Europe - Desks and Writing Tables

Striking desk by Alvar Aalto, made from birch in a compact functionalist design. Drawers to the right and a filing cabinet to the left with a jalousie door. Ink spots inside the t...

A fine quality English Regency period brass inlaid side table, with a hinged reading / writing slope, compartments opening to the sides for writing and drawing implements, a pleated box...

This 1960s Danish lacquered desk is a stunning example of mid-century Scandinavian craftsmanship, designed with both functionality and elegance in mind. The richly grained veneer fea...

Teak and oak desk by Ejnar Larsen & Aksel Bender Madsen for EJ Næstved SKM 1950s. With deep drawers and more nice details. Rare version.

This large two-tone study desk is made with a powder-coated steel frame and a beautiful natural linoleum top made out of linseed oil. This modern minimal desk...

A ladies writing table in the Louis XV transitional manner. Of freestanding form, constructed in kingwood, with good marquetry inlays, and having gilt bronze mounts; rising from swept cabriole legs with foliate form bronze sabots, and foliate espagnolettes over; the apron houses a lockable central drawer, with gilt bronze handles and a keyhole escutcheon; the shaped serpentine platform having a centrally situated floral bouquet, within a trellis delineated ground, the whole having a gilt bronze guard...

A rare English Regency period mahogany adjustable reading table. English, circa 1820.

Very rare and early Bauhaus "B21" desk / side table in black stained wood with chromed tubular steel base by Marcel Breuer produced by Thonet in Germany, 1930s. In good original cond...

The desk 'Origami' is made of extra-clear crystal glass. Each sheet of extra-clear crystal glass is cut and ground with extreme precision, then the sheets are assembled by hand, havi...

Large and elegant Carrara marble and leather desk around 1970/1980 with its leather box on wheels dim du caisson :61x46x70 cm

This secretary Desk belongs to our ÉGÉE COLLECTION and is designed by the Parisian designer Eric Gizard. Eric adopts for this collection the refined codes of Scandinavian design, c...

A smart and very well made antique William IV leather top desk / writing table. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1830-1840 period. This is of wonderful quality, it...

High-Adjustable Architect's Table France Mahogany Mid 19th century Dimensions: H x W x D: 79 x 93 x 56 cm, height adjustment: 79 - 120 cm Description: Rare writing and drawing tab...

Table designed by Franco Albini in 1950. Relaunched in 2008. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. This table, with its minimal lines and an extremely light look, underscores the extens...

Quality antique Victorian burr walnut freestanding Davenport having a quality burr walnut top with original walnut gallery, shaped burr walnut lift up writing slope with original lea...

An Ingenious 'Collapsible' Campaign Pedestal Desk Constructed from rosewood, each pedestal supported on tapering feet, one enclosing two drawer...

Chest of drawers Art Deco. . :)

This chocolate brown rectangular console table / desk is designed by Eric Gizard in Paris. It is 100% made of solid ash wood from sustainably managed and PEFC certified French forest...

Carlo Hauner (1927 – 1996) Desk (special order), c. 1950 Moveis Artesanal label Caviuna solid wood and veneer 75 × 180 × 80 cm 29 53/100 × 70 87/100 × 31 1/2 in This exceptional des...

Antique 18th century quality mahogany floral marquetry inlaid bombe shaped bureau having a quality floral marquetry fall opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of drawers, pigeon holes, door and a well above three bombe shaped floral marquetry oak...

A very good quality Regency period rosewood crossbanded, end support, library table. Having two frieze drawers, dummy drawers to the reverse, ormolu mounts to each corner, ormolu mou...

This luxurious and noble looking huge art nouveau desk was made around 1920 in Austria. It is made of oak wood, the table top is covered in beige genuine leather in the front part. I...

Louis XV style sloping desk in lacquer and gilt bronze. Louis XV style sloping desk, lacquer with Chinese scene decoration, gilt bronze, early 20th century...

French slant top desk writing table for student, circa 1950. Oak and iron pupitre Good vintage condition with nice patina. Authentic condition with engraved marks made by the studen...

An excellent piece of designed made in Italy. In excellent condition commensurate with age.

Italian writing desk from the mid-20th century. Furniture in carved, lacquered and gilded wood of beautiful lines and pleasant furnishings. Writing desk finished from the center equi...

For sale is a good quality Victorian walnut campaign travelling desk, opening to a maroon leather interior, the frame remains in very good condition fo...

Early edition ‘Concrete’ table designed by Jonas Bohlin for Swedish manufacturer Källemo. With a patinated steel frame and contrasting concrete leg, the angular desk has a reductive ...

very rare and elegant desk from denmark. top drawers can be locked / original key.

Franco Albini & Franca Helg. Dining table model no. TL22. Manufactured by Poggi, Italy, 1958. Mahogany. Measurements: 180.3 cm x 104.1 cm x 73 H cm. 70.98 in x 40.98 in x 28.74 in. Literature: Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio 1950/1980, Milan, 1985, p. 123. Franco Albini, was born in 1905 and died in 1977. He spent his childhood and part of his youth in Robbiate in Brianza, where he was born. Albini, as an adolescent moved with his family to Milan. Here he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic and graduated in 1929. He started his professional activity in the studio of Gio Ponti and Emilio Lancia, with whom he collaborated for three years. At the 1929 International Exhibition in Barcelona (where Gio Ponti curated the Italian pavilion and Mies van der Rohe realized that of Germany) and in Paris where, as Franca Helg recounted, he had the opportunity to visit the studio by Le Corbusier. In those three years, the works he carried out are admittedly of the twentieth century imprint. It is the meeting with Edoardo Persico that marked a clear turning point towards rationalism and the approach to the group of editors of "Casabella". The partly ironic and partly very harsh comments of the Neapolitan critic to a series of drawings, made by Albini for the design of some office furniture, caused him a great disturbance. “I spent days of real anguish - Albini recalls - I had to answer all the questions. I also had a fever, a large and long fever. " The meted provoked Albini to openen a professional studio in via Panizza with Renato Camus and Giancarlo Palanti. The group of architects began to deal with public housing by participating in the competition for the Baracca district in San Siro in 1932 and then building the IFACP neighborhoods: Fabio Filzi (1936/38), Gabriele D'Annunzio and Ettore Ponti (1939). During this period, Albini also worked on his first villa (Pestarini), which Giuseppe Pagano, architect and critic of the time, presented as follows: “This coherence, which the superficial rhetoric of fashionable jugglers calls intransigence, and which is instead the basis of understood between the fantasy of art and the reality of the craft, in Franco Albini, it is so rooted that it transforms theory into a moral attitude ". But it is above all in the context of the exhibitions that the Milanese master experienced his compromise between that "rigor and poetic fantasy" of which Pagano speaks, coining the elements that became a recurring theme in his . The opening in 1933 of the new Triennale headquarters in Milan, in the Palazzo dell'Arte, was an important opportunity to express the strong innovative character of rationalist thinking, a gym in which to freely experiment with new materials and new solutions, but above all a "method". "Cultivated as a communication laboratory, the art of setting up was for the rationalists of the first generation what the perspective had been for the architects of humanism: the field open to a hypothesis of space that needed profound reflections before landing the concreteness of the construction site ". Together with Giancarlo Palanti, Albini on the occasion of the V Triennale di Milano set up the steel structure house (with R. Camus, G. Mazzoleni, G. Minoletti and with the coordination of G. Pagano), for which he also designed the 'furniture. At the following Triennale of 1936, Persico dided, together with a group of young designers gathered by Pagano in the previous edition of 1933, Franco Albini took care of the preparations of the home exhibition. The setting up of Stanza per un uomo, at that same Triennale, allows us to understand the acute and ironic approach of Albini, as a man and as a designer: "Celebrating the beauty of mechanics was the imperative to which, for example, the surprising displays by Franco Albini who managed, in the subtle way of a refined and rarefied style, to sublimate their practical content in the metaphysics of daring still lifes: flying objects which marked in the void refined frames and metal intricacies the nodes of a fantastic cartography where industry finally became art free from purpose ". That same year Albini and Romano designed the exhibition of the Ancient Italian Goldsmithery: vertical uprights, simple linear rods, designed the space. A theme, of the "flagpole", seemed to be the center of the evolution of production and the creative process. The concept is reworked over time, with the technique of decomposition and recomposition typical of Albinian design: in the preparation of the Scipione Exhibition and contemporary drawings (1941) the tapered flagpoles, on which the paintings and display cases were hung, are supported by a grid of steel cables; in the Vanzetti stand (1942) they take the V-shape; in the Olivetti shop in Paris (1956) the polished mahogany uprights support the shelves for the display of typewriters and calculators. The flagpole is found, however, also in other areas. In the apartments he designed, it is used as a pivot on which the paintings can be suspended and rotated to allow different points of view, but at the same time as an element capable of dividing the spaces. The Veliero bookcase...

Clean lines and a unique shape are the characterizing aspects of the Aimo writing desk. With a structure in a satin brass finish, a base section in smoke gloss lacquered plywood and ...

This large beetroot color study desk is made with a powder coated steel frame and a beautiful natural linoleum top made out of linseed oil. This modern minimal desk has two steel dra...

Danish 1960s teak desk with side drawers, carved handles, and built-in bookcase at the back. Vintage desk made in Denmark, 1960s, with original Retrofabrikken label. Made of teak wi...

A wonderful pair of French red laquered partners bureau platt desk, with outstanding ormolu mounts, three opening drawers to one side and dummy drawers to the opposite side, dark bro...

Oak table made circa 1960. The table shape is inspired by the lines of art nouveau. This gives to this item an elegant and rare style. As you can see on the last photo, a piece of ...

Constructed in satinwood, with extensive usage of green stained sycamore, harewood, bois Violette, and well cut floral marquetry, the freestanding table rises from bronze capped cylindrical tapered legs, with vertical inlays; the apron, with a running motif of inlaid circles, containing a single mahogany lined single drawer with further bronze highlight: the top is of oblong form with bowed ends, enclosing a tooled hide, with floral marquetry end panels, enclosed by a bronze angle...

Unusual Antique Victorian quality figured mahogany kneehole architects desk having a quality figured mahogany lift up top opening to reveal a large writing surface crossbanded in mah...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely hand made in England Burr Walnut with age brown leather writing surface twin pedestal desk This is an important and sophisticated piece of English Victorian furniture...

1950s Gustav Bertelsen Mahogany desk with brass shoes. Front with six drawers. H. 75. L. 155. B. 85 cm.

A beautiful antique burr walnut leather top kidney shaped desk. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1920’s period. The quality is outstanding, this has a beautiful de...

"Reno" Table, ca. 1960. FEDERICO CORREA (1924-2020) & ALFONSO MILÁ (1924-2009) for Gres. It has been restored and is in very good condition. Dimensions: 72 x 180 x 90 cm. It has bee...

The Up&Up is an exquisite creation, meticulously crafted from finely-worked burr walnut. Its removable lid unveils a thoughtfully designed interior, perfect for storing pens and othe...

This high-end desk is the largest version of the “Il Ponte” series designed by Hans Von Klier for the Italian company Skipper in the 1970s. The desk is distinguished by the use of m...

Fantastic Directors desk and credenza model Artona by renowned design duo Afra and Tobia Scarpa for Maxalto, Italy 1970s. This striking design features a walnut burl desk top, inlai...

This beautiful desk, beautifully finished in kingwood, leather and gilt bronze, is a fantastic piece of 19th century French design in the Louis XV style. Elegant, beautifully crafted...

This walnut rectangular Tuscany table, has been hand made in Lucca (Tuscany, Italy) in 1760 circa. Its elegant shape, with the black border, makes this ...

Guillerme et Chambron, rare desk, Edition Votre Maison, circa 1950/1960. Votre maison : a style, a concept, a mindset. The Votre Maison story begins in 1940 in Prussia, near the M...

Outstanding quality antique Edwardian inlaid mahogany reading table having a quality lift up ratchet top with charming satinwood inlaid urns, bows and swags above three frieze drawer...

Gaby gradient desk by Chapel Petrassi Dimensions: 125 x 80 x 75 cm Materials: Polished Aluminium, Tailor made HPL laminate Chapel Petrassi is a contemporary design and manufacturing company based in Paris and Naples founded by designers Marie-Charlotte Bassi and Diego Petroso specialized in handcrafted furniture and custom projects for residential, commercial and galleries. The duo met in Rome, Italy while studying, in Art and Literature for Marie-Charlotte and at Academy of Fine Arts for Diego. In 2011 after their studies, the duo travel to Europe for various projects and artistic residencies, including the American Academy in Rome in 2014. These experiences and the meetings generated aroused a curiosity and a great desire to undertake and build a project together. This common desire has naturally materialized in the design and production of contemporary furniture. Chapel Petrassi is define by its fusion of craftsmanship and art fields with the high sense to detail. Its designs are the result of a permanent mix of different visual codes drawn from contemporary languages and youth culture. Chapel Petrassi was finalist at AD Design Award in Berlin in 2016 and awarded at ICFF Studio 2019 in New York presenting its innovative designs and unique concepts, the emerging brand was established as a leading talent in the industry. Chapel Petrassi exhibited its collection at 15th Architecture Biennale, Venice in 2016, Design Museum of Helsinki in 2016, FuoriSalone in Milan in 2016, 2017 and 2018, Galerie Le French Design by VIA, Paris in 2019, Jacob K...

The table dates from the early Biedermeier period at the beginning of the 19th century. The body of the table is made of spruce wood and was covered with a very beautiful thick walnu...

Featuring a gilt-tooled dark red leather writing surface. The upper section comprises a central drawer flanked by two smaller drawers. Below, the twin pedestals each contain three g...

Progetto 1 Italian White Metal Desk Table by Monica Armani A white metal desk, the Progetto 1, Italy by Monica Armani circa 2005. The measurements a...

Dining table designed by Niels Møller. Produced in Denmark by J.L. Møller during the 1960s. Made from teak. "Dutch" inlays that is stored conveniently underneath the main table top. ...

Unique, Solid Oak Ernest Desk by Obstacles Dimensions: W 80 x D 240 x H 74 cm Materials: Solid oak. Ernest Desk serves many functions, a writing desk, a headboard, or a table plac...

Isotopo table design by Elena Salmistraro, product by Scapin Collezioni Limited Edition A vibrant round top is combined with a sculptural base made of three rounded conical suppo...

A Gilt-Bronze Mounted Burr Walnut Writing Table, Probably by Gillows. The rectangular top has a gilt-bronze surround above a serpentine frieze fronted by a central drawer. The corn...

A Regency amboyna and gilt library table attributed to Seddon and Morel, with a rectangular top set upon solid end supports with a turned, reeded an...

A Regency amboyna and gilt library table attributed to Seddon and Morel, with a rectangular top set upon solid end supports with a turned, reeded an...