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Desks and Writing Tables For Sale
Style: Georgian
Style: Arts and Crafts
George III Mahogany Partner's Desk
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine and rare George III period mahogany partner's desk, the molded top with inset Morocco red leather top with gilt tooling over two sides both with two banks of working doors and r...
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1760s English Georgian Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Contemporary Desk French Writing Desk Luxury Wood Handmade Executive Desks
Located in København N, DK
True White
People say that the color white does not exist. That our eye just perceives it that way. I don't want to believe that. White to me is the color of purity, the color that i...
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21st Century and Contemporary European Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Steel
Victorian Pine Marquetry Writing or Side Table
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Victorian Pine Marquetry Writing or Side Table
This is a very attractive table, it has a smooth rectangular top with slightly rounded corners and sturdy turned legs, there is a us...
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1880s Arts and Crafts Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Pine
A George IV mahogany mechanical escritoire attributed to Gillows
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A George IV mahogany mechanical escritoire attributed to Gillows, of rectangular form with a vertical superstructure on reeded cabriole legs with a turned stretcher and the original ...
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1820s English George IV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century English Walnut Writing Table Desk / Dressing Table
Located in San Francisco, CA
An attractive English walnut writing table or dressing table with brass hardware.
Solid walnut and walnut veneer over solid oak secondary wood.
Having burl walnut drawer fronts with...
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18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique Ochre Painted George III Pine Table, England, Early 19th Century
Located in Copenhagen K, DK
England, Early 19th Century
Painted George III pine table. Completely untouched with original brass handles.
H 75 x W 92 x D 65 cm
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Early 19th Century English George III Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Pine
Desk , Small English Knee Hole Desk with Tooled Leather Top, Serpentine Front
Located in Toronto, CA
A serpentine curved front, small English kneehole desk in classical mahogany Georgian styling. The goldfish brown tooled leather skiver writing s...
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20th Century English Georgian Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
Primitive Antique Varnished Chestnut Lift Top Child Desk Secretary w/Bench NICE!
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Primitive Antique Varnished Chestnut Lift Top Child Desk Secretary w/Bench NICE!
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20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Chestnut
18th Century Painted Oak Bureau Bible Box on Stand
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
A wonderful characterful late 18th century portable painted carved oak bureau or bible box on a stand. There is carved detail throughout, in a mainly fl...
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18th Century British Georgian Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
George III Sheraton Writing Table
Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
A fine George III Sheraton period partners writing table in figured mahogany with box wood stringing in the top at the edge of the leather and also in the frieze below the drawers. E...
Category
1780s English Georgian Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Baker Furniture Georgian Carved Mahogany Writing Desk
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Georgian or Chippendale style writing desk
By Baker Furniture
USA, circa 1980s
Carved mahogany, with original brass hardware.
Measures: 45.5"W x 21.25"D x 29.6...
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1980s American Georgian Vintage Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
George III Satinwood Bonheur du Jour
Located in Maidstone, GB
A Satinwood Bonheur du Jour with painted panels and glazed doors, maroon leather writing fold, ebony inlaid square tapering legs and painted brackets. After a design by Hepplewhite. ...
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1790s British George III Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Satinwood
George III Style Mahogany And Brass Inlaid Carleton House Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular top with central leather liner hinged writing surface surrounded by drawers and doors. The back finished Frieze drawers all with brass inlays. Raised on square tapered le...
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1850s English George III Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
English Satinwood & Leather Top Brass Mounted Six Drawer Partners Desk, C 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
English satinwood and leather top brass mounted partners desk with six flanking drawers, four carved inset corners, and resting on the original squared tapered molded edge legs. Late...
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1780s English George III Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique L. & J.G. Stickley Mission Oak Arts & Crafts Desk, Circa 1900
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional antique Mission or Arts & Crafts writing desk
By L. & J.G. Stickley
USA, Circa 1900
Quarter sawn oak, with original hammered copper hardware.
Measures: 48"...
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Copper
Mid-20th Century Baker Furniture Vintage Queen Ann Desk
Located in Hartville, OH
Beautiful example of this intentionally distressed leather top Queen Ann Desk with cabriolet legs and key from Baker furniture. One owner find. Signed a...
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Mid-20th Century American George I Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Wood
English George III Chippendale-Style Mahogany Library Table Adjustable Book Stan
Located in Dallas, TX
a handsome "neat and plain" George III Chippendale-style Gentleman's library writing table with adjustable writing slope / book stand, mahogany with leather work surface, gilt emboss...
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18th Century English George III Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Antique Arts & Crafts Oval Oak Library Table circa 1910
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Arts and Crafts library table offers quarter sawn oak construction with top in oval form over straight skirt with sing...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Superb Antique English Inlaid Mahog. Secretaire a' Abbatant or Bonheur du Jour
Located in Charleston, SC
This is a wonderful and rare Antique English small or diminutive Abbatant a' Secretaire or Bonheur du Jour Writing Table and is unique and wonderful. The exterior is exquisitely mad...
Category
Late 19th Century English George III Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany, Satinwood
Baker Mahogany Executive Partners Desk, Georgian, Writing Table
Located in Stamford, CT
Large mahogany executive partners desk by baker, writing table in the Georgian Fashion.
A stunning new Baker mahogany partners desk having fu...
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2010s American Georgian Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Stickley Brothers Arts & Crafts Desk or Library Table, Newly Restored
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional antique Mission or Arts & Crafts quarter sawn oak writing desk or library table with built-in bookcases
By Stickley Brothers
USA, circa 1900
Measures: 40"W x ...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Antique Stickley Mission Oak Arts & Crafts Desk or Library Table, Circa 1900
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional antique Mission or Arts & Crafts writing desk or library table
By L. & J.G. Stickley
USA, Circa 1900
Solid quarter sawn oak, with original hammered copper hardware....
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Copper
Early 20th Century Leather Top Desk
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Early 20th century leather top mahogany desk circa 1910.
Original red leather writing surface with gold tooling, with obvious signs of use. Fitted with 3 drawers above the the kn...
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Early 20th Century Swedish Georgian Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Limbert Mission Oak Arts & Crafts Desk or Library Table, Newly Restored
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional Mission or Arts & Crafts library table or desk.
By Charles P. Limbert Co.
USA, Circa 1900
Quartersawn oak, with original copper hardware.
Measures: 36"W x ...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Copper
Lord Nelson`s Family Portable Sloping Laptop Desk
Located in Dorking, GB
This desk was purchased by me at the closure of the Whitbread Archive Museum in 2001. It comes with their supplied provenance - together with several later lines of research.
Includ...
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Early 18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Early Georgian Chippendale Bureau Bookcase Desk in Carved Mahogany
Located in Dorking, GB
An unusual and possibly unique example of a Chippendale design for a carved mahogany bureau bookcase.
See included photos of scans of the designs from Chippendale’s - The Gentleman...
Category
Late 17th Century English Georgian Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany, Oak
Writing Desk used by Charles Dickens, circa 1800
Located in Dorking, GB
This is the desk on which Dickens began his famous writing career. He was in fact a solicitor’s clerk working from number 1 Raymond Buildings at Grays Inn, London.
This is where this actual desk was used by Charles Dickens in 1827. The Charles Dickens desk is made of solid mahogany. It is a good quality standing clerk's desk.
It was made in the Georgian period of about 1800. It has four fine turned legs, raised on brass castors. They are linked by an under tier, which was probably useful for storing the work in hand. It has a hand dovetailed single drawer with turned knob handles.
The sloping leather top adjoins a flat galleried shelf...
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Early 19th Century Georgian Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Fine 18th Century Mahogany Free Standing Library Desk
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
A fine quality late 18th century mahogany free standing library desk, the flame mahogany cupboards with ebony fluting to the sides of the kneehol...
Category
18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Arts & Crafts Oak Writing Desk From Frank Lloyd Wright's DeRhodes House
Located in South Bend, IN
A beautiful antique Mission oak Arts & Crafts writing desk or library table with built-in bookcases
Recently procured from Frank Lloyd Wright's DeRhodes House
In the manner of ...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak, Cork
Antique Arts & Crafts Oak Writing Bureau
Located in London, GB
A beautiful and petite antique Arts & Crafts period writing bureau in oak. This was made in England, it dates from around 1880-90’s.
The size of the pull...
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1880s British Arts and Crafts Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Georgian Style Wood & Hogan Burr Walnut Partners Desk Bench-Made in England
Located in North Salem, NY
For the person who appreciates high quality in all details. This desk will make the impreessive statement needed.
English Bench-Made Wood & Hogan Walnut Early Georgian Style Partner...
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Early 18th Century English Georgian Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Large Antique Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality large leather top writing table by Taylor & Sons, Brompton Road, London, having three leather inserts each d...
Category
Early 20th Century English Georgian Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
True White Ancient 200 year Walnut Waterfall Live Edge Writing Desk Contemporary
Located in København N, DK
People say that the color white does not exist. That our eye just perceives it that way. I don't want to believe that. White to me is the color of purity, the color that is hard not to get dirty, the color of renewal, the color that looks the richest. I really enjoy the way the slabs and roots of old walnut look in the snow-white resin. It looks really contrasting. Like a painting forever placed in an expensive frame. I think in this table we've managed to show the really white color that exists.
The table is made from old slabs and walnut roots and white epoxy resin...
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21st Century and Contemporary European Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Steel
Antique American Arts & Crafts Oak Roll Top Desk, Circa 1890s
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional antique Arts & Crafts desk with unique folding roll top
USA, Circa 1890s
Beautiful quarter sawn oak, with birdseye maple drawer interiors and brass hardware.
Measur...
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Late 19th Century American Arts and Crafts Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
English Tooled Green Leather Top Partners Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare and remarkable antique George III style partners desk with the original tooled green leather top on a mahogany case with four drawers on either ...
Category
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Purification Fire Ancient 200-year Walnut Writing Desk Live Egde Contemporary
Located in København N, DK
There is a fire that does not harm or destroy, and brings benefits, takes away unnecessary and unnecessary, burdensome and brings ease and purity. It does not turn everything that ge...
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21st Century and Contemporary European Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Steel
The Source Handcrafted Live Egde Ancient 140 Year Walnut L-Shaped Desktop
Located in København N, DK
When I was making this table I had thoughts about how a river is formed. How do lots of streams know where to flow to fill the main river? Why is the purpose of the existence of thes...
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21st Century and Contemporary European Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Steel
Georgian Mahogany Drum Top Library Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very fine quality late George III period mahogany central standing drum top library table, having attractive old gilt tooled leather inset to ...
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Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century George II Walnut Writing Table
Located in Bradenton, FL
George II walnut writing table, Mid-18th Century, the molded top having a tooled green leather inset writing panel, fitted with a genuine and false frieze drawer to either side, rais...
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18th Century British George II Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut, Leather
Antique Stickley Style Mission Oak Arts & Crafts Desk with Built-In Bookcases
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional antique Mission oak Arts & Crafts writing desk or library table with built-in bookcases
In the style of Stickley
By King Furniture
USA, Circa 1900
Measures...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Highly Figured Antique Knee Hole Desk
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A diminutive size in figured wood with thin banding on top and banded drawers, The frieze with pull down secretary with tooled leather topped writing surface, drawers and a cubby hole. The case with three drawers on each side, all with fine brass bat wing bales. The knee hole...
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19th Century Georgian Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Baker Furniture Georgian Flame Mahogany Leather Top Slant Front Architect's Desk
Located in South Bend, IN
An outstanding Georgian style slant front architect's desk. The desk features shallow drawers and shelved cabinets on one side and open bookcases with adjustable shelving on the othe...
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1960s American Georgian Vintage Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
George II Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine George II mahogany writing table, the leather-lined top with gilt tooling and banded edge, the edge with rich gadroon carving, over three drawers, standing on boldly carved...
Category
18th Century English George III Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany, Oak
Gustav Stickley Mission Oak Arts & Crafts Writing Desk, Circa 1900
Located in South Bend, IN
A rare and exceptional antique Mission or Arts & Crafts writing desk or library table
By Gustav Stickley
USA, Circa 1900
Solid quarter sawn oak, with original hammered coppe...
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Copper
George III Mahogany Tambour Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Nice old piece very nicely polished and tuned up in good working order. Rectangular top with tambour roll top opening to expose a pull out writing surface with adjustable ratcheted c...
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Stickley Brothers Mission Oak Arts & Crafts Desk or Library Table
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional antique Mission or Arts & Crafts writing desk or library table with built-in bookcases
By Stickley Brothers
USA, Early 20th Century
Quarter sawn oak, with ori...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Copper
18th Century Antique Mahogany Kneehole Desk
Located in Martlesham, GB
18th Century mahogany kneehole desk, having a wonderfully figured moulded edge top above a selection of seven drawers with the original brass plate handles and escutcheon, hinged cup...
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1780s British Georgian Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Georgian Style Directors Twin Pedestal Walnut Desk with Green Leather Top
Located in Pulborough, GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this Lovely Yew Wood Georgian Style Directors Twin Pedestal Desk.
The desk still has the original aged inlaid green le...
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20th Century European Georgian Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather
George IV Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine George IV period mahogany library/writing table, the tablet-shaped top in dense, rich mahogany over two working and two false (one each side) drawers standing on curule molded s...
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1820s English George IV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Georgian Foldable Writing Side Table Desk Set with Chair
Located in Nijmegen, NL
This writing table was designed and made in England around 1800. It can be folded into a large square table. It comes with a nice antique oak chair ...
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Early 1800s British Georgian Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Antique Stickley Brothers Mission Oak Arts & Crafts Desk or Library Table
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional antique Mission or Arts & Crafts writing desk or library table
By Stickley Brothers
USA, Circa 1900
Quarter sawn oak, with original hammered copper hardware.
...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Copper
English Partners desk, Georgian style with red skiver top
Located in Toronto, CA
A classic English mahogany partners desk in Georgian style, with a red leather skiver top showing the character that comes with time. There is antique gold tooling around the edges. ...
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20th Century English Georgian Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Antique George III Quality Mahogany Knee Hole Desk
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George III quality mahogany knee hole desk having a quality mahogany rectangular shaped crossbanded top with a moulded edge above one long and six small cockbeeded oak lined drawers with original brass handles, secret drawer to the knee hole and a single panelled door...
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18th Century English George III Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Other
20th Century George III Style Figured Mahogany Desk with Embossed Leather Top
Located in Morristown, NJ
Early 20th century, nice quality, double pedestal writing desk, with gold embossed leather inset writing surface, all in one piece, on bra...
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1930s American George III Vintage Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique Stickley Brothers Mission Oak Arts & Crafts Writing Desk, Newly Restored
Located in South Bend, IN
A rare and exceptional antique Mission oak Arts & Crafts writing desk
By Stickley Brothers
USA, Circa 1900
Solid quarter sawn oak, with copper hardware.
Measures: 36" W x...
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Copper
George III Mahogany Roll-Top Writing Table
Located in New York, NY
The rectangular writing table fitted with two frieze drawers and with pull-out candle slides to the sides; raised on square tapering legs ending in brass caps and casters; surmounted...
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1790s English George III Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique Mahogany Georgian Architect's Drafting Drawing Desk Table Chest 1780
Located in Portland, OR
A rare George II mahogany architect's desk/chest, circa 1750.
The desk/ top slides forward, thus allowing the sitter to work, the top having a drafting table that has an easel support to place the top at three different heights, the highest being 47" floor to top. The chest having a plan drawer which is flanked by two pen drawers...
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Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Oak Arts & Crafts Pedestal Desk by Alexander J. Kropholler, 1890s
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Magnificent and ultra rare Arts & Crafts pedestal desk.
Design by Alexander J. Kropholler.
Striking Dutch design from the 1890s.
Executed in solid oak and original wrought iron, this stunning and one of a kind museum piece has a hand-carved quotation " A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing" by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), one of the leading Neoclassical or Augustan poets of the first half of the 18th Century.
Two original hand-carved owls and hand-carved elements on top of the desk.
Original lock and key and in good working order.
Measurement from ground to writing top is 76 cm or 29.92 in.
This wonderful Arts & Crafts desk by Alexander J. Kropholler is in very good refinished condition with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina.
We offer the matching bookcase...
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1890s Dutch Arts and Crafts Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Antique and Vintage Desks and Writing Tables
Choosing the perfect writing desk or writing table is a profoundly personal journey, one that people have been embarking upon for centuries.
Queen Atossa of Persia, from her writing table circa 500 B.C., is said to have been the originator of the art of handwritten letters. Hers was reportedly the first in a long and colorful history of penned correspondence that grew in popularity alongside literacy. The demand for suitable writing desks, which would serve the composer of the letters as well as ensure the comfort of the recipient naturally followed, and the design of these necessary furnishings has evolved throughout history.
Once people began to seek freedom from the outwardly ornate styles of the walnut and rosewood writing desks and drafting tables introduced in the name of Queen Victoria and King Louis XV, radical shifts occurred, such as those that materialized during the Art Nouveau period, when designers longed to produce furniture inspired by the natural world’s beauty. A prime example is the work of the famous late-19th-century Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí — his rolltop desk featured deep side drawers and was adorned with carved motifs that paid tribute to nature. Gaudí regularly combined structural precision with decorative elements, creating beautiful pieces of furniture in wood and metal.
Soon afterward, preferences for sleek, geometric, stylized forms in furniture that saw an emphasis on natural wood grains and traditional craftsmanship took hold. Today, Art Deco desks are still favored by designers who seek to infuse interiors with an air of luxury. One of the most prominent figures of the Art Deco movement was French decorator and furniture designer Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann. With his use of neoclassical motifs as well as expensive and exotic materials such as imported dark woods and inlays of precious metals for his writing desks, Ruhlmann came to symbolize good taste and modernity.
The rise in appreciation for Scandinavian modernism continues to influence the design of contemporary writing desks. It employs the “no fuss” or “less is more” approach to creating a tasteful, sophisticated space. Sweden’s master cabinetmaker Bruno Mathsson created gallery-worthy designs that are as functional as they are beautiful. Finnish architect Alvar Aalto never viewed himself as an artist, but, like Mathsson, his furniture designs reflected a fondness for organic materials and a humanistic approach. Danish designers such as Hans Wegner introduced elegant shapes and lines to mid-century desks and writing tables, often working in oak and solid teak.
From vintage desks to contemporary styles, 1stDibs offers a broad spectrum of choices for conducting all personal and business writing and reading activities.
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