Early 20th Century Desks and Writing Tables

This desk is by far the most amazing piece i came along since many years. I saw it and was directly in love with the shape and all details. The dimensions are so special and it can b...

wonderful light and elegant desk from finland by suomen tuoli-, kalusto- ja sorvaustehdas. from the area of jyväskylä & muurame. this small and rare desk will be an wonderful additio...

This beautiful Spanish Baroque desk or writing table is made of solid lime wood with bold turned legs joined by wrought iron stretchers. It has h...

An antique library table in the manner of RJ Horner offers golden oak quarter sawn oak construction with top having reeded skirt and drawer, raised on square Corinthian column balust...

Completely restored writing desk with a frame in tubular chromed steel. Designed by Robert Slezak in the 1930s. Material: beech, chrome-plated steel. Wood is completely restored. New polish and professionally cleaned chrome. 8 drawers and locks are fully functional. Tubular steel with original chrome plating...

Antique rustic dutch inlaid writing table is an unusual example of fine craftsmanship, with both a rustic overall design yet with refined techniqu...

Early Swedish 20th Century Pedestal Dining Table in Black Paint. This round table has beautiful Gustavian ribbed details with a border going around the table edge.

Found in France, this Early 1900s French Walnut Brass and Leather Top Desk stands on four tapered and fluted legs with brass tops and feet. The piece features a single drawer with tw...

Antique secretary desk from Northern Europe, circa 1920. Very good condition, after professional renovation, finished in gloss polish. Wood: birch Dimensions: height: 104 cm...

This is a Japanese antique desk produced in the Taisho period. This furniture was made by applying traditional techniques used in Japanese shrines. High quality Japanese oak wo...

A fine solid oak Arts & Crafts desk in the manner of Frank Lloyd Wright. Featuring a planked top with cubic, column-esque legs and slatted side detailing. The brass drawer pulls a la...

A top quality antique burr walnut writing bureau. This was made in England by Maple & Co, it dates from around the 1900-1910 period. It is extremely well made and is a very useful...

A sculptural statement desk in patinated black enamelled steel, with new floating frosted glass top. Le Corbusier-esque in it’S Form - a nod to both modernism and industrialism. Fren...

Early 20th century satinwood Sheraton Revival desk, circa 1910. fine quality petit Sheraton Revival pedestal desk, comprising of 3 sections, top surface and 2 pedestals. Shaped...

A wooden desk made in France, circa 1900. This desk is composed of a lower shelf, two drawers, and a sloped writing surface. The oak has been treated with a sensitive bleaching proce...

Antique Spanish Gothic Leather Top Desk ~ Writing Table will make a perfect addition to a rustic, masculine decor! Hand-crafted from thick planks and beams of old growth oak harveste...

Large Industrial style early 20th century architect drawing table featuring an oak base and a pine top. Comes with three drawers, including one larger blueprint drawer, two regular d...

Early 20th century medium stain wood tilting drafting table with an adjustable cast iron base. Large scale Size. Please note, this item is located in one of our NYC locations.

French wooden hand painted table with cognac velvet top. The table is hand carved with typical details for Louise XVI style like the gilt wood ribbons at the front and the fluted leg...

A beautiful Satin Birch writing desk by Heal & Son London. This little desk will light up any room, the satinwood birch has a wonderful texture and movement and a colour tone that o...

Handsome walnut table that can be used as a center table ,side or console table. Fluted legs in each side and wood stretcher.

Exceptional quality 19th Century French inlaid Kingwood marquetry Louis XVI style bureau plat with highly polished and detailed gold gilded bronze mounts and a leather hand gold tool...

A stunning quality, early 20th century, Edwardian period mahogany free standing roll top desk from the renown London makers MAPLE & CO. Inlaid throughout with satinwood banding, boxw...

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 : ...

An elegant and very high quality French Early 20th century Louis XVI mahogany, ormolu, and Arabescato marble center/side, table/desk attributed to François Linke. The table is raised...

A good quality French Ebonised desk dating to the early 1900s. Having 5 drawers to the front, the central one lockable and key is present. It has 2 pull ...

A beautifully large vintage partner desk or possible retail counter desk. The desk is in good vintage condition with age related marks and scuffs, which really add to its patina a...

Early 20th century walnut partners desk, the moulded edge top having a tan brown leather writing surface decorated with gold and blind tooling, the front of the desk having an arrang...

1920s Antique Stickley Style Quartersawn Oak Arts and Crafts Writing Desk With Built in Bookcase A high-quality antique quartersaw...

1920s Art Deco Solid Rosewood Rectangular Desk With Original Fittings. The Central Drawer is housed between two sets of drawers with Chrome finished feet, and handles. This exquisite Streamline Moderne desk...

A scarce antique, circa 1900, Japanese black lacquered wood writing slope / travel desk / document box. Born in Japan in the early 20th century, influenced by English Colonial Re...

An antique Chinese late Qing Dynasty period wooden desk from the 20th century, with four drawers, carved curling scrolls, horse-hoof legs and custom black and red lacquer. Created in...

This is a Unique Gustavian Style Writing Desk. Its been restored and repainted with Milk Paints "Oyster White".

Black leather panels.

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...

Sn5202 Edwardian mahogany and inlaid desk by Maple and Co, having black tooled leather writing surface, satinwood crossbanded top with moulded edge and mahogany slider to each side a...

Desk, French, in the Louis XVI style made of mahogany that has been ebonized and finished in a museum quality French polish. This elegant writing desk features three dovetailed drawe...

Antique English Mahogany Edwardian Partner's Desk with Leather Top will make the perfect centerpiece for an executive's enclave! Boasting over 30 square feet of total surface, most o...

Early 20th Century original very fine drop leaf desk or table by Kittinger and purchased at Lord & Taylor, NY in the 1920s with original L&T brass tag underneath. An outstanding example, beautiful figured parquetry mahogany and walnut surface with carved base, two primary drawers which feature brass lion face pulls with mouth rings...

Antique fine quality Charles II revival C1920 oak and elm writing desk or dressing table. Solid heavy, no loose joints and no woodworm. Full of age, character and charm. The oak l...

An outstanding French Louis XV style executive writing desk or bureau plat desk France, circa Early 20th century Kingwood and burled walnut, with bronze trim and ornate ormolu ...

About A fully adjustable industrial drafting table with solid wood top and cast iron base and knobs. The table can be used as a tall dining table, desk or drafting table. The top ...

A late 19th / early 20th century industrial general store display case work or shop counter, having a 15" deep single board plank top behind...

A fabulous Edwardian mahogany desk in the Carlton house style, finely carved, line inlaid and cross banded throughout and of gorgeous quality with rich patination and fine grain. The...

Authentic French Bistro table that was made around 100-years ago. The French Bistro Table was made from solid white oak and all our Old Plank Restoration need to do, was to wash the ...

A pretty French Louis XVI Writing Table or Desk. Having 5 drawers to the front fitted with original handles, a pull out slide to each side and sitting on brass capped feet. Made of W...

Desk; French; in the Louis XVI style made of ebonized Mahogany that has been finished in a lustrous museum quality French polish. This work table boasts a gilt embossed brown leather...

Beautiful antique desk with 9 drawers on both sides. Good and usable desk with weathered green leather top. In beautiful and original condition. Origin: E...

Desk, French, in the Louis XVI style. This piece is made of mahogany that has been ebonized and finished in a lustrous museum quality French polish. There are five drawers with repla...

A superb antique writing bureau in the Georgian style. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1900-1910 period. The quality is fantastic...

Pine 'Lovö' table by Swedish Modernist Axel-Einar Hjorth, manufactured by Nordiska Kompaniet in Sweden, circa 1932. Best known for his modern reduced design, this table by Axel-Eina...

ABOUT A large fully adjustable industrial drafting table with solid wood top, cast iron base, original label and brass ID tag. Large pull out drawer which is unusual for drafting tables. Solid cast iron base and army green metal rotating brackets. Army green painted brass drawer pull and key hole. The table can be used as a tall dining table, desk or drafting table. The top swivels at any angle and from either side. The whole table can be lowered or raised to the height you chose. This drafting table was used in the NASA Life Sciences Department at Moffett Federal Airfield south of San Francisco. CREATOR Dietzgen Drafting...

Found in France, this circa 1920s Louis XVI style desk has an ebonised finish and new black leather writing surface. The desk is finished on both front and back sides and can float i...

A Handsome Partner's Desk After the Chippendale Design Made from fine mahogany, with finely cast brass hardware, the desk supported on rolling casters hidden under the thumbnail ...

A very rare and fine Edwardian fruitwood desk, finely carved and of fabulous quality, richly patinated and line inlaid and with exquisite marquetry panel detail depicting Neoclassica...

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. Dimensions: (approx) 79" High, 65" Wide, 21" Deep (largest, cabinet) 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...

A magnificent and rare oak Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau pedestal partners desk or bureau, in the style of Gustave SERRURIER BOVY (1858-1910). Solid oak, with original well shaped brass hinges, rosewood and satinwood inlays comprising cupboards and deep drawers to each side. All cupboards enclosing solid oak shelves. All standing on a plinth base with small bracket feet. In very good condition with beautiful warm patina. Original working locks with original keys. Striking Belgian design from 1900. The dimensions are: Height: 84.5cm (33.3in) Width: 145cm (57.1in) Depth: 89cm (35.0in) A stunning piece of solid oak and oak lined interior, early 20th century antique furniture...

This Italian early 20th century cherrywood console table or writing desk is a fine Art Nouveau period piece of furniture. Its beautiful mellow honey colour and stylishly curved pilla...