Mid-20th Century Desks

George Nelson for Herman Miller Steel Frame Desk and Dresser, Model 4112 Desk and Model 4014 Dresser, Angled Steel White Frames with Walnut drawer ...

John Vesey Louis XVI Style Bureau Plat Desk for John Vesey, Inc. 1960 Stainless Steel, from Beverly Hills Estate, Features Guild Bronze and Leather, Fluted Leg Construction, Three fa...

Undocumented but very much in the style of Pierre Jeanneret Style Mid-Century 'Student' Compass Desk, India 1960's.

Writing desk en suite with its matching chair, hand carved Walnut with many details. Desk 28x21.5x31.5 Chair 33x16x15

Guillerme & Chambron, desk, oak, granite, France, 1960s Corner desk by French designer duo Guillerme and Chambron. This beautiful desk holds the characteristic decorations and lines...

A large and handsome executive desk constructed of solid walnut with "Y" shaped drawer pulls designed by Jens Risom, circa 1960.

American Mid-Century walnut executive desk having an angular top with a centerdrawer and 3 stacked side drawers designed with a vanity front panel (custom made by MONTEVERDI YOUNG)

Italian Mid-Century walnut desk with a centere drawer flanked by 2 shaped front drawers on the right and 3 on the left suppoted on angled legs (style of GIO PONTI)

Jean Pascaud (1903-1996) Jean PASCAUD Oak Student Desk, France 1930 Original oak student desk from the Cite Universitaire of Paris with two drawers. Measurements: H 29"1/2 x W 43"1/4...

A rare brass and mahogany desk with stone top designed by Paul McCobb for Calvin.

An elegant mahogany desk designed by Ejner Larsen & Aksel Bent Madsen for Willy Beck.

A mahogany desk with pull out "typewriter" table designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Henredon.

Jean Pascaud (1903-1996) Jean PASCAUD Oak Student Desk, France 1930 Original oak student desk from the Cite Universitaire of Paris with two drawers. Measurements: H: 29″1/2 x W: 43″1...

Rare architectural walnut and stone desk designed by Paul Mccobb for Calvin Furniture in the early 1950's. The left hand pedestal features a slide out work surface, a small drawer...

Mid-Century Modern G-Plan 'Fresco' desk/dressing table, English, ca. 1960. Featuring a floating top, contrasting afrormosia wood detailing, two drawers to each side, on solid teak ...

A teak and brass desk or secretaire designed and produced by an Italian Designer, Italy, 1940s.

A freeform oak desk designed by Paul Laszlo and produced by Brown Saltman, USA, 1940s.

A large teak desk model no 70 designed by Kai Kristiansen for Feldballes Møbelfabrik.

An elegant and early design by Edward Wormley for Dunbar. Desk model 4725 in mahogany with original green leather and matching swiveling stool.

Florence Knoll rosewood dining table or desk, highly figured rosewood veneer top with beveled edge detail. Solid steel brushed chr...

A mahogany partners desk with original leather top and base and brass hardware. Designed by Edward Wormley for Dunbar.

Italian Art Deco white parchment diminutive triangular form lady's vanity /dressing table with a drawer centered by 2 side drawers and 2 doors.

Executive desk in teak and stainless steel, designed as part of an office system by Hans Wegner for Johannes Hansen, c. 1965. With solid oak, dovetailed drawers and height adjustable...

An early design by Edward Wormley for Dunbar. Original lilac leather and bleached mahogany curved desk with built in bookshelves. The drawers are hinged and swing open. The original ...

Knoll International Planed Office Group double pedestal desk with modesty panel model 1503. Features five drawers one for files. Modesty panel shows steel reveal details. (Ten mor...

7-drawer desk by Osvaldo Borsani for ABV. Rosewood, maple, brass. Curved desk finished on both sides. A variant of an earlier model that originally covered in parchment and designed ...

Elegant vanity by Raphael. A concealed mirror, and an abundance of drawers make this piece a convenient item. Original gilt bronze hardware and lacque...

Highly decorated desk in red lacquer with stacked drawers and painted scenes, Chinese, 1950's.

Elegant Raphael Raffel two tiered vanity or writing desk in blonde sycamore and bronze with a thick glass top, of note, are the tapering legs and the elegant curved design. Signed on...

Marcel Breuer custom desk, acquired by Rufus Stillman, who built three separate Breuer Houses after seeing Breuer’s "House in the Garden” the year before f...

Desk in mahogany with alternating grain top and brass sabots by Harvey Probber, American, 1950s (label in drawer reads "designed by Harvey Probber"). This desk is beautifully made.

A rosewood tambour roll top desk with brass feet and leather trim. Designed by Edward Wormley for Dunbar.  

Knoll International Planed Office Group double pedestal desk with modesty panel model 1503. Features five drawers one for files. Modesty panel shows st...

Bent sheet steel and laminated wood top H. 68.5 x L. 130 x P. 70 cm H. 26.97 x L. 51.18 x D. 27.56 inches.

Gio Ponti custom eight-drawer desk. From a small edition created for administrative offices in Forli, Italy. Blonde wood desk with red linoleum top,...

This unique architect's desk was designed by Frits Spanjaard in 1932. With its generous proportions, striking asymmetry, contrasting woods and the large knobs in solid Macassar ebony, the desk can be considered as an important example of the Haagse School (The Hague School) style. The desk has four large drawers on the right, which can be simultaneously locked with a single key. The interior on the left features six drawers and additional storage, and can be locked altogether as well. Particularly noteworthy are the four cleverly incorporated pull-out shelves of different dimensions creating additional space: two on the front, one on the right side and one large shelf on the back side. The desktop is executed in dark stained oak and features a dark grey leather insert. in 1932, the prosperous Van Stolk & Reese company commissioned Spanjaard to design the interior and furniture of their offices located on the Ceintuurbaan in Rotterdam. This custom desk was most likely designed for the office of the company’s director, which was designed by Spanjaard in a radically modernist way, combining his own sumptuous designs with the functionalist tubular steel furniture made by W.H. Gispen. Between 1925 and 1935 the work of Spanjaard was strongly connected to the Haagse School movement of which he’d become a main proponent. This style was not so much inspired by the Classic European Art Deco capitals such as Paris and Vienna but more by other national and international architectural developments such as the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The influential magazine Wendingen published a series of articles on Wright still relatively unknown at the time in 1925 and the renowned architect Jan Wils also played an important role in the orientation towards Wrights work in The Netherlands. In its particular application of geometric shapes, primary colours and its sophisticated cubist division of the surface, the Haagse School designers were also aware of De Stijl movement, lead by contemporaries such as Gerrit Rietveld and Piet Mondriaan. At the same time the geometry, the harmonious proportions and the understated decorations were primarily based on the rationalist design principles of H.P. Berlage, who would later become one of Spanjaard’s clients himself. Design had to meet the functional demands of the user but purely utilitarian ideas were certainly not the most important. Due to his frequent travels to Germany, Spanjaard was also familiar with the designs of Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe, especially appreciating the simplicity and purity of their designs. Biography Frits Spanjaard (1889-1978) started his career as the artistic director of the LOV furniture...

Elegant Art Deco mahogany and gilt bronze executive desk by Jules Leleu. Inset with leather top and signed in one of the drawers.

Rare desk in walnut and banded copper-plated aluminum, designed by Donald Deskey and produced by Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company, circa 1929. A strong statement of Machine Age aesth...

A boldly angled modernist single pedestal desk having a distinctive raised gallery with sliding doors and a warm dark grey leather surface.

French Mid-Century (1940s) dark green lacquered drop front secretary with bronze dore rope design and trim (signed RAMSAY )

French 1940s oak double pedestal base desk with front panels and a raised ¬Ω round inset top with a parquetry design & sliding side shelves (sign...

Beautifully crafted desk in dark mahogany with inset leather top and sculpted oval chrome and brass pulls as well as brass feet by Edward Wormley for Dunbar, American 1960's (signed ...

Fine desk in dark walnut with ebonized satinwood inlays on top and exquisite etched brass hardware on drawers by Tommi Parzinger for Parzinger Originals, American 1960's (branded sig...

Art Deco Mahogany desk by André Arbus and Vadim Androussov decorated with a patinated bronze cartouche representing a female face France: circa 1940 Provenance: this secretary was pa...

A rare and early Bodil Kjaer desk in wenge by E. Pederson & Sons. The desk has four drawers with a chrome and brass key. Polished chrome-plated steel frame. Signed with applied manuf...

Beautiful streamline desk by Swedish architect Axel Einar Hjorth for NK, circa 1930. Birch and Macassar ebony Measures: 65" L x 29.5" H x 25.5" D.