Other Desks

This early 19th-century drop-leaf secretaire features the traditional Biedermeier ebony accents, columns, and matched woodgrain pattern. Unlike the h...

Fine quality antique Edwardian freestanding mahogany inlaid cylinder desk by Maple & Co. London having the original brass gallery above two mahogany drawers with pretty satinwood crossbanding and original brass handles above a cylinder top desk...

Unusual Antique George III quality figured mahogany double secretaire desk having a figured mahogany crossbanded top above two secretaire drawers with original brass lions head hand...

Antique Victorian quality satinwood freestanding marquetry inlaid French bureau having the original brass gallery, beautiful floral marquetry inlaid top above a satinwood floral marq...

Antique George III quality mahogany secretaire desk/cabinet having a quality mahogany rectangular shaped top above a secretaire drawer with ebony inlay stringing and original brass h...

Desk. Carved wood, metal. 20th century, following older models. Desk with six legs with rollers made of wood with a lemon-coloured finish and marquetry in other colours on the legs,...

This superb mechanical desk by famed French ebeniste Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley is both an artistic and engineering achievement. A Parisian ca...

Bargueño or wastepaper basket with bridge base. Wood, metal. Spanish school, 17th century. In need of some restoration. Bargueño or covered waste-paper basket placed on a support ...

Outstanding quality antique Victorian mahogany inlaid kneehole desk by Edwards and Roberts having a quality mahogany breakfront shaped top crossbanded in satinwood with a red leather...

Large Antique Victorian quality freestanding kingwood ornate ormolu mounted partners bureau plat-desk having a light tan leather shaped top crossbanded in kingwood and a brass edge a...

Antique Victorian quality mahogany freestanding slide top Davenport by Charles Hindley and Sons, Oxford Street, London having a quality slidin...

Outstanding quality large antique carved figured mahogany serpentine shaped partners desk having a three section brown leather top crossbanded in mahogany with an outstanding quality...

Quality antique French mahogany fold down desk having the original pretty brass gallery, two glazed doors, two drawers with original brass handles. The base boasts a fold down writin...

Outstanding quality antique George III mahogany bureau having a figured mahogany fall with a moulded edge opening to reveal a fitted...

Nicely figured walnut, rectangular quarter veneer top over top over a drawer and kneehole with door and small drawer flanked by drawers raised on bracket feet.

Antique 18th century quality mahogany floral marquetry inlaid bombe shaped bureau having a quality floral marquetry fall opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of drawers, p...

Superb quality large antique George III mahogany bureau having a superb quality mahogany fall opening to reveal a fitted interior co...

Antique Victorian French quality rosewood marquetry inlaid bureau having the original ornate brass gallery above a quality rosewood marquetry inlaid fall opening to reveal three draw...

Antique 18th century quality mahogany floral marquetry inlaid cylinder bureau having a fantastic quality mahogany floral marquetry inlaid cylinder bureau opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of ten shaped drawers, bookends and a door opening to reveal a single drawer above three long bombe...

This Boiceau desk bears his stamp, and was entirely veneered in amboyna, an exotic burlwood named for Ambon, the Indonesian island where it was harvested. The naturally squiggling patterning of the veneer provides an overall surface decoration. The top alone has no fewer than 60 small book-matched squares of it – ten across and six deep – creating a kaleidoscopic effect in subtle monochrome. Applied decoration is minimal. It consists of two inlaid pairs of griffins in boxwood and purplewood facing off across braziers on both the front and the back of the desk, and blind-tooled Greek keys trimming white-leather-topped shelves that slide out to either side. These decorations introduce no color, and, in lying flush with the surface, leave the sleek form undisturbed. Boiceau even eliminated drawer pulls, necessitating a lock and key for each drawer. Born in Lausanne in 1881, Boiceau descended from French Huguenots who had settled in Switzerland. Prominent as bankers, lawyers, businessmen, and diplomats, the Boiceaus were a cosmopolitan family. Ernest studied painting in Munich, and then painting and architecture in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1900 he embarked on a ten-year European sojourn, painting landscapes and portraits along the way. In 1910 he resettled in Paris, became interested in textiles, and established an embroidery workshop that catered to the stage and haute couture. Among his clients were the Folies Bergères, the Comédie-Française, and the Paris Opéra, and the fashion houses of Worth and Molyneux. He also made embroidered table linens, wall hangings, and upholstery fabrics. In a 1913, at an embroidery exhibition in Paris at the Musée Galliera, he presented a boudoir in collaboration with curtains, upholstery fabrics, and a tapestry, embroidered in modern abstract designs. In 1925 he launched a couture line, and branched out to design finely crafted objects and furniture made in rare woods, like ebony and Tasmanian oak...

Fine quality French antique Victorian kingwood and ormolu mounted bureau/desk having the original ornate ormolu gallery above two drawers and boasting ormolu beading above the kingwo...

Designed by Jean-Paul Viollet. Desk in palmwood, mica & bronze.