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Regence Style Trellis Parquetry Bureau Plat by François Linke, circa 1890
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Magnificent Regence Style gilt bronze Mounted Trellis Parquetry Bureau Plat by François Linke
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Régence Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Large French Bureau Plat/Bureau de Ministre in Mahogany with Gilt Bronze Mounts
Located in Miami, FL
Large French Bureau Plat / Bureau de Ministre in Mahogany with Gilt Bronze Mounts, Empire
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Desks
Materials
Bronze
Regence Style Gilt Bronze-Mounted Bureau Plat by Zwiener, circa 1890
By Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Regence style gilt bronze-mounted bureau plat by Zwiener.
French, circa 1890.
Stamped to
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Régence Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Royal French Bureau Plat in Louis XV Style After Francois Linke, Paris
Located in Berlin, DE
Royal French Bureau Plat in Louis XV Style After Francois Linke, Paris
Solid Mahogany rood and
Category
20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
$6,680 Sale Price
51% Off
Louis XVI Style French Bureau Plat, Circa 1860 - 1890 for Restoration
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Louis XVI style mahogany writing desk with satinwood and French walnut marquetry with bronze
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Unknown Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century antique Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Writing Table bronze
Located in Berlin, DE
Castle worthy desk, solid wood. Rosewood veneer edged by finely engraved brass fittings. On angled
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
$9,976 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century antique Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Writing Table Piano Black
Located in Berlin, DE
Bureau plat writing table in the style of Louis XV style, silvered bronze fittings. Piano lacquer
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Beech
Nice Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Nice Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Bureau Plat
The rectangular top with
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Antique Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Antique 19th Century Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Writing Table Mahogany veneer
Located in Berlin, DE
Bureau plat in the style of the Louis XV Napoleon III Paris, circa 1850-1880. In Bois-Satiné veneer
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
French Bureau Plat 20th C. with Black Gilt Trim Writing Surface
Located in Houston, TX
This exquisite desk is very well made with beech wood and oak with
Kingwood marquetry decorative
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Beech
20th Century antique Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Writing Table Piano White
Located in Berlin, DE
Bureau plat writing table in the style of Louis XV style, silvered bronze fittings. Piano lacquer
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Beech
$2,137 Sale Price
65% Off
Louis XVI Style Bureau Plat with Gilt-Bronze
Breche d
Alep Marble
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted bureau plat, with a Breche d'Alep marble top.
The bureau
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Mahogany Leather Top Bureau Plat
Located in Forney, TX
An antique Louis XVI style writing desk with beautiful patina. Hand crafted in France in the early
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
A fine late 19th century Kingwood Bureau Plat in the French Régence style
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A fine late 19th century Kingwood Bureau Plat in the French Régence style after models by Charles
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
A French 19th century Louis XV st. Kingwood and Ormolu Bureau Plat
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and high quality French 19th century Louis XV st. Kingwood and Ormolu Bureau Plat. The
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French 20th C. Louis XV Style Bronze Mounted-Kingwood
Plaque-Inset Bureau Plat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An exceptional and richly mounted Louis XV style bureau plat, crafted in kingwood with exquisite
Category
20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Magnificent 19th century French Louis XVI bureau plat retailed by Rinck Paris
By Rinck
Located in Dallas, TX
A very fine late 19th century French mahogany and gilt bronze mounted bureau plat. Original leather
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Louis XV Style Ormolu-Mounted Tulipwood and Kingwood Bureau Plat
By Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener
Located in New York, NY
An exquisite quality French Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted tulipwood and kingwood bureau plat
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Tulipwood, Kingwood
An Impressive Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Bureau Plat, 19th/20th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
An Impressive Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Bureau Plat, 19th/20th Century
Description:
With
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI-style Gilt Bronze Parquetry Bureau Plat, After Jean-Henri Riesener
Located in San Francisco, CA
, where discretion was essential. Better formed for today’s lifestyle, this one is a bureau plat, or flat
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Rare Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Bureau Plat Attributed to Zwiener
By Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener
Located in Long Island City, NY
An exceptional and rare late 19th century gilt bronze mounted Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Attributed
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
$95,000 Sale Price
24% Off
Empire Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Bureau Plat by Maison Forest, circa 1900
By Maison Forest
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An Empire style gilt-bronze mounted bureau plat by Maison Forest.
Paris, circa 1900.
Bearing
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Louis XV Style Ormolu-Mounted Bureau Plat by Maison Krieger
By Maison Krieger
Located in New York, NY
A fabulous quality 19th century ormolu-mounted bureau by Maison Krieger.
Serpentine top with brown
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
19th Century French Louis XV Style Bureau Plat “à Têtes De Guerriers Antiques”
Located in Dallas, TX
Modeled after the original period Louis XV bureau plat by Charles Cressent (circa 1740), this
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Louis XVI Style Mahogany Bureau Plat by A.M.E Fournier, France, 1870
By A.M.E Fournier
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI style gilt bronze and Jasperware mounted mahogany Bureau plat.
Stamped 'FOURNIER' to
Category
Antique 1870s French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Important Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Attributed to G. Durand, France, Circa 1880
By Gervais Durand
Located in PARIS, FR
appointed Dealer and Cabinet-maker to the King around 1749. He executed bureau plats, corner cabinets
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Ormolu Mounted Mahogany Bureau Plat, 19th Cenury
Located in Spencertown, NY
The rectangular desk with Greek key tooled black leather top, with 3 drawers below and tapering
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Louis XV Style Bureau Plat in the Manner of Charles Cressent, circa 1890
By Charles Cressent
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted bureau plat in the manner of Charles Cressent.
French
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
20th Century France Bureau Plat in the antique Louis Quinze Style exotic Veneer
Located in Berlin, DE
Light and dark exotic Veneer, on the four-sided passively curved zest base on high, elegantly curved squares. Slightly overlaid tabletop with profiled decorated bronze lining and gol...
Category
20th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
20th Century, France Bureau Plat in the antique Louis Quinze Style Exotic Veneer
Located in Berlin, DE
Light and dark exotic veneer, on the four-sided passively curved zest base on high, elegantly curved squares. Slightly overlaid tabletop with profiled decorated bronze lining and gol...
Category
20th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
$3,325 Sale Price
20% Off
French 19th Century Empire Style Mahogany and Ormolu Bureau Plat
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very handsome French 19th century Empire st. mahogany and ormolu Bureau Plat. The desk is raised
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Desks
Materials
Ormolu
A Fine Quality Louis XVI style Ormolu Mounted Mahogany Bureau Plat by Alexandre
By Alexandre Chevrié, Paris 1
Located in New York, NY
Contains gilt ornaments and a frieze of putti in heaven on either side. Topped with blind-tooled leather, an inset writing surface. Contains one large drawer that runs the width of ...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Rococo Revival Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
French 19th Century Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Signed Sormani
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Bureau Plat signed Sormani, Paris. Raised on four cabriole legs with wrap around ormolu sabots and ormolu
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Ormolu
20th Century Bureau Plat or Writting Table by the Model of Andre Charles Boulle
By André-Charles Boulle
Located in Berlin, DE
This model was built by Charles Boulle, the most important and historian of Louis XV.
Piano white Polished veneer on solid beech and oak. Extremely finely chiselled bronze. Slightly...
Category
20th Century Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French 18th Century Louis XVI Period Bureau Plat, by Pierre Garnier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
, ormolu, and brass Bureau Plat, signed by Pierre Garnier. The desk is raised by impressive square tapered
Category
Antique 18th Century French Neoclassical Desks
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
Rare Louis XV Style Bureau Plat, After a Model by J. Dubois, France, Circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
A rare double-side Louis XV style flat desk, made of veneered wood, opening with three drawers
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Bureau Plat with Ormolu Bronze Mounts
Located in Tarry Town, NY
This elegant Louis XVI-style bureau plat, crafted from rich mahogany wood and adorned with
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Exceptional Louis XV Mazarin Bureau Plat with Fine Marquetry and Gilt Bronze
Located in Antwerp, BE
High-Quality Italian Louis XV / Louis XVI Style Mazarin Bureau Plat — Hand-Finished Reproduction
Category
20th Century Italian Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
French Mid-19th Century Louis XV Style Tulipwood and Kingwood Bureau Plat
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very handsome French mid 19th century Louis XV st. tulipwood and kingwood Bureau Plat. The desk
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Enamel Decorated French Louis Revival Ormolu Mounted Bureau Desk Table Console
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Enamel decorated French Louis Revival Ormolu mounted Bureau plat partner desk table console mint
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
A Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Bureau Plat by François Linke
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XV Style gilt-bronze mounted bureau plat by François Linke.
The rectangular top inset
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
French Mid-19th Century Louis XV Style Kingwood and Ormolu Bureau Plat
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and high quality French mid-19th century Louis XV style kingwood and ormolu bureau plat
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XV Style Napoleon III Period Boulle Bureau Plat
By Befort Jeune
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
and ormolu Boulle Bureau Plat stamped Befort Jeune. The desk is raised by beautiful cabriole legs with
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Mahogany and Ormolu Inlaid Bureau Plat
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Bureau Plat. The desk is raised on tapered legs with square ormolu topie feet and ormolu acanthus leaf
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century English Bureau Plat in the Manner of Edward Holmes Baldock
By Edward Holmes Baldock
Located in Dublin, IE
A fine 19th century Louis XV style Walnut, Ebony and floral marquetry Bureau Plat in the manner of
Category
Antique 19th Century English Louis XV Desks
Materials
Ormolu
A Louis XIV Style Bureau Plat By Cueunières, Paris, After the Model by Cressent
By L. Cueunieres Ebeniste.
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XIV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Bureau Plat, By Cueunières, Paris. After the Model
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XIV Desks
Materials
Ormolu
French Bureau Plat of Ebony and Brass Inlay with Ormolu Mounts, 19th Century
By André-Charles Boulle
Located in London, GB
A Fine Bureau Plat in the Manner of André-Charles Boulle
Constructed in ebony with arabesque
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
Baker Furniture French Provincial Louis XV Carved Oak Leather Top Bureau Desk
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional French Provincial Louis XV style bureau plat writing desk
By Baker Furniture
Category
Vintage 1960s American French Provincial Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique French Carved Oak Sofa Side Table Petite Desk Renaissance Gothic
Located in Shreveport, LA
, an elegant, and petite, antique French carved sofa table or "bureau plat" desk. A very petite size
Category
Antique 1890s French Renaissance Side Tables
Materials
Oak
19th Century Italian Louis XVI Style Desk
Located in Houston, TX
and giltwood bureau plat or desk with a single drawer and a beautiful marble top.
This versatile desk
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Marble
$2,950 / item
Italian Brass Desk with Leather Top
Located in East Hampton, NY
Chic brass bureau plat style desk with red leather insert..... it has been stripped of it's lacquer
Category
Vintage 1970s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
19th Century Louis Philippe Mahogany Desk
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th century French Louis Philippe style bureau plat, or desk, made of solid and veneer of
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis Philippe Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Louis XV Style Chinoiserie Desk By Baker
Located in Houston, TX
Company French Louis XV style chinoiserie desk, writing table or bureau plat. This large beautiful desk is
Category
20th Century Unknown Chinoiserie Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Wood
John Vesey Stainless Steel Bronze Neoclassical Desk
By John Vesey
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Extraordinary mid-century modern stainless steel and bronze writing table, desk, or bureau plat
Category
20th Century American Neoclassical Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Steel
19th Century French Walnut Louis XVI Desk
Located in Hopewell, NJ
surface. French Louis XVI bureau plat table desk with five spacious drawers and lovely classic inlaid
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Continental (possibly French) 19th Century Empire Desk
Located in Troy, NY
Elegant Continental (possibly French) Empire bureau-plat or partners desk. The pearwood top, inlaid
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Pearwood
French Maison Jansen Attributed Louis XVI Style Ebonized Desk
By Maison Jansen
Located in Houston, TX
Louis XVI style ebonized desk or bureau plat with a red leather top embossed with gilt, three drawers
Category
Vintage 1920s French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
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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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