finished back allows for flexible placement in room.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Oak
Desk and its cardboard box in white lacquered plywood. 1970s.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Desk with rounded corners with its white lacquered plywood box, the box on casters opening with four drawers.
French work realized in the 1970s.
Dimensions: H 75 x W 170 x D 80 cm
...
Category
Late 20th Century French Desks
Materials
Plywood
Vintage wood and metal desk - 1960s
Located in Uccle, BE
Vintage wood and metal desk - 1960s
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Metal
Phillip Lloyd Powell American Craft Custom Double Pedestal Desk
Located in Chicago, IL
Phillip Lloyd Powell American Craft Custom Double Pedestal Desk, This remarkable American Craft Double Pedestal Desk by Powell Studio was custom-made in 1995. The desk boasts a total...
Category
1990s American Desks
Materials
Slate, Metal
Napoleon III, Desk, Center Table, Bronze, Inlaid Tortoise, France, 19th Century
Located in Manhasset, NY
Napoleon III Desk or Center Table, Ormolu Bronze, Inlaid Burlwood, Marquetry, France, 19th C., Aristide-Henry Gros. (after)
An exemplary French Centre Table or Writing Desk, dating ...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Desks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Mahogany Pedestal Desk
Located in High Point, NC
19th century English pedestal desk made from mahogany. The top is covered in the original tan leather, which has aged beautifully, and is banded by a shaped mahogany border. The desk...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Scandinavian Teak Desk Manufactured by Nipu
By Nipu
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Danish teak desk manufactured by Nipu, having a rectangular top, above the seven drawer case, and rising on chrome legs. Desk has been professionally refinished. A lock with key is p...
Category
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Wood, Teak
American Mid-Century 3-drawer Walnut Desk
Located in Queens, NY
American Mid-Century walnut desk with a large top drawer next ot a smaller drawer over a bottom cabint drawer
NEEDS REFINISHING AND REPAIRS TO VENEER
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Walnut
Art Deco Oak Desk by Morris of Glasgow, Scotland circa 1920
Located in Knutsford, GB
Art Deco Oak Desk by Morris of Glasgow, Scotland circa 1920
Oak with brass trim amd honey coloured laquered top
Of inverted brakefront form, 9 drawers with turned metal handles in ...
Category
1920s British Art Deco Vintage Desks
Materials
Oak
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
Bronze, Brass
Original Georgian / Regency Military Campaign Desk with Large Map Drawer
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning circa 1800-1820 original Georgian / Regency Military campaign desk with large top map drawer
...
Category
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Hardwood
Modern Desk with Drawers in Argentine Rosewood & Bronze from Costantini, Lorenzo
By Costantini
Located in New York, NY
Lorenzo Modern Desk with Drawers in Argentine Rosewood & Bronze from Costantini
Measurements are 66" W x 33" D x 29.5" H
This Classic ye...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Desks
Materials
Bronze
Victorian Pedestal Desk Antique Mahogany Writing Table, 1850
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Victorian Mahogany Pedestal Desk.
Standing on a plinth base with an arrangement of 9 graduated Oak lined drawers.
The writing surface with a gilt and blind tooled faded leather.
c...
Category
1850s Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Early Georgian antique walnut bureau
Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
An early eighteenth century veneered walnut bureau of a good original colour and patina.
Category
1720s English George II Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
David Linley English Cherry Maple & Burr-ash Three Drawer Writing Desk
By David Linley
Located in Queens, NY
English Contemporary cherry, maple, and burr-ash writing desk having banded inlaid trim witth a diamond design top overthree drawers resting on tapere...
Category
20th Century British Modern Desks
Materials
Maple
John Stuart Walnut Mid-Century Modern Long Credenza Dresser Pull Out Shelf Mint!
Located in Rockaway, NJ
John Stuart walnut Mid-Century Modern long credenza dresser server sideboard w/ 3 pull out shelf tabs mint!
Two door compartments 4 drawers, brushed pewter hardware.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Walnut
Small Mahogany and Rosewood Middle Desk, Napoleonic Period
Located in HÉRIC, FR
This magnificent bureau, crafted during the Napoleon III era in the mid-19th century, is a perfect example of the elegance and refinement of the late Louis XV style.
Crafted in mahog...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Wood
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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