Empire Style Pedestal Desk in Mahogany with Gilt Bronze Mounts, France ca. 1830

Petite Louis XV Period Commode in Tulipwood with bronze dore mounts & grey marble top, France 18th century.

Louis XVI Style Cylindrical Bureau with slides, leather writing surface, fitted interior and marble top.

A Russian figured mahogany demilune with ormoplu mounts & black marble top. William World Fine Antiques: Atlanta's source for antique interiors since 1956.

Louis XVI mahogany cabinet with marble top and brass gallery, France, circa 1800.

French Empire style (19th Century) mahogany roll top desk with bronze trim.

Gorgeous antique secretaire a abattant, desk, French Empire style, mahogany, gilt, 1800s, 19th century! This stunning French Empire style marble-top mahogany fall-front desk, 19th century, projecting frieze drawer, with gilt metal crossed sword pulls, turned column supports flanking the fall-front panel, opening to gilt embossed leather writing surface, mirrored interior gallery, over dual cabinet doors, opening to reveal three drawers, above lower apron drawer, approximately 56.5" height 37.25" width, 17" depth. Dominated by Greco-Roman models, the Empire style - spare, noble, massive - had a studied dignity consistent with Napoleonic majesty. The characteristic furniture types were a bit stiff but imposing: their flat surfaces and sharp corners, together with their lack of moldings, produced an effect of grandeur that was not without beauty as per Timothy Corrigan The Empire style was deliberately propagandistic, and embraced what was most monumental in ancient art as suitable analogies to the new French Empire. Napoleon imposed a tyrannical centralization on artistic production, decreeing that it would be subject to control from Paris and overseen by the architects Percier and Fontaine...

Antique Empire style mahogany desk with gilt bronze mounts, circa 1890-1910. This desk has very fine quality gilt bronze mounts.

A very handsome French 19th century Empire st. mahogany and ormolu Bureau Plat. The desk is raised on straight tapered legs with ormolu sabots and pierce...