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Early 20th Century French Kingwood Bureau Plat
Located in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire
Large, excellent quality, very elegant French kingwood bureau plat with brass Ormolu mounts, oak
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Early 20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Regence Kingwood Bureau Plat With Ormolu Mounts
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Franch regence ormolu-mounted kingwood bureau plat with leather writing surface
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Early 19th Century Elm Bureau Plat
Located in Sydney, AU
French early 19th century solid elm bureau plat with five drawers to front pull-out slides and
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Antique 1820s French First Empire Desks and Writing Tables
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Elm, Sycamore
18th Century Italian Painted Louis XV Bureau Plat or Writing Desk in Walnut
Located in Firenze, IT
A charming Italian Louis XV bureau plat or writing desk.
The desk in solid walnut wood features a
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Antique Early 18th Century Italian Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Walnut
Italian Louis XVI Satinwood parquetry bureau plat
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Italian Louis XVI Satinwood parquetry bureau plat with oblong black leather inlaid writing surface
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Antique 19th Century Italian Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Louis XV Style Bureau Plat
Located in Mosman Park, AU
A good quality 19th century French Louis XV style parquetry and ormolu-mounted bureau plat of
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Bronze
Louis XV Style Bronze-Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Louisville, KY
With inset porcelain plaques.
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Antique 19th Century French Rococo Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French black lacquered two-drawer bureau plat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French black lacquered two-drawer bureauplat with leather top and bronze dore mounts.
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Early 20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
French Charles X Brass Inlaid Rosewood Bureau Plat
Located in Natchez, MS
French Charles X rosewood brass inlaid bureau plat with tooled leather top. Three drawers.
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Antique 19th Century French Charles X Desks and Writing Tables
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Rosewood
Bureau-Plat, Paris, J.-B. Fromageau, c. 1760, Large Writing Desk, French, 18th
By Jean-Baptiste Fromageau
Located in Bamberg, DE
Paris, J.-B. Fromageau, c. 1760
Signed with the hallmark Jean-Baptiste Fromageau (born around 1720, active as a master craftsman since 1755).
Rosewood and kingwood veneered on oak,...
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Antique 1760s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
French 1940s Kingwood and Ormolu Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire
Excellent quality, 1940s kingwood bureau plat with rare fitted cabinet back and stunning ormolu
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Mid-20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Italian bureau plat, possibly Genoese
Located in San Francisco, CA
The rectangular leather-lined top with moulded edge above a shaped frieze fitted with three drawers, the reverse with simulated drawers, the sides mounted with a classical male beard...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Italian Desks
Large Boulle Louis XVI Desk Writing Table Bureau Plat Marquetry Inlay
Located in Potters Bar, Herts
Absolutely stunning French Boulle style desk or bureau plat.
One of the things that attracted us
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Vintage 1980s Louis XVI Desks
Bureau Plat De Style Louis XVI
Located in NAVILLY, FR
Bureau plat de style Louis XVI en acajou et filets de laiton garni d’un cuir havane doré au petit
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Mid-20th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Wood
French Fruitwood Bureau Plat, circa 1800
Located in San Francisco, CA
French fruitwood bureau plat, circa 1800.
With two drawers and two book pulls.
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Antique 19th Century French Desks
Materials
Fruitwood
French Louis XV Ormolu-Mounted Amarante Bureau Plat
Located in Nice, Cote d
Azur
Lieutaud, maitre in 1749. A similar bureau is in:
Le mobilier Français du XVIIIe siècle de Pierre
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
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Ormolu
French Louis XV Period Bureau Plat
Located in Charleston, SC
An important and rare French Louis XV period bureau plat made of solid mahogany, mahogany veneer
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks
A Fine Neoclassic Mahogany and Brass Bureau Plat
Located in New York, NY
Having a row of 3 drawers on each side. One drawer having an inscription from the eboniste.
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Swedish Desks and Writing Tables
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Mahogany
19th Century French Second Empire Figured Mahogany Bureau Plat
Located in Asheville, NC
19th century French Second Empire figured mahogany bureau plat, black tooled leather top, turned
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
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Leather, Mahogany
Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Kingwood Bureau Plat
Located in Froxfield, Wiltshire
A late 19th century Louis XV style Kingwood Bureau plat with cabriole legs, inset leather top and
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Antique 1880s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Ormolu
Early 18th c. Mahogany Centre Writing Table / Bureau Plat .
Located in Milan, IT
Very elegant ,early 18th France centre bureau plat, with leather top, also in the two pull out
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Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
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Bronze
Louis XV Style Painted Bureau Plat
Located in San Francisco, CA
A red carved and painted desk with one drawer, scrolling gold leg decorations and ocre yellowish
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20th Century French Desks
Materials
Oak
Louis XV Kingwood Bureau Plat With Gilt Bronze Mounts
Located in New York, NY
A kingwood marquetry Louis XV bureau plat with gilt bronze mounts and cabriole legs, ending in gilt
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Italian Desks and Writing Tables
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Ormolu
Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Marquetry Bureau Plat and Cartonnier
By Mathieu-Guillaume Cramer
Located in London, Middlesex
bureau plat, having a rectangular top with a black Moroccan leather, the frieze having two drawers and
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Rosewood
Louis XV "Bureau Plat" Stamped by Delorme and Lardin
By Adrien Delorme
Located in Paris, FR
Great desk inlaid with amaranth and tulipwood. Its belt opens with three drawers ornamented with
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Antique 18th Century Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Regence Style Ormolu-Mounted Ebonized Bureau Plat
Located in New York, NY
Regence Style Ormolu-Mounted Ebonized Bureau Plat with Orange Leather Insert
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20th Century Régence Desks
Late 19th Century French Tulip Wood and Mahogany Bureau-Plat
Located in Salisbury, GB
Late 19th century French Tulip wood and mahogany bureau-plat with gilt tooled leather skiver.
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Antique Late 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
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Mahogany, Tulipwood
18th Century Kingwood and Tulipwood Parquetry Serpentine Bureau-Plat
Located in London, GB
The shaped, moulded rectangular top inset with a green tooled leather writing surface above a long frieze drawer, flanked by two short shaped drawers and with pull-out slides to each...
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Antique 1760s Dutch Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
French Mid-19th Century Walnut Bureau Plat
Located in Norwich, Norfolk
French mid-19th century walnut bureau plat.
Standing on swept legs with ormolu toes and finely
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Antique 1860s French Victorian Desks
Materials
Walnut
Macassar Ebony Bureau Plat in the style of Ruhlmann
By Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann
Located in San Francisco, CA
Stunning beautiful.`
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Vintage 1930s French Desks and Writing Tables
Rococo Style Bureau Plat with Gilt Bronze Mounts, France, 1880
Located in Chicago, IL
French Rococo Louis XV style kingwood bureau plat. Serpentine shape gilt top surface with gilt
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Antique Early 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Louis XV French Bureau Plat
Located in Tricase, Italia
Large and important 19th century French desk in kingwood and rosewood, Louis XV style. It can be
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
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Kingwood, Rosewood
Louis XVI Mahogany Bureau Plat with Ormolu Mounted
Located in Madrid, ES
Louis XVI mahogany Bureau Plat with ormolu mounted.
Four drawers in front and the back simulated
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks
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Ormolu
19th Century Empire Mahogany Bronze-Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Miami, FL
Empire mahogany bronze-mounted bureau plat with an inset tooled leather top above a center drawer
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Antique 19th Century French Empire Desks
Materials
Bronze
English Neoclassical Style Leather Inset Mahogany Bureau Plat Writing Table
Located in Louisville, KY
Second half of the 19th century; rectangular inset top over a three drawer frieze; raised on square tapering legs ending with brass casters. Hardware of later date.
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Desks and Writing Tables
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Mahogany
19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Walnut Bureau Plat
Located in Louisville, KY
Second Half of the 19th Century; featuring an inset rectangular top over a two drawer frieze with side pulls; raised on square tapering legs.
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Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
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Ormolu
Fine Louis XV Ormolu-Mounted Marquetry Bureau Plat
Located in New York, NY
A fine Louis XV period ormolu-mounted kingwood and tulipwood bureau plat, or desk, the rectangular
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Bronze
Empire Gilt Bronze-Mounted Mahogany Bureau Plat with a Leather Top
Located in Dallas, TX
A Empire gilt bronze-mounted mahogany bureau plat, the top with a green leather writing surface
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Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
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Ormolu
Palatial Neoclassical Style Bureau Plat after Jean-Henri Riesener, France, 1860
By Jean-Henri Riesener
Located in Chicago, IL
Rare extra-large French Louis XVI Neoclassical style four-sided bureau plat, after a model by Jean
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Kingwood Bureau Plat with Medusa Heads
Located in Miami, FL
Louis XV style kingwood bureau plat with cream painted top, the front with five functional drawers
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Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
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.
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Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
A fine example of a 19th c. French Bureau Plat writing table
Located in Miami, FL
A fine example of a 19th c. French Bureau Plat writing table. The bureau plat is decorated with
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Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Louis XVI Mahogany and Leather Small Bureau Plat RESTORED
Located in Toledo, Castilla La Mancha
Elegant small Louis XVI writing desk with wheels, leather top with two side drawers and one central
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Style Ebonized and Parcel Gilt Bureau Plat, France circa 1920
Located in New York, NY
A Louis XV Style Carved, Ebonized and Parcel Gilt Bureau Plat, with Gilt Tooled Leather Top
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Vintage 1920s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Mid-19th Century Continental King Wood and Gilt Metal Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
A free standing mid-19th century Continental king wood and gilt metal mounted bureau plat of Louis
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Antique Mid-19th Century European Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
The Wrotham Park Louis XVI Style Bureau Plat
Located in New York, NY
The inset leather writing surface above three amaranth frieze drawers fitted with scrolled dore bronze escutcheons and sycamore and boxwood Greek key inlay, the back similarly decora...
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Antique 19th Century English Desks
A Russian Neoclassic Brass-Mounted Mahogany Bureau Plat
Located in New York, NY
The gilt-tooled green leather inset writing surface and rectangular top above three frieze drawers flanked by two pairs of drawers, the reverse fitted with sham drawers, all raised o...
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Antique 19th Century Russian Desks
Fine Quality Mid-19th Century Goncalo Alves Bureau Plat in the French Style
By Gillows of Lancaster
London
Located in Suffolk, GB
A fine quality mid-19th century (1840) Goncalo alves freestanding bureau plat in the French style
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Zebra Wood
Writing Table/Bureau Plat Bronze-Mounted with Matching Chairs French late 19th C
Located in Uppingham, GB
French bronze-mounted mahogany writing table/bureau plat (19th century)
A superb 'Stand Alone
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Antique 1890s French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Important Bureau Plat En Acajou De Style Louis XVI Mailfert
By André Mailfert
Located in ACHICOURT, FR
Important Bureau Plat En Acajou De Style Louis XVI Mailfert .
Important et Elégant Bureau Plat
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Early 20th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Louis XV Style Lacquered and Gilt Bronze-Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Dallas, TX
Fine, French produced Louis XV style bureau plat, gilt embossed with lacquered frame. With original
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20th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
French Kingwood and Ormolu Bureau Plat Late 19th Century by Au Gros Chene, Paris
By Au Gros Chene
Located in Heathfield, East Sussex
A fine French kingwood and ormolu-mounted bureau plat by the renowned and luxury Parisian
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Antique 1890s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Mahogany and oak writing table (bureau-plat) by Fidelys Schey
By Fidelys Schey
Located in New York, NY
This desk has a rectangular gilt and tooled brown leather-inset top with molded surround. Each side
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks
Materials
Ormolu
A 19th Century Louis XV Style French Floral Marquetry Serpentine Bureau Plat
Located in Toorak, VIC
A 19th Century Louis XV Style French Floral Marquetry Serpentine Bureau Plat.
The incredibly
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century, French, Louis XV Style Marquetry Bureau Plat with Bronze Mounts
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
A handsome Louis XV style writing desk having a shaped top with a central ebonized ground inland
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Louis XV Style Walnut Bombe Partners Desk Empire Bureau Table
Located in Potters Bar, Herts
Wonderful Louis XV style bombe bureau plat or writing desk.
This is a dummy partners desk i.e
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Early 2000s French Louis XV Desks
French Kingwood Gilt Mounted Bureau Plat Regence Desk
Located in Newcastle upon Tyne, GB
A magnificent kingwood and gilt metal mounted bureau plat.
The serpentine shaped top fitted with
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Vintage 1920s European Louis XV Furniture
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.
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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.
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