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Antique Bureau Plat French Inlay Desk Writing Table
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Quality antique French desk or bureau plat
Classic look crafted from kingwood with original ormolu
Category
Vintage 1920s Desks
Materials
Kingwood
Louis XV Style Bureau Plat
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Attractive Louis XV style bureau plat, gilt embossed tanned leather top writing surface centered on
Category
Late 20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Bureau Plat by Francois Linke
By François Linke
Located in Wien, AT
Paris, late 19th century, elegantly curved hardwood frame, rosewood veneered, inlaid with various precious woods in the form of cubes and leaves, polished in traditional craftsmanshi...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Maitland Smith Tessellated Penshell Desk or Bureau Plat Louis IV Style
By Maitland Smith
Located in Atlanta, GA
Elegant Maitland Smith Tessellated Penshell Desk or Bureau Plat, American, circa 1970s. Executed in
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Vintage 1970s American Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Directoire Style Small Bureau Plat
Located in Sheffield, MA
Directoire Maison Jansen style desk. Label inside drawer inscribed "A. Alavoine and Co., NY and
Category
Early 20th Century American Neoclassical Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Francois Linke Quality Bronze Mounted Leather Top Bureau Plat Writing Desk
By François Linke
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This exceptional bureau plat writing desk is crafted in the manner of the celebrated Parisian
Category
Vintage 1930s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Designer Writing Desk / Bureau Plat in Louis XV Style, Piano Black
Located in Berlin, DE
Black designer writing desk / bureau plat in Louis XV style
Piano black polished veneer on solid
Category
20th Century Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Elegant Black Stained French Style Bureau Plat or Desk by Kittinger
By Kittinger
Located in Atlanta, GA
Elegant Black Stained French Style Bureau Plat or Desk by Kittinger, American, circa 1960s. It has
Category
Vintage 1960s American Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal, Brass
Louis XVI Style French Desk or Bureau Plat
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive 19th century French desk with the original tooled leather top now aged to perfection
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XIV Desks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Rococo Mahogany, Satinwood and Bureau Plat Executive Writing Desk
Located in Van Nuys, CA
, and bureau Plat with hand-cast bronze accents. It features three lockable horizontal frieze drawers in
Category
Vintage 1950s Spanish Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th century bronze mounted bureau plat
Located in Cheshire, GB
19th century bronze mounted crossbanded bureau plat, the shaped top with gilt bronze border and
Category
Antique 19th Century British Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
20th Century Imperial French Bureau Plat or Desk by Charles Boulle
Located in Berlin, DE
Imperial French bureau plat or desk by Charles Boulle
This model was built by the most important
Category
20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
A Nineteenth Century French Bureau Plat
Located in London, GB
A mid nineteenth century French bureau plat of good scale, in mahogany with kingwood veneer
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique French Louis XVI Style Leather Top Desk or Bureau Plat
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive antique French desk crafted in mahogany and tulipwood, featuring a top with three tooled
Category
20th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
Late 1900
s Louis XVI Style, Ormolu, Bureau Plat, Cartonnier, Writing Desk!
Located in Austin, TX
Gorgeous Late 1900's Louis XVI Style, Ormolu, Bureau Plat, Cartonnier, Writing Desk!
Late 1900's
Category
20th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French inlaid Kidney-shape Bureau-Plat/Library-Table/Desk
Located in Folkestone, GB
Superb early 19th century French Bureau Plat or Library table veneered in Sycamore inlaid with
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Charles X Desks
Materials
Kingwood, Sycamore
Antique Louis XV Bureau Plat or Leather Top Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive 18th Century Louis XV bureau plat handcrafted in classic style with mahogany and
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Brass
French Louis XV Black Lacquer Bronze Figural Ormolu Bureau Plat Writing Desk
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique French Louis XV Style Black Lacquer Bronze Figural Ormolu Bureau Plat Writing Desk. Item
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Empire Bureau Plat, France, Early 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Elegant Empire writing desk (Bureau Plat) in mahogany. The desk stands on tapered, smooth legs with
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
18th Century French Louis XV Transition Marquetry Gilt Bronze Desk Bureau Plat
Located in Berlin, DE
18th Century French Louis XV Transition Marquetry Gilt Bronze Desk Bureau Plat
An 18th century
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Mahogany Bureau Plat, 19th C.
Located in Astoria, NY
French Empire Mahogany Bureau Plat, 19th century, with gilt-tooled tan leather top with central
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Impressive Louis XV Style Bureau Plat/Writing Desk, after Riesener
J.Oeben
Located in Berlin, DE
AN IMPRESSIVE LOUIS XV STYLE BUREAU PLAT /DESCRIPTION - AFTER THE BUREAU DU ROI AT VERSAILLES BY J
Category
20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Rare Flame Mahogany Bronze Mounted Leather Top Francois Linke Desk Bureau Plat
By François Linke
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This rare François Linke desk, Bureau Plat, circa early 20th century, is an extraordinary example
Category
Vintage 1910s French Directoire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Brass Bound Leather Top Louis XV Bureau Plat Baker Collector
s Edition Desk
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This Brass Bound Leather Top Louis XV Bureau Plat from Baker’s esteemed Collector’s Edition is a
Category
Vintage 1980s American Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
$3,960 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century Luxurious White Bureau Plat / Writing Desk in Louis XV Style
Located in Berlin, DE
20th century luxurious white bureau plat / writing desk in Louis XV style
Solid beechwood
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Luxurious White Bureau Plat / Writing Desk in Louis XV Style
Located in Berlin, DE
20th century luxurious white bureau plat / writing desk in Louis XV style
Solid beechwood
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French 19th Century Bureau Plat, by Zweiner
Located in Brighton, Sussex
This exquisite Louis XVI style bureau plat, crafted in the 19th century by Zweiner, showcases the
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
$41,674 Sale Price
20% Off
Louis XV Tulipwood and Kingwood Bureau Plat
By Edward Holmes Baldock
Located in Miami, US
refined addition to any elegant interior.
This bureau plat serves not only as a functional writing desk
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Ebonized Louis XVI Bureau Plat or Writing Desk with Embossed Leather Top
Located in Austin, TX
An elegant and large scale double-sided French bureau plat writing desk or table of ebonized
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal, Brass, Bronze
Louis XVI Style Tulipwood Bureau Plat
Located in Essex, MA
With a rectangular top with inset deep burgundy leather with bronze outer border over three drawers and opposing false drawers raised on cabriole legs and sabot feet. With key.
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV style bureau plat, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
This late 19th-century French bureau plat is a stunning example of mahogany craftsmanship. The
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Antique French Burr Walnut Writing Table Desk Bureau Plat c.1870 114x65cm
Located in London, GB
A gorgeous antique French ormolu mounted burr walnut library table, circa 1870 in date.
Featuring king wood banding, the shaped top with an inset gold tooled green leather writing s...
Category
Antique 1870s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Empire Desk Marquetry Inlay Harrods Bureau Plat Writing Table
Located in Potters Bar, GB
You are viewing a gorgeous French Empire style bureau plat or desk
Piece was originally purchased
Category
Vintage 1980s French Provincial Desks
Materials
Wood
20th Century writing Desk Louis XV Piano-Black Bureau Plat
Located in Berlin, DE
20th Century writing Desk Louis XV Piano-Black Bureau Plat
Majestic bureau plat in Louis XV style
Category
20th Century Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
1950s French Louis XIV Style Desk / Bureau Plat With Gilt Bronze Ormolu
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is a French Louis XIV style desk that is in very good condition. The desk is marked. The
Category
Mid-20th Century French Louis XIV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century, Bureau Plat, by Francoise Linke.
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality French kingwood and marquetry, ormolu-mounted Bureau plat, signed Linke.
Having
Category
Antique 1890s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Kingwood
$49,351 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century French Regence Walnut Bureau Plat
Located in Dallas, TX
Beautiful 18th century French Regence Bureau Plat. Four drawers, with pieced leather top with
Category
Antique 18th Century French Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
$53,200 Sale Price
30% Off
20th Century Desk Bureau Plat in Antique Louis XV Style Mahogany Veneer
Located in Berlin, DE
In Bois-Satiné veneer, all-round full-length mirror veneer with seed beads. Extremely fine, floral, bronze fittings in the form of chutes, handmade patinated bronze. Rosewood veneere...
Category
Late 20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
French Louis XV Style Walnut Bureau Plat
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Vintage midcentury French walnut bureau plat with parquetry top & pull outs on each side. Bronze
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Louis XVI style Bureau plat, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th Century French Louis XVI style bureau plat. Having an inset leather
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
$21,934 Sale Price
20% Off
French Bureau Plat Marquetry Leather Top Desk with Orig. Ormolu Mounts, C. 1770
Located in Charleston, SC
French bureau plat marquetry leather top three drawer desk with hearing bone inlays, three opposite
Category
Antique 1770s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu, Brass
Designer Writing Desk / Bureau Plat in Louis XV Style, Piano Black and gold
Located in Berlin, DE
Black designer writing desk / bureau plat in Louis XV style
Piano black veneer on solid softwood
Category
20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
$4,209 Sale Price
20% Off
Designer writing desk / bureau plat in Louis XV style Piano Black with silver
Located in Berlin, DE
Designer writing desk / bureau plat in Louis XV style Piano Black with silver
Piano black
Category
20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
$4,674 Sale Price
20% Off
Small 19th Century French Boulle Bureau Plat
By André-Charles Boulle
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality small late 19th century French Boulle inlaid bureau plat, having an inset leather
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
French Louis XV Style Figural Bronze Ormolu Leather Top Bureau Plat Writing Desk
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage French Louis XV Style Figural Bronze Ormolu Leather Top Bureau Plat Writing Desk. Item
Category
Late 20th Century Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Linke Influenced Bureau Plat, circa 1890
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th century French Louis XVI style mahogany bureau plat, in the manner of
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
$10,967 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century Louis XV Style French Bureau Plat or Desk after Francois Linke
Located in Berlin, DE
20th century Louis XV style French Bureau plat or desk after Francois Linke
Table top covered
Category
20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French 19th Century Leather Top Louis XV Style Writing Desk or Bureau Plat
Located in Hopewell, NJ
fantastic piece of 19th century French design in the Louis XV style. The bureau plat is set on four
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Louis XV Style Womens Tulip Veneer, Bureau Plat or Desk
Located in Berlin, DE
Tulip wood veneered. Extremely fine, floral, bronze fittings. Four-sided, slightly curved, three-edged frame base with wide knee patch on elegantly curved squares in sabots. Slightly...
Category
20th Century Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Elegant Veneered Bureau Plat or Writing Desk in Louis XV Style
Located in Berlin, DE
Elegant veneered bureau plat or desk in Louis XV style
Solid beechwood and veneer. Very fine
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
A French Louis XVI style Leather Top Bureau Plat / Writing Desk, C. 1920.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Features a stunning combination of banded woods giving a glow to this desk. Having a gilt tooled
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
19th Century French Louis XV Style Bureau Plat
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
A fine quality 19th Century French, Louis XV Style bureau plat.
With ormolu mounts and moulded
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Tortoise Wood Louis XVI Style Maison Jansen Partners Desk or Bureau Plat
By Maison Jansen
Located in Manhasset, NY
Tortoise wood Louis XVI style Maison Jansen partners desk or bureau plat. The finest of quality and
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Mid-20th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Early 19th Century French Black Lacquered Bureau Plat
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
An impressive early 19th Century French Louis XVI style, black lacquered bureau plat.
With is
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Antique Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Regence Ebonized And Ormolu Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Essex, MA
With a rectangular top with inset black tooled leather surrounded by a brass inlaid ebonized border with brass edge. The frieze with three drawers with cast bronze handles and three ...
Category
Antique 1730s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Louis XV Style Bureau Plat
Located in Houston, TX
19th Century French bureau plat featuring a high-gloss black" lacquer like" painted finish, bronze
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
20th Century French Kingwood and Ormolu Bureau Plat
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
A rare example of a French Louis XV style bureau plat with fitted cabinet back. A handsome piece
Category
Vintage 1920s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
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Bureau Plat Desk For Sale on 1stDibs
With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the bureau plat desk you’re looking for. A bureau plat desk — often made from wood, metal and animal skin — can elevate any home. If you’re shopping for a bureau plat desk, we have 815 options in-stock, while there are 1 modern editions to choose from as well. Your living room may not be complete without a bureau plat desk — find older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. Each bureau plat desk bearing Louis XV, Louis XVI or Empire hallmarks is very popular. Many designers have produced at least one well-made bureau plat desk over the years, but those crafted by François Linke, Maison Jansen and Paul Sormani are often thought to be among the most beautiful.
How Much is a Bureau Plat Desk?
The average selling price for a bureau plat desk at 1stDibs is $8,206, while they’re typically $1,295 on the low end and $247,737 for the highest priced.
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.
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