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Black Lacquer Queen Anne Japanned Dressing Table, circa 1750
Located in Carmel, CA
The top of this dressing table depicts three Japanese ladies dressed in kimonos, strolling in a garden setting with weeping willows, perched birds, and flowering trees. This is a so...
Category
Antique 1750s English Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Lacquer
A pair of English black and polychrome-painted bureaux
Located in London, GB
Late 17th century style. Each decorated overall with flower sprays, with fold-over top lined with yellow baize enclosing a fitted interior, above two small and one long drawer, with ...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Icon Table in Patinated Steel and Leather by Christopher Kreiling
By Christopher Kreiling Studio
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The ICON Table works as a desk, conference table, or dining table and pairs with the ICON Chair in
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Steel
19th Century Elegant Bonheur Du Jour with Porcelain
Located in Wels, AT
Beautiful and elegant lady's desk "Bonheur du jour."
Ebonized wood, legs with four
Category
Antique 1880s Austrian High Victorian Desks and Writing Tables
17th Century French Bureau Mazarin
Located in Antwerp, BE
The ‘Bureau Mazarin’ is a 17th century desk form named in memory of Cardinal Mazarin, premier
Category
Antique 17th Century French Renaissance Desks and Writing Tables
Italian Carved Walnut Center Table
Located in Natchez, MS
Italian Walnut Sofa Table or Desk with one drawer in a gadrooned top upon carved trestle legs and a
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Signed Walnut Leather-Top Louis XV Escritoire, France circa 1740
Located in Lake Forest, IL
Walnut Louis XV Leather Top Writing Table, Signed J.P. Latz
Single Drawer with Simple Ebony
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Louis XV Bureau Plat
Located in Paris, FR
Louis XV desk inlaid with ebony, darkened wood and brass.
This bureau plat is opening with two
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
$23,686
Vintage Cast Iron Machine Base Champion Shoe Manufacturing Co. St. Louis
Located in Newtown, CT
you to add a top. Dates to about the 1920s, would make a great stand up desk. Paint loss and normal
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
Marc Newson Riga Table in Matte Lacquered Woods for Cappellini
By Cappellini, Marc Newson
Located in New York, NY
Designed by Marc Newson, the Riga table is a writing desk made of Matte lacquered wood (in all of
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Aluminum
Battersea Table by Zielinski Wertel Tsai
Located in London, GB
American walnut, cast bronze legs with custom patina, natural leather top framed by an ebony inlay.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Desks and Writing Tables
Factory Table
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th Century steel factory table with blackened base and mirror-finished chrome clad top.
Category
Early 20th Century Desks and Writing Tables
$18,000
19th Century Architect Table
Located in Brussels, BE
19th century architect table in wood.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Desks and Writing Tables
Pair of Austrian veneered columns with lion
s paw Biedermeier circa1840s
Located in Milano, IT
Elegant pair of Austrian columns veneered in blond mahogany and ebonized wood and decorated with lion's paw. Black marble top.
Biedermeier Era circa 1840.
Origin Austria.
Dimensions...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Belgian Black Marble
Ebonized Three-Drawer Bureau Plat with Embossed Leather Top, French, circa 1880
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ebonized three-drawer bureau plat with embossed leather top, French, circa 1880.
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Ebonized Mahogany Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Occasional table in ebonized mahogany with natural mahogany drawers. Features turned legs and bone inlay detailing. Antique items are sold as-is.
Category
Early 20th Century Desks and Writing Tables
$8,800
Robsjohn Gibbings Campaign Style Bureau Plat
By T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robsjohn gibbings Campaign style bureau plat, simple and beautiful.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Desks and Writing Tables
French Architect
s Table
Located in New York, NY
Great looking architect's table with three pull-out shelves that are accessible from both sides. Really an unusual piece.
Category
Early 20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
$8,750
Vanity by Raphael
By Raphael Furniture
Located in Newburgh, NY
Rare vanity by Raphael, the left side opens to reveal a mirror and a shelf. Eight drawers. En suite with chairs.
Category
20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
$18,000
Exceptional Small Iron and Copper Side Table with Chair
Located in Pasadena, CA
Side table and iron chair, circa 1920s. The iron work is incredibly well executed.
Measures: 32" H x 31.25" W x 13" D.
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Vintage 1920s North American Spanish Colonial Desks and Writing Tables
A.G.Fronzoni Rectangular Fronzoni 64 Table in Metal and Wooden Top, Cappellini
By A. G. Fronzoni, Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
An ode to clean lines, the Fronzoni ’64 table embellishes settings with its absolute rigour and essential elegance. Austere and perfectly functional, the Fronzoni ’64 tables are the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
A.G.Fronzoni Square Fronzoni 64 Table in Metal Top and Wood Top for Cappellini
By A. G. Fronzoni, Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
An ode to clean lines, the Fronzoni ’64 table embellishes settings with its absolute rigour and essential elegance. Austere and perfectly functional, the Fronzoni ’64 tables are the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
Six-Drawer Mahogany Library Table
By Gillows of Lancaster
London
Located in Salisbury, GB
A six-drawer mahogany library table in the style of Gillows with oak lined drawers and original mahogany knob handles.
With hand dyed and tooled hide
Circa 1830
Category
Antique 19th Century British Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Hide, Mahogany, Oak
French 19th Century Louis XV Style Boulle Dressing Table
Located in Macclesfield, GB
An exceptional French serpentine shaped boulle red tortoiseshell and engraved brass Bonheur du jour. At some time in its life it has been adapted into a very fine looking dressing ta...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
chinoiserie black lacquer writing desk
Located in Athens, GA
design, a floating chinoiserie desk
shipping from athens ga 30606 so please message me with your zip code
Category
Vintage 1970s Chinese Desks
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Regency Lacquer Desk Writing Table Bureau Plat
Located in Potters Bar, Herts
.
Stunning Regency style desk with a black lacquer finish - Love this look at the moment, black lacquer seems
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1990s Regency Desks
Pierre Writing Desk, Monkey Pod Natural Wood Veneer with Black Detailing
By Lee Weitzman
Located in Chicago, IL
The Pierre desk features monkey Pod veneer from Hawaii. It has a starburst veneer pattern on the
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Desks
Materials
Other
Gianfranco Frattini Writing Desk by Bernini, Italy circa 1960
By Gianfranco Frattini
Located in Munich, DE
Gianfranco Frattini, Model 804 writing desk, rare special edition in Jacaranda rosewood by Bernini
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Aluminum
Antique Hand-Carved Burmese Desk Writing Table, 1890, Hardwood
Located in Potters Bar, Herts
Amazing hand-carved antique Burmese writing table or desk.
Hopefully the photos illustrate the
Category
Antique 1890s Desks
Large Boulle Louis XVI Desk Writing Table Bureau Plat Marquetry Inlay
Located in Potters Bar, Herts
cast and original to desk.
Red tooled leather writing surface in great shape.
Just a stunning work of
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Vintage 1980s Louis XVI Desks
Bronze and Black Marble Writing Set, Model by Nikolai Iwanowitsch Lieberich
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rare bronze and black marble writing set featuring bears at rest decor. The set is composed of a
Category
Antique Late 19th Century European Belle Époque Inkwells
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Bronze
Antique Greek Key Calamander Brass Writing Box with SECRET compartment.
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
plate and escutcheon.
Inside of this stunning writing box has a black leather writing surface that
Category
Antique 19th Century British Victorian More Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Bauhaus Art Deco Writing Set with Perpetual Calendar by Jakob Maul
Located in everton lymington, GB
Fabulous Art Deco German Bauhaus Perpetual Calendar with a Black Belgian Marble pen tray that has
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Vintage 1920s German Art Deco Desk Sets
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Chrome
Writing Case Josef Hoffmann Leather Gold Embossed Wiener Werkstatte, circa 1924
By Josef Hoffmann, Wiener Werkstätte
Located in Vienna, AT
most of their items in gold embossed goat leather.
The form of this writing case was designed by
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Vintage 1920s Austrian Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Goatskin, Silk
Antique Leather Bound Writing Box by J. T. Needs London, 19th Century
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Antique Leather bound writing box with brass gilded campaign carry handle, escutcheon and hinge
Category
Antique 19th Century British More Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
French 19th Century Louis XV Style Boulle Writing Cabinet
Located in Macclesfield, GB
Bonheur du jour writing cabinet with domed oval panels to the doors and serpentine shaped based with
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Brass
Art Deco Brass Table Lamp and Writing Set with Ink Well and Blotter Rocker
Located in Vienna, AT
This lot is a complete desk set. Beside the table lamp it consists of a pen tray, a blotter rocker
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Desk Sets
Materials
Brass
Georgian Mahogany Partner
s Desk
Located in Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB
.
The desk is in very good condition with a period style replacement black leather writing surface
Category
Antique Early 1800s English Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Gustavian Style Writing Desk
Located in Sheffield, MA
Writing desk in the Gustavian Style, Sweden, circa 1880. Raised, reeded panels on the three-drawer
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Secretaires
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Modern 1950s German Writing Desk Armchair
Located in Nurnberg, DE
Very elegant and comfortable German 1950s writing desk armchair with a beautiful Silhouette
Category
Vintage 1950s German Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Materials
Leather, Wood
Swedish 18th century Commode
Located in London, GB
18th century Oak Swedish commode with pull out writing desk, original black paint, in the Gustavian
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Swedish Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Black Writing Desk
Located in Brussels, BE
Black writing desk, 1970s.
Category
Vintage 1970s Belgian Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
$2,830
Baker Furniture Asian Black Writing Desk Console Table Computer Campaign Style
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in Dayton, OH
Baker Furniture Asian black writing desk console table computer Campaign style
A lovely writing
Category
Late 20th Century Chinoiserie Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Hardwood, Lacquer
Mid Century Style Black Writing Desk with Curved Chrome X-Base
Located in Astoria, NY
A sleek, sophisticated writing desk created by Kimball offers an elegant venue for writing and
Category
20th Century American Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Chrome
19th Century Gustavian Tall Black Writing Desk Secretaire, Sweden 1820
Located in Berlin, DE
This beautiful 19th century Gustavian tall black writing desk secretaire was made in Sweden around
Category
Antique 1820s Swedish Gustavian Secretaires
Materials
Pine
Jacques Adnet Writing Desk
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Beautiful black writing desk by Jacques Adnet. Rectangular black skai top with brass corners sits
Category
20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass, Iron
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Black Writing Desk With 3 Drawers
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Black Painted Gustavian 3-Drawer Office Desk, Sweden
Classic and simple Scandinavian style
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Desks
Materials
Brass
Leather Campaign Desk in the Style of Jacques Adnet
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Beautiful black writing desk in the style of Jacques Adnet. Rectangular black lambskin top with
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass, Iron
$7,500 / item
Danish Black Lacquer Writing Desk
Located in Kastrup, DK
Freestanding desk in high-gloss black lacquered mahogany. The front includes drawers and a door
Category
Vintage 1950s European Scandinavian Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Handsome Black Lacquered Writing Desk
Located in Buchanan, NY
American writing desk with two drawers, recently lacquered black. Circa 1950s
Category
Vintage 1950s American Desks and Writing Tables
Bamboo Black Lacquered Writing Desk
Located in Cheshire, GB
19th century bamboo black lacquered writing desk having black leather inset writing surface above
Category
Early 20th Century British Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bamboo
Bamboo Black Lacquered Writing Desk
Located in Cheshire, GB
19th century bamboo black lacquered writing desk having stage gallery with an arrangement of three
Category
Antique Late 19th Century British Desks and Writing Tables
Regency Style Black Polished Writing Desk
Located in Kastrup, DK
Desk in black polished mahogany.
Rectangular top with inset brown leather writing surface
Category
Mid-20th Century English Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Ladies Writing Desk
Located in New York, NY
Remarkable Victorian Nagasaki technique lacquer work writing desk. Tiered lady's writing desk with
Category
Antique 19th Century English Desks and Writing Tables
$6,850
American of Martinsville Midcentury Black Lacquered Writing Desk
By American of Martinsville
Located in Astoria, NY
Mid-Century Modern black lacquered writing desk by American of Martinsville, with white Formica top
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Formica, Wood
Modern Curved Black Leather Writing Desk by Nancy Corzine Fusion Desk
By Nancy Corzine
Located in North York, ON
Modern curved black leather writing desk by Nancy Corzine Fusion Desk. Original Nancy Corzine
Category
Vintage 1980s American Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
Chippendale Style Writing Desk, Black Lacquer Grey Leather Top
Located in Toronto, CA
A Chippendale style 20th century writing desk with a leather writing surface. There is a single
Category
20th Century American Chippendale Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
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Finding the Right Desks-writing-tables for You
Choosing the perfect writing desk or writing table is a profoundly personal journey, one that people have been embarking upon for centuries.
Queen Atossa of Persia, from her writing table circa 500 B.C., is said to have been the originator of the art of handwritten letters. Hers was reportedly the first in a long and colorful history of penned correspondence that grew in popularity alongside literacy. The demand for suitable writing desks, which would serve the composer of the letters as well as ensure the comfort of the recipient naturally followed, and the design of these necessary furnishings has evolved throughout history.
Once people began to seek freedom from the outwardly ornate styles of the walnut and rosewood writing desks and drafting tables introduced in the name of Queen Victoria and King Louis XV, radical shifts occurred, such as those that materialized during the Art Nouveau period, when designers longed to produce furniture inspired by the natural world’s beauty. A prime example is the work of the famous late-19th-century Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí — his rolltop desk featured deep side drawers and was adorned with carved motifs that paid tribute to nature. Gaudí regularly combined structural precision with decorative elements, creating beautiful pieces of furniture in wood and metal.
Soon afterward, preferences for sleek, geometric, stylized forms in furniture that saw an emphasis on natural wood grains and traditional craftsmanship took hold. Today, Art Deco desks are still favored by designers who seek to infuse interiors with an air of luxury. One of the most prominent figures of the Art Deco movement was French decorator and furniture designer Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann. With his use of neoclassical motifs as well as expensive and exotic materials such as imported dark woods and inlays of precious metals for his writing desks, Ruhlmann came to symbolize good taste and modernity.
The rise in appreciation for Scandinavian modernism continues to influence the design of contemporary writing desks. It employs the “no fuss” or “less is more” approach to creating a tasteful, sophisticated space. Sweden’s master cabinetmaker Bruno Mathsson created gallery-worthy designs that are as functional as they are beautiful. Finnish architect Alvar Aalto never viewed himself as an artist, but, like Mathsson, his furniture designs reflected a fondness for organic materials and a humanistic approach. Danish designers such as Hans Wegner introduced elegant shapes and lines to mid-century desks and writing tables, often working in oak and solid teak.
From vintage desks to contemporary styles, 1stDibs offers a broad spectrum of choices for conducting all personal and business writing and reading activities.
Questions About Black Writing Desk
- What is a writing desk?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertSeptember 25, 2019
A writing desk may refer to a desk with a top, often sloping, for writing on or to a portable case with compartments to hold writing materials and a surface for writing.
- 1stDibs ExpertOctober 12, 2021A small writing table is also called a davenport table or davenport desk. They normally feature a sloped or inclined top attached with hinges to the back of the table. On 1stDibs, find a variety of antique and vintage davenport desks.
- 1stDibs ExpertOctober 19, 2021A writing desk with drawers is also called a secretary. It is a desk with drawers, one of which can be pushed out and the front of the desk lowered to create a flat writing surface. These writing desks have been made in a variety of styles over the years. Shop for a variety of writing tables with drawers on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertJune 15, 2023What an old-fashioned writing desk is called varies by design. Pieces with drop-down fronts are secretary desks (these are typically made of two parts: a chest of drawers on the bottom and a hutch or cupboard with shelves on the top), while ones that rest on two pillars, cabinets or bookcases are pedestal desks. A desk with a small writing surface positioned in front of drawers and cubbies is a bureau à gradin. On 1stDibs, shop a selection of desks.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 3, 2023In French, the term for a writing desk that often featured a drop-down writing surface is secretaire. This type of desk is called a secretary desk in English. Simply put, a secretary desk is a multifunctional piece of furniture with a hinged writing surface that folds open or drops down. When the leaf is folded out, small inner storage compartments, which are called pigeonholes, cubbies, recesses or drawers, are revealed. On 1stDibs, shop antique secretary desks from some of the world's top sellers.
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