Desks and Writing Tables

wonderful light and elegant desk from finland by suomen tuoli-, kalusto- ja sorvaustehdas. from the area of jyväskylä & muurame. this small and rare desk will be an wonderful additio...

Antique French Louis XVI Desk ~ Library Table ~ Dining Table is able to fill a multitude of roles, and do so in style! Combining elegantly scroll...

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...

Pine 'Lovö' table by Swedish Modernist Axel-Einar Hjorth, manufactured by Nordiska Kompaniet in Sweden, circa 1932. Best known for his modern reduced design, this table by Axel-Eina...

A rare Art Deco period eight-piece study suite set in the manner of famous Austrian architect, designer, and Vienna Secession founder Josef Hoffman (Austria, 1870-1956), circa 1920. Exquisitely handcrafted in Austria in the early 20th century, most likely Vienna, featuring fine quality craftsmanship and solid wood construction, featuring Biedermeier inspired Viennese Art Deco styling of simplicity, strict, geometric lines with minimal surface embellishment, instead of ornamentation putting the focus on high-quality materials. The matching eight-piece set comprising a tanker writing desk with inset leather surface, surmounted with raised gallery fitted with drawers flanking richly figured quilted diamond inlay, rising on double pedestals with locking cupboard doors opening to stacked shelved tray interior, affixed with patinated brass pulls and escutcheons, retaining original keys, finished on all sides so it can be placed anywhere in the room, and paired with a comfortable armchair with upholstered seat and backrest. A large eight door bookcase storage cabinet with original glass panels, adjustable shelves, and cocktail drinks bar slide. A centre card table with rectangular shaped canted corner top featuring inset green baize felt games playing surface, over conforming apron fitted with dovetailed drawers, rising on square column pedestal, surrounded by four upholstered side chairs. Dimensions: (approx) 79" High, 65" Wide, 21" Deep (largest, cabinet) PROVENANCE / ACQUISITION: Property from the important Estate of Myra Janco Daniels (1925-2022) Naples, Florida. A legendary business woman, philanthropist, and arts advocate who built the institution known today as Artis—Naples and made Naples a cultural destination. Additional info below. Acquired from highly reputable auction house, Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas. Design Signature Auction catalog #8110 Condition Report: Great original antique condition with beautifully aged warm mellow patina. Strong, sturdy and structurally sound. Overall very attractive condition; no significant losses or restorations; wear consistent with over 100 years of age and indicative of use. Delivered cleaned, waxed, hand rubbed polished French patina finish, ready for immediate use and generational enjoyment! ABOUT THE LEGENDARY PREVIOUS OWNER: We normally don't post about the prior owners life, but in the case of Myra Janco Daniels (1925-2022) we felt her incredible story be shared. The arts visionary and advertising Pioneer who helped transform Southwest Florida into a nationally recognized cultural destination, died June 22, three days before her 97th birthday. Daniels was founder and longtime CEO of the Philharmonic Center for the Arts (now Artis-Naples), which since 1989 has brought world-class music, theater, dance, opera, and art to Naples. In 2000, she founded the Naples Museum of Art (now the Baker Museum) on that same campus. After a storied career as an advertising executive in Chicago, Daniels came out of retirement in the early 1980s to spearhead a fund-raising drive for a small classical music ensemble on MarCo Island, which would later become the Naples Philharmonic orchestra. She discovered “a great hunger for the arts,” she later wrote, and soon expanded her fundraising goal to building a permanent home for the orchestra and an arts center for Southwest Florida. Daniels’ vision for the Philharmonic Center was ambitious and unusual – combining world-class performing and visual arts in a single venue. The Community strongly supported the concept, and the Phil, as it became known, gave Naples a national arts profile. Then-First Lady Barbara Bush was in attendance on opening night in November 1989. The Wall Street Journal covered the opening. “Myra Daniels is a dreamer. But unlike most dreamers, Myra is a doer,” the late Muriel Seibert, the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, once said of Daniels. While the arts were a lifelong passion for Daniels, her first career was as a groundbreaking advertising executive in Chicago, where she won national Advertising Woman of the Year honors and was among the first women to head a national ad firm. Daniels said that she used some of the same principles learned in her advertising career to sell Southwest Florida on the arts. “You have to believe in what you’re doing and then you have to get people involved to the point that they feel it’s theirs. That’s what we did.” Born Myra Janco in Gary, Indiana, Daniels was raised during the Great Depression by parents who encouraged her interest in the arts. But her greatest influence growing up was her grandmother Sophie, who, like Daniels, stood only five feet tall but dreamed big. “Sophie showed me what was possible,” Daniels wrote. “Create something that people want and need and you’ll be successful, she said. I always remembered that.” Her grandmother, who ran her own real estate business, experienced some failures “but she always dusted herself off and went back out there swinging. She wanted me to be that way too.” Daniels earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana State and later became an associate professor of marketing at Indiana University, the first woman to hold that position. In her mid-20s, she started Wabash Advertising in Terre Haute, Indiana, which later became affiliated with larger agencies in Chicago and Cleveland. In 1963, she was named executive vice president of Roche, Rickard, Henri, Hurst, Inc. in Chicago. The National Advertising Federation honored Daniels as its Advertising Woman of the Year in 1965, the youngest woman to receive the award. That same year, she became president of a new national agency that she formed with ad man Draper Daniels. The merger was not just a professional one. Draper Daniels, who was responsible for many famous ad campaigns at the time, including the Marlboro Man and was later an inspiration for the Don Draper character on TV’s Mad Men, became her husband in 1967. Myra wrote about their unusual courtship and life together for Chicago magazine, in an article entitled “I Married a Mad Man,” which was included in her book Secrets of a Rutbuster. They ran the Draper Daniels, Incorporated agency, as it was called, until 1977. When Draper wanted to retire to Southwest Florida, Myra Daniels reluctantly left Chicago and advertising, and they settled on MarCo Island. But after Draper died of cancer in 1983, Myra turned her energies to the fundraising Campaign that led to the Philharmonic Center Cultural Complex. Daniels served as CEO of the Philharmonic Center from its inception in the 1980s to her retirement in 2011, building the Phil into a $100 million corporation. During that time, the Naples Philharmonic became a nationally recognized orchestra, with a Grammy nomination, CD and appearances on PBS; and the Naples Museum of Art developed an international reputation. The center also helped change people’s perception of Naples, which had been known mostly for its beaches and golfing. In 2005, Naples was named the Best Small Art Town in America in a book that singled out the Phil. More than just an arts venue, the Philharmonic Center also wove the arts into the culture of the Community, providing public school programs, adult and children’s education classes and workshops, and free concerts throughout Southwest Florida. Edward Villella, legendary dancer with the New York City Ballet and founder of Miami City...

Walnut Art Deco writing desk made in 1920s France. Restored by our team. Completely restored to high gloss. Material: Oak and Ebony Period: 1920-1929.

Large Industrial style early 20th century architect drawing table featuring an oak base and a pine top. Comes with three drawers, including one larger blueprint drawer, two regular d...

This Italian early 20th century cherrywood console table or writing desk is a fine Art Nouveau period piece of furniture. Its beautiful mellow honey colour and stylishly curved pilla...

Handsome walnut table that can be used as a center table ,side or console table. Fluted legs in each side and wood stretcher.

A charming early 20th century Spanish pine farm table with four legs and back side trestle and a wonderfully well-worn finish from a century of use. Height from to the drawers : ...

French wooden hand painted table with cognac velvet top. The table is hand carved with typical details for Louise XVI style like the gilt wood ribbons at the front and the fluted leg...

Early 20th-Century Neoclassical Writing Desk Inlaid with Brass We present you a Neoclassical writing desk from the early 20th century. It is...

1920s Art Deco Solid Rosewood Rectangular Desk With Original Fittings. The Central Drawer is housed between two sets of drawers with Chrome finished feet, and handles. This exquisite Streamline Moderne desk...

This French Art Deco carved mahogany dining table or large writing desk from the early 20th century features a beautiful geometric marquetry wood tabletop with arrow pattern supporte...

Handsome British Colonial partners desk hand crafted in mahogany with a brown tooled leather top, two drawers on either side and elegant turned legs on brass casters.

A very fine 1920s mahogany desk or sofa table finely carved and of fabulous quality with rich patination and fine grain. The moulded top with reeded edge of rectangular form fitted w...

A sculptural statement desk in patinated black enamelled steel, with new floating frosted glass top. Le Corbusier-esque in it’S Form - a nod to both modernism and industrialism. Fren...

Antique Rustic Country French desk is the ideal choice for the executive who wants a more relaxed, casual feel to the office. Great as a home offic...

An elegant and very high quality French Early 20th century Louis XVI mahogany, ormolu, and Arabescato marble center/side, table/desk attributed to François Linke. The table is raised...

A fabulous Edwardian mahogany desk in the Carlton house style, finely carved, line inlaid and cross banded throughout and of gorgeous quality with rich patination and fine grain. The...

This stylish and chic dressing table is in the Louis XV style, and was fabricated sometime in the 1920s-1930s. The center opens up to reveal a dressing mirror, and just beneath that ...

A Stunning Edwardian, richly patinated mahogany desk in the Carlton house style by Maple of London. Finely carved and of fabulous quality, line inlaid and cross banded with exquisite...

1920s French writing table with 2 drawers. A designer in the past added the leather top and chrome accents.

French oak harvest trestle table, circa 1900. X-framed pine trestle with a replacement oak top made from 300 year old oak beams. A good versatile dining table, desk, work table ...

An antique Chippendale style knee hole desk offers mahogany construction with top having rope twist trim over central drawer with flanking smaller drawers and reeded columns, raised ...

This lovely Art Deco table or writing desk circa 1930 is expertly handcrafted from maple wood and features a rectangular tabletop with curved edges and tall apron, a trestle base and...

Sn5202 Edwardian mahogany and inlaid desk by Maple and Co, having black tooled leather writing surface, satinwood crossbanded top with moulded edge and mahogany slider to each side a...

A Handsome Partner's Desk After the Chippendale Design Made from fine mahogany, with finely cast brass hardware, the desk supported on rolling casters hidden under the thumbnail ...

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 ...

This lovely little table has many stains and cracks, which gives it an incredible charm. The colors are very rich and warm. It has a drawer, and can be used as a small desk or as a s...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning very solid and heavy, early 20th century carved oak desk in one piece. The practical desk is well decorated with vine leaves and g...

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...

Frits Henningsen, Danish furniture designer and cabinet maker (1889-1965). Elegant solid mahogany writing table. Rectangular top with with molded edge above drawers, raised on elegan...

Reception desk, larch wood, decorated glass on the front and on one side, vinyl material on the top and in the lower part.

Antique English burled walnut leather top desk, circa 1880.

French desk style: Art Deco Year 1920 Material: Wood and chrome It is an elegant and sophisticated dream desk. The quality of the furniture and the exotic wood used make it unique. ...

An attractive ebonised pine pedestal desk with green baize top. Handy pull out tray drawers and nicely worn throughout. In good solid order. Early 20th cen...

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...

A light-grey, white antique Swedish Gustavian two part bureau with a writing flap made of hand crafted painted Pinewood, in good condition. The Scandinavian secretaire is composed with two upper doors, three large drawers and many small storage spaces, enhanced by detailed wood carvings. The doors have the original window panes in glass. The secretary writing table, desk represents the Neoclassical Greek style with the original bronze hardware and key. Wear consistent with age and use. Circa 1910-1920...

A large and impressive early 20th century mahogany desk, the moulded edge top having a green leather writing surface divided into three shaped sections, the front of the desk having ...

Antique Bureau bookcase, Slant front desk, bookcase top, Scotland 1910, H244 Scotland 1910 Solid oak Original finish The top with glass doors and stitched interior The fall front op...

A very fine Edwardian richly patinated mahogany desk attributed to Edward and Roberts. Line inlaid throughout and with fabulous marquetry detail depicting Neoclassical motifs of urns...

Restored Art Deco writing desk. Revived polish. Period: 1930-1939 Source: Czechia Material: solid oak Leg space: height: 63,5 cm (25 in) width: 53 cm (20.9 in).

A Louis XVI style writing table By Lexcellent of Paris Of restrained elegance and sumptuous finish with gilt bronze mounts, the mahogany-veneered writing table supported on taper...

Mahogany writing desk, of Chippendale design, the inset tooled leather writing surface, within an egg and dart border. Above central frieze drawer flanked by two further drawers to e...

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...

This supremely rare early Modernist dressing table by Maison Desny, with its novel use of clear and opaline glass, and nickel-plated and paint...

Art Nouveau freestanding desk with 5 drawers. Very good condition according to age. Only minimal scratches, surface gently restored.

Magnificent and rare Art Nouveau pedestal desk. Design by J.J. Terburg & Soon Arnhem. Striking Dutch design from the 1900s. Solid oak with hand-carved floral decorative elements a...

Completely restored writing desk with a frame in tubular chromed steel. Maker: Mücke - Melder Period: 1930-1939 Source: Czechia Material: beech, chrome-plated steel. Complet...

Antique French Renaissance walnut desk ~ Bureau plat was found along the southern coast of France, and emulates the styles of Italian...

Important Esherick Table from The Hedgerow Collection. Crafted by Esherick in 1924. The table is thought to have been used by Esherick at the family's home Sunekrest prior to 1938. That year Esherick enhanced the table's form by reshaping its legs, thus simplifying the design. The table found it's way to Hedgerow Theatre in 1940 in the Theatre's Green Room for many years. Provenance: Made by the artist for the artist's home, Sunekrest, Paoli, Pennsylvania, 1924 Re-designed by the artist, 1938 Sold to Hedgerow Theatre, Rose Valley...

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...

DESK AND CHAIR BY SUE ET MARE A French Art Deco ladies writing desk and chair of exceptional quality by Louis Sue and Andre Mare produced...

A fabulous original American Art Deco industrial Smartline kitchen work table, designed by Raymond Patten (American, 1897-1948), retailed by Internation...

Antique quality mahogany desk writing side occasional table C1900. Neat compact dimensions. Possibly European continental origins. No loose joi...

Adams Edwardian Inlaid Carlton house desk, hand painted, satinwood, An absolutely stunning Adams Carlton House desk in the manner of Angelica Kauffman. Typical form, the superstructure fitted with four banks of two small drawers flanked by curved cupboard...

Art Deco pagoda like a writing desks, side tables or home office desks attributed to Hugo Gorge circa 1925 Vienna. Hugo Gorge ( 1883 - 1934 ) was a pop...