Desks and Writing Tables
157
13
to
33
127
43
170
160
164
1,767
782
384
357
320
219
217
205
157
108
102
87
69
55
51
36
26
11
52
54
51
13
19
14
6
3
2
2
1
1
4
2
Height
to
Width
to
Depth
to
164
76
66
34
26
151
53
39
33
7
4
3
1
1
1
Desks and Writing Tables For Sale
Style: Baroque
Style: French Provincial
French Mid-18th Century Louis XV Period Petit Desk or Side Table
By Camard
Located in Southampton, NJ
Fine Mid-18th Century French Louis XV period petit ladies desk or side table handcrafted in solid French walnut. Features a rectangular top with scalloped apron on all sides and sing...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Provincial Cherry Writing Table or Bedside Table with Drawer, circa 1800
Located in Miami, FL
French Provincial cherry table with cabriole legs that has mortise and tenon construction and wood peg fasteners. A beautiful late 18th century or early 19th century table left in it...
Category
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Cherry
Antique French Table Dining Breakfast Table Desk Draw Leaf Carved Oak Parquet
Located in Tyler, TX
Charming antique french country draw leaf breakfast dining table or desk with parquet top~~108" wide when leaves are fully extended...c. 1920s
This table has "the look"~~~one of o...
Category
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
19th Century French Provincial Fruitwood Writing Table Desk
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Diminutive size 19th century French provincial writing table or desk. The table is constructed from fruitwood with a warm patina and lovely wood grain patterns. Fronted by a single s...
Category
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Fruitwood
French Marble Top Console Table Bar or Desk
Located in Atlanta, GA
Elegant French Provincial style marble top console table, France, circa 1950s. This piece is a versatile size and can be used as a console table, bar, media table, stand, desk, or va...
Category
1950s French French Provincial Vintage Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Marble, Metal
17th C Style Italian Walnut Refectory Dining Table Dark shellac finish In Stock
Located in Encinitas, CA
Our classic Lira style Old Walnut refectory dining table with sculpted edge top, lyre-shaped bases, handcrafted in aged Italian walnut, featured in our dramatic Espresso Dark stain s...
Category
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
Table Centre Desk Writing Walnut Double Dolphin Handle Genoa Baroque
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Unusally Large Italian Walnut Centre, Occassional or Writing Table, Genoa
Unusual large size with classical elegance and form
Conceived as a center table as the frieze decoration...
Category
1680s Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
18th Century, French Walnut Leather Top Writing Table W/ Bronze Hardware
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Late 18th century hand carved French provincial desk. The desk is carved in walnut and is extremely heavy and sturdy after all the year's of use. The finish has developed a beautiful...
Category
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Baroque Desk / Dining Table / Kitchen Table in Solid Oak, 1770
Located in Lüdinghausen, DE
Desk restored baroque around 1770 solid oak dining table kitchen table
Features:
High quality
Drawers pronged
Original spring locks, k...
Category
18th Century Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Custom Farmhouse Style Writing Desk with Pencil Drawer by Dos Gallos Studio
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Custom farm house style writing desk with pencil drawer. Can be made in any size and finish. As shown here in a light walnut with light to medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American French Provincial Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut, Oak
20th Century Solid Walnut Baroque Lyre-Leg Trestle Refectory Desk Writing Table
Located in Miami, FL
An 20th century Spanish baroque desk, or writing table made of solid walnut with lyre shaped legs joined by wood stretchers. Hand carved decoratio...
Category
Early 20th Century Spanish Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
French 18th Century Bleached Desk
Located in Seaford, GB
A stunning 18th Century Desk. Made from solid Cherry having 2 cupboards and a central drawer, key present. Finished round the back so can be free st...
Category
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Cherry
Vintage French Provincial Louis XV Leather Top Vanity Desk Mirror and Side Chair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage French Provincial Louis XV Style leather top vanity desk with mirror and side chair. Item features a white washed finish, floral carved accents, blue floral print fabric, fli...
Category
Early 20th Century French Provincial Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Solid Walnut Spanish Baroque Desk
Located in Chicago, IL
An 18th century Spanish baroque desk, or writing table made of solid Walnut Wood with turned legs joined by a Two drawers with original iron drawe...
Category
18th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
French Provincial Writing Desk 1930s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early 20th century painted French Provincial style desk. The desk stands on four cabriole legs that end in rams head feet. The piece is beautifully pain...
Category
1930s French French Provincial Vintage Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Paint
Italy 18th Century Baroque Walnut Organic Shape Table Desk
Located in Brescia, IT
This walnut rectangular Tuscany table, has been hand made in Lucca (Tuscany, Italy) in 1760 circa.
Its elegant shape, with the black border, makes this ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
1850s European Empire Mahogany Pair Armchairs with Griffin God Face and Feet
Located in BILBAO, ES
1850s European Empire Mahogany pair armchairs with Griffin God face and feet..
Upholstery with Osborne & Little with heraldic pattern in cross stich fabric.
Dimensions Chair
H...
Category
1880s Portuguese Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Romweber Spanish Baroque Carved Pine Writing Desk
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Spanish Baroque style writing desk
By Jim Peed for Romweber
USA, Circa 1990s
Carved pine, with original brass hardware. Middl...
Category
Late 20th Century American Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Table Centre Dining Library Dismantable X Trestles Oak Fruitwood
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A South German oak, shaped X' ended table with detachable fruitwood top with decorative cleated band
This table is easily dismantled and retains the original pegs
The cleated edge ...
Category
17th Century German Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Fruitwood, Oak
20th Century Spanish Baroque Style Cabinet on Stand, Bargueno or Varqueno
Located in Miami, FL
This Bargueno is embellished with a carving of Don Quixote de la Mancha bordered with branches of leaves. The desk is supported by a pedestal joined by a bridge of turned columns. The front legs contain a carving of two wind god...
Category
Early 20th Century Spanish Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
1910, French Oak Escritoire
Located in High Point, NC
This oak escritoire offers a secluded workspace. Built in France circa 1910, contoured partitions shield the desktop, creating a bubble of privacy ideal for personal correspondence and focused thought. Above the tabletop, an array of small drawers present an organized space for stationary, while curved envelope holders provide a nook for unopened letters. Wooden cup...
Category
20th Century French French Provincial Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Turn of the Century French Patinated Ecritoire with Display Glass Top
Located in High Point, NC
A patinated ecritoire produced during the turn of the century in France, this desk organizer is as functional as remarkable. Featuring a slant-top case crowned by a unique glass disp...
Category
Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Glass, Wood
19th Catalan Spanish Cabinet on Stand in Carved Walnut and Iron Stretcher
Located in Miami, FL
19th Catalan Spanish cabinet on stand in carved walnut with two doors in the cabinet.
Category
Early 20th Century Spanish Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
Antique French DIning Table Library Desk Renaissance Carved Oak Baroque c1880
Located in Shreveport, LA
Direct from France, and one of several exquisite antiques from our most recent container. Fabulously hand carved oak pieces in the highly sought after Renaissance Revival, Black For...
Category
Late 19th Century French Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
French Marquetry Bronze Ormolu Mounted Center or Desk Table
Located in Miami, FL
Wonderful French marquetry and bronze ormolu-mounted table that you can use like a desk, console, center table.
Category
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Late 17th Century Italian Walnut Wood Library Table
Located in Dallas, TX
This majestic library table was hand-carved in Italy during the late 1600’s. Three planks of rich walnut wood comprise the top that has been carved with a thin recessed molding along...
Category
Late 17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Antiqued Gold Finish Baroque Style Dining Table Base
Located in Sheffield, MA
Glam up your dining experience with this antiqued gold "gilt" toned Baroque Hollywood Regency styled metal and glass dining table. Be it ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
Italian, Tuscany, Baroque Style Carved Walnut 1-Drawer Table, 17th Cen and Later
Located in Atlanta, GA
Having a rectangular top with molded edge and a dentil molded apron atop a paneled case housing one drawer, the case and top raised on columnar legs, the shaped bracket bases joined ...
Category
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
French Foldable Dining or Writing Table, Beech and Chestnut, circa 1970
Located in Labrit, Landes
Little chestnut dining table. The two end are foldable and the little width of this table is 32.28 in. (82 cm)
The table top was made circa 1970. It was laid on a beech base dating...
Category
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Beech, Chestnut
20th Century Solid Walnut Baroque Lyre-Leg Trestle Refectory Desk Writing Table
Located in Miami, FL
20th Century Spanish baroque desk, or writing table made of solid walnut with turned legs joined by wrought iron stretchers. Two drawers with orig...
Category
Early 20th Century Spanish Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
French Provincial Mint Blue Green Grey Writing Table Desk 19th Century
Located in Milano, IT
19th Century French Provincial Writing Desk from Avignon. Beautifully time worn grey/green tone. Could go shabby chic or more country be...
Category
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
17th C Style Solid Italian Walnut Refectory Writing Dentil Edge Table options
Located in Encinitas, CA
Old Walnut LIRA Scrivania writing table handcrafted in aged solid Italian walnut with a carved dentil edge under the top surface, lyre-shaped bases, and hand forged iron cross stretc...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
Spanish Baroque Table with Dark Walnut Solomonic Legs with Carved Structure and
Located in Miami, FL
Baroque Spanish colonial fratino table dark walnut solomonic legs with iron stretcher, exquisite walnut wood Fratino trestle table with antique 19th cen...
Category
Late 19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Maitland Smith French Provincial Louis XV Mahogany Leather Top Writing Desk
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous French Provincial Louis XV style writing desk
By Maitland Smith
Philippines, Circa 1980s
Carved mahogany, with original brass hardware and embossed leather top.
...
Category
Late 20th Century Philippine French Provincial Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Baker French Provincial Cherry Marquetry Inlay Console Table Desk
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Baker French Provincial Cherry Marquetry Inlay Console Table Desk. Item features shapely saber legs, marquetry inlaid top, solid wood construct...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Provincial Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Cherry
18th Century Country French Child's Desk
Located in Winter Park, FL
A late 18th century Country French child size desk, made of solid cherry. Beautifully crafted with turned legs and carved stretcher with center finial. Candle stand on the right, att...
Category
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Cherry
Italian Baroque Style 1880s Walnut Desk with Inlaid Top and Carved Lyre Base
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian Baroque style walnut desk table from the late 19th century, with inlaid top, two drawers, lyre-shaped legs and iron stretchers. Created in Italy during the last quarter of the 19th century, this walnut table features an unusual top inlaid with contrasting geometric motifs, sitting above two carved dovetailed drawers adorned with additional geometric motifs surrounding iron pulls. The table is raised on carved Baroque style lyre-shaped legs connected to the table's underside through scrolling iron stretchers. With its graceful lines, beautifully inlaid top and Baroque base...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
17th C Style Italian Walnut Refectory Dining Table Natural finish In-Stock
Located in Encinitas, CA
Our classic Lira Style in a lighter finish: Old Walnut refectory dining table with sculpted edge & lyre-shaped bases, handcrafted in aged premium solid Italian walnut, floor model sh...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
20th Century Spanish Carved Walnut House Desk with Lyre Legs
Located in Miami, FL
An 20th century Spanish baroque desk, or writing table made of solid walnut with lyre shaped legs joined by wood stretchers. Hand carved decoratio...
Category
Early 20th Century Spanish Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Antique Elegant Wooden Bureau
Located in Milano, IT
Rare solid wood desk dating from the early 1700s, fine French manufacture.
The bureau is very imposing and majestic and that is what makes its elegance.
The shape is rectangular, t...
Category
1890s French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
17th C Style Italian Walnut 84" Table extends to 126" with end extension pair
Located in Encinitas, CA
Our classic Lira Style dining table expands with extension leaves- offering an option for entertainment seating: Old Walnut Refectory table with lyre-shaped bases, handcrafted in ag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron
Mediterranean Style AMALFI Italian Old Walnut Writing Table Size & Finish Option
Located in Encinitas, CA
Our "Amalfi" 3-drawer Mediterranean-style writing desk; simple sophisticated charm presented in fine Italian handcraft. Elegant yet casual. A stylized refectory table featured in age...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
17th C Style Antique Reproduction Italian Chestnut CAPRETTA Writing Desk Custom
Located in Encinitas, CA
CAPRETTA table line - our 17th Century Italian refectory style rustic table with drawer, handcrafted in Old Chestnut with smooth, soft brushed surface t...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Chestnut
French Provencial Style Desk, C. 1930’s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French Provencal style desk standing on four cabriole legs with rams head feet. The desk has five drawers for plenty of storage. Originally cast hardwar...
Category
1930s French French Provincial Vintage Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
19th Century French Hand Carved Oak Desk with Iron Stretcher
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Design
19th French hand carved oak wood table desk with iron stretcher.
This antique French hand carved oak wood desk features a bea...
Category
Late 19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
Mid-Century Bamboo, Wood and Rattan Writing Table Desk with Drawers, Italy 1970s
Located in Carimate, Como
Beautiful 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern bamboo and wicker desk with three drawers, a large one and two small ones, finished on 4 sides making it perfect as stand alone or against ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian French Provincial Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bamboo, Wicker, Rattan
Men's Dressing Table, French, 19 th
Located in Nice, FR
Dressing table for men, 19th period, origin France, in beech wood, with lots of drawers, a mirror, this table can make a writing table, a lot of charm. Needs a makeover if you feel l...
Category
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Beech
18th Century Baroque Farm Refectory Desk Table with Two Drawers & Stretchers
Located in Miami, FL
This elegant, antique fruitwood desk was crafted in Spain, circa 1780. The rustic writing table has been stripped down from its original dark fini...
Category
Late 18th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
Early 20th Century Walnut & Leather Secretary Desk
Located in Miami, FL
The early 20th century French secretaire was made of walnut.
Called secretaire en abbatant by the French, in reference to the sloping-front drop-down desk surface, this particular e...
Category
Mid-20th Century French French Provincial Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Antique French Provincial Leather Top Painted Kneehole Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Dynamic 19th century kneehole desk with a brown tooled leather top over a three piece pedestal base with nine drawers and two pullout trays retaining the original yellow and blue pai...
Category
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Wood, Paint
French Provincial Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
French Provincial carved beach and walnut bureau plat or writing table with a slightly antiqued and distressed finish, serpentine molded edge top, th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese French Provincial Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Spanish 1880s Walnut Side Table or Lady Desk, Carved Legs and Iron Stretcher
Located in Miami, FL
A Spanish walnut side table with single drawer, scalloped apron, carved legs and iron side stretcher from the late 19th century.
The front it´s the same that the back, you can see ...
Category
Late 19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
18th Century Italian Walnut Baroque Trestle Table
Located in Bradenton, FL
Italian, 18th century. Baroque walnut dining or tavern table having a thick walnut top above turned legs with Walnut stretcher. Perfect size to use as a writing table, sofa or center...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Solid Oak Baroque Fluted Legs Desk Writing Table or Console
Located in Miami, FL
An 19th century Spanish baroque desk, or writing table made of solid oak with fluted shaped legs joined by solid wood stretched. Two drawers with ...
Category
1890s Spanish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
Table, 18th Century, Italian, Baroque, Walnut, Narrow, One Piece Top
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A rare, narrow, Italian, baroque, walnut, cabinet or sidetable.
This table has unusual, narrow proportions and was probably originally conceived as a stand for a table cabinet or ...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Antique Italian Provincial Carved Distressed Cherry Saber Leg Desk Console Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Italian Provincial Carved Distressed Cherry Wood Saber Leg Desk Console Table. Item features solid wood construction, beautiful wood grain, dist...
Category
19th Century Italian French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Cherry
19th Spanish Side Table with Cared Turned Legs and Wood Stretcher
Located in Miami, FL
19th Spanish Side Table with cared turned legs and wood stretcher and also an iron stretcher
The top has a carved edges and a beautiful grai...
Category
Late 19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
19th Century French 'Boulle' Style Table
Located in London, GB
19th century French 'Boulle' Table
A late 19th century French ‘Boulle’ style inlaid table, serpentine in shape, classical scrolling brass inlaid decoration to the top, raised ele...
Category
19th Century Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
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.
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
Writing Desk With Fluted Legs
Wooden Desk Italian
Wood Desk With Metal Legs
Cabriole Bureau
Writing Slope Desk
Writing Desk Sloping
18th Century Style Desk
Bureau Plat Bronze
Black Glass Top Desk
Xvi Bureau
Wood Partners Desk
Vintage Bank Desk
Writing Table Mahogany Regency
Writing Table Brass Mount
Carved Walnut Desk French
Blue Painted Desk
American Desk 19th Century
Mid Century Black Writing Desk With Drawers