Art Deco Desks and Writing Tables

A grand mid-1930s desk as marvelous for its utility as its striking beauty. Not only do the elegant U-shape and large, receding supports complement the desk's rich mahogany finish, t...

Charles Dudouyt: A Fine French Art Deco stained oak pedestal dining / writing table / desk.

A fine French Art Deco extendable dining table, in walnut with a 4 legs pedestal base and bronze details. Signed Length with the 2 matching end leaves is 107 3/4" 8 original dining...

Art Deco Desk Year 1920 French Finish: polyurethanic lacquer It is an elegant and sophisticated dream desk. It has a large work surface. The quality of the furniture make it unique. ...

A very fine Italian 1930's burl walnut writing table or desk, the large rectangular surface is supported by an elegantly curved apron consisting of two large drawers atop robust angl...

The Paris based label has distinguished themselves since their launch, with their iconic use of shagreen mixed with brass and other exotic materials. All furniture is handcrafted by skilled artisans, ultimately making each piece unique, designed in Paris and produced in the Philippines. The melting writing desk...

Mid 20th century elm and mahogany table by Carl Bergsten circa 1930. Beautiful table by well respected Swedish designer and architect Carl Bergsten (1879-1935) This table is able t...

Small art deco desk. Professionally stained and repolished.

The elegance of this desk can be attributed to the essential quality of its form—with little more than some well placed lines, Pascaud evokes a great deal more than is to be expected...

A nice period chrome tubular table by quality company. Makes for a nice writing desk, console or sofa table. Of the manner of The Bauhaus Marcel Breuer...

A very special quality unique contemporary dressing table in Art Deco style made from pear-tree and taxus.

 Art deco chest of drawers after renovation , simple and nice art deco chest of drawers :)

Indulge in the epitome of luxury with this exquisite desk. Its ebony Macassar top, adorned with a Zebra veneer filet in high gloss polyester, exudes opulence. Velvet-lined drawers offer plush storage, while brushed stainless steel feet add a modern touch. A fusion of craftsmanship and elegance, this desk is a statement of refined taste and sophistication. Desk with top in ebony Macassar with 6 mm filet in Zebra veneer in high gloss polyester with 1 full extension drawer with bottom velvet. inside and 1 file drawer on each side. Center pencil drawer...

The Paris based label has distinguished themselves since their launch, with their iconic use of shagreen mixed with brass and other exotic materials. All furniture is handcrafted by ...

Exceptional modernist desk from the Art Deco period. This superb piece of furniture is reminiscent of the desk made by Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Janneret with its curved top and ...

The Paris based label has distinguished themselves since their launch, with their iconic use of shagreen mixed with brass and other exotic materials. All furniture is handcrafted by ...

This stunning 20th Century Art Deco Flamed Mahogany Desk is a perfect blend of form and function, showcasing the luxurious style characteristic of the Art Deco era. The desk's rich f...

Very elegant Italian Art Deco Mid-Century Modern small desk or writing table secretaire, in beautiful decorated and veneer wood with three drawers and covered sides. This beautiful p...

This desk is made of original shagreen in a natural colour, with brass caps on the legs. It has three drawers with brass handles. It can be used as a writing desk or as a vanity tab...

French desk style: Art Deco Year 1920 Material: Wood and chrome It is an elegant and sophisticated dream desk. The quality of the furniture and the exotic wood used make it unique. ...

A French Art Deco style shagreen embossed leather desk in a rich cobalt marlin blue. With gilded highlight trim, three frieze drawers with modern round pulls, and raised on square ta...

A fine French Art Deco mahogany dining table in the manner of Arbus. A matching console with a marble top is also available.

French Art Deco calamander wood double pedestal base desk having doors opening to drawers & shelves with trim. (signed: DOMINIQUE).  

The Paris based label has distinguished themselves since their launch, with their iconic use of shagreen mixed with brass and other exotic materials. All furniture is handcrafted by skilled artisans, ultimately making each piece unique, designed in Paris and produced in the Philippines. The iconic desk is the perfect piece for your room. An incredible “duo” between the cream shagreen top and dark bronze-patina brass base...

Art Deco drawer unit desk, four drawers, wood with oak veneer, resting on an aluminium-covered base. Aluminium handles. Satiny varnish finishing. France circa 1930

Magnificent and rare Art Deco Amsterdamse School ladies desk. Design by Fa. Drilling Amsterdam. Striking Dutch design from the 1920s. Solid American walnut base with original lacquer...

Very nice big writing desk from the period around 1915, transition from Art Nouveau to the Art Deco period. The desk was made of walnut veneer on a pi...

This exquisite 1920s Italian dining table brilliantly captures the sophisticated essence of Early 20th Century design. This elegant walnut table, a creation of Italian Art Deco desig...

French 1940s palisander writing desk with rounded rectangular glass top above 2 frieze drawers & shelves down a side. (attributed to MAISON DOMINIQUE)

Elegant modernist ash and oak desk, one drawer with a bronze knob. Faceted cut-off feet. This model is quite similar to the desks, part of furniture, designed by Ruhlmann for the st...

An exceptional, impressive and rarely seen Italian executive desk with its stunning veneer burl wood pattern. The huge (82.6 x 37.4 inch) and beautiful top of the desk is standing on...

The Paris based label has distinguished themselves since their launch, with their iconic use of shagreen mixed with brass and other exotic materials. All furniture is handcrafted by ...

This fully restored French Art Deco large desk features stunning Rosewood complemented by sleek tubular chrome handles. It boasts front shelves, two pull-out center drawers, three si...

A freestanding, vintage Art Deco Swedish writing table made of hand crafted polished Jacarandawood, in good condition. The rectangular Scandinavian desk has one large drawer in the c...

Gorgeous vintage oversized Scandinavian Art Deco desk in the style of iconic furniture designer Jindrich Halabala, circa 1950s. The desk is ...

French Art Deco cerused oak curved desk attributed to Jules Leleu. This stunning French Modern limed oak desk has beautiful bronze hardware and sabots with bookshelves on the front s...

Walnut Art Deco writing desk made in 1920s France. Restored by our team. Completely restored to high gloss. Material: Oak and Ebony Period: 1920-1929.

Monumental Art Deco era desk by French Art Deco Modernist designer Jacques Adnet. Iron frame with 4 posts, inverted u-shaped bases and brass support ...

20th Century French, Art Deco period pedestal desk. In oak with original handles. Also dismantles for easy transport. Circa 1930.

A beautiful example of the functionalist period and tubular steel furniture. This writing desk is made by Heteka Finland and is most probably by the renowned Finnish Architect Pauli ...

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. 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...

Ron Seff Mid-Century Modern "Cantilevered" desk with ostrich style brown leather wrapped top and stainless steel polished drawer fronts and base.

Magnificent and rare Art Deco Modernist desk or writing table. Striking Dutch design from the 1930s. Original black lacquered oak base with three original drawers with red lacquered ...

The Paris based label has distinguished themselves since their launch, with their iconic use of shagreen mixed with brass and other exotic materials. All furniture is handcrafted by skilled artisans, ultimately making each piece unique, designed in Paris and produced in the Philippines. The Iconic Writing Desk...

Stunning French desk from the 1930s with an elegant design characterized by linear and symmetrical shapes typical of Art Deco. The stepped top is a beautiful example of this style, a...

French Art Deco Rosewood desk and bookcase ,in two-piece. The tiered bookcase with six half-moon shelves to the left and bronze-mounted c...

Impressive Art Deco desk with chair, Poland, ca. 1930. Very good condition, after professional renovation. Wood: walnut Dimensions: height 75 cm width 150 cm depth 80 cm

Desk Year 1930 French Wood Finish: polyurethanic lacquer. It is an elegant and sophisticated dream desk. It has a large work surface. The quality of the furniture and the exotic woo...

Desk Year 1930 French Wood is Zebrano Finish: polyurethanic lacquer It is an elegant and sophisticated dream desk. It has a large work surface. The quality of the furniture and the e...

In the 1920-30s, Shanghai, China was swept up in the Art Deco design movement. Design, architecture, art, fashion, and furniture were all influenced by this modern movement, permeati...

Chest of drawers Art Deco. Buffet after professional manual renovation!.   

Small mid-century desk in amboyna burl from the Parisian cabinetmaking firm Speich Frères, active between 1900 and 1940. This unique piece of furniture, a testament to the expertise ...

Spectacular tour de force art deco style desk custom made by Cumberland, Maine studio furniture maker, Gregg Lipton. Inspired by Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann’s Soussa desk. Executed with...

This supremely rare early Modernist dressing table by Maison Desny, with its novel use of clear and opaline glass, and nickel-plated and paint...

Exceptionally rare executive corner writing desk or vanity table branded Dominique, Paris. This beyond beautiful Art Deco period French writing table by Maison Dominique was designed by the French duo André Domin (1883-1962) & Marcel Genevrière (1885-1967), better known as Dominique. Entirely veneered in precious woods, showing inlaid angular parquetry on top- boasts two capacious cabinets with doors flanking a large knee-hole area, an open shelf unit on the left side for plenty of storage space, furthermore the niches that open on the apron offer more space for documents, books or magazines storage. The stunning design of this vintage desk is enriched by an additional removable compartment placed on the desk top, this two doors shelf unit opens to reveal a letterbox or glove compartment and can also serve as a convenient shelf or support surface thanks to its wide triangular shaped top. This stunning corner executive desk...

Decoene Freres, Art Deco desk in Macassar ebony. Fully restored.

“President” Oak Desk on drawer pedestals and brass plinth, copper handles with original British green leather top, details abound in this piece such as the guest facing end with its ...

This elegant writing table has been handcrafted in France in the 1940's. The table features three different kind of wood and forged brass rings. The table top and the two drawers are...

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...

Two Modernist art deco writing tables circa 1930