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Period: 1940s
Industrial Portuguese Oak-wood Tambour Door Desk, 1940's
Located in Lisboa, PT
This Industrial Portuguese Oak-wood Tambour Door Desk was designed and produced in Portugal during the 1940's. It is made of oak and it features a ta...
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Portuguese Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
French Maison Jansen Attributed Cerused Oak Desk
Located in Houston, TX
French Maison Jansen Attributed Cerused Oak Desk.
Stunning French cerused oak or limed oak desk, writing table, bureau plat or center table with a single drawer attributed to Maison...
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French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Antique Spanish Architect Table by Certex – Mid-Century Design (Circa 1940)
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Antique Spanish Architect Table by Certex – Mid-Century Design (Circa 1940)
This Antique Spanish Architect Table, manufactured by Certex in Spain around 1940, is a striking example ...
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Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
Restored Mid-century Stacked Rattan Executive Desk W/ Solid Mahogany Top
By Paul Frankl
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This beautifully restored Paul Frankl style 61" wide stacked rattan desk blends style and vintage charm with modern comfort. It features a Filipino mahogany desktop, drawer fronts, a...
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American Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Rattan
Art Deco French Grand Desk
Located in Houston, TX
The Art Deco table is made of high-quality walnut wood. It consists of two parts/sides with lots of room/drawers for storage. Both sides are connected on the bottom by a wooden part ...
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French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Chrome
Antique Spanish Architect Table by Certex – Mid-Century Design (Circa 1940)
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Antique Spanish Architect Table by Certex – Mid-Century Design (Circa 1940)
This Antique Spanish Architect Table, manufactured by Certex in Spain around 1940, is a striking example ...
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Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
Italian 1940's Walnut Writing Desk with Black Glass Top
Located in New York, NY
A refined and sleek Italian 1940's walnut desk with a black glass top over two rectangular drawers and elegantly splayed legs, with wood stretcher connecting back and front legs. Th...
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Italian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Gustavian Style 5 Drawer Desk
Located in Hollywood, FL
This is a unique Gustavian Style 5 drawer desk. it has been restored and repainted with Milk Paints "Oyster White"
This Desk is actually a 4 drawer desk, the right drawer has 2 handl...
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Swedish Gustavian Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Desk Style Art Deco in Wood and chrome, 1940, Made in Germany
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Only the wood is restored, not the chrome metal
It is an elegant and sophisticated dream desk.
The quality of the furniture and the exotic wood used make it unique. It is an icon of...
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German Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Chrome
Franco Albini for Knoll Desk Model '1928' in Glass and Metal
By Knoll, Franco Albini
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Franco Albini for Knoll, desk model '1928', glass, wood, chromed steel, Italy, design 1949
Franco Albini’s '1928' desk combines glass, steel...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Steel
Rationalist Italian Desk by Giuseppe Pagano
Located in Milano, IT
This desk, designed by Giuseppe Pagano between 1937 and 1942, is much more than just a piece of furniture-it's a true icon of Italian Rationalist design. Every detail of this piece e...
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Italian Industrial Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
Luigi Caccia Dominioni Folding Desk for Villa Mazzotti, Italy 1946
Located in Milan, IT
Architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni Rare oak wood folding desk for Villa Mazzotti, Milan, Italy
Luigi Caccia Dominioni used this form of desk design to...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
1940s Mid Century Italian Leather Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful Italian Mid century modern leather desk with two drawers. The desk had ben polished in the best possible way to get it back as good as ne...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
Gustavian Style Unique 5 Drawer Desk
Located in Hollywood, FL
This is a Gustavian Style Unique 5 Drawer Desk. its been restored and repainted with Milk Paints "Oyster White"
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Swedish Gustavian Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
French Deco Desk with Glass Knobs
Located in IT
Large French Deco desk of excellent quality made of walnut feather in the upper part.
The desk has 20 drawers with glass handles. The locks and keys are original from the Deco period...
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Italian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Glass, Wood, Walnut
Fine Quality Three Piece Faux Bamboo English Leather Top Executive Desk
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a beautiful cabinet-made faux bambook desk in the French or Campaign style. The desk features a fine off-white leather top with gold embossing. The desk comes apart in three ...
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French Campaign Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Swedish Art Moderne Black Writing Desk with Zebra Hide Insert
Located in Atlanta, GA
Fabulous black lacquered writing desk with bookcase and lockable cabinet on front and curved desktop, pencil drawer and another cabinet wit...
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Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Cowhide, Leather, Wood
Art Deco / Neoclassical Revival Walnut Desk, France, circa 1940
By Jean Pascaud
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Elegant desk / writing table / secretaire in walnut, divided into 2 parts:
- office part with 5 drawers including 1 with lock
Dimensions : height 75 cm, width 111 cm, depth 65 cm
...
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French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Italian Walnut, Beech and Brass Writing Table Desk by Gio Ponti for BNL
By Gio Ponti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Iconic writing table designed in the 1940s by Gio Ponti for Schirolli to furnish BNL (Banca Nazionale del Lavoro) offices across Italy.
This early 1950s model was acquired directly f...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
DC-3 ‘Dakota’ Wingtip Desk
Located in London, GB
The Douglas DC-3 was designed in the mid-1930s as a passenger and freight aircraft, but built during the war years 1941-1945 in large numbers, as the DC-3 (C47) Transport Plane known...
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American Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Aluminum
Curved Directors desk in walnut, Italy 1940s
Located in ABCOUDE, UT
Beautiful Curved Directors desk in walnut with wooden knob details and hand carved drawers, Italy 1940s.
Although the designer and maker are unknown, t...
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Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Cuban Mahogany Drawing Table, Denmark, 1940s
Located in London, GB
A cuban mahogany drawing table with central compartment, side drawer, and reversible lid, made in Denmark by a master cabinetmaker between 1940-1950.
The deep proportions of this e...
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Danish Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Art Deco Hungarian Desk in Walnut
Located in Houston, TX
Desk top is made out of high police walnut wood with cowhide insert in the middle. There are 2 drawers with chrome handles. Desk is elevated by thin chrome legs that are connected on...
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Hungarian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Chrome
Art Deco French Desk in Macassar with Leather Top Insert
Located in Houston, TX
Art Deco French desk in Macassar wood
The desk is made of Macassar wood and newly reupholstered with a strip of brown leather in the middle of its top. Each of the legs has a brass d...
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French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Chrome
Jansen French Louis XVI Style Ebonized and Black Leather Desk
Located in Queens, NY
French Louis XVI style (1940s) ebonized & gilt bronze trim desk / cartonnier with 2 drawers and a black leather & gold tooled top supported on 4 tapered square legs. (stamped: JANSEN)
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French Louis XVI Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Gold Leaf, Ormolu
Davis-Birely Table Co Writing Desk
Located in Pasadena, TX
This is a vintage quarter sawn oak writing desk by Davis-Birely Table Co. It has a single drawer and a shelf for storage. The wood is beautifully tiger striped on the drawer front gi...
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American Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Limed Oak Desk in the Manner of René Gabriel, France 1940s
By Rene Gabriel
Located in Utrecht, NL
The materials and techniques used by mid-century French cabinetmakers were directly derived from the possibilities offered by industrial production at the time. Oak has never gone ou...
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French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
French Andre Arbus Ormolu Maple Writing Desk
By André Arbus
Located in Queens, NY
French 1940s ormolu mounted maple writing desk with leather inset top above 2 frieze drawers on lyre form trestle supports. (attributed to ANDRE ARBUS)
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Desk Style Art Deco in Wood, 1940, Made in France
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
French Desk style: Art Deco
Year: 1940
It is an elegant and sophisticated dream desk.
The quality of the furniture and the exotic wood used make it unique. It is an icon of distinct...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
1940s Speech Table, Czechoslovakia
Located in Praha, CZ
- made of solid pine tree wood
- good original condition with some sign of use
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Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Teak
Vintage 1940s Traditional John Scalia for Schmieg & Kotzian Mahogany Desk Table
By John Scalia, Schmieg & Kotzian
Located in Secaucus, NJ
Fabulous traditional John Scalia for Schmieg & Kotzian mahogany library writing desk table.
Schmieg and Kotzian was a well-known furniture manufacturing company in New York City for ...
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American Georgian Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Wood, Mahogany
French Mid-Century Dining Table/Desk with Leaf
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful 1940s MidCcentury French dining table with 1 leaf. Splayed leg base. Marked "XXXXVIII" and "48" on bottom. Could make a fabulous desk! Very good looking piece in great orig...
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French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
A Fine French Art Deco Rosewood and Marquetry Dining Table by Segal
Located in Long Island City, NY
With a wooden and mother of pearl marquetry top, brass details on the two pedestals and 2 end leaves.
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French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Rare Gio Ponti Administrative Desk
By Gio Ponti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gio Ponti desk designed in limited edition for city offices of Forlì, Italy. Original red Formica writing surface on European beechwood with 8 floating drawers. Brass base on legs.
...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Formica, Beech
Large french writing table from the 1940s in solid oak
Located in LYON, FR
Large and beautiful solid oak table from the 1940s with spindle legs, used as a desk or display unit, entirely restored in our workshop and offered here in a satin varnished version ...
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French French Provincial Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze-Mounted Bois-Satiné Writing Table
Located in Mt Kisco, NY
A fine French kidney shaped bureau plat desk, having an inset beige leather top. Two side drawers over cabriole legs with ormolu mounts.
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French Louis XV Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
A Fine French Art Deco Expandable Dining Table with Ribbed Brass Conical Legs
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large French Art Deco oak table with 4 ribbed brass conical legs and a parqueted top.
Possibility of two end extension leaves.
Color of the legs is closer to top than it appears o...
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French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Italian Paolo Buffa Parchment Veneer Mahogany Desk
Located in Queens, NY
Italian 1940s parchment veneer desk raised on rectangular mahogany bases with 8 mahogany trimmed drawers (design attributed to PAOLO BUFFA) (probably made by OSVALDO BORSANI)
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany, Parchment Paper
Osvaldo Borsani Wooden Desk Covered with Parchment Steel Handles 1940 Italy
Located in Milano, IT
Desk Wood Parchment. The plan has so esattamente shortcomings.
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European Other Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Parchment Paper, Carbon Fiber
Desk in Wood and chrome, France, 1940
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
"Free shipping in florida" It was exhibited at Palm beach "American International Fine Art Fair (AIFAF)"
Desk
Year 1940
French
Wood and chrome
Finish: polyurethanic lacquer
It is an ...
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French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Chrome
Luxury Desk in Zebra Wood by Rene Gabriel, 1946
By Rene Gabriel
Located in PARIS, FR
Luxury Desk in Zebra Wood by Rene Gabriel, 1946
This desk was edited in 1946, it was presented at the "Salon des Artistes Décorateurs" the same year. The ...
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French Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Zebra Wood
Desk in Wood, 1940, Made in France
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
It is an elegant and sophisticated dream desk.
The quality of the furniture and the exotic wood used make it unique. It is an icon of distinction.
You want to live in the golden yea...
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Italian Art Nouveau Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Mid-Century Desk with Leather Top, Italy, 1940s
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Desk with Leather Top, Italy, 1940s
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Wood
Desk Art Deco, 1940, Materials: Wood and Bronze, Made in France
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
French Desk style: Art Deco
Year: 1940
Material: Wood and bronze
It is an elegant and sophisticated dream desk.
The quality of the furniture and the exotic wood used make it uni...
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French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Maison Dominique Palisander and Glass Writing Desk
Located in Queens, NY
French 1940s palisander writing desk with rounded rectangular glass top above 2 frieze drawers & shelves down a side. (attributed to MAISON DOMINIQUE)
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French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Glass, Palisander
Wood, Fabric and Glass Italian 1940s Rationalist Desk
Located in Varese, Lombardia
A beautiful and rare desk in the style of Franco Albini. It is made from a wooden crossed structure with a chrome-plated rod. A studded octagonal top is covered with red "panno Lenci...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal, Brass, Chrome
1940s Italian Writing Desk in Ash and Brass
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Writing desk, ash, brass, Italy, 1940s
Made in Italy, this writing desk is a testament to the design ethos prevalent in the 1940s and 1950s. The office table bears witness to the de...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Brushed Metal and Bronze, Egyptian Revival Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unique desk. The body is brushed metal with bronze details. Triangular legs are crowned by pharaoh heads and feet in the shape of lion's paws. Three front drawers. The top is black l...
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French Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze, Metal
Fine French Art Deco Oak Table by P. Bloch and Charles Dudouyt
By Pierre Bloch, La Gentilhommière 1
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fine French Art Deco oak table designed by Pierre Bloch and edited by Charles Dudouyt (founder of La Gentilhommière).
Two original end leaves (widt...
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French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Vintage Modern Writing Desk by Wolfgang Hoffman
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This stylish black lacquer writing desk features the unique vintage design of Mid-Century Modern designer Wolfgang Hoffman. Spacious drawers with tubu...
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American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
Scrittoio Anni 40 in noce e radica
By Non-Standard Furniture and Lighting
Located in Milano, IT
Scrittoio con cassetti laterali in legno impiallacciato noce e con il piano in legno impiallacciato radica. Buone condizioni.
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Charming Old English Pine Desk with Great Details
Located in Bronx, NY
Charming old English pine desk with great details the desk has nine drawers, many of which lock (key included). The finish has been left natural so it has a lot of character.
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English Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Pine
French Art-Deco Executive Desk in High-Gloss Macassar Ebony & Brass
Located in Stamford, CT
French Art-Deco design is often considered the epitome of luxury and refined aesthetic. Typically proportionally perfect and materially exquisite, pieces of French design from this e...
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French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Desk, 1950, Materials: Wood and Bronze, Made in France
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
French Desk style: Art Deco
Year: 1940
Material: Wood and bronze
It is an elegant and sophisticated dream desk.
The quality of the furniture and the exotic wood used make it unique....
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Desk in Oak, circa 1940/1950
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LARGE art deco desk in oak, circa 1940/1950.
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French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Vintage Louis XV style desk 1950s
Located in Catania, IT
Vintage desk in the Louis XV style with decorations and inlays
lacquered wood and gilt bronzes, with 3 capacious drawers.
In good condition, writing surface to be re-done.
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Louis XV Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Modern Italian Blue Desk, Drawers, 1940s
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Italian Blue Desk, Drawers, 1940s
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Desk in Oak and Oak Plywood by Marcel Gascoin, 1949
Located in PARIS, FR
Desk in oak and oak plywood by Marcel Gascoin, 1949
Marcel Gascoin is the main representative of a French design born after the Second World War, with the reconstruction of destroyed cities.
Born in Le Havre in 1907, the young Marcel followed in the footsteps of his father - workshop manager in a practical school, carpentry section - by attending the applied arts section of the École des Beaux-Arts du Havre, then the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
There he met Henri Sauvage who encouraged him to turn to modern furniture. He became a carpenter and cabinetmaker, and from then on he never ceased to adapt the container to the content, as he said himself. Recommended by Robert Mallet-Stevens in 1930, he participated in the exhibition of the Union of Modern Artists. Four years later, he participated in a competition for the design of a boat cabin, which allowed him to meet Jean Prouvé, with whom he would work. In 1938, he participated in the Salon des Arts Ménagers and created a line of storage furniture with a particular design that found an echo in Scandinavian countries.
In the aftermath of the war, his links with Raoul Dautry and Claudius Petit, ministers in charge of reconstruction, allowed him to play an important role in the production of furniture with a small footprint, by adapting the techniques proven in boat cabins. In 1947, he became commissioner of the International Exhibition of Urbanism and Housing. He coordinated the construction of model apartments (Sotteville-Lès-Rouen) and met the architect Marcel Lods.
It was also at this time that Marcel Gascoin and his collaborators saw their ideas prevail by adapting to the greatest number of people, for the mass production of apartments (model of apartment in Le Havre - Architect Auguste Perret...
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European Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak, Plywood
Art Deco style desk, Poland, 1940s.
Located in Chorzów, PL
Art Deco desk from the 1940s, Poland.
Dimensions: height 79 cm / width 146 cm / depth 70 cm / armchair recess: height 63 cm / width 46 cm
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Polish Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
French Maison Jansen Attributed Cerused Oak Desk
Located in Houston, TX
French Maison Jansen Attributed Cerused Oak Desk.
Stunning French cerused oak or limed oak desk, writing table, bureau plat or center table with a single drawer attributed to Maison...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
French Art Deco Writing Table with Two Side Drawers
Located in Hanover, MA
French Art Deco writing table or desk with two side drawers, maple parquet top, rounded (subtly octagonal) oak legs with elegant feet, in...
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Belgian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Maple, Oak
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