Early 20th Century English Painted Bookcase Secretaire

An Exceptional French Louis XVI Period Secrétaire à Abattant with Parquetry Detailing and Marble Top. This outstanding piece of furniture is veneered primarily in amaranth and tulip...

Late 19th Century Swedish secretaire with fall-front desk top. This style of desk was very popular in the 18th and 19th century in Sweden. It offers an ingenious array of storage pos...

Swedish 19th Century painted secretaire cupboard in the Gustavian style. This cupboard dates from the late 19th Century and consists of two cupboard doors below the secretaire fal...

18th Century Italian painted pine bureau. Circa 1780. With lovely layers of old paint, this bureau offers plenty of overt and hidden storage across two s...

Elegant Art Deco secretaire, likely of Scandinavian origin, dating to the 1920s. Raised on tall, tapering legs with patinated capitals and brass sabots, the piece features a wide dra...

An exceptional late 19th century secretaire bookcase by Edwards & Roberts, the upper section with a pierced fretwork swan neck pediment with Greek key moulding. The twin astragal glazed doors open to reveal an adjustable shelved interior, having reeded canted corners. Constructed using the finest figured mahogany with satinwood and boxwood line inlaid detail. The lower section having figured mahogany top, banded in satinwood above a secretaire drawer depicting a central classical urn within a floral swags, enclosing six Satinwood drawers, six pigeon holes and a gilt tooled leather inset writing surface. The twin panelled doors again constructed from figured mahogany with boxwood, satinwood inlaid panels depicting classical urns within a floral border. Also having reeded canted corners and enclosing an adjustable shelve interior, resting on solid mahogany bracket feet. Circa 1900 English Artists Biography: Edwards & Roberts was founded in 1845, and had premises at 21 Wardour Street London. By 1892 they occupied more than a dozen buildings in Wardour Street, where they continued to trade until the end of the century. They became one of the leading London cabinet makers and retailers working in a variety of styles, both modern and revivalist. Their business also involved retailing, adapting and restoring the finest antique furniture and there are many examples of their earlier furniture with later embellishments bearing their stamp. Edwards & Roberts specialized in marquetry, inlay and ormolu. Edwards & Roberts was one of the principal London companies working in the taste of the late 18th century. They started business in 1845 and by 1854 were trading as "Edwards & Roberts, 21 Wardour Street, Antique and Modern Cabinet Makers and Importers of Ancient Furniture". Wardour Street became an important furniture retailing area in the second half of the 19th century. The firm carried a fine and complete library...

Delicate secretaire in Biedermeier style. Maple root on solid pinewood. Interior, blackened full-columns, plastic shown in squared form. (L-Sam-41).

20th century Biedermeier style secretaire Delicate secretaire in Biedermeier style. Tulip veneer, partially blackened, on solid pinewood....