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Secretaires For Sale
Modernist Secretary Showcase, Lacquered Wood, Chrome-Plated Metal, Customizable
By GMD Berlin
Located in Berlin, DE
German modernism 'Dahlem' secretary showcase designed and manufactured by GMD Berlin. Wood lacquering in various colors and finish. Available on reque...
Category
2010s German Modern Secretaires
Materials
Steel
Blue gray secretary desk in wood, with storage - design Eric Gizard, Paris
By Éric Gizard
Located in Landivy, FR
This secretary Desk belongs to our ÉGÉE COLLECTION and is designed by the Parisian designer Eric Gizard.
Eric adopts for this collection the refined codes of Scandinavian design, c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Scandinavian Modern Secretaires
Materials
Wood, Ash, Lacquer
Tesselated Black Marble Stone and Brass Inlay Secretaire by Maitland-Smith
Located in Casteren, NL
A monumental secretaire made by Maitland-Smith in the late 20th century. The whole piece was decorated with tessellated black marble and solid brass inlaid Greek key pattern. The low...
Category
1980s Philippine Greek Revival Vintage Secretaires
Materials
Marble, Brass
$16,631 Sale Price
20% Off
1940's Traditional Burl Wood Secretary/ Desk
Located in Opa Locka, FL
Beautiful Grand Scale 1940's Traditional style Burl Wood Secretary/ Writing Desk.
This secretary is in very good condition. Miami Beach acquisition.
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Secretaires
Materials
Wood
$2,580 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Painted Pine Swedish Secretary, circa 1800-40
Located in Round Top, TX
Pine secretary crafted in the early 1800's in Sweden. Note the original gray painted finish (with green undertones) with red and blue accents as well.
The original painted finish h...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Secretaires
Materials
Brass
20th Century Swedish Birchwood Secretaire by A.B. Svenska Moebel Fabrikerna ‘SMF
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish secretary desk signed by the A.B. Svenska Moebel Fabrikerna (SMF), one of the largest furniture manufacture...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Secretaires
Materials
Birch, Jacaranda
Rustic German Oak & Horn Cabinet
Located in Queens, NY
Rustic German (19th Century) oak cabinet with horn trim & carved medallions with flip seat bench base and upper section with 2 large stained glass doors and...
Category
19th Century German Black Forest Antique Secretaires
Materials
Oak, Horn, Stained Glass
Blue French secrétaire desk with storage units, designed by Eric Gizard, Paris
By Éric Gizard
Located in Landivy, FR
This secretary Desk belongs to our ÉGÉE COLLECTION and has been created in a KUBE concept for optimized storage spaces.
The ÉGÉE collection is designed by the Parisian designer Eri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Scandinavian Modern Secretaires
Materials
Wood, Ash, Lacquer
Antique George II period small walnut bureau
Located in London, GB
A George II period golden walnut Bureau of attractive small proportions, herringbone inlaid throughout, having ¼ veneered fall-front opening to reveal leather writing surface and ste...
Category
Early 18th Century English George II Antique Secretaires
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Country French Louis XVI Secretary
Located in Dallas, TX
19th Century Country French Louis XVI Secretary represents the essence of efficiency with a flair for style! Hand-crafted from solid oak, i...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Secretaires
Materials
Brass
20th Century antique Biedermeier Style Slope-Flap Secretaire mahogany veneer
Located in Berlin, DE
Mahogany on solid softwood. Straight, two-drawer body above short, conical square legs, above an inclined writing flap and staggered office division of drawers and compartments. Clas...
Category
20th Century German Biedermeier Secretaires
Materials
Wood
American Chippendale Mahogany Oxbow Slant Top Desk. Boston, Circa 1770
Located in Charleston, 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 Secretaires
Empire Secretaire, Ebonized, Maple, Ink Painting, Brass, Gold, Vienna circa 1815
Located in Regensburg, DE
Fine neoclassical Empire or early Biedermeier Secretaire / Drop Front Desk from Vienna, Austria around 1810-15.
Ebonized veneer on oak.
Classicist gable cornice with surrounding gol...
Category
1810s Austrian Empire Antique Secretaires
Materials
Brass, Iron, Gold Leaf
Exquisite 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Inlaid Marquetry Bureau a Cylindre
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Exquisite Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Inlaid Marquetry and Parquetry Bureau a Cylindre
The stepped rectangular top with pierced three quarter gallery ab...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Secretaires
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Continental Gustavian Painted Secretary
Located in Queens, NY
Continental Gustavian-style (Possibly Swedish/ Danish 18th Century) off-white painted secretary with carved column sides and carved simple swag and t...
Category
18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Secretaires
Materials
Wood
Georgian 18th Century Mahogany Secretaire Cupboard
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A superb quality late 18th century Georgian mahogany
secretaire cupboard having well figured and banded
top over one secretaire drawer to frieze, enclosing
attractive satinwood in...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Secretaires
Materials
Mahogany
$3,793 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique 19th Century Danish Biedermeier Mahogany Secretary Desk
Located in Round Top, TX
This stunning Biedermeier secretary was crafted in Denmark during a peak era known for high quality furniture craftsmanship. Enlarge photos to appreciate the beauty of the wood, note...
Category
Mid-19th Century Danish Antique Secretaires
Materials
Wood, Mahogany
Highly Carved Pine Secretary from Denmark, circa 1890
Located in Round Top, TX
Elaborate carving accentuate the entire surface of this striking pine secretary.
Enlarge photos to appreciate the extensive details, including vines, birds, leaves, trees, dentil mol...
Category
Late 19th Century Danish Anglo-Indian Antique Secretaires
Materials
Pine
Mid-century Torbjorn Afdal Danish Rosewood Secretary Desk
Located in Oakland, CA
Danish secretary desk designed by Torbjørn Afdal for Nesjestranda Møbelfabrik, Norway, 1965. Crafted from Brazilian rosewood, the secretary desk ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Secretaires
Materials
Rosewood
French Provincial Secretary Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A French provincial secretary desk with an angled arched cornice above two paneled doors enclosing adjustable shelves, the midsection with a fall front writing surface with an interi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese French Provincial Secretaires
Materials
Wood
1970s Walnut Executive Campaign Waterfall Desk And Cabinet, Set of 2
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
On offer on this occasion is one of the most stunning, Mid Century desk and cabinet set you could hope to find. This is an ultra-rare opportunity to acquire what is, unequivocally, t...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Secretaires
Materials
Brass
Extraordinary Signed Zwiener Ormolu Mounted Lady's Secretary
Located in Cypress, CA
Extraordinary Ormolu mounted marquetry kingwood lady's desk, signed Swiener, also dated 1902 and bearing an initial of the persons that it was made for (see attached photo).
Meticulous attention has been given to every details.
Jean-Henri Jansen (1854-1928) founded the famous interior decoration firm of Maison Jansen in 1880. Manufacturing revival and
Nouveau furniture he became Fournisseur de la...
Category
Early 1900s French Louis XV Antique Secretaires
Materials
Ormolu
20th Century French Louis XV Walnut Marquetry Secretary Chest with Marble Top
Located in Dallas, TX
Place this elegant, antique "Secretaire a Battant" in an office or a bedroom. Crafted in Paris circa 1920, the tall fruitwood secretary stands on cabriole legs ending with bronze sabots feet over a scalloped apron. The cabinet features intricate marquetry and parquetry decor, decorative bronze mounts, and is topped with a black marble top. The cabinet has classical and straight lines, and many useful compartments, including four large drawers across the front (one at the top, three at the bottom). The cabinet has a center door decorated with floral motifs, which pulls down to reveal a fully outfitted inside theater. The inside has five drawers, (including a large one at the top and bottom), and a wide open niche for books and letters...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Secretaires
Materials
Bronze
"Swedish Grace" Period Secretary
Located in New York, NY
Grace was the inspiration for this lovely birch secretary which makes working from home a joy! Three locking drawers sit beneath a generous drop-front with 6 interior drawers, a pair...
Category
1920s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Secretaires
Materials
Birch
English Mahogany and Satinwood Secretary Desk Bookcase, 1790-1820
Located in San Francisco, CA
An eccentric and highly unusual Classic Sheraton style mahogany and satinwood inlay slant front secretary with Chinese Chippendale style fine tracery (open-work) decoration.
An impre...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Secretaires
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood
Elegant French Desk, Circa 1920
Located in Madrid, ES
This elegant French desk from the early 1900s is a fine example of early 20th-century craftsmanship. Constructed from exotic wood and adorned with intricate bronze decorations, this ...
Category
1910s Vintage Secretaires
Materials
Fruitwood
Antique English Mahogany Glass Front Bureau Bookcase, circa 1830
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English mahogany glass front Bureau bookcase with Fitted Interior, circa 1830.
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Secretaires
Materials
Mahogany, Glass
An American Chippendale Maple Slant Front Desk
Located in Sheffield, MA
An American Chippendale
Maple Slant Front Desk
Rhode Island
18th Century
The slant front opens to reveal ...
Maple Slant Front Desk
Rhode Island
18th Century
The slant front opens to reveal ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier American Antique Secretaires
18th Century Baroque Secretaire/ Writing Cabinet Nutwood, Germany ca. 1770
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
Important 18th century secrétaire or writing cabinet elaborately made in the baroque period in West Germany around 1770. Different kinds of fine nutwood/ walnut were used to set up a...
Category
Late 18th Century German Baroque Antique Secretaires
Materials
Brass
Liberty & Co A Moorish Walnut Desk with Angular Design & 4 Opposite Side Drawers
Located in London, GB
Liberty & Co.
A Moorish Walnut Desk with Mushrabia turnings to the upper shelf, just below to the turned uprights there are dowel holes which I have shown in the images, they are the...
Category
1890s English Moorish Antique Secretaires
Materials
Walnut
Mid Century Craftique Mahogany Secretery Chest of Drawers with Locks and Keys
Located in Germantown, MD
Mid Century Craftique Mahogany Secretery Chest of Drawers with Locks and Keys.
All drawers flawlessly opening and closing.
All four drawers with operating locks. Two keys present. Pu...
Category
20th Century American George III Secretaires
Materials
Brass
20th Century French Art Deco Birchwood Secretaire - Vintage Burlwood Cabinet
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A detailed, vintage Art Deco French secretaire made of hand crafted polished, partly veneered Birchwood and Burlwood, in good condition. The medium sized cabinet...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Secretaires
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Swedish Secretary Bureau
Located in South Salem, NY
A late 19th century Swedish secretary bureau with a drop front writing surface. Two over three drawers sits atop ogee bracket feet. Later paint.
Category
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Secretaires
Materials
Wood
$4,400
19th Century Louis Philippe Secretary Desk
Located in Opole, PL
We present you a Louis Philippe secretaire from the mid-19th century.
There are three bottom drawers, a removable board flush with the rest, and a narrow drawer with a concave-conve...
Category
1850s French Louis Philippe Antique Secretaires
Materials
Mahogany
$3,706 Sale Price
20% Off
George II Style Mahogany Secretary Bookcase
Located in Westwood, NJ
A flame mahogany and rosewood banded Bureau cabinet, with an architectural cornice centred by a gilt crest, above two glazed doors enclosing 45 drawers and 19 pigeon holes above two ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese George II Secretaires
Materials
Wood
$50,025 / item
Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Commode Secretary with Bronze
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This mid-nineteenth century French Louis XVI style commode secretary features fluted bronze columns at the corners with striated bronze plaques above and below. Additional bronze ban...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Secretaires
Materials
Bronze
Erling torvits secretary desk in teak
Located in Berkeley, CA
Origin: Denmark
Designer: Erling Torvits
Manufacturer: Klim Møbelfabrik
Era: 1961
Materials: Teak
Measurements: 41" wide x 18.75" deep x 47.75" tall
Condition: In excellent original...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Secretaires
Materials
Teak
Mid Century Modern Hvidt & Molgaard Teak Secretary
By Peter Hvidt
Located in Tulsa, OK
Mid Century Modern Hvidt & Molgaard Teak Secretary
Above average vintage condition and structurally sound. Has some expected small scratches and finish wear due to age. Beautiful co...
Category
20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Secretaires
Materials
Teak
Very Fine Custom c1940s Bubble Glass Drop Front Butlers Desk Break Front MINT
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very Fine Custom c1940s Bubble Glass Drop Front Butlers Desk Break Front MINT.
Phenomenal quality piece of furniture, fine detail low key inlay decorations.
Category
20th Century American Federal Secretaires
Materials
Leather, Glass, Mahogany
Mahogany Block Front Drop Desk Secretary Bracket Foot 4 Drawers Dresser MINT!
By Councill
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mahogany Block Front Drop Desk Secretary Bracket Foot 4 Drawers Dresser MINT!
Category
20th Century American Chippendale Secretaires
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century English Mahogany Secretaire Bookcase
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
An Excellent Late 18th Century English Mahogany Breakfront Secretaire Bookcase.
This bookcase has a breakfront outline and is small in size.
The overhanging and moulded cornice abov...
Category
18th Century Antique Secretaires
Materials
Mahogany
1930's Art Deco Secretaire Desk with hidden locking mechanism
Located in Ulm, DE
Secretary
wooden body, shellac hand polished
probably stained ash
One drawer can be locked/unlocked by a hidden locking mechanism.
Original Art Deco, France 1930s
Dimensions:
Widt...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Secretaires
Materials
Wood
19th C Chippendale Style Mahogany Block Front Shell Carved Secretary Desk Lowboy
Located in Philadelphia, PA
19th century Chippendale style mahogany blockfront secretary desk. Item features solid mahogany wood construction, dramatic shapely legs terminating with ball and claw feet on the fr...
Category
Late 19th Century American Chippendale Antique Secretaires
Materials
Mahogany
$11,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Wooden Mid-Century Modern Drop off Wall Secretaire Attributed to Marcel Gascoin
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Wooden wall secretaire with drop-off top desk, made in the 1950s.
The design and workmanship of this secretaire is very reminiscent of the works of Marcel Gascoin made between 1949 ...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Secretaires
Materials
Metal
Regency Ebony Inlaid Secretaire Bookcase
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine Regency period mahogany bookcase cabinet with secretary drawer, the molded cornice with ebonized ball drops over two astragal glazed doors over satinwood fitted pull out se...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Secretaires
Materials
Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood
Gerrit Rietveld Unique Secretarie Desk
Located in Ghent, BE
Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964)
Vitrine Secretary Cabinet – Unique Piece
Lacquered metal, glass, and lacquered wood
Executed by Gerard A. van de Groenekan
Design circa 1940
This excepti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Secretaires
Materials
Metal
Georgian English Mahogany Commode Secretaire, 1816
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Important English commode secretary from the Georgian period with three large drawers. The upper part simulating two drawers is made of a flap which forms the work table covered with...
Category
1810s English Georgian Antique Secretaires
Materials
Wood
Rare Baker Furniture Co. Italian Rococo Style Walnut Mirrored Secretary Desk
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a very authentic looking Italian Rococo secretary desk with a bookcase top by Baker furniture company. The piece is made of gorgeous warm walnut and features mirrored doors o...
Category
1970s American Rococo Revival Vintage Secretaires
Materials
Walnut
$3,160 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Marble-Top Secretaire in Blackened Wood Napoleon III Period
Located in Sofia, BG
Lady's secretaire of blackened wood and nets decorated with rosettes and scrolls in gilded brass. It opens on the front with a drawer and a flap discovering niches and small drawers ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Secretaires
Materials
Wood
$3,445 Sale Price
32% Off
Late 18th Century English George III Mahogany Bureau Bookcase ‘Secretaire’
Located in Miami, FL
A late 18th century English George III mahogany Bureau bookcase ‘secretaire’ with fretwork open swan neck pediment, centred by a shaped finial, above a pair of glazed doors, slant fr...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Secretaires
British Colonial Secretary Cabinet from Indonesia
Located in New York, NY
A tall Indonesian antique secretary with twin glass panel doors, mid-19th century. British Colonial style.
Polychromed teak wood in two tones of red, plus gilt accents. Three shel...
Category
Late 19th Century Indonesian British Colonial Antique Secretaires
Materials
Glass, Wood
$10,250 Sale Price
59% Off
Unusual 18th-19th Century Continental Secretary Bookcase
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Figured wood veneer, the top with a carved cornice over double doors. They open to two shelves over drawers and cubby holes. A middle frieze with three drawers (lacking a key) over t...
Category
19th Century European Georgian Antique Secretaires
Materials
Brass
Very Fine Antique Dovetailed Leather top Letter Secretary Desk Chest of Drawers
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very Fine Antique Dovetailed Leather top Letter Secretary Desk Chest of Drawers MINT
Category
20th Century American Directoire Secretaires
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Gustavian Style Walnut Secretaire Avatant
Located in Madrid, ES
A Swedish writing desk, made of walnut wood, also decorated with gilded lateral grooves in the late Gustavian style. The writing desk is divided into two parts, each of which has bro...
Category
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Secretaires
Materials
Bronze
Rare French Marquetry and Gilt Bronze Secretaire with Architecture Scenes
Located in London, GB
A Truly Magnificent 19th century Secre´taire a` Abattant by Maison Rogie´ of Paris After the original in the Wallace Collection, London, made in 1777 by Pierre-Antoine Foullet
Con...
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Secretaires
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Baker Furniture French Library Cabinet Lighted Secretary Desk Stacking Unit
Located in West Chester, PA
Baker Furniture from the 18th century French Stacking Units Collection as shown in the Baker Catalogue Volume 1 page 62. Upper wire door cabinet section...
Category
1960s American French Provincial Vintage Secretaires
Materials
Brass
Italian Renaissance Dressing Table 19th Century Hand Painted by Müller Morten
By P. E. Guerin
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Exquisite & stunning! This Italian renaissance Dressing table hand painted on all sides by Müller Morten circa 1860s.
A true work of art this dressing table, the paintings are on a...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Secretaires
Materials
Bronze
George III Mahogany Astral Glazed Secretaire Bookcase
Located in Basingstoke, Hampshire
An early 19th century astral glazed bureau bookcase of large proportions. Displaying a pair of astral glazed doors. The base houses four long drawers, on...
Category
Early 19th Century British George III Antique Secretaires
Materials
Mahogany
Art Deco Bar Trolley in Style of Jacques Adnet with Original Mirror France 1930s
Located in Ulm, DE
Art Deco bar trolley in style of Jacques Adnet
Real wood veneer
Handles and wheels in copper
To open on one side with double doors
Tabletop with old mirror (blind spots)
New m...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Secretaires
Materials
Copper
Teak writing desk, Danish design, 1960s.
Located in Chorzów, PL
Teak writing desk, Danish design,
Very good condition, after professional renovation.
Wood: Teak
Dimensions: Height 95 cm, width 89 cm, depth 42 cm.
Category
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Secretaires
Materials
Teak
Antique, New and Vintage Secretaires
Your antique, new or vintage secretary desk has become the (chic) saving grace of the "new normal" at home.
Simply put, a secretary desk is a multifunctional piece of furniture with a hinged writing surface that folds open or drops down. When the leaf is folded out, small inner storage compartments — pigeonholes, cubbies, recesses or drawers — are revealed.
Traditionally, a secretary is composed of two parts — a chest of drawers on the bottom and a cabinet with shelves on the top. Taking its name from the French word for the piece, secrétaire, the secretary desk dates back to the 18th century, when Paris-based cabinetmaker Jean-François Oeben, known for his exquisite marquetry and clever mechanical desks, is thought to have invented the secrétaire à abbattant, or drop-leaf desk.
While the defining drop-down feature of the secretary desk has remained constant, the materials used, as well as its configuration, size and style have evolved over time.
At first, secretaries were typically made from exotic woods, like rosewood, tulipwood and kingwood; later, hardwoods like cherry, maple, oak and mahogany were more common. The desks also became lighter, with space carved out of the lower half for the writer’s feet or with drawers replaced by legs — making them more table-like.
When open, the secretary is a dynamic, versatile Wunderkammer. When closed, it’s a sophisticated, space-saving piece of furniture.
“A fine secretary with a good provenance adds stature and credence to its owner — it is a cornerstone piece,” says antiques dealer Stanley Weiss, who specializes in 18th- and 19th-century English and American furniture. “In this disposable world, fine furniture is always passed on and speaks to who its owner is.”
No matter what style or period you choose, and no matter how you decide to use it, the timeless, flexible secretary desk is bound to become an indispensable part of your daily routine.
Browse a range of antique and vintage secretary desks on 1stDibs, including mid-century modern secretaires, Georgian secretaires and others.
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