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Desks For Sale
Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
Period: 1950s
Cascade Wall Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This wall-mounted desk by Bourgeois Boheme Atelier is inspired by the French mid-century design. Crafted in oak, this compact desk is perfect for today needs, it is compact, versatil...
Category

2010s American Mid-Century Modern Desks

Materials

Brass

Directoire Style Desk Solid Cherry with Leather Pad and Covered Storage Space
Located in Landivy, FR
This desk belongs to the MELANIE collection that proposes handcraft modernized reinterpretated pieces of furniture from the French Directoire style at the end of the 18th century. T...
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2010s French Directoire Desks

Materials

Lacquer, Wood, Cherry, Oak

French Mahogany Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A flame mahogany writing desk, with leather inlaid side slides and five drawers surrounding the kneehole, on turned and brass leaf mounted tapering legs. The original Napoleon III. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Louis XVI Desks

Materials

Wood

George Nakashima Inspired Walnut Desk by Boyd & Allister
Located in Santa Fe, NM
A walnut desk inspired by George Nakashima’s desk design of the late 1950’s. The desk is built in solid walnut with an exceptional live edge walnut slab top complimented by Wenge but...
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2010s American Mid-Century Modern Desks

Materials

Brass

Modern Shagreen Leather Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A modern shagreen embossed leather-wrapped desk with a brass tone iron-framed base. Three drawers with marbleized paper-lined interiors and with brass ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Desks

Materials

Metal

Aeolus Console Table by Frédérique Domergue, Limited Edition
Located in PARIS, FR
Solid oak console clad entirely in bronze. Here the artist juxtaposes the brown of bronze medal against the green of antique bronze. The tabletop showcases algae impressions. The lateral strips are chiseled by hand to depict a diamond motif. Dimensions : L 140 cm x H 90 cm x D 36 cm // L 55.12 in x H 35.43 in x D 14.17 in. Limited edition of 8 (production time: 15 weeks) Over nearly 20 years, French artist Frédérique Domergue...
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2010s French Desks

Materials

Bronze

Mid Century Desk - Light
Located in Westwood, NJ
Mid Century Desk or dressing table with our Mangrove primavera veneer with inset breakfront top with brushed nickel finish fittings and sitting on brass finish splayed and tapered le...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Mid-Century Modern Desks

Materials

Metal

Regency Style Leather Top Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A Regency style finely Morado crossbanded, Sycamore line strung flame veneered and carved mahogany writing table, the concave-sided top with burnished leather and gold-tooled insert ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Regency Desks

Materials

Leather, Wood

Victorian Style Campaign Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A Victorian-style bowfront Campaign desk, the flip-top enclosing a fitted interior and a leather writing surface, with five drawers surrounding the kneehole, on tapering splay legs j...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese High Victorian Desks

Materials

Leather, Wood

Gianfranco Frattini Desk Model 530 Bernini Italy 1957
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Stunning medium sized writing desk model 530 designed by Gianfranco Frattini and manufactured by Bernini, Italy 1957. This desk is made of nicely grained rosewood and cherrywood vene...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks

Materials

Rosewood

Modern Industrial Leather Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A modern industrial leather desk with a solid hammered metal base. It has three drawers accented with cast brass campaign drawer pulls. Dimensions...
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21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Desks

Materials

Metal

Art Deco Style Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
Art Deco style desk elegantly styled with golden amber burr veneer and three drawers with subtle stringing inlay. Raised on four tapering sabre leg...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Desks

Materials

Wood

Modern Brushed Oak Writing Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
A modern brushed oak writing table with our light gowan finish. This desk has gently splayed solid end supports and a matte tungsten silhouette and it has tw...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Desks

Materials

Wood

Italian Red Lacquered Wood Desk from the 50s
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Red lacquered wood desk from the 50s, Italian. Desk 1950s Country: Italian Materials: Red lacquered wood Finish: polyurethanic lacquer It is an ...
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1950s Italian Space Age Vintage Desks

Materials

Wood

Alima NDS1 Trolly Black Matte Steel/Oak, by Note Design Studio for &Tradition
Located in Dubai, AE
Inspired by the ‘creative chaos’ of working from home, Note Design Studio decided to create a storage unit that would house their collection of magazines, drawings and objects. The r...
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Desks

Materials

Steel

Antiqued 17th Century Style Writing Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
An antiqued wood writing desk, with two frieze drawers, on barley twist turned legs joined by stretchers. The original 17th century. Dimen...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Rustic Desks

Materials

Wood

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...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks

Materials

Silver

French Art Deco Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
In the Ruhlman Manner, this French Art Deco desk, true to its French lineage, is a study in curves and angles. Two shapely filing drawers flank th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Art Deco Desks

Materials

Mahogany

Pierre Jeanneret Pigeonhole Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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1950s Indian Vintage Desks

Materials

Rosewood

21st Century Charles Dix Desk, White Ebony, White Maple and Brass, Made in Italy
Located in Nocera Superiore, Campania
A contemporary and refined reworking of the Charles X secretaire rouleaux. The Charles 10 desk is an expression of the increasingly interconnected contemporary man, secretly building in the details of albino white ebony. Thanks to the precious albino ebony veneers and the refined craftsmanship, Charles 10 will help you create in your home that exclusive design in which you can express yourself at your best. What makes this desk unique, extraordinary and precious is the use of a very rare wood: Albin White Ebony. An anomaly compared to the perfectly uniform and dark ebony grain we are used to. A natural work of art reborn into a design object. Features Desk with rouelau door and pull-out top in albino white ebony, interior with drawers and secret compartments in white maple, brass shelves, gold leaf secret. Available with wooden or brass wings...
Category

2010s Italian Desks

Materials

Brass, Gold Leaf

Walnut Wood Desk The Netherlands By Sordile
Located in DE MEERN, UT
Bureau de Maastunnel was conceived by Remco de Wolf. Designed and realized in Rotterdam. After an earlier project with laminating wood, he wanted to apply this again in his latest de...
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2010s Dutch Arts and Crafts Desks

Materials

Plexiglass, Walnut

Swivel Upholstered Leather Desk Chair, Jenn Desk Chair
Located in Miami, FL
JENN is a leather desk chair slightly tilted to achieve a relaxed, ergonomic seating position. The unique proportions of the JENN desk chair make it a dainty accent that is “big” in ...
Category

2010s Italian Modern Desks

Materials

Wood, Leather

21st Century Wynwood Desk in Leather by Gianfranco Ferré Home
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
Elegant and functional, the Wynwood desk fascinates the viewer with its essential lines and refined charm. Made of solid beech wood dyed Smokey Grey, the desk is upholstered in soft ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desks

Materials

Leather, Wood

Custom Parchment and Bone Desk
Located in New York, NY
Made to order, custom desk covered in parchment with trim detail and pulls in bone. The desk shown is in mushroom grey (custom color). Custom dimensions available.
Category

2010s Philippine Art Deco Desks

Materials

Bone, Leather, Wood, Goatskin

Set of Desks by Herbert Hirche for Holzäpfel 1950s
Located in Neuss, NW
Rare set of desks consisting of two individual desks with high-quality metal frame in black, two containers in teak veneer, each with four respectively three drawers and a small pen drawer. The tables can be freely combined or used individually. Quality Features: very good workmanship high quality materials solid wood drawers Made in Germany, Designer: Herbert Hirche, Manufacturer: Holzäpfel Desk (large) Width 180 cm Height 77 cm Depth 90 cm...
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1950s German Vintage Desks

Materials

Metal

Italian Giorgio Collection Presidential Desk with Return Ebony Macassar Wood
Located in New York, NY
Giorgio Collection - Presidential desk with left return + 1 drawer and 1 file drawer. Top in Ebony Makassar with 6mm filet in Zebra veneer in high ...
Category

2010s Italian Art Deco Desks

Materials

Stainless Steel, Chrome

Modern Industrial Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
Modern industrial desk with cast 'Vintage' metal bound top and tapered pegs with a rustic oak parquetry inlaid top with a leather inset writing surfa...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Industrial Desks

Materials

Metal

French Directoire Style Writing Table, Desk in Cherrywood, 2 Drawers
Located in Landivy, FR
This writing table is a handmade reproduction of the French Directoire style at the end of the 18th century. This period style is remarkable with its straight, classical and timeles...
Category

2010s French Directoire Desks

Materials

Wood, Cherry, Oak

Industrial Equestrian Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
The Industrial Equestrian desk of walnut and reclaimed wood with an iron base. The parquetry inlaid top with five drawers is flanked by two horse heads...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Asian Industrial Desks

Materials

Iron

Contemporary Brown Lacquered Wooden Executive Desk
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American lacquered executive desk with brass trimmed edge and 4 drawers supported on 2 rectangular pedestals centering a vanity panel in the style of Aldo Tura.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Desks

Materials

Lacquer

Alias 886 Small Eleven High Desk Adjustable with Oak Top and Upholstered Panels
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias 886 Small Eleven High Desk Adjustable with Oak Top and Upholstered Panels by PearsonLloyd Desk. Structure with legs in die-cast aluminium and frame in steel lacquered or pol...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Desks

Materials

Aluminum

Italian Desk in Wood from the 50s
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Wood desk from the 50s, Italian. Desk 1950s Country: Italian Finish: polyurethanic lacquer It is an elegant and sophisticated desk. If you have any questions we are at your disposa...
Category

1950s Italian Space Age Vintage Desks

Materials

Wood

'005' Desk in the Manner of Pierre Chareau
Located in Glendale, CA
'005' desk in the Manner of Pierre Chareau. Handcrafted in the Los Angeles and French workshops of noted French designer and antiques dealer ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Desks

Materials

Steel

Alias 885 Small Eleven High Desk in Natural Oak & Black Lacquered Aluminum Frame
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias 885 Small Eleven High Desk in Natural Oak & Black Lacquered Aluminum Frame by PearsonLloyd Desk. Structure with legs in die-cast aluminium and frame in steel lacquered or po...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Desks

Materials

Aluminum

Alias 885 Large Eleven High Desk in Natural Oak & Black Lacquered Aluminum Frame
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias 885 Large Eleven High Desk in Natural Oak & Black Lacquered Aluminum Frame by PearsonLloyd Desk. Structure with legs in die-cast aluminium and frame in steel lacquered or po...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Desks

Materials

Aluminum

Alias 886 Large Eleven High Desk Adjustable with Oak Top and Upholstered Panels
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias 886 Large Eleven High Desk Adjustable with Oak Top and Upholstered Panels by PearsonLloyd Desk. Structure with legs in die-cast aluminium and frame in steel lacquered or pol...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Desks

Materials

Aluminum

Antiqued Wood Fold-Over Rustic Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A rustic antiqued wood fold-over Campaign desk, the hinged top opening to reveal four fitted drawers, on twin baluster turned end supports and sleigh feet...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Rustic Desks

Materials

Wood

Heywood Wakefield Trimline Desk & Chair Kem Weber Design
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Heywood Wakefield Trimline desk & chair Kem Weber Design : U.s.a Period: 1950 full restored.
Category

1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks

Materials

Chrome

Rectangular Glass and Oak Writing Desk with Drawers, Sky Bridge Desk
Located in Miami, FL
Sky Bridge is a glass desk with a pure multifunctional storage unit in white oak for the contemporary digital nomad – clean, light and functional. As shown wood: White milk oak g...
Category

2010s Italian Modern Desks

Materials

Wood, Glass

50° Desk in Wood Italian
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Wood desk from the 50s, Italian. Desk 1950s Country: Italian Finish: polyurethanic lacquer It is an elegant and sophisticated desk. We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and ...
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1950s Italian Space Age Vintage Desks

Materials

Wood

Art Deco Leather Desk, Dark Grey
Located in Westwood, NJ
A French Art Deco style shagreen embossed leather desk in a dark antiqued grey. With gilded highlight trim, three frieze drawers with modern round pulls, and raised on square tapered...
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21st Century and Contemporary Asian Art Deco Desks

Materials

Leather

Art Deco Mirrored Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
An Art Deco-style mirrored desk with silver leaf and antiqued mirror, the rectangular mirror paneled top above three drawers with brass handles, on mirror inset square tapering legs....
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Art Deco Desks

Materials

Glass, Wood

Desk in Wood Italian, 1950
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Wood desk from the 50s, Italian. Desk 1950s Country: Italian Finish: polyurethanic lacquer It is an elegant and sophisticated desk. If you have any questions we are at your disposa...
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1950s Italian Space Age Vintage Desks

Materials

Wood

A MID-CENTURY-MODERN MODERNIST DESK & CHAIR by LUCIEN CARRIER, France 1950
Located in PARIS, FR
A very beautiful set composed of a chair and a small desk or console, with black lacquered metallic structures, trays and sitting in bambou and woven wicker, particularly well design...
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks

Materials

Metal

Art Deco Vanity Table or Desk After Style of Ruhlmann
Located in Oakland, CA
French Art Deco Desk In Style of Ruhlmann. Macassar wood was chosen and the “ivorite” plastic details were shaped and inlaid by master craftsmen working to create this timeless classic. A real signature of the Grand Art Deco period. The finish is pure “French” polish with parchment leather inlay as part of the writing surface of the desk. The drawers are all joined in the class French tradition, heavy and meaningful. You’ve probably only ever seen a piece like this in books on Art Deco. This custom piece was made for our shop, the goal was to re-create this famous Ruhlmann desk...
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21st Century and Contemporary Argentine Art Deco Desks

Materials

Macassar

Desk in Parchment "Leather" and Wood from the 50s, France
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Red lacquered wood desk from the 50s, Italian. Desk 1950s Country: France Materials: parchment leather and wood Finish: polyurethanic lacquer It is an elegant and sophisticated des...
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1950s French Space Age Vintage Desks

Materials

Wood, Leather

Osvaldo Borsani Mid-Century Modern Italian Shop Counter Cash Desk, 1950s
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Beautiful and original shop cash desk designed by Osvaldo Borsani in the 1950s, original VITREX glass top. Note the particularity of the designer and the va...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks

Materials

Glass, Maple, Walnut

Swivel Leather Desk Chair, Cubé Desk Chair
Located in Miami, FL
Cubé is a desk chair with modern lines combined with noble metal details. It has an elegant leather upholstery. The double cushioning on the seat adds to the level of comfort, while ...
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2010s Italian Modern Desks

Materials

Metal

50° Desk Italian, Material, Wood
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
wood desk from the 50s, Italian. Desk 1950s Country: Italian Finish: polyurethanic lacquer It is an elegant and sophisticated desk. We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and ...
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1950s Italian Space Age Vintage Desks

Materials

Wood

Zanotta Calamo Desk in Black Top with Steel Frame by Gabriele Rosa
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Zanotta Calamo Desk in Black Top with Steel Frame by Gabriele Rosa Varnished steel frame and top in black, white or graphite. Top and storage space in cowhide pigmentato 90. The storage space is accessed by a drop-leaf opening. Calamo is not an old-style desk with drawers overflowing with paper, but an essential element of furniture, both in function and appearance, something that could fit anywhere in the home. The collection includes a new furnishing accessory designed by young designer Gabriele Rosa: the Calamo desk-console table. With a white, black or graphite steel structure with cowhide pigmentato cover for the surface and storage space under the folding lid. Undoubtedly the writing desk still...
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21st Century and Contemporary Desks

Materials

Steel

Large Midcentury Italian Executive Desk by Vittorio Dassi
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
This impressive executive desk by the 1950s Italian designer, Vittorio Dassi, features a very comfortable 1.5 cm thick floating glass top, unde...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks

Materials

Brass

Emmett Desk Large, Handcrafted Solid Wood Desk
Located in Stevenson, WA
The Emmett desk is a simple asymmetrical desk with exposed offset box joints and turned tapered legs. Spread your papers out, pile your books in a corner, op...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Desks

Materials

Hardwood

English Walnut Burl Two-Drawer Writing Table
Located in Woodbury, CT
This two-drawer walnut writing desk is made for us by our English cabinetmaker. Using time-honored techniques, this table is created in just the same fashion as it would have been 20...
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21st Century and Contemporary British Georgian Desks

Materials

Leather, Walnut, Burl

Mahogany Leather Top Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A mahogany and flame veneered writing table, the tooled leather inset top with protruding rounded corners above three frieze drawers on turned legs with brass castors. Dimensions: 5...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese George III Desks

Materials

Leather, Wood

Ebonized Predictor Group Desk by Paul McCobb for O'Hearn Furniture Company
Located in Dorchester, MA
This hard-to-find desk is a Paul McCobb design for his Predictor series, manufactured by O'Hearn Furniture only from 1951 to 1955. The ebonized maple case sits on slender canted legs. To the left a door conceals three drawers, the lower of which is file-deep. To the right three narrow but long drawers feature round brass pulls. To the back is a narrow shelf...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks

Materials

Brass

Peter & Molgaard Hvidt Rosewood Secretary
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Handsome, masculine 6-drawer dresser with recessed pulls, topped with drop-front desk fitted with drawer and storage cubicles. On enameled metal legs with rosewood block feet. Retain...
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1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks

Materials

Steel

Slide Wall Desk
Located in Vandoma, PT
The combination of the black base of its pieces and oak veneer geometric patterns, give this collection a modern, elegant and timeless character. Modern and widely customizable wi...
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2010s Portuguese Scandinavian Modern Desks

Materials

Iron

Painted Campaign Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A vintage greyed limestone painted campaign desk, with a Chinese Chippendale blind fret decorated frieze, the hinged top opening to reveal a blue leathe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Chinese Chippendale Desks

Materials

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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