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Desks For Sale
Period: Early 20th Century
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Exhibition Quality Mahogany Cylinder Bureau by Maple & Co
By Maple & Co.
Located in Whaley Bridge, GB
R031 Superb quality and very attractive, Edwardian flamed mahogany cylinder bureau by Maples & Co, two mahogany lined and satinwood crossbanded drawers fitted with original brass han...
Category
Early 20th Century English Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Georgian 18th Century Mahogany Bureau
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
An 18th Century Georgian Mahogany Bureau Having
Well Figured Fall Flap Above Four Long Drawers With
Original Water Gilt Handles Raised On Original Bracket
Feet
(Typical of the lat...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Rare and Important Sheraton Painted Satinwood Cheveret
Located in Montreal, QC
A rare and important Sheraton period painted satinwood cheveret in original finish and with original painted floral swags and garlands. The superstructure with fitted book carrier; the stand with two short drawers above a secretaire drawer, fitted with a writing slide, with shaped under-tier and on square tapering legs.
This is a rather rare form, but to find it in satinwood, painted and in the original finish is very rare indeed. This little desk was made for personal correspondence; billets doux and was already old when Jane Austin...
Category
Late 18th Century English Sheraton Antique Desks
Materials
Satinwood
Fabulous Quality Early 20th Century Mahogany and Inlaid Carlton House Desk
Located in Martlesham, GB
A fabulous quality freestanding early 20th Century mahogany and inlaid Carlton house desk, the super structure comprising of four mahogany inlaid drawers at the centre with original ...
Category
1910s British Edwardian Vintage Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Derby School Paneled Oak Roll Top Desk with Full Interior, C1900
By Derby Desk Company
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique roll top desk offers paneled quarter sawn oak construction with s-top opening to full interior over base with flanking drawer towers h...
Category
Early 20th Century American Desks
Materials
Oak
Antique Small Georgian Inlaid Mahogany Slant Front Secretary Desk Bureau 1780
Located in Portland, OR
An unusually diminutive Georgian inlaid mahogany bureau, slant front desk, circa 1780.
This is a rare & unusually diminutive Georgian mahogany bureau, the fall front with a brass esc...
Category
1780s English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
18th Century New England Queen Anne Cherry Lowboy
Located in Vero Beach, FL
18th Century New England Queen Anne Cherry Lowboy
American cherry Lowboy with elegant scalloped apron from the Queen Anne period, about 1760. The top has a molded edge above three d...
Category
18th Century American Queen Anne Antique Desks
Materials
Cherry
18th Century New England Chippendale Slant Front Desk in Tiger Maple
Located in Milford, NH
A fine slant front desk in tiger maple with compartmentalized interior with eight open cubbies and three fitted drawers, over four long dovetailed drawers, each with replaced batwing...
Category
Late 18th Century American Chippendale Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
19th Century Manner of George Bullock, Regency Brass Inlaid Rosewood Lap Desk
Located in Morristown, NJ
c.1800, England, Regency brass inlaid rosewood lap desk in the manner of George Bullock. Rectangular box with double-hinged lid, opening to tooled navy leather and gold embossed writ...
Category
Early 18th Century English Regency Antique Desks
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Antique Gothic Revival Hand Carved Solid Oak Side Table / Ladies Desk W. Drawers
Located in Lisse, NL
Beautiful and practical size, hand carved Gothic sidetable or small desk.
This rare antique table in the Gothic Style can be placed tight on your wall...
Category
Early 20th Century Dutch Gothic Revival Desks
Materials
Brass
Roll-Top Softwood & Mahogany Veneer Desk - Signed Circa 1910
Located in Opole, PL
Roll-Top Softwood & Mahogany Veneer Desk Circa 1910
A large roll-top desk from 1910, signed with a plaque in the central part of the add-on unit. In the lower part on the left side,...
Category
1910s American Vintage Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Softwood
French Art Nouveau furniture by Louis Chambry, ca 1900
Located in Delft, NL
French Art Nouveau furniture by Louis Chambry, ca 1900
An Art Nouveau set consists of a bookcase, mirror, desk with office chair and two separate chairs by Louis Chambry, France, ci...
Category
Early 20th Century French Desks
Materials
Walnut
Diminutive Edwardian Mahogany Pedestal Desk with Leather Top
Located in Milford, NH
A fine diminutive Edwardian mahogany three part pedestal desk with leathered tool top and three fitted frieze drawers, with three additional fitted drawers on each pedestal, all with...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Desks
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century French Louis XVI Writing Desk
Located in Bradenton, FL
Handsome late 18th Century French Louis XVI style writing desk with leather insert on top. Desk features a middle drawer, with three drawers on left and three drawers on right side. ...
Category
18th Century French Directoire Antique Desks
Materials
Wood
Early 18th C Queen Anne Kneehole Desk
Located in Oakville, ON
Lovely quality period piece with excellent colour and patination original hardware
Category
Early 18th Century Antique Desks
Materials
Oak, Walnut, Pine
Antique 18th Century French Oak Large Bureau With Drawers
Located in EDENSOR PARK, NSW
Parquetry detail drop front, when open shows 11 various small drawers, there is a little door that comes with a key that opens up to 3 more mini drawers, base of bureau has three ext...
Category
18th Century Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Early 20th century mahogany pedestal desk by Hobbs & Co
By Hobbs & Co.
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Early 20th century mahogany pedestal desk by hobbs & co circa 1900.
Beautiful desk in the adams style circa 1900. Stamped by hobbs & co of london. Mahogany lined drawers. Shaped fro...
Category
Early 20th Century English Georgian Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Edwardian mahogany pedestal desk
Located in Salisbury, GB
Edwardian mahogany pedestal desk 153cms
This Edwardian mahogany pedestal desk was made circa 1910 and is of a good large size.
The pedestal desk is made in 3 parts, this is for ease ...
Category
1910s English Edwardian Vintage Desks
Materials
Mahogany
French Henri IV / Renaissance Chest Desk in carved wood 17th - France
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Very beautiful Rrenaissance / Henry IV chest from the 17th century, transformed into a desk in the 19th century.
Magnificent details are hand carved. The wood has a superb patina.
Fo...
Category
17th Century French Renaissance Antique Desks
Materials
Wood
Late 18th Century Figured Mahogany Chippendale Georgian Slant Front Desk
Located in Milford, NH
A good example of a Chippendale slant front desk with bookmatched figured mahogany veneers, a slant front which opens to a compartmentalized interior with fitted drawers and cubbies,...
Category
Late 18th Century English Chippendale Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
English 18th C. Spinet Case by Crang & Hancock London Converted Writing Desk
Located in Vero Beach, FL
English 18th Century Spinet Case by Crang & Hancock London Converted Writing Desk
This is a fine example of the English spinet in its most fully developed form. Rare ca. 1760 pentag...
Category
18th Century English Baroque Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Tulipwood
LATE 18th CENTURY NEOCLASSIC PAINTED FOLDING WRITING TABLE
Located in Firenze, FI
Wonderful neoclassical folding writing table in painted poplar wood. The decorations on the front and sides recall Renaissance mosaics, with brown and gray lean tempera paintings. Eq...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique Desks
Materials
Poplar, Paint
French Walnut Slant Front Dest
Located in Bradenton, FL
A very attractive late 18th century French Walnut slant front desk with geometric marquetry design on the lid. Gold tooled leather writing surface on the inside of the lid over two ...
Category
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Edwardian Kidney shaped writing desk
Located in Budleigh Salterton, GB
Very good quality early 20th century mahogany and inlaid writing desk
English circa 1900 with original brass handles , castors and leather insert
Having 9 mahogany lined drawers , th...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
French 18th Century Louis XVI Style Mahogany Desk
Located in CANTELEU, FR
Coming from France. Immerse yourself in the luxury and refinement of Louis XVI style with this magnificent flamed mahogany roll-top desk, a piece that evokes the opulence of French r...
Category
1780s Antique Desks
Materials
Marble
Antique George II period mahogany kneehole desk
Located in London, GB
A fine George II period figured mahogany Kneehole Chest, having moulded edged crossbanded cleated top above various drawers retaining original brass backplate handles. The piece wit...
Category
Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Bureau Plat French Inlay Desk Writing Table
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Quality antique French desk or bureau plat
Classic look crafted from kingwood with original ormolu fixtures
Good size at five feet - 154 CM - wide
Great for a home office set up
Boug...
Category
1920s Vintage Desks
Materials
Kingwood
French 17th Century Desk
Located in Stockbridge, GA
Exceptional desk made of walnut with a wonderful carvings used by the age. The height from the floor to the base of the center drawer is 25''H.
Category
Late 17th Century French Louis XIV Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Victorian Pedestal Desk Mahogany 1900 Writing Table
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Victorian Mahogany Pedestal Desk.
This Wonderful Desk Features an Arrangement of 9 Mahogany Lined Drawers.
Each Pedestal Being of a Bow Form.
Circa 1900
The Drawer Fronts Having Wond...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Tiger Oak Roll Top Desk with Secret Drawers
Located in New York, NY
Medium tone tiger oak roll top desk with drawers on the right side that lock simultaneously to the top and three secret drawers. The roll top locks automatically when closed. Some vi...
Category
Early 20th Century American Desks
Materials
Oak
Georgian Mahogany Metamorphic Chest
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A rare English Georgian Mahogany Metamorphic Chest with a slide out drawer that reveals a drafting slope. Chest has the original cast iron handles.. The chest is constructed from bea...
Category
18th Century English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Brass, Iron
George III Burr Walnut Bureau Circa 1775
Located in Flower Mound, TX
An absolutely wonderful example of a Georgian bureau with exceptional coloring and a fall front revealing a red leather writing interior, with pigeon holes, drawers, cupboard and bi...
Category
1770s English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
Edwardian Mahogany Kneehole Desk
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality Edwardian mahogany knee hole desk, having an arrangement of seven drawers and a cupboard to the centre. The desk stands on bracket feet and is in very good...
Category
Early 20th Century English Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Antique desk, Western Europe, around 1900.
Located in Chorzów, PL
Antique desk from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The furniture is in very good condition, after professional renovation.
Dimensions: height 79 cm / width 131 cm / depth 7...
Category
Early 1900s German Louis XIV Antique Desks
Materials
Walnut
16TH CENTURY MUSEUM QUALITY EXHiBITION HAND CARVED ITALIAN CASSONE DESK TABLE
Located in GB
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning, very large, Exhibition / Museum quality, hand carved 16th Century southern Italian...
Category
16th Century Italian Antique Desks
Materials
Oak
Louis XV Style Bonheur de Jour Ladies Desk
Located in Milford, NH
An elegant French Louis XV style Bonheur de Jour mahogany ladies desk with built in center clock surmounting an open cubby with single drawer, fla...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Brass
A Rare And Early Georgian Kneehole Bureau
Located in Skipton, GB
A rare early Georgian Kneehole Bureau of a wonderful colour and patination.
Having a well figured fall which opens to reveal three banks of oak lined dovetailed drawers, all above a ...
Category
18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Oak
Antique Edwardian quality mahogany inlaid writing desk
Located in Ipswich, GB
Antique Edwardian quality mahogany inlaid writing desk, having the original brass gilded gallery above a small bevelled edge mirror flanked by four small mahogany inlaid drawers abov...
Category
Early 20th Century Edwardian Desks
Materials
Abalone, Mahogany
A Small English 18th Century Oak Secretaire Kneehole Desk
Located in Skipton, GB
A small Georgian Oak Secretaire Kneehole Desk with a lovely light honey colour. The Desk is made from quality quarter sawn Oak and the top boasts a bold reentrant corner detail. The ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Late 18th Century Antique French Desk
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A beautiful fall front French desk. A perfect home office.
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Desks
Materials
Wood
Early 20th C. Louis XVI Oval Mahogany Desk Library Table
Located in Southampton, NJ
An exquisite Louis XVI style Mahogany oval table with a single hidden drawer, striking double reverse quatrefoil stretcher & six brass capped legs. Gorgeous grains with satinwood ven...
Category
Early 20th Century American Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Brass
Circa 1780-1810 American Slant-Front Desk
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1780-1810 American slant-front desk of well figured solid flame birch, cherry, and birch. Classic mix of woods. Yellow pine secondary wood, typical of the upper South (Kentucky...
Category
Late 18th Century American Late Victorian Antique Desks
Materials
Wood, Cherry, Birch
Arts & Crafts Mission Oak 3 Drawer Desk & Chair with Rush Seat by Lifetime C1912
By Lifetime
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous mission Oak Arts & Crafts 3 drawer desk with a horizontal slat back desk chair with a rush seat. One long drawer over two short drawers. Both pieces are all quarter sawn oak...
Category
1910s American Arts and Crafts Vintage Desks
Materials
Iron
Antique Napoleon III Style Desk
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Napoleon III style mahogany brass mounted double pedestal desk with leather top, circa 1900. With a rectangular top with brass molding on the edges a band of mahogany and an inset to...
Category
Early 1900s European Napoleon III Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Desk – or secretary, cylinder, in mahogany. Late 18th century period.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Desk – or secretary – with cylinder, in mahogany. The body opens with two small handles decorated with gadroons to a convex quarter-cylinder flap revealing a paper holder with in the...
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Desks
Materials
Wood
18th Century Swedish Gustavian Slant Front Desk
Located in Huntington, NY
A Gustavian slant front desk. The upper section has eight small drawers, four cubbies, two sliding columns and a small locking door. The lower section has two small drawers over two ...
Category
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Desks
Materials
Brass, Iron
Early 1900s Regence Style Bleached Oak Partners Desk from France
Located in Dallas, TX
As a transitional age in French history, the Regence period is known for furniture that showcases forms of the preceding period (Louis XIV), as well as early Louis XV stylings. In the case of this bleached oak partner’s desk, the motifs are prefigures of the Rococo style of Louis XV, while still maintaining the rectilinear form often seen with Louis XIV furnishings. Hand-carved in France in the early 1900s, the oak wood has been bleached more recently, resulting in a warm, golden brown hue with some fascinating wood grains.
A cavetto molding graces the top on all sides, even in the slightly recessed areas above the leg holes. Both sides of the desk have been carved identically, with three belt drawers featuring arabesque margents with foliate shells and thin molding. Similar vertical carvings flank the doors, which are rectangular panels adorned with geometric and foliate motifs. Both doors to the right of the leg hole open to reveal three pull-out drawers, while the doors to the left front three shelves. The rectilinear form is softened by eight short cabriole legs, each with a paw foot pad, beneath a sinuous apron embellished with a foliate shell medallion over thin molding. Our well-carved partner’s desk...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Oak
Outstanding Quality Antique George III Mahogany Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Outstanding quality antique George III mahogany bureau having a figured mahogany fall with a moulded edge opening to reveal a fitted...
Category
18th Century English George III Antique Desks
Materials
Other
Signed Gustav Stickley Antique Mission Oak Arts & Crafts Desk, Newly Restored
Located in South Bend, IN
A rare and exceptional antique Mission or Arts & Crafts writing desk
By Gustav Stickley (original label present)
USA, Early 20th Century
Solid quarter sawn oak, with original hamm...
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desks
Materials
Copper
Antique 18th Century Flip Top Flame Mahogany Secretary Desk
Located in west palm beach, FL
A fabulous vintage 18th century desk. A chic Flame Mahogany drop down desk. Incredible wood grain detail with chic inlay detail. Green felt wri...
Category
Late 18th Century North American Georgian Antique Desks
Materials
Metal
Louis XVI Style Mahogany Desk
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Elegant desk from the beginning of the 20th century Louis XVI style in mahogany.
It has 7 drawers on the front and is decorated on its 4 sides with gilded brass rods. The drawers are...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Hepplewhite Mahogany Five Drawer Writing Table
Located in Southampton, NJ
Charak Furniture English Hepplewhite style Mahogany five drawer writing table with striking oval brasses, working lock & key terminating on lithe tapered legs with casters.
Category
Early 20th Century Hepplewhite Desks
Materials
Brass
18th Century Carved Cherrywood Commode Scriban from Bordeaux, France
Located in Dallas, TX
A beautiful example of a period Louis XV writing desk, this cherrywood commode scriban was hand-carved in Bordeaux, France, in the 1700s. Resembling a chest of drawers with an angled...
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks
Materials
Wood, Cherry
Chippendale Desk Mahogany Writing Table Ball and Claw
Located in Potters Bar, GB
5 Drawer Mahogany Chippendale Style Writing Table.
Circa 1900
This Writing Table Features 5 Mahogany Lined drawers.
The Drawer Fronts Having Blind Fret Work to the Corners and Retain...
Category
Early 1900s Chippendale Antique Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Federal Cherrywood Desk and Glassdoor Bookcase
Located in Sheridan, CO
A Late Federal Cherrywood Desk and Bookcase, Circa 1830.
This unique piece includes a folding desk and make a fabulous looking compact desk with plenty of storage in bookcase above. This was possibly a clerk's desk.
Includes plenty of storage and desk...
Category
Early 18th Century American Federal Antique Desks
Materials
Brass
Small Directoire Cylinder Desk In Mahogany
Located in London, GB
A small French Directoire mahogany cylinder desk, with brass detailing throughout. The roll top hiding a witing slope with a tooled leather top and two drawers. Above, a marble galle...
Category
1790s French Directoire Antique Desks
Materials
Marble, Brass
East India Dutch Company Captains Writing Desk
By Southeast Asia
Located in London, GB
A captivating piece of history, the Dutch East Indian Captain's Writing Desk. This extraordinary early 18th-century Anglo-Indonesian table showcases the artistry of the time, carved...
Category
1730s Indonesian Dutch Colonial Antique Desks
Materials
Bone, Rosewood, Walnut
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
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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