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Desks and Writing Tables For Sale
Style: Louis XV
Style: Arts and Crafts
Rare Gilt-Bronze Mounted Marquetry Pedestal Desk by François Linke, circa 1900
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A rare gilt bronze mounted marquetry pedestal desk by François Linke.
French, circa 1900.
Linke Index Number 711.
Linke title ‘Bureau LXV à 8 pieds’.
Stamped to the insi...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Table, Office from the Beginning of the 19th Century, Louis XV Style in Blackene
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Table, office from the beginning of the 19th century, Louis XV style in blackened wood, very decorative antiquity
Measures: H 77cm, W 68cm, D 53cm.
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1860s French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Italian Olive Burl Wood Cabriole Leg Bombay Drop Front Secretary with Bookcase
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very fine craftsmanship Italian made burl wood drop front secretary.
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20th Century Italian Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Olive, Burl
French 1790s Louis XV Style Walnut and Elm Writing Table with Single Drawer
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Louis XV style walnut and elm writing table from the late 18th century, with single drawer and cabriole legs. Born in France during the later years of the 18th century, this...
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Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Elm, Walnut
Fine French 19th Century Louis XV Style Giltwood Carved Figural Center Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine French 19th century Louis XV style giltwood carved figural center or hall table fitted with a Brêche violette marble top. The rectangular frame with four scrolled cabriol...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Marble
Rare Louis XV Style Marquetry Inlaid Bureau de Dame François Linke, circa 1980
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A rare and unusual Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted and marquetry inlaid Bureau de Dame by François Linke.
French, circa 1890.
Signed to the gilt-bronze rim ‘Linke’.
Stampe...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Majestic French Bureau Plat Desk According to Andre C. Boulle
Located in Berlin, DE
Root veneer on solid beech and oak. Extremely finely chiselled bronze. Three-wheeled frame base with wide knee-section on four cabriole legs with forward looking, imposing Espagnolet...
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18th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
French 19th Century Louis XV Style Kingwood Marquetry Ormolu-Mounted Desk Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Fine and large French 19th century Louis XV Style Kingwood and Tulipwood floral marquetry and finely chased ormolu-mounted desk, side table, writing table or wall console, raised o...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Louis XV Style Verne Martin Painted Desk
Located in New York, NY
French Louis XV style (19th Century) Verne Martin painted desk with bronze trim.
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19th Century Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Louis XV Style Ladies Bureau Plat or Desk
Located in Berlin, DE
Elegant ladies bureau plat desk in the Louis XV style, rosewood and shaded precious wood, veneered. Extremely fine, floral, bronze fittings. Four-sided, ...
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20th Century Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Mid Century Louis XV Bombe Hand-Carved Paint Decorated Marble-Top Desk & Chair
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Beautiful five-drawer desk with hand carvings (see thumbnail photos) and paint decorated in the Louis XV style. Top quality workmanship in every phase. Original matching chair with this desk that is finished on all sides and can be placed in the middle of a room, bombe on all sides. Serpentine marble top...
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1950s American Louis XV Vintage Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Marble
French Louis XV Style Provincial Oak Kneehole Desk
Located in New York, NY
French Louis XV style (19th Century) provincial oak kneehole desk with brown leather top.
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Oak
French Louis XV Style Kingwood Desk with Sèvres Plaques
Located in New York, NY
French Louis XV style (19th Century) kingwood lady's desk with Sevres porcelain panels and bronze trimmed gallery.
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
B Talbert for Gillows Aesthetic Movement Davenport with Central Carved Rosette
Located in London, GB
Bruce J Talbert for Gillows of Lancaster.
An Aesthetic Movement Davenport with a brass gallery to the back and an inkwell and pen compartment below, a...
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Late 19th Century Arts and Crafts Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century French Louis XV Transition Marquetry Gilt Bronze Desk Bureau Plat
Located in Berlin, DE
18th Century French Louis XV Transition Marquetry Gilt Bronze Desk Bureau Plat
An 18th century gilt-bronze mounted double-face desk or bureau plat with herring-bone marquetry. The k...
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18th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Louis XV Style Walnut Table Desk
Located in New York, NY
French Louis XV style (19/20th Century) walnut table desk with gilt trim and stretcher.
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
French Rococo Louis XV Distress Paint Dressing Table Vanity Ladies Writing Desk
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique French Louis XV / Rococo style hand-carved and distressed dressing table / ladies writing desk. Item features a shaped turtle top with diamond sunburst veneer, single hand do...
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Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
French 19th Century Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted and Leather Cartonnier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and palatial French 19th century Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted, leather, tulipwood and kingwood parquetry cartonnier with clock. The circular clock with elaborate pi...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Bureau Plat or Writting Table by the Model of Andre Charles Boulle
Located in Berlin, DE
This model was built by Charles Boulle, the most important and historian of Louis XV.
Piano white Polished veneer on solid beech and oak. Extremely finely...
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20th Century Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Louis XV Marquetry Ladies' Desk Manner of J.C. Ellaume
Located in Berlin, DE
18th Century Louis XV Marquetry Ladies' Desk Manner of J.C. Ellaume
A mid-18th century ladies' desk or so-called "bureau de pente", its shaped fall-front opening to reveal a red lea...
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1750s French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Petite French Louis XV Style Walnut Slant-Front Desk, Stamped, circa 1810
Located in Atlanta, GA
A stamped French Louis XV style small walnut slant-front desk with sliding inlaid panels, long drawer and inner compartments from the early 19th century. This petite French desk...
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Early 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Large Regence Style Ormolu Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in London, GB
Of classical rectangular form, the four cabriole legs capped by ormolu female masks, with a further two masks to the sides, with three drawers and a leather writing surface
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Louis XV Style Kingwood Table Desk with Parquetry Inlay
Located in New York, NY
French Louis XV style (19th Century) kingwood table desk with parquetry inlay and floral marquetry border and a single drawer with gilt bronze trim (signed: LINKE)
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Louis XV Style Black Lacquered Desk with Red Tooled Leather Top
Located in Dallas, TX
French Louis XV style black lacquered desk with a red tooled leather top and bronze hardware.
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Louis XV Style Kingwood Veneer End Table
Located in New York, NY
French Louis XV-style (19th Century) kingwood veneer end table with 2 drawer (top drawer for writing) with an inlaid top and gilt bronze trim.
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Louis XV Style Kingwood Veneer Desk with Tooled Leather Top
Located in New York, NY
French Louis XV style (19th Century) kingwood veneer desk with 5 drawers and gold tooled leather top with bronze sabot feet and escutcheons.
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Arts & Crafts Satinwood Writing Table by Marsh and Jones
By John Marsh and Edward Jones
Located in London, by appointment only
An Arts and Crafts satinwood writing lavishly inlaid with stylized foliate ornament and multilayered crossbanding. The table is supported on turned columns joined by a stretcher supp...
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19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Desks and Writing Tables
French 19th Century Floral Marquetry and Gilt Bronze Table
Located in London, GB
A ladies writing table in the Louis XV transitional manner.
Of freestanding form, constructed in kingwood, with good marquetry inlays, and having gilt bronze mounts; rising from swept cabriole legs with foliate form bronze sabots, and foliate espagnolettes over; the apron houses a lockable central drawer, with gilt bronze handles and a keyhole escutcheon; the shaped serpentine platform having a centrally situated floral bouquet, within a trellis delineated ground, the whole having a gilt bronze guard...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Small Louis XV Side Table - France, 18th Century
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Charming carved table on cabriole legs, with central drawer.
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18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
French Louis XV 19th Century Walnut Hoof Foot Desk or Writing Table
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Elegant French Louis XV 19th century walnut three-drawer (dovetailed) desk from Avignon with embossed leather top, original key and cabriole legs. This remarkable desk, crafted from ...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Early 20th century French carved poker work writing table
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Early 20th century french carved poker work writing table circa 1900.
Unusual profusely carved small writing table. Carved tulips into the top surface, around the apron and down the...
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Early 20th Century French Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Pine
Louis XV Style Black Lacquer Leather Top Writing Desk
Located in North York, ON
Exquisite antique Louis XV style writing desk, crafted in France in the early 1900's. This stunning piece of furniture features all original brass ornaments, reflecting the intricate...
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1930s French Louis XV Vintage Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Italian Louis XV Burl Wood Leather Top Bureau Plat Desk With Bronze Ormolu
Located in South Bend, IN
An outstanding Italian Louis XV style writing desk or bureau plat desk
Italy, Circa 1940s
Gorgeous burl wood, with inlaid marquetry, ornate ormolu mounts, and embossed brown leathe...
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1940s Italian Louis XV Vintage Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Style Hand Carved Walnut Desk or Writing Table
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This late nineteenth century French Louis XV style walnut writing table or desk features deep relief hand carved details of shells on all four sides and corners as well as scrolling ...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Louis XV Style Desk
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Louis XV Style Tea / Centre Table From Paris. A combination of exotic woods including rosewood, tulip wood and more with delicate little bronze mounts were used in the creation of th...
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Early 1900s French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
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
Gustav Stickley Mission Oak Arts & Crafts Trestle Library Table or Writing Desk
Located in South Bend, IN
A rare and exceptional antique Mission oak Arts & Crafts trestle library table or writing desk
By Gustav Stickley (original label present)
USA, circa 1900
Measures: 48"W x 2...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
French Louis XV Walnut Side Table or Small Writing Table
Located in Winter Park, FL
A French Louis XV style writing or side table made of solid walnut. Single dovetailed drawer on the right side. Top has marquetry inlaid detail and curved front corners with wood tri...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Louis XV Leather Top Desk
Located in Westwood, NJ
A French Louis XV style fine deep rosewood bureau plat writing desk, the leather inset brass moulded edge top above three shaped frieze drawers wi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
20th Century Exclusive Bureau Plat/ writing Desk in Louis XV
Located in Berlin, DE
20th century exclusive bureau plat/ writing desk in Louis XV style
Solid beechwood ebonized/blackened. Very fine, floral bronze fittings. Frame base with four-sided curvature. 3 d...
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20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French 1850 Writing table with Curvy Top, Single Drawer and Cabriole Legs
Located in Atlanta, GA
This French Louis XV style mid-19th century wooden desk / writing table features a beautifully curvy three-plank top over a simple apron with a single drawer. The table is raised on ...
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Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
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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