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Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Marquetry Leather Top Desk
By François Linke
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Elevate your interior with this exquisite French Louis XV style bureau plat (writing desk), a
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Style Desk with Gilt Metal Mounts
Located in Miami, FL
A perfect example of the Bureau Plat.
French Empire style desk with wood marquetry and gilt metal
Category
Early 20th Century Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
Late 20th-century Louis XV Style Marquetry Inlaid Writing Desk
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a beautifully crafted French Louis XV-style bureau plat or flat desk, with a single
Category
Late 20th Century Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Jacques Adnet Brass Mounted Black Lacquered Writing Desk
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Queens, NY
French 1940s brass mounted black lacquered bureau plat /writing desk with tan leather inset top
Category
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Maison Jansen Attributed Neoclassical Steel Quartz Marble Top Desk
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Opulent stainless steel mahogany writing table, bureau plat, or desk attributed to Maison Jansen
Category
20th Century French Neoclassical Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Quartz, Brass, Steel
Louis XV-Style Kidney-Shaped Writing Desk with Ormolu Mounts, 19th Century
Located in NICE, FR
writing desk, or bureau plat, dating from the late 19th century and inspired by the Louis XV style. Its
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Rare Joseph Emmanuel Zwiener Marble Top Dore
Bronze Mounted Louis XV Desk
By Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
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Designed as a bureau plat or writing desk, this rare masterpiece captures the grandeur and sophistication
Category
Antique 1890s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Breccia Marble, Bronze
Louis XVI Style Mahogany Desk Chair, Leather Upholstered, France, 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
'presidential' armchair is large and comfortable, making it perfect to complement a bureau plat or desk. The
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Ormolu
18th Century French Louis XIII Style Barley Twist Desk with Green Leather Top
Located in Birmingham, AL
A fine 18th century carved French Louis XIII style bureau plat or desk handcrafted of solid oak by
Category
Antique 18th Century French Louis XIII Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
French Empire Revival Green Leather Top Bronze Griffin Mahogany Desk
Chair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage French Empire Revival Style Green Leather Top Mahogany Bureau Plat Executive Writing Desk
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Empire Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Bronze
French Neoclassical Louis XVI Style Maple Writing Desk
Located in Astoria, NY
implements or desk accessories. A versatile and timeless bureau plat, ideal as a writing desk, library table
Category
Mid-20th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Brass
John Vesey, Louis XVI Style, Steel, Bronze, Rare Writing Desk, USA, 1960s
By John Vesey
Located in Manhasset, NY
John Vesey, Hollywood Regency, Louis XVI Style, Steel, Bronze, Rare Bureau Plat Writing Desk, USA
Category
Vintage 1960s American Hollywood Regency Desks
Materials
Bronze, Steel
French 19th Century Louis XV St. Ebonized Fruitwood And Ormolu Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant French 19th century Louis XV st. ebonized Fruitwood and ormolu desk. The Bureau Plat is
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Large Empire French Writing Desk with Embossed Brown Leather Top
Column Legs
Located in Atlanta, GA
Large Empire French writing desk or bureau plat with embossed brown leather top, bronze dore mounts
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Desks
19th Century French Louis XV Style Floral Marquetry and Gilt Bronze Writing Desk
Located in Miami, FL
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This fine quality writing desk or bureau plat, is circa 1880.
It has been recently rewaxed.
Measures
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
$3,500 Sale Price
53% Off
Antique French Louis XVI Bronze Mounted Writing Table
By Claude Michel Clodion, François Linke, Jean-Henri Riesener
Located in Forney, TX
, petite bureau plat writing desk, library table or center table, lamp stand, hall console or sofa table
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Marble, Brass, Bronze
Bouillotte lamp, France 1860
Located in Wiesbaden, DE
Bouillotte lamp
Beautiful desk lamps that once stood on desks, called “bureau plats,” are still
Category
Antique 1860s Biedermeier Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Mid Century Modern Vintage Green Teal Cherry Brass Dining Table Italy 1940s
By Ico Parisi
Located in Vienna, AT
Mid Century Modern vintage dining table or writing desk or bureau plat very similar to Ico Parisi
Category
Vintage 1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Glass, Cherry
Early 20th Century Louis XVI Revival French Bureau Plat / Desk
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
plat / desk, that will work well in most settings.
Measurements: 62cm High (floor to knee)
France
Category
Early 20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Louis XV French Bureau Plat Desk
By Druce
Co.
Located in Northwich, GB
French Bureau plat desk in Louis XV style, made in France Circa 1885. The desk is decorated highly
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Walnut
Sophisticated 18th Century French Louis XV Kingwood and Ormolu Bureau Plat Desk
Located in San Francisco, CA
A sophisticated 18th century French Louis XV kingwood and ormolu bureau plat desk, with one long
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
19th Century Inlaid Bureau Plat Desk
Located in London, GB
A fine 19th century French Pollard walnut marquetry and ormolu centre table. The ornate top inlaid in fruitwood with musical trophies. Supported on cabriole legs.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Louis XV Style Bureau Plat
Desk
Located in Woodbury, CT
Tooled leather top
matched veneers
gilt bronze mounts
center drawer flanked by 2 drawers to the left and double deep single drawer to the right.
knee clearance is 23.75 inches.
...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Louis XV Desks
Materials
Fruitwood
Antique French Empire Bureau Plat Desk Walnut Writing Table
Located in Potters Bar, Herts
Highly charming French Empire writing table or bureau plat
handcrafted from walnut with ebonized
Category
Antique 1880s French Empire Desks
French 19th Century Japanese Lacquer Bureau Plat in Napoleon III Style
By Napoléon III
Located in Vilnius, LT
Very rare 19th century French desk in ebony with bronze. French Napoleon III bureau plat - desk. It
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Rococo Petite Desk with Gold Bronze Mounts by Edward Holmes Baldock, Paris, 1780
Located in Chicago, IL
Extraordinary Louis XV style bureau plat desk by Edward Holmes Baldock, with its petite portions
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
André Arbus Sycamore Desk, Writing Table, Bureau Plat
By André Arbus
Located in Hollywood, FL
The rectangular top over 3 frieze drawers with finely crafted bronze pulls over square tapering legs terminating in sabots.
Category
Vintage 1940s French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
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
$23,734
André Arbus Sycamore Desk, Writing Table, Bureau Plat
Located in Hollywood, FL
The rectangular top over 3 frieze drawers with finely crafted bronze pulls over square tapering legs terminating in sabots.
Category
Vintage 1940s French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Bureau plat
Located in New York, NY
A Directoire mahogany , 3 drawers in apron, with a brown leather inset top, with a free standing cartonnier, Continental, late 18th century
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks
Materials
Bronze
$28,000
Louis XVI style mahogany desk/bureau plat
Located in Kensington, MD
French Louis XVI style mahogany desk/bureau plat with three working drawers on one side, three faux
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks
Materials
Bronze
French Oak Bureau Plat
Located in Chicago, IL
This piece was purchased in Paris and has fine carvings and a lovely proportion. The oak has a warm caramel color that highlights the distressed old leather of the top. The piece has...
Category
20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak, Leather
$15,000
Regency Lacquer Desk Writing Table Bureau Plat
Located in Potters Bar, Herts
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Stunning Regency style desk with a black lacquer finish - Love this look at the moment, black lacquer seems
Category
1990s Regency Desks
MARGE CARSON Whitewashed Oak French Provincial Bureau Plat Writing Desk
By Marge Carson
Located in Charlotte, NC
A French Provincial style bureau plat writing desk by Marge Carson, of Pamona, California, USA
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American French Provincial Desks and Writi...
Materials
Oak, Paint
Louis XV style bureau plat
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Louis XV style bureau plat with tooled leather writing surface and three short drawers on cabriole
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Louis XVI Period Bureau-plat
Located in Banbury, GB
A FINE & RARE LATE 18TH.CENTURY LOUIS XVI PERIOD BRASS & EBONY BANDED MAHOGANY BUREAU-PLAT, WRITING
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
$17,115
19th Century Louis XV French Inlaid Bureau Plat
Writing Desk
Located in Tricase, Italia
An elegant "bureau plat" in French Louis XV style inlaid with rosewood and various precious woods
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Rosewood
20th Century Louis XVI Oak Small Bureau Plat Writing Desk
Located in Toledo, Castilla La Mancha
than other desks of this style. Perfect for an office not too large to accommodate a large bureau plat
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Late 18th Century Bureau Plat
Located in Stamford, CT
Late 18th century to early 19th century writing table.
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
French Empire Style Desk Bureau Plat Writing Table
Located in Potters Bar, Herts
Wonderful French Empire style writing desk in kingwood with ormolu fittings.
Hope the photos do
Category
Vintage 1970s European Empire Desks
Early 19th Century French Bureau Plat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An early 19th century French mahogany bureau plat with embossed black leather top. This desk has
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
French Louis XVI Style Bureau Plat
Located in Natchez, MS
French Louis XVI style bureau plat, mahogany with bronze mounts and leather top.
Three drawer
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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
Italian Walnut 18th Century Bureau Plat
Located in Natchez, MS
Italian Louis XVI walnut bureau plat with three drawers, having carved rosette and swag decoration
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
LOUIS XV WALNUT PROVENCAL BUREAU PLAT
Located in Natchez, MS
Louis XV Walnut Provencal Bureau Plat with leather top and original ormolu mounts. Great size.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut, Leather
Louis XV provincial fruitwood bureau plat
Located in San Francisco, CA
Louis XV provincial fruitwood bureau plat, the rectangular leather-inset top with molded edge above
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Bureau-Plat, Paris 1785, Lebesque, 18th Century Writing Desk, French, Signed
Located in Bamberg, DE
renewed, gold-stamped leather writing surface. The desk with strikingly beautifully grained veneer has
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Writing Table Extending Desk
Located in Potters Bar, Herts
Gorgeous Louis XV Style bureau plat or desk.
Classic piece of French furniture that just shouts
Category
Late 20th Century Empire Desks
Louis XV Period Walnut Bureau Plat
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A Louis XV period walnut bereau plat with cabriole legs terminating in "pied de biche" feet.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
French Empire Style Desk Writing Table Bureau Plat Kingwood
Located in Potters Bar, Herts
Gorgeous French Empire style desk or bureau plat.
Elegant piece handcrafted from Kingwood with
Category
2010s Empire Desks
18th Century Louis XVI Bureau Plat
Located in Paris, FR
Rectangular shape bureau, mahogany and mahogany veneer.
It comprises three drawers on the front
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Régence Great Bureau Plat
Located in Paris, FR
These blackened wood and ormolu desk opens with five drawers, the back made as trompe l'oeil.
Its
Category
Antique 18th Century Desks
$61,709
French Empire Style Mahogany Bureau Plat
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
An elegant 19th century mahogany writing desk with inlaid leather writing pad in tabletop, with
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
18th c southern french bureau plat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
old french desk waxed wood with antique french hardware .
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French French Provincial Desks and Writ...
Early 20th Century Louis XVI Walnut Leather Bureau Plat Writing Desk Restored
Located in Toledo, Castilla La Mancha
Beautiful Louis XVI style bureau plat writing desk from early 20th century, totally restored
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Rustic French Fruitwood Bureau Plat, circa 1840
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rustic French fruitwood bureau plat, circa 1840; with single drawer.
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
French Mahogany and Fruitwood Inlaid Bureau Plat
Located in San Francisco, CA
French Mahogany and Fruitwood Inlaid Bureau Plat circa 1870
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
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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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