Mahogany Desks and Writing Tables

Chippendale Partners Desk by Maitland Smith. Circa 20th Century. Designed to evoke the refined decorative style of antique English furniture, the partners desk features large medallions, ornamental lion heads, and an ornate swag beneath the desk surface. Maitland Smith partners desk...

A 1970's Jacobean Spanish colonial style drop-lid slant front desk made of quality flame mahogany with upper double side door cabinets. Featuring a solid mahogany construction with a beautiful flame veneer, the desk offers multiple open compartments / pigeonholes , one small door cabinet and one drawer in the middle as well as one lower large drawer. The Jacobean desk is raised on four beautifully hand carved twist legs and is decorated with floral shaped original brass hardware knobs...

A beautiful and timeless 1970's American escritoire desk. The writing desk is made of solid mahogany and is sturdy. The desk shows fine carving details and offers 5 regular drawers a...

Opulent stainless steel mahogany writing table, bureau plat, or desk attributed to Maison Jansen, France. The desk features a thick slab of quartz Carrara style marble on top with thick polished brass trim. The case is crafted from rich radiant grained mahogany and covered with stainless steel. Fronted by three drawers and two large, locking storage...

Mahogany and gilt bronze writing table with two drawers by Jules Leleu For an illustration of an identical table, see Siriex, Françoise. The House of Leleu. New York: Hudson Hills...

Beautiful midcentury desk, originally used as a desk for a lady, or vanity in the bedroom. The table is elegant combination of lighter birch wood on the sides and mahogany wood on to...

English military campaign trestle desk in black polished mahogany. Front with two large size drawers with original brass handles and locks. The top separates from the base for easy ...

An antique French Louis XV ladies writing desk offers burn and mahogany construction in serpentine form with upper gallery having storage ...

Bernt Petersen Mahogany Writing Desk, circa 1950s Four drawer executive desk produced in Denmark by master cabinetmakers Rud. Rasmussen, Denmark. Solid mahogany legs and drawer...

Sn5272 Fine quality 19th century mahogany writing desk of goods proportions, having new tooled black leather to the top flanked by two sliders above long centre drawer flanked by tw...

A rare and highly sought after three-drawer model of Frits Henningsen's elegant executive desk. Famous for his perfectionist mentality, early-mid Danish 20th century architect and fu...

An adaptation of the Colonial period Thomas Jefferson Tall Adaptable Desk currently at Monticello, by National Mount Airy Furniture. Their version is similar, although shorter, to th...

A French Louis XIV style writing desk offers kingwood and mahogany construction with satinwood scroll and foliate marquetry throughout, three upper drawers, cast ormolu mounts and r...

Introducing our classic 1900s English-style mahogany Sofa Table, a harmonious blend of traditional craftsmanship and design. Expertly carved from premium mahogany wood, the table rad...

18th Century Georgian Bureau Desk on Stand. Fold Front Top Reveals A Fitted Interior with Drawers & Pigeonhole Sections Fitted out With Original Brass Batwing Handles & Finishes 1700...

A New York flame mahogany federal butler's desk with drop down (side snap operation) door revealing a green leatherette tooled work surface. The interior with a center door concealing storage and an inside drawer that is flanked by two "secret" panels with string inlay and further enhanced by pigeon holes and short and long drawers. The overall desk presents with string inlay decorated deep top desk over three long drawers in rich flame mahogany veneers. The drawers with embossed brass hardware and the whole resting on bracket feet. Lacking a key. Dimensions: 23 1/4" D, 47" W, 44 3/4" H Condition: Please see all detail photos. Age-related signs include one missing tiny...

This is a gorgeous quality late Georgian/Regency period mahogany writing desk. The design is extremely elegant and will work very well in a number of interiors. For me the reeded det...

Fully restored Mahogany & Burl-wood library table with a single generously sized drawer, classic design elements in the column corners with drop finials supported on vase turned & sp...

Vittorio Dassi desk minimal geometric mahogany and laminate midcentury. The parts in colored laminate have some defects, see photos.

This mid twentieth century French Louis XVI style mahogany desk features a gold tooled cognac leather top and a leather surfaced pull out tray on each side. The corners are detailed ...

A high quality 19th Century Victorian Mahogany Writing Table with raised back, two drawers on octagonal turned supports. Circa: 1860 Dimensions: Height: 30 inches – 77 cms Width:...

Victorian mahogany desk free standing on a stretcher base Carved from mahogany with brass pull handles and a burgundy leather top with gold tooling Circa 1880 Lovingly restored so in...

Eye catching Edwardian desk and matching chair set both in mahogany Circa 1910 and originally made by Maple & Co - please see photo of stamp and makers mark on listing Extensively in...

A fine George III Sheraton period partners writing table in figured mahogany with box wood stringing in the top at the edge of the leather and also in the frieze below the drawers. E...

Antique English desk with single drawer and turned legs. Acquired in Colorado from a TX and NM estate. Desk Height - 29.75" Height to top rim. - 32.5"

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 superbly crafted antique French Directoire style brass inlaid and bronze mounted secretaire desk or ladies vanity. The piece is perfect for paying bills or using as a makeup vanity...

A Mid-Century Burled Maple desk with Mahogany tipped feet. Two of the three draws have pull both typical and uniquely designed by Tommi Parzinger. The desk is presumed to be produc...

Bernt Petersen Writing Desk, circa 1960s Produced by master cabinetmakers Rud. Rasmussen, Denmark. Solid mahogany and mahogany veneer construction with 2 drawers on either side.

This is a beautiful partner's desk. The front and rear are functional, the sides are handsome but only decorative. There is also a handsome green leather top.

Old English Sheraton Mahogany Kidney Desk

Vintage Heckman English Chippendale Style Tooled Leather Top Cabriole Leg Writing Desk Vintage Chippendale Style writing desk by Heckman fea...

This beautiful quality mahogany and brass French Directoire style pedestal desk will make a lovely addition to any office, and we have a matching bookcase and box file cabinet listed...

Gillows - Mid 19thC Mahogany Twin Pedestal Desk shaped rectangular top with dark blue tooled leather inset flanking a central raised sloped writing surface enclosing a hinged storage compartment, two frieze drawers with blind fretwork decoration above the pedestals each supporting three drawers with brass bail handles, each pedestal with locking bars...

Stacked rattan secretary desk with mahogany top, centre drawer with two sets of drawers on each side of the desk. Measures: 26" high x 47" wide x 17" ...

A wonderful mid-19th century French Louis XVI style mahogany desk hand-crafted in France circa 1850. A beautiful, smooth top of flame mahogany is surrounded by a three quarter decorative brass gallery following down to two open center storage spaces and four roomy drawers in a removable riser. This top piece easily lifts off the base for transport and is affixed with circular, recessed brass escutcheon plates surrounded by Louis XVI style brass bellflower pulls. A second three quarter brass gallery surrounds the writing surface which measures 30” H and is adorned with new black leather with gold gilt tooling. Two sliders on each side of the writing surface are covered with the original leather and extend the desk out 17 ¾” on either side. The apron showcases the handsome veneer and gorgeous colors of the wood and contains four drawers of the same design that open easily. The right side has a singular large drawer that opens to contain a notched wooden privacy slide and a four compartment pull out wooden tray for excellent organization. The whole is raised on regal turned, tapering fluted legs with brass capitals and capped feet. Showcasing an attractive polished mahogany, this desk has fine features, many storage options, and is fully finished on all sides making it a supremely practical piece. Be sure to view all the images to see every detail of this unique antique desk.

A petite antique mahogany correspondence desk that was hand-crafted in France circa 1850. Elegant and in excellent condition this desk delights with its linear shape and hand-carved ...

Rectangular top with central leather liner hinged writing surface surrounded by drawers and doors. The back finished Frieze drawers all with brass inlays. Raised on square tapered le...

Rectangular top with inset blue leather over a frieze containing a drawer at each end and false drawers on the sides. Raised on reeded tapered legs ending on casters.

Mahogany Writing Table. A great mahogany library table, side/writing table with mahogany gallery and three drawers. Standing on beautifully scroll trestle foot base, shaped supports ...

Antique 19th century English Mahogany and leather inset library table C.1840. A neatly proportioned library desk with two drawers, standing on beautifully turned legs, terminating...

Antique Chippendale style kneehole writing desk featuring rectangular form with bowfront, eight drawers, brass batwing hardware and polished glass top. Originally purchased at the Rike Kumler...

Mid Century Modern Wooden Desk by Vittorio Dassi, Italy 1950s. Wonderful desk by the Italian designer Vittorio Dassi in a minimal rational shape. Elegant in design without losing th...

Architects Table Antique style, circa mid 20th century architects writing mahogany desk with a metamorphic three-stage top. When you lift the top, there are supports to hold it ...

Handsome 19th century English partners or library desk crafted in mahogany with a dark green tooled leather top on a case with three functioning drawers on one one side and three fau...

An English, natural mahogany, and faux leather inset library table. Three drawers are fitted within the apron on each side and are adorned with simple wooden mushroom...

19th Century French bronze mounted leather top writing desk / tric trac table featuring a removable top that has an inset tooled leather desk on one side and a baize lined card playi...

This is an exquisite antique French Empire Revival pedestal desk, Circa 1920 in date. This desk has been beautifully crafted from flame mahogany. The top has a decorative ormolu bod...

Ole Wanscher (Danish architect-designer) 1903-1985. Rare Ole Wanscher desk in mahogany executed by A. J. Iversen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1940-1950. Features three drawers (one large an...

Antique Georgian Early 19th Century Side Writing Table This antique Georgian side writing table has a rich patina and mixed wood tones. It features a ...

Campaign style desk by Suzanne Kasler for the Hickory Chair Collection. This desk has clean, classic lines. It is a modern take on the traditional campaign pieces. It has X legs & br...

A fabulous vintage Regency Secretary desk. Beautiful flame mahogany cabinet with trellis million glass doors. Lots of great hidden storage and a flip out desktop. Acquired from a Pal...

Victorian Washstand A Victorian-era mahogany washstand with aesthetically pleasing legs. Featuring a rectangular top with gallery above two drawers with turned handles. Perfect f...

A fine 19th century English Chinese Chippendale mahogany hand carved partners desk original leather top.

Antique English Chippendale Mahogany Desk circa 1880

A handsome English writing desk or table of mahogany from the 19th century, featuring an embossed leather rectangular top, over a frieze of two fitted drawers - each with two brass k...

A mahogany and black-painted iron desk designed by Luther Conover and produced by Luther Conover Inc. USA, 1950s

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 ...