Desks and Writing Tables

Exceptional French Boulle bureau plat has the English feel of a library table with the four rams head mounted bronze fluted legs terminating in a br...

Sn5596 Elegant antique writing desk / writing table of bow fronted design, having green tooled leather writing surface (showing minor signs of usage)and string inlaid and satinwood c...

This is a fantastic antique French desk. The desk is in good condition and measures 19 inches deep x 31 wide x 30 inches tall. The desk dates to teh 1920s.

English mahogany folding campaign desk with fitted leather interior consisting of document pouch,original ink well, quill box, writing surface, a...

A French Louis XIII period walnut writing table from circa 1630 with two lateral drawers, barley twist base, black painted top and carved X-Form cross stretcher accented with central...

Antique Edwardian quality freestanding mahogany inlaid pedestal desk having a quality attractive mahogany inlaid satinwood crossbanded top with a green leather writing surface above ...

English five drawer Hepplewhite tambour writing desk with fitted interior, satinwood string inlay, original brasses, and terminating on satinwood...

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This is a truly special piece with rich wood grain in Tiger Maple. Four sturdy columns with a large single drawer. Retains original wood casters for easy ...

Elegant desk perfect for the center of the room, with drawers in solid walnut and walnut feather veneer on the sides, interiors in poplar. The drawers are all equipped with locks. Tu...

An oak, brass and black leather desk designed by Eliel Saarinen for the The Finnish State Railways, Finland, c. 1919. Provenance: Helsinki Central Station.

Center writing table Cassina Brothers (Francesco and Giuseppe) Milan, January 26, 1796 79.5 x 94 x 58.5 cm State of conservation: excellent The rectangular table features a minimall...

American Industrial Roll Top Desk or Table by Toledo, Japanned Finish, circa 1920s A rare and sculptural early 20th-century industrial rolltop desk or table by the Toledo Metal Furn...

An exceptional antique Mission or Arts & Crafts writing desk or library table By Gustav Stickley USA, Circa 1900 Solid quarter sawn oak, with original hammered copper hardware. M...

A rare and exceptional antique Mission or Arts & Crafts writing desk By Gustav Stickley (original label present) USA, Early 20th Century Solid quarter sawn oak, with original copp...

Rare Luxurious, Asprey & Co. London (Royal Warrant) Oak & Tooled Racing Green Leather Pop-Up Writing Table Made in England in the 1920s. Item is sold complete with a Burgundy tooled red leather desk set also from Aspreys. It's a very attractive item befit with an aluminium desk calendar, letter opener and two vertical pen rests. The rectangular and hinged two panel top encloses a green leather writing surface which reveals itself when opened from the top, item is raised on square tapering legs. Desk comes with two original large glass inkwells...

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. 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...

French writing table, little desk or side table, circa 1900. Made in the art Nouveau period : the carving of the drawer and its handle is typical of the lines of this artistic movem...

A beautiful 18th Rococo writing table in absolutely original condition. The table features a single drawer and a beautiful vintage patina with the original...

Smaller secession writing desk in very nice original condition.

This is a very rare form of desk. The desk is inlaid in the Carlton House tradition and features stained veneers and a dark mahogany backdrop with a mirrored back behind spindles. th...

Rectangular removable green leather top with reversible felt playing surface , exposing a backgammon playing surface. Opposing chip drawers and raised on square tapered fluted legs e...

having a rectangular top with with one "floating" carved drawer below it, the top supported by trestle form legs joined by diagonal stretchers and two horizontal centered stretchers

French Art Deco Desk An exceptional quality French art deco desk produced in the 1920s from Mahogany and satinwood, the desk has a thick Hyde leather inset top, two lockable drawer...

Very rare 18th century Italian neoclassical desk attributed to the workshop of Giuseppe Maggiolini. The piece is composed of extensive inlay ...

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 : 23...

Handsome walnut library piece that can be used as a desk or Work table. Made of walnut having carved gadrooned and lyre legs and a stretcher made of iron. Carved on all sides . 19th...

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 : ...

This 18th-century Italian desk exemplifies the ornate craftsmanship and elegance of period furniture. Crafted from rich, dark wood, likely walnut, it features intricately carved legs...

French Art Deco large mahogany kneehole desk with bronze column design trim and leather top. (JULES LELEU)

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....

A very large mahogany centrepiece partners’ desk in the Chippendale style, attributed to Maples or Gillows, of oval form with a replaced green leather top, the frieze with six small ...

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...

This charming late 18th-century George III period oak bureau showcases exquisite craftsmanship and timeless appeal. The fall front opens to reveal a well-organized interior, featurin...

A fine proportion mahogany rectangular partners desk with brown leather top with a crossbanded border with delicate carving, surmounting a frieze with two fitted and cockbeaded document drawers...

Ebonized wood “architect desk” table, France, 19th century. On four tapered legs with a central knot stands the table, one drawers on the skirt, some boards on the sides and a slopin...

A wonderful antique Regency style escritoire desk. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1910 period. This is of superb quality, it is a ...

Spanish Renaissance style (17th Century and Later) wrought iron mounted walnut vargueno on later stand with a fall front enclosing 3 long drawers.

Fine 18th century Swedish Rococo desk / console table with one drawer and in Its original colour. Ca 1770 Sweden.

French antique oak side or writing table, circa 1900. Made in the art Nouveau period : the carving of the drawer and of the table belt is typical of the lines of this artistic moveme...

Arts and Crafts Pitch Pine Writing Table A good Heavy quality Pitch pine side table or writing table in the Arts and Crafts style There are 2 drawers along the front and a wide str...

Antique Early 18th Century Queen Anne Inlaid Burr Walnut Escritoire/Desk/Chest This fine quality early 18th Century Queen Anne escritoire is a wonderfully charming period piece, sho...

An exceptional antique Mission or Arts & Crafts quarter sawn oak sideboard buffet server or writing desk By L. & J.G. Stickley USA, Circa ...

A fine English pre-William-and-Mary, circa 1680 Charles II period side table of rectangular form, the moulded-edge parquetry top inlaid with olivewood 'oystering' within geometric st...

The apron being trimmed in bronze moldings above a single drawer all supported by slender turned legs. This is a very hard size to find and, not only works as a desk, but it would al...

This oak and mahogany lowboy has a 1/16 inch shrinkage separation in the top. The top has an applied ogee molding and is crossbanded with 3/4 inch mahogany crossbanding. The drawer f...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning very rare original George III circa 1780 walnut twin pedestal double sided partner desk with period handles and green leather surface...

This is a fantastic Louis XV style desk made in Italy of Circassian highly figured walnut. Th desk is in good, restored condition and will show minimal signs of age and wear. Measure...

Original, fully restored Bauhaus Executive Desk, attributed to Erich Dieckmann, Germany, 1923-1925 at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Wonderful rosewood / Palisander veneer with excellent piano lacquer finish. Inside in bright maple in satin finish and high-gloss inside the doors. Polished decorative stainless steel trims around the top and bottom. Nickel-plated metal fittings and details, galvanized and polished. Original locks repaired. On the backside there are two book compartments...

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...

A fine quality late 18th century Sheraton period well-figured mahogany Carlton House Desk boxwood & ebony line inlaid & satinwood banded throughout, having brass galleried top above ...

The desk is from the time around 1730 and covered with a beautiful marquetry of different walnut / walnut root wood on a pine body. All three locks are original from that time as wel...

This elegant Louis XV bureau plat, dating from circa 1750, showcases the exquisite craftsmanship of its time. Constructed from tulipwood and kingwood, the desk features a luxurious l...

20th Century Spanish baroque desk, or writing table made of solid walnut with lyre legs joined by wrought iron stretchers. Three drawers with original iron drawer pulls. The top is m...

A very good quality late 18th century Georgian mahogany cylinder desk having well figured roll top, enclosing baize sliding writing surface with...

Handsome Early 1900s Antique English, Walnut, Leather Top, London, Maple & Co, Writing Desk! English walnut leather top writing desk, Maple and Co, London, early 20th century; 31"H ...

***Reduced Delivery Rates - See Below or Click “Ask The Seller” to Request a Quote*** Antique Arts & Crafts Mahogany Library Table in the Manner of Roycroft with Slat Sides, Single ...

Desk in precious wood and finely executed marquetry, inspired by the work of Giuseppe Maggiolini (1738-1814), a cabinetmaker renowned for his detailed neoclassical marquetry. Desk i...