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Desks and Writing Tables For Sale
Style: Baroque
Style: French Provincial
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...
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19th Century Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Louis XV Fruitwood and Marquetry Writing Table, 'Mid-18th Century'
Located in London, GB
A Louis XV ormolu-mounted bois satine and fruitwood marquetry writing table. Adjustable writing slide with black leather panel, gilt-tooled with central motif; full length drawer wit...
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Mid-18th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
18th Century Portuguese Writing Table
Located in High Point, NC
18th century Portuguese writing table with fabulous hand turned legs and stretchers. The top features a single board top with applied carved molding around the edges, following down to two drawers with cushion raised panels and hand carved beaded...
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18th Century Portuguese Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Rosewood
18th Century Spanish Baroque Trestle Style Writing Table Desk with Two Drawers
Located in Madrid, ES
A beautifully conserved Spanish writing table with mixtilinear “pata de lira” (lyre-shaped legs) displaying zig-zagging curves and undulations, in the Baroque ...
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18th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Italian 1800s Baroque Style Desk with Drawers, Lyre Base and Iron Stretcher
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian Baroque style walnut Desk/table from the early 19th century, with drawers, lyre shaped base and wrought-iron stretcher. Created in Italy during the early years of the 19th...
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Early 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron
Spanish Baroque Style Center Table
Located in Winter Park, FL
A Spanish Baroque style center table made of solid walnut with lyre shaped legs joined by forged iron stretchers. The top is made has a beau...
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Early 20th Century Spanish Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
Catalan Spanish Lady Desk or Console Table in Carved Walnut and Iron Stretcher
Located in Miami, FL
19th century Catalan Spanish lady desk or console table in carved walnut & iron stretcher with five up drawers and two in the base table.
Very heavy and resis...
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Early 19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
Antiqued Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
An antiqued mahogany writing table, the serpentine parquetry planked top inset with a central burnished leather writing surface, above t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Leather
Early 20th Spanish Desk with Lyre Legs and Carved Edges on Top
Located in Miami, FL
Early 20th Spanish desk with lyre legs and carved edges on top
An 20th century Spanish Baroque style desk, or writing table made of solid walnut with lyre shaped legs joined by wrou...
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20th Century Spanish Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron
Domed Baroque Extension Table with Silver Leaf Details and Leather Top, Modenese
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Complete your office with this domed extension desk finely finished in natural walnut and silver leaf decorated carvings. Its curved baroque legs really...
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2010s Italian Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Silver Leaf, Gold Leaf
Baroque Walnut Writing Desk with Gold Leaf Details by Modenese Gastone Interiors
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Complete your office with a high-end Italian baroque writing desk from the bespoke producer Modenese Luxury Interiors. This solid wood presidentia...
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2010s Italian Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Silver Leaf, Gold Leaf
Rounded Luxury Classical Office Desk, Gold Leaf by Modenese Gastone Interiors
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Admire this figured presidential office desk finely finished in ebanon and gold leaf decorated carvings. Its curved baroque legs really make a...
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2010s Italian Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Silver Leaf, Gold Leaf
Domed Baroque Office Desk with Silver Leaf Details and Leather Top by Modenese
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Admire this domed presidential office desk finely finished in natural walnut and silver leaf decorated carvings. Its curved baroque legs reall...
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2010s Italian Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
18th Century Baroque Table, Made in Czechia, Fully Restored
Located in Horomerice, CZ
The table is made out of walnut and is inlaid. It has been fully restored by our team in Prague.
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Late 18th Century Czech Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Walnut
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 heads...
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Early 20th Century Spanish Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
19th Spanish Walnut Desk with Two Drawers and Solomonic Turning Legs
Located in Miami, FL
19th Spanish walnut desk with two drawers and solomonic turning legs , it has an iron stretcher between the legs.
The top is made of walnut with a...
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1890s French Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
Spanish Baroque Walnut Desk Table, Late 17th Century
Located in CH
Spanish Baroque walnut desk table, late 17th century.
A rectangular single plank (1.25-inch thick) walnut top is sitting over 2 geometrical car...
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Late 17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
19th Century antique Dresden Baroque Desk with Top Walnut veneer
Located in Berlin, DE
Excellent Dresden Baroque desk, On three sides and in the top plate walnut root on solid softwood. The curving, straight, and one-piece body, framing the open knee-box, is curved in ...
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19th Century German Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Baroque Table, Switzerland, 1770
Located in Belmont, MA
Baroque table, Switzerland, 1770.
This pretty Baroque table dates back to the Rococo period and comes from Berne in Switzerland. The base with the curved legs is made of cherry wood....
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1770s Swiss Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Cherry, Kingwood
Antique Baroque Style Top Desk Fully Inlaid
Located in Berlin, DE
With rich marquetry in this version, it is very rare to find such a similar piece of furniture. The cupboard stands on paw feet, high-quality maceteria inlays on all sides, i.e. inla...
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20th Century Italian Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
French Empire Revival Burr Walnut Kidney Desk Bronze Sphinx Mounts and Malachite
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare French Empire Revival style burr walnut with bronze mounts and Malachite pillars kidney desk
This is a rare desk and that’s for s...
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20th Century French French Provincial Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Spanish Walnut Desk with Two Drawers and Solomonic Turning Legs
Located in Miami, FL
19th Spanish walnut desk with two drawers and solomonic turning legs and solomonic stretcher
it is carved in four sides
It has a central lock for...
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1890s French Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
17th Century Painted Italian Trestle Table with Walnut Top
Located in Wichita, KS
Fabulous 17th century Italian trestle dining table with and 18th century walnut top. The legs have original finish. The top is thick walnu...
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17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut, Wood
Desk Swedish Baroque Period 18th Century Veneer Sweden
Located in New York, NY
Desk Swedish Baroque Period 18th Century Veneer Sweden. A stunning desk made during the Baroque period in Sweden. Veneered with elm and burl woo...
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18th Century European Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
From Villa Estate Neo Renaissance / Danzig Baroque Table antique circa 1890
Located in Berlin, DE
We offer a unique Neo Renaissance / Gdansk Baroque table.
The table stood in the entrance of a magnificent villa in the posh district of Grunewald for over 70 years.
Here are the original black and white photos of the table.
Solid oak with relief carvings and 4 angel heads, the top has a beautiful walnut veneer with a star inlay in the middle.
1-drawer has a lion head
underneath is a hidden drawer.
Spiral column frame with cross...
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19th Century German Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Small Dutch Baroque 17th Century Oak Draw-Leaf Center Table
Located in Troy, NY
The small Dutch Baroque draw-leaf or center table with a two-board framed top having conforming extension leaves on each end, above a plain frieze, supported by massive plaint turned...
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17th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Baroque Table, South German, 1760
Located in Belmont, MA
Beautiful baroque table or desk, made in Southern Germany or northern Switzerland 1760, cherry veneer with marquetry in plum wood and elm. The table is in very good refinished condit...
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1760s German Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Cherry
Ancient Italian Writing Desk with Upper Cabinet, Milan, Circa 1730
Located in Milano, IT
Writing desk with upper cabinet
Milan, first half of the 18th century
Carved walnut partially veneered in olive wood and walnut burl; traces of eboniz...
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1730s Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Olive, Walnut
17th Spanish Refectory Table, Writing Desk, One Large Drawer
Located in Miami, FL
17th Spanish refectory table. Writing desk. One large drawer
The top its circa 1680, the legs circa 1800.
The table are completely restored.
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17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
18th Century Baroque Venetian Center Table Red Lacquered Painted
Located in Epfach, DE
18th century Venetian center table
red lacquered with painted gilt figures
with one-drawer
a very unusual and rare Venetian table with lovely ...
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18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Table Rent Center Desk Tavolino Tuscan Italian Walnut Oval Baroque
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Exceptionally rare, large, museum quality, Tuscan, Baroque, walnut, rent or center table or tavolino with detachable top and single drawer
- This beautiful, rent table is an unco...
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Early 17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Louis XV French Oak Writing Table with Scalloped Shaped Top
Located in Dallas, TX
An 18th century French country Louis XV style writing table-end table. This lovely oak table features a scalloped shaped top, one drawer and cabriole legs.
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Mid-18th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Boulle Desk .
Located in Kraków, Małopolska
Boulle Desk from 1880
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1870s French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Flemish Baroque Marquetry Decorated Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine 19th century Flemish ebony center or writing table having floral marquetry inlay inlaid bone insects on a walnut, ebony and faux tortoise background, bone and ebony pattern...
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1860s Belgian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bone, Tortoise Shell, Ebony
French Empire Faux Marble Legs Leather Top Sconces Bureau Desk with Organizer
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Exotic wood faux marble column shape legs French Empire bureau leather top desk with brass sconces. Medium size desk suitable as a console or entry desk or ...
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20th Century American French Provincial Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
French Fruitwood Work Table
Located in Woodbury, CT
With its scalloped apron and cabriole legs, this table is has a more dynamic appearance than an ordinary work table, but its single side drawer and pull-out breadboard slide say othe...
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19th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Cherry
Spanish Baroque 18th Century Lyre Leg Wooden Trestle Table with Iron Stretcher
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Spanish baroque table with decorative forged-iron stretcher from the 18th century. This antique table from Spain features a rectangular-shaped top, which is raised upon a pair of fluidly-carved, lyre-shaped trestle styled legs at either end. The pair of trestles...
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Late 18th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
Table, Centre, Library, Desk, 17 Century, Portuguese, Baroque, Brazil, Rosewood
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
The design and ornamentation of this centre table is characteristic of Portuguese Baroque furniture dating from the second half of the 17t...
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Late 17th Century Portuguese Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Italian Baroque Walnut Fall Front Desk
Located in Stamford, CT
Italian fall front desk with burl wood inlay. With six drawers and two hidden storage areas. The top of this desk is 18th century, while the base, beau...
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18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Italian 17th Century Baroque Painted Walnut Centre Table
Located in Troy, NY
Strikingly decorative Venetian table of highly unusual and rare form, early 17th century.
The oblong molded top enhanced with gilt decoration, above a double frieze with conforming ...
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Early 17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Walnut
18th Century Baroque Table
Located in Belmont, MA
Unique baroque table made around 1750 in South Germany.
Exquisite marquetry in cherrywood, kingwood, walnut and elm. The marquetry depicts presentations of roman weapons and armor...
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1730s German Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Swedish 19th Century Baroque Style Desk or Table with Single Drawer
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Swedish 19th century Baroque style desk or table with single drawer. This antique Swedish desk features a rectangular-shaped top, a clean apron ...
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19th Century Swedish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Fine Italian 19th Century Floral Marquetry Gilt Bronze-Mounted Center Table Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine Italian 19th century mahogany, satinwood and tulipwood floral marquetry and gilt-bronze mounted center table or writing desk. The serpentine inlaid shaped top centered with a marquetry floral arrangement medallion, surrounded by sections of diamond-shaped acanthus parquetry designs flanked by further medallions of flower bouquets, all within a gilt-bronze rim, above a similarly decorated frieze fronted by four drawers, on scroll legs raised on lion paw feet on rolling casters, joined by an 'X'-shaped marquetry stretcher...
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Baroque Style Desk
Located in Berlin, DE
Excellent Dresden Baroque desk, circa 1870
On three sides and in the top plate walnut root on solid softwood.
The curving, straight, and one-piece body, framing the open knee-box, is...
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19th Century German Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut, Softwood
18th Century Rustic Desk Table, Country Table, Original Pinewood Laquered Waxed
Located in Vigonza, Padua
18th century rustic desk table or country table, original pine wood laquered, restored the top and finished to wax.
Drawer with functional lock, burnish...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Pine
18th Century German Baroque Table
Located in Belmont, MA
Unique baroque table made in Southern Germany around 1750-60. The top, the apron and the foot of the table are decorated with an exquisite walnut and yew tree marquetry. The table is...
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1750s German Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut, Yew
17th century Spanish Baroque inlaid walnut Desk or Center Table
Located in Troy, NY
Superb model with a deeply paneled frieze, having geometric fruitwood inlay, containing three drawers. The strong disc-turned legs connected by shaped side stretchers and wrought iro...
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Mid-17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Fruitwood, Walnut
Baroque 17th Century Italian or Maltese Marquetry Center table or Desk
Located in Troy, NY
Very unusual and rare small Bureau Plat, the frieze containing one drawer, finished all around and freestanding. Italian or possibly of Maltese Orig...
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Late 17th Century Maltese Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut, Olive
17th century Italian Baroque walnut Credenza or Desk
Located in Troy, NY
A rare, multi-functional piece, the doors opening to reveal a fitted interior with eight drawers and a small middle door, the slanted top with a fall front desk compartment...
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17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Desk Swedish Early 18th Century Baroque Period Sweden
Located in New York, NY
Desk Swedish Baroque Period Sweden. A rare Swedish Baroque desk in a stunning condition and patina from the Swedish King Fredrik I period. Structu...
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Late 17th Century Swedish Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak, Walnut
Italian Baroque Walnut Writing Table with Hinged Top, c1700
Located in valatie, NY
An Italian Baroque walnut writing table with unique hinged top, the rectangular top with bread boarded ends, opening and turning to create a large writing surface, the frieze contain...
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Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
19th Century French Country Farm Table or Writing Desk
Located in Houston, US
Classic French Provincial farm table in walnut with two drawers, waxed and polished finish. Hand constructed with planed boards, dovetailed drawers and pegged joints. Best used maybe...
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Mid-19th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Turn of the Century French Wooden Desk
Located in High Point, NC
The unique design of this vintage wooden writing desk combines a distinguished character with charming eccentricity. Built in France at the...
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Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
19th Century French Wooden Desk
Located in High Point, NC
A wooden writing desk from 19th century France. The top of this desk opens up to reveal three storage compartments and a writing surface, below which sit two drawers. A sunny aura em...
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19th Century French French Provincial Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Central Italian Baroque Period Dark Walnut Refectory Table, Mid-17th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
Having a thick rectangular top supported by two urn-shaped trestle-form legs joined by a square shaped stretcher, the supports raised on plinth form bases.
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Mid-17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
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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