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Desks For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Large French Directoire Period Traveling Secretary Desk
Located in Pembroke, MA
This French Directoire traveling secretary is made of walnut. Its large size is unusual and would make an impressive statement in a study. The top sec...
Category
Late 18th Century French Directoire Antique Desks
Materials
Iron, Brass
Italian Fruitwood and Burl Marquetry Parquet Desk, circa 1950
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
Stunning sculptural fruitwood and burl marquetry desk done in a parquet pattern, stunning bombe shape with cabriole legs. Total refinished and ready to go.
Category
1950s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Desks
Materials
Fruitwood, Burl
Early 18th Century Walnut Secretaire Kneehole Desk
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
A walnut kneehole desk with quarter veneered top above an unusual fitted secretaire drawer. The kneehole with two banks of drawers all retaining the original brass handles.
Category
Early 18th Century Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
French Marquetry Slant Top Ladies Writing Desk, Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
French marquetry ladies slant top three-drawer writing desk with floral motif inlay, flanking step back interior drawers, leather writing surface, carved scalloped skirt, original or...
Category
1780s French Louis XVI Antique Desks
Materials
Gold, Ormolu
18th C. Louis XV Bureau Scriban Bibliotec Secretary Cabinet Mahogany Antiques LA
Located in West Hollywood, CA
18th century Louis XV Bureau Scriban Bibliotic Secretary Cabinet Mahogany Antiques LA. An important rare and Tall Scribing bibliotic secre...
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Wrought Iron, Metal, Metallic Thread
Portuguese Colonial Brazilian Solid Rosewood Slant Lid Writing Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Made in Brazil and purchased as an antique in Rio De Janeiro in the 1950s. With slant lid top opening to a finely fitted compartment with drawers and cubbys and hidden compartments o...
Category
1760s Brazilian Rococo Antique Desks
Materials
Rosewood
Antique 18th Century Dutch Marquetry Inlaid Burr Walnut Bombe Slope-Front Bureau
Located in Charleston, SC
Finest antique Dutch marquetry inlaid burr walnut bombe' shape slope-front bureau with exceptional fitted interior and baize writing surface
Please note extraordinary cast brass h...
Category
Late 18th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
English Mahogany Partners Desk of the Georgian Period
Located in London, GB
Constructed in a well patinated San Domingo mahogany of rectangular form, rising from a plinth base, the pedestals with laterally opposed banks of four oak lined lockable drawers, fi...
Category
18th Century English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
18th century Louis XVI Writing Desk, cherry veneer, South Germany
Located in Belmont, MA
Rare Louis XVI writing desk, South German 1780, exquisite cherry and plum wood veneer on front back, sides and top. The writing top is framed by...
Category
1780s German Louis XVI Antique Desks
Materials
Cherry
Queen Anne Period Oak Slant-Top English Desk
Located in Port Chester, NY
A country late 17th century bureau from England, in wonderful condition for its age. The desk has a drop down front with original large hinges and...
Category
1690s English Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
Louis XVI Style Mahogany Architects Table with Side Cabinet, 20TH Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The unusual table with adjustable height stand and side cabinet with shelves for storage.
Category
1790s French Louis XVI Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Sligh Walnut Curved Front Desk with Leather Top
Located in Chicago, IL
Elegant and timeless walnut and tooled brown leather top curved front five drawer desk or writing table from Sligh. Cabriole legs and scalloped bottom and centre drawers as well as c...
Category
1950s American Vintage Desks
Materials
Brass
Fine George III Diminutive Mahogany and Satinwood Secretaire
Located in Essex, MA
With rectangular cornice over a pair of gothic mullioned doors enclosing a fitted interior, the base with drawer enclosing a fitted desk interior all over three drawers ending on spl...
Category
1790s English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
1790 Gillows Cuban Hardwood Library Secretaire Desk Writing Table I Bramah Lock
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare circa 1790 George III Library writing desk secrataire by Gillows of Lancaster and London
A rare find, looking through Gillows of ...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Hardwood
English Hepplewhite Mahogany Tambour Writing Desk. Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
English five drawer Hepplewhite tambour writing desk with fitted interior, satinwood string inlay, original brasses, and terminating on satinwood...
Category
18th Century and Earlier British Hepplewhite Antique Desks
18th Century Dutch Marquetry Bombé Bureau
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a top quality late 18th century Dutch Marquetry Bureau. The bureau is profusely inlaid all over with various birds and flowers, butterflies etc. The fall front opens to r...
Category
Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Scriban Commode with Cylinder of Louis XV Period in Marquetry
Located in Marseille, FR
18th century commode scriban cylinder Louis XV period inlaid. Richly curved. 4 drawers. Many species of fruitwood, rich register of gilded bronze. Inne...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Late 18th Century Louis XVI Cartonnier Desk
Located in Paris, FR
Late 18th century piece of furniture called a “cartonnier” in wood veneer and used for storing papers. Each section of the piece features a frame of gilt bronze, fluted stripes. Its ...
Category
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Desks
Materials
Bronze
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...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks
Materials
Fruitwood, Walnut
Orfeo's Desk, the Senses and the Elements
Located in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas
Orfeo's desk, the senses and the elements
Mexican School of Villa Alta of San Ildelfonso, Oaxaca
Technique sumac paste, lignaloe, granadillo, lemon wood and...
Category
17th Century Mexican American Colonial Antique Desks
Materials
Wood
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
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...
Category
1950s Czech Art Deco Vintage Desks
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Double Sided Desk Louis XV Walnut Attributed J.F Hache
By Jean-Francois Hache
Located in Marseille, FR
Double sided desk Louis XV walnut attributed to J.F Hache (1730-1796) dating from the eighteenth century. Very good state of conservation despite traces of restoration on the drawers...
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Louis XV Secretaire, France 1770
Located in Belmont, MA
Exquisite secretaire de dame, France 18th century, beautiful kingwood veneer on front, sides, top, back and the inside. The writing surface is covered with leather. With original bro...
Category
1770s French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Kingwood
English Mahogany Slant Front Desk. Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
English mahogany slant front desk with fitted interior, hand tooled leather,and terminating on original bracket feet.
Category
18th Century and Earlier British Antique Desks
George Nelson "Dry Erase" Desk with Return
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fantastic desk by George Nelson for Herman Miller. Newly laminated Formica top with dry erase laminate. Very cool, dry/erase surface for your work desk. Extr...
Category
1950s American Vintage Desks
Materials
Chrome
Janette Laverrière and Maurice Pré, Bureau in Blond Oak and Skai, circa 1958
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Bureau in steps of Maurice Pre and Janette Laverrière 1958 in blond oak embellished with red skai of origin, the opened flap serves as office, small...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Faux Leather, Oak
Spanish Cabinet "Bargueño" Walnut, Wrought Iron, Stone, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
The rectangular locker rests on four round legs, and has four drawers decorated with diamonds that lock and fittings and shield shown horseshoe. Desk, hinged front cover has metal hooks (to attach the table without lock) and numerous decorative plates, plus a gorgeous close ornate with two rampant lions and stars. Opening the lid, which rests on two sureties ornate wooden locker...
Category
17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks
Materials
Stone, Wrought Iron
English Mahogany Tambour Satinwood Inlaid Writing Desk, Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
English mahogany tambour desk with sliding leather writing surface, interior satinwood compartmentalized drawers with the original bone knobs, five lower drawers with the original br...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Period Early George III Mahogany Architects Work Table
Located in Hudson, NY
This fine period architects table was made in England, circa 1760 to 1770. Crafted from imported mahogany this was a costly and impressive form of furniture for a gentleman architect working in the country of a fashionable society interested in art, craft, engineering and aware of the burgeoning power of the Industrial revolution taking place throughout the world but very much so in England. Designed to expand, lift for standing work and to examine and hold large worksheets, the piece contains a full...
Category
Mid-18th Century English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Oak Renaissance Cabinet, 1600 Unikat
Located in Kraków, Małopolska
Cabinet We present you a unique Renaissance Cabinet from the sixteenth century, Kabinet comes from Germany. It is made of oak. Cabinet is a box furniture, it consists of an upper c...
Category
16th Century German Renaissance Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
Desk Laminate, 1950 Italian Furniture Especially Gio Ponti Attributed
By Gio Ponti
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Desk laminate, 1950 Italian furniture especially Gio Ponti Attributed,
made of colored laminate, brass legs spiked, and glass, presents in the lam...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Brass
A French 1950's Sycamore Desk
Located in Long Island City, NY
A French mid-century Sycamore Desk with 2 doors and 1 drawer and ebonised Inlay.
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Queen Anne Burled Walnut Slant Front Desk
Located in Hudson, NY
This very fine and fully restored Queen Anne slant front desk was crafted in burled walnut on an oak carcass. This secondary wood choice wa...
Category
1720s British Queen Anne Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique English Period Oak Mahogany-Banded Bureau
Located in Port Chester, NY
This slanty-top chest is a good example of the style that was so popular in the 18th century when a gentleman needed such a piece for letters and rent collection records. The age of ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Desks
Materials
Wood
Landstrom Furniture Bleached and Limed Mahogany Six-Drawer Desk
Located in Chicago, IL
Landstrom furniture desk in bleached and limed mahogany. Aged nickel over copper drop disc pulls and trefoil escutcheons. Five drawers to the left, a single drawer above the opening ...
Category
1950s American Vintage Desks
Materials
Copper, Nickel
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...
Category
1750s German Baroque Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
English Mahogany Campaign Slant Bureau / Bedstead with Original Brasses, C. 1790
Located in Hollywood, SC
English mahogany campaign hinged slant front bureau / bedstead with removable faux drawer front panel with the original brasses and escutcheons, fitted interior with a folding bedste...
Category
1790s English Campaign Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Exquisite Midcentury Pallisandre Writing Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
Pallisandre writing desk with three drawers and sliding door compartment. Open shelf design, brass hardware, and French polish finish.
Category
1950s Vintage Desks
Materials
Wood
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...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut, Burl
English Mahogany Campaign Desk. Circa 1790
Located in Hollywood, SC
English mahogany folding campaign desk with fitted leather interior consisting of document pouch,original ink well, quill box, writing surface, a...
Category
18th Century and Earlier British Antique Desks
George II Oak Dressing Table or Desk
Located in San Francisco, CA
George II oak desk or dressing table with a single drawer above three short drawers flanking an arched center kneehole with cabinet door, brass hardware, England, early 18th century.
Category
18th Century English George II Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
Partners Desk by Gerard Guermonprez Made in France, circa 1950
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Asymmetrical partners desk in mahogany wood with one shelf and one drawer on each side, all supported on a metal base that has a stretcher with ends bent to two inward facing triangu...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Metal
Tommi Parzinger Macassar Ebony Desk
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sexy one drawer desk with extravagantly grained Macassar ebony surface on mahogany legs and brass stretchers and corner decoration. With raised drawer ...
Category
1950s American Vintage Desks
Materials
Macassar
Walter Charak Macassar Ebony Desk
By Charak Furniture Company, Walter Charak
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sexy one-drawer desk with extravagantly grained Macassar ebony surface on mahogany legs with brass stretchers and corner decoration. Has a raised drawer front detail, mirrored-imaged...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Brass
Louis XVI Brass-Mounted Kingwood Bonheur Du Jour, Late 18th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
Signed L Moreau
with later marble top and mounts.
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Desks
Materials
Wood
18th Century Dutch Marquetry Bureau Bookcase
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 18th century Dutch marquetry inlaid bureau bookcase. Having a double dome top cornice, two panel doors, a fall front and bombe shaped base. The wonderfully bold and fine quality inlaid marquetry detail of flowers, birds and vases. The bookcase doors...
Category
18th Century Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Georgian Mahogany Library Table
Located in New York, NY
Georgian mahogany library table.
Carved vetruvian scroll detail.
Top now covered in blue/grey felt.
Kneel hole height 22.5 inches.
Category
Mid-18th Century British Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
American Chippendale Mahogany Oxbow Slant Top Desk. Boston, Circa 1770
Located in Hollywood, SC
American Chippendale mahogany oxbow slant top four drawer desk with exposed dove tail, original brasses, fitted interior, shell carved skirt, and terminating on original claw and ba...
Category
18th Century and Earlier American Chippendale Antique Desks
Walnut Chippendale Slant-Front Desk
Located in West Chester, PA
Desk with bold serpentine interior, document drawers with turnings and flames, and block-and-shell prospect door with carved tulip. Case with four gra...
Category
18th Century Antique Desks
Materials
Tulipwood
Italian Slant Front Desk with Bookshelf
By Paolo Buffa
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
Architectural Slant front Desk constructed from oak with shelves on one side over top of 4 slant front drawers for storage design attributed to Paolo Buffa.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Desks
Materials
Brass
English Satinwood and Patera Inlaid Knee Hole Desk. Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
English satinwood and ebony string patera inlaid seven-drawer knee hole desk with original brasses, prospect door, and terminating on original bracket feet. Late 18th century.
Category
1780s English George II Antique Desks
English Mahogany Slant Front Secretary
Located in Hollywood, SC
English Chippendale mahogany slant front architects secretary with adjustable upper shelves, original glass and brasses, lower fitted pull out she...
Category
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Desks
Vintage French Regency Rosewood Walnut Cartonnier Desk Table Bronze Paw Feet
Located in Philadelphia, PA
High quality custom English / French Regency style rosewood and walnut vintage cartonnier desk with bronze paw feet. Item features a walnut frame with ...
Category
1950s American Regency Vintage Desks
Materials
Bronze
Provincial Louis XV Walnut Desk or Vanity
Located in Buchanan, MI
Great looking Louis XV Provincial walnut desk. Two doors flanking center drawer, all up on cabriole legs. Very good color and patination. Would work well as a number of items includi...
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
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...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
1950s Hairpin Desk with Floating Drawer and Custom Free Edge Walnut Top
By Custom Furniture Builders
Located in Asbury Park, NJ
Fantastic 1950s wrought iron hairpin desk with a floating ash drawer with white laminate top and distressed brass ball pull. Featuring a custom-made free ...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desks
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
A Rare Louis XV Walnut & Parquetry Slant Front Desk on Cabriole Legs
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Rare Louis XV Walnut Parquetry
Slant Front Desk of interesting and unsual proportions.
18th Century
Height 40 in. Width 42 in. Depth 24 in.
Provenance:
Private Collection, Sa...
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Antique Desks
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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