Leather Desks and Writing Tables

Early 20th century leather top mahogany desk circa 1910. Original red leather writing surface with gold tooling, with obvious signs of use.  Fitted with 3 drawers above the the knee...

Baker Furniture company, walnut Carlton House style desk. Brass gallery surround on top. Carlton House design. Nice Leather top. Dimensions: 38 1/2" h x 54" w x 28" d.

Exceptional quality ladies desk / writing table by Edwards & Roberts. With antique desks and bookcases having always been the most sought after antique pieces of furniture, we were ...

Fabulous extendible bureau plat, or writing desk from the late 19th century in the French Empire style, made of mahogany among other luxurious materials. Rich, caramel-colored leathe...

Handsome Edwardian style writing desk having rich mahogany base and front turned legs that terminate in casters. Top is covered in brown tooled leather. Two drawers on one side. ...

Baker Furniture Neoclassic Fruitwood & Leather Bureau Plat Desk, Circa 1950s Three-Drawer Configuration: Elegant Mid-Century Design This stunning Neoclassic bureau plat by Baker Fu...

This is an elegant antique aesthetic period burr maple and ebonized writing table, stamped 'EDWARDS & ROBERTS'  Circa 1870 in date.   This elegant desk is crafted from the most beaut...

Russian Baltic Style Cylinder Desk. . 3 dovetail drawers at the bottom and one at the top. The rolltop door contains a fitted interior and leather writing surface. Dimensions: 47...

A circa 1830 English regency George IV / William IV period solid mahogany double-sided library or writing table of large scale and rectangular form, the possibly original black leath...

A good antique Georgian Regency mahogany library table partner's desk, circa 1820. The desk is made from the finest solid figured flame mahogany and is fitted with a tooled and gilde...

Magnificent and rare Art Deco Amsterdamse School pedestal desk. Striking Dutch design from the 1920s. Solid oak and original oak veneered base with re-upholstered black leather writi...

Chinoiserie Lacquered Bamboo Desk, France, circa late 19th Century. Beautiful hand painted aesthetic movement decoration. It is a versatile size and can be used as a desk, writing ta...

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 ...

William 1V Period Mahogany leather top Library table circa 1830s Mahogany top with thumb mould edge, with: Black Leather inset top with Gold...

Distinctive and timeless, this English mahogany writing desk has three functioning drawers in the front, and three matching false front (non functioning) drawers on the opposite side...

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...

French antique Louis XV style bureau plat desk made of solid wood construction that has been ebonized and finished with a lustrous French polish finish of museum-quality. The desk ha...

This is a very attractive Antique Victorian Gillows Style Birdseye Maple writing table, circa 1880 in date. The rectangular top features a moulded edge with the original inset black...

Vintage Baker Furniture French Provincial Louis XVI Style Brown Leather Top Walnut Writing Desk. Item features 2 dovetailed drawers, finished back, tapered legs, beautiful burnished ...

Elegant French Louis XV style writing desk or bureau plat desk with stunning diamond marquetry on drawers. Lovely versatile medium size, stunning bronze figural female bust mounts o...

This is a stylish vintage mahogany writing table, styled in the manner of Gillows and dating  from the second half of the 20th Century. This writing table is crafted from finest qua...

This small scale late eighteenth century French Louis XVI period walnut lady's writing desk features a gold tooled black leather top. A single drawer pulls out from the side using a ...

A mid-century cantilever desk with teak top and ebonized lacquered base, circa 1960s. Two drawers with leather handles feature ebonized interiors with built in pen/pencil holders. U...

This three-drawer Jacques Adnet desk in dark brown stitched leather with ring pulls and brass accents at feet. Finished all around and veneer top - SEE ALL detail images and video. ...

A gorgeous French Provincial Louis XV style writing desk By Sligh Furniture USA, Circa 1960s Green lacquered cherry wood, with embossed leather top, and original brass hardware. ...

Chinoiserie Black Lacquer Tan Leather Top Faux Bamboo 56" Wide Desk Drexel MINT!

A fine antique 19th century French Louis XV tulipwood and marquetry, ormolu mounted bureau plat, serpentine shaped writing table, circa 1880. The table having an inset brown & red hu...

A large desk or writing table in nicely grained mahogany with a tooled leather top inset within an ogee molded edge, on a narrow apron having three drawers each side, and so known as...

Late 20th Century campaign style desk. Features a rectangular form with brown tooled leather top and two drawers in the frieze. Each drawer has brass lion knocker pulls. The desk is ...

A Georgian mahogany writing table with burgundy leather inset top over three-drawered apron with central drawer stepped above two side drawers, standing on four bold square section l...

Fabulous mid size Georgian Revival knee hole desk with tooled leather top, six drawers, bowed rectangular top & sides embellished with Greek Key carved full top surround; working loc...

A 19th century French Louis Philippe style bureau plat, or desk, made of solid and veneer of mahogany. Two dovetailed drawers with working locks and one key. Leather top with gold em...

Stunning Mid-Century military campaign desk. This fantastic piece was made in Italy in the 1960s. This trestle desk is made from a beautiful wood with exceptional grain, the top is ...

Theodore Alexander "Chateau du Vallois" French Provincial Writing Desk. Features a serpentine form made from mahogany with tooled leather surfaces. Includes three dovetailed drawers ...

Vintage Dakota Jackson post modern Art Deco style executive partners desk featuring mahogany with leather insert and stainless steel frame. A V-Shape pattern veneer top with Black Leather inset. 2 pedestal cabinets below: each with 2 standard drawers and 1 file drawer, front and back. Polished Stainless Steel drawer pulls, post, floor plates, and arced trestle supporting desktop. DJ Chelsea Black Leather, Polished Polyresin finish. Dakota Jackson (born August 24, 1949) is an American furniture designer known for his eponymous furniture brand, Dakota Jackson, Inc.,[1] his early avant-garde works involving moving parts or hidden compartments,[2][3] and his collaborations with the Steinway & Sons piano company.[1] Jackson helped establish the art furniture movement in 1970s SoHo,[4][5] later becoming a celebrity designer in the 1980s.[6][7][8] His background in the world of stage magic helped him get his first commissions and is often cited as the source of his point-of-view.[6][9] Early life Dakota Jackson was born on August 24, 1949, and grew up in the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens, New York. Stage Magic Jackson's father, Jack Malon, was a professional magician.[10] Mr. Malon learned the trade from his own father, who studied stage magic in early 20th century Poland.[1] Jackson began studying magic at a young age and sometimes performed with his father.[11] Jackson's name, in fact, grew out of a road trip to Fargo, North Dakota.[11] Throughout his adolescence and into his early 20s, Jackson immersed himself in the world of magic.[2] In 1963, Jackson began to perform in talent shows at his junior high school, William Cowper JHS 73 (which is known today as The Frank Sansivieri Intermediate School),[12] and at children's birthday parties.[13] Jackson also began to build his own props, including large boxes for sawing a woman in half and small boxes from which doves would emerge in full flight.[11] Jackson acknowledges the importance of these early experiences with magic to his later career as a furniture designer: "The demands of performance taught me how to discipline myself to achieve aesthetic ends."[1][2][14] After Jackson graduated from Forest Hills High School in 1967, he continued performing as a magician, working in art galleries, night clubs, touring in the Catskills, and giving private performances at society events.[2][13][15] When he was 17, Jackson had studied with magician Jack London to learn the dangerous bullet catch trick.[16] "What appealed to me was the notion of doing things that appeared miraculous" Jackson once recalled.[6] "I was interested in spiritualism. I was interested in things like bullet catching, things that really challenged individual sensibilities, that were frightening, on the edge."[2] He didn't find the opportunity to perform the trick publicly until a decade later at Jackson's final professional performance as a magician.[1] It was documented in Andy Warhol's Interview (magazine), in a story titled "Dakota Jackson bites the bullet."[1][16] Jackson admits that he sometimes tires of references to his magician background, although he acknowledges it as an important part of his history.[2] The Downtown Arts Scene In the late 1960s, Jackson moved into a loft on 28th Street in Chelsea.[1][17] Jackson became part of the Downtown scene, a community of "artists, dancers, performers, and musicians" who moved to the neighborhood for the cheap rent and social life.[1][8][17][18] In October 1970, Jackson performed with the Japanese group Tokyo Kid Brothers at New York's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (also known as Café La MaMa) in a rock musical production called "Coney Island Play" ("Konī airando purē).[19] The show explored themes of cross-cultural communication and understanding[19] and was a follow up to the group's debut performance of "The Golden Bat" at La MaMa earlier that summer.[20][21][22] Jackson played the part of a "clever conjurer."[19] Over the next few years, Jackson became interested in minimalist dance and performed in the dance companies of Laura Dean and Trisha Brown.[2][15][23] Jackson credits his exposure to minimalism and minimalist dance in particular as having had a strong influence on his approach to design; in 1989, Jackson told the Los Angeles Times: For me the essential fineness of a design is in the idea, not the object itself ... In minimalism, the object is pared down to its basic meaning by stripping away all the excrescence ... —those elements that do not contribute to the pure idea.[24] Design career In the early 1970s, as he experimented with performance and dance, Jackson began branching out as a special effects consultant to other magicians, film producers, and musicians[2][23] such as Donna Summer.[6][9] The loft also gave Jackson an opportunity to apply his creativity and building skills: "These were times when lofts were not ... luxury condominiums. These were tough, tough raw spaces ... and we artists, bohemians, creative people, we created our environment. So I had to build".[17][25] Recognizing his skills as a builder, Jackson decided to shift away from performance and become a full-time maker.[1][15][17] He began making a variety of objects, including furnishings for other artists and magic boxes with hidden compartments for art collectors and galleries.[17][24] Jackson's social connections helped spread word about his work[15] and this led to his first commissions.[1] Early Commissions Desk for John Lennon by Dakota Jackson In 1974, Jackson's career as a designer began when Yoko Ono asked him to build a desk with hidden compartments for husband John Lennon.[26] "She wanted to make a piece of furniture that would be a mystical object; that would be like a Chinese puzzle," Jackson recalled in a 1986 interview published in the Chicago Tribune.[6] The result was a small cubed-shaped writing table with rounded corners reminiscent of Art Deco era style.[15] Touching secret pressure points opened the desk's compartments.[23] This commission helped build Jackson's reputation and allowed him to merge his experience as a magician and performer with his developing interest in furniture.[27] In 1978, a bed designed for fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg garnered Jackson even more notoriety.[8][10][28] [29] Called "The Eclipse", the bed was described in The New Yorker as "large, astounding, sumptuous, with sunbursts of cherry wood and quilted ivory satin at head and foot."[10] A lighting system positioned behind the headboard switched on automatically at sunset and spread out rays of light "like an aurora borealis,"[2][17] which grew brighter and brighter until turning off at 2 am.[23][30] Commissions like these continued to come in[8] and Jackson soon became known as a designer to the rich and famous.[30] Some of his other clients from this period included songwriter Peter Allen, Saturday Night Live creator and producer Lorne Michaels, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, and soap opera actress Christine Jones.[8] The American Art Furniture Movement and the Industrial Style In the late 1970s, Jackson was among a small group of artists and artisans producing and exhibiting hand-made furniture in New York.[5][31] Jackson and his peers were part of the "American Art Furniture Movement," a group sometimes called the "Art et Industrie Movement,"[32] named after the leading art furniture gallery of the era,[32] Art et Industrie, founded by Rick Kaufmann in 1976.[33] In a 1984 Town & Country article titled "Art You Can Sit On," Kaufmann said he created the gallery to "serve as a locus to the public for artists and designers creating new decorative arts."[31] The works on display were "radical objects" that drew from a number of fine art traditions, including "Pop, Surrealism, Pointillism and Dada [which were] "thrown together with the severe lines of the Bauhaus and the Russian avant-garde, mixed with Mondrian's color and filtered through a video sensibility—all to create a new statement."[31] The article described Jackson as a "ten-year veteran of the genre" and pointed to the "clean forms and quiet colors" of his furniture.[4] Jackson showed a variety of industrial-looking lacquer, metal, and glass works at Art et Industrie, including his Standing Bar (also known as the Modern Bar),[33] a lacquered cabinet that Jackson designed in 1978 for his wife (then-girlfriend) RoseLee Goldberg.[13] Other works from this period include the T-Bird Desk, Self-Winding Cocktail Table, and the Saturn Stool...

This is a superb sophisticated and yet very simple leather top writing desk. The desk is designed in the French Louis XV style and has beautfiul leather on top and two pull out leath...

Antique French Carved Oak Writing Desk Secretary AND Chair Breton Brittany SET. Direct from France, a wonderful antique French writing desk AN...

This is an exceptional quality 19th century French empire desk with a stunning original ebonised finish. The bronze decorations are very fine and are all complete with no losses. The...

Small desk with three drawers, wooden frame and chromed and curved tubular metal supports. The desk has a slight defect on one side, as shown in the photo. Manufactured by Arlex, It...

Exceptionally rare early 19th century Regency period writing table with black leather top, almost certainly by John McLean. London, circa 1805-1810. Attribution This 'Etruscan' bla...

Strict and classic lines for the small and large Direttorio Writing desks. Pieces, which combine function and elegance making each room unique ...

A magnificent antique Georgian period leather top partners desk. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1790-1810 period. It is of extremely high quality, it is a large ...

A mid nineteenth century French bureau plat of good scale, in mahogany with kingwood veneer crossbanding, with brown leather writing surface with gilt tooling to the border, opening ...

Dimensions - H: 29 in W: 53 1/4 in D: 25 1/2 in A stunning Louis XV-style black ebonized and brass-mounted three-drawer desk by John Widdicomb, exuding timeless elegance and superio...

A chrome metal and brown leather desk designed and produced in the US, c. 1970s.

One of my favorite things about this piece is its size. It is a late 19th century French carved fruitwood desk. It could also work well as a vanity or console table. The drawers have...

Extraordinary walnut veneered architects drawing table and chest of drawers into one. This amazing quality and excellent condition chest and drawing table was handcrafted in the 19t...

An outstanding French Louis XV style writing desk or bureau plat desk France, Circa 1940s Gorgeous kingwood, with bronze trim and ornate ormolu mounts, and embossed green leather t...

Found in France, this Early 20th Century Writing Desk was crafted from Cherrywood by French artisans in the early 1900's in the Louis XVI style. The piece features a tooled leather t...

This is an exquisite Victorian Revival crossbanded flame mahogany desk dating from the late 20th Century. This desk has been beautifully made from ...

Dimensions - H: 30 in W: 60 in D: 27 in An exquisite French Louis XV-style leather-top desk by Drexel, featuring stunning chinoiserie hand-painted decorations that add an air of so...

This is a midcentury French style hand painted chinoiserie secretary with a unique bombe form base and glass top. It works so well for both display and functional desk. It is unmarke...

This is a wonderful antique late Victorian mahogany partners pedestal desk, circa 1880 in date. The rectanglular top features a stunning inset green and gold tooled leather writing surface. This stunning desk is the same on each side. Each side is fitted with three frieze drawers, three further drawers in one pedestal and a cupboard to the other pedestal, all fitted with the original brass drop handles. The drawers are all oak lined and the pedestals are raised on plinth bases with brass castors underneath. Complete with original brass locks and keys. Instill the elegance of a bygone era to a special place in your home with this fabulous antique partners pedestal desk. THE BOTANICAL NAME FOR THE MAHOGANY THIS ITEM IS MADE OF IS SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA AND THIS TYPE OF MAHOGANY IS NOT SUBJECT TO CITES REGULATION. Condition: In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned, polished, waxed and releathered in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: Height 76 x Width 151 x Depth 106 Dimensions in inches: Height 29.9 x Width 59.4 x Depth 41.7 Mahogany is probably one of the largest ‘families’ of hardwood, having many different varieties within its own species. Mahogany has been used for centuries in ship building...

Monumental Louis XV / Napoleon III style office desk. A serpentine form made from birdseye maple with three large dovetailed drawers in the frieze and long tapered cabriole legs. Fea...

A fine English writing table or desk of patinated mahogany from the William IV period - featuring a moulded rectangular top with a handsome embossed leather writing surface, over a f...

This minister's desk with 5-drawers is a craft-handed reproduction of the world-renowned French Directoire style, which dates back to the end of the 18th century. This range is char...

This Belgian Leather Desk is a seamless blend of craftsmanship and modern minimalism. The desk features a vegetable-tanned leather top, meticulously inlaid on a sleek steel base. The...

A Louis Philippe period (1830–1848) fruitwood secretaire abattant fall front desk. Born in France in the mid-19th century, hand-crafted of rich solid fruitwood with warm wood tones, subtle grain detail, and nicely aged mellow patina over the whole. Finished in French Empire taste, having a molded cornice, concealed ogee frieze drawer with dovetail joinery, over fall front panel, opening to reveal original fitted interior gallery, with inset gilt tooled leather writing surface, large open shelf cubby, six drawers of various size, above double-door cabinet with brass shield escutcheon that opens to provide generous storage space, and an additional lower drawer for valuables hidden in the base molding, rising on square feet. Dimensions: (approx) 56.75" High 41" Wide, 17.5" Deep History/Back Story: Louis Philippe furniture had the same types and forms as the earlier French Restoration style, but with less decoration; comfort was the primary consideration. During the turbulent French Revolution and following Napoleon rule, Louis Philippe (1773-1850) remained in exile for 21 years until the Bourbon Restoration, when he became the King of the French from 1830 to 1848. For the first time, the developing upper class–not the monarchy–influenced the progression of this style’s characteristics. However, King Louis Philippe’s personality still inspired many aspects.  His casual nature reflected this style’s informal, comfortable build. Much of the style was taken from the personality of the King himself. Unlike his Bourbon predecessors, he wore business dress...