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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
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Metal, Brass, Bronze

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
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks

Materials

Brass, Ormolu

Large Louis XV Style 19th Century Bureau Plat
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th century French kingwood parquetry inlaid Louis XV style freestanding
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

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
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks

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
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20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

Fine French 19th Century Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Cartonnier, Antoine Krieger
By Antoine Krieger
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine French 19th century Louis XV style bureau plat (Desk - Writing Table - Ladies Desk
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze, Ormolu

Louis XVI Tulipwood Leather Top Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive late 18th century French writing desk with a tooled black leather top, probably original
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Tulipwood

Baker Furniture French Regency Louis XVI Walnut Leather Top Bureau Plat Desk
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in Southampton, NJ
Louis XVI style Regency Bureau Plat writing desk on brass casters boasting striking tooled leather
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20th Century American Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Brass

French 19th century Louis XV st. Tulipwood, Kingwood and Ormolu Bureau Plat desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Bureau Plat desk. This most handsome desk is raised by four cabriole legs decorated by top Ormolu mounts
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Ormolu

Majestic French Bureau Plat Desk antique According to Andre C. Boulle bronzed
Located in Berlin, DE
Root veneer on solid beech and oak. Extremely finely chiselled bronze. Slightly protruding, profiled tabletop and gold-imprinted leather insert, flanked by a grotesque mask on each c...
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Wood

Louis XV Style Gilt Metal and Kingwood Bureau Plat
Located in Astoria, NY
Louis XV Style Gilt Metal Mounted Kingwood Bureau Plat, 20th century, the rectangular inset leather
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20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Metal

Karges French Louis XV Chinoiserie Cream Lacquered Leather Top Bureau Plat Desk
By Karges Furniture
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous French Louis XV Chinoiserie style writing desk or bureau plat desk By Karges USA
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Vintage 1980s American 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
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Early 20th Century Unknown Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

A French Louis XVI style three drawer mahogany bureau plat desk C 1930
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A Louis XVI style French three drawer mahogany bureau plat desk having extensive bronze decoration
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Vintage 1930s French Louis XIV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

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
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Antique Mid-19th Century Unknown Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables

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
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Mid-20th Century French Louis XIV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

Louis XVI Style Leather Top Ormolu Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Chicago, US
Bureau Plat desk in the style of Louis XVI. Original inset brown leather writing surface with
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks

Materials

Bronze

Louis XVI Tulipwood and Ormolu Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Essex, MA
A signed piece with rectangular top with inset green leather, possibly original , over a frieze with one central drawer flanked by drawers each with round original wreath rings with ...
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Antique 1780s French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

19th Century Napoleon III Ladies Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Berlin, DE
shaded precious wood, veneered. Extremely fine, floral, bronze fittings. On slanting, curved legs, on all sides with perforated corner fittings. On the other hand, a fully curved, si...
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Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Desks

Materials

Bronze

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
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Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Desks

Materials

Brass

French Louis XV Bureau Plat Leather Top Desk With Mounted Bronze Ormolu
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
A gorgeous French Louis XV style executive writing desk or bureau plat desk Mahogany, with bronze
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20th Century Unknown Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Queens, NY
Louis XVI style (19th-20th century) gilt bronze mounted 3-drawer bureau plat desk having a center
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Antique Late 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Wood

A French 19th century Louis XVI st. Mahogany and Ormolu Bureau Plat desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive French 19th century Louis XVI st. Mahogany and Ormolu Bureau Plat desk, stamped by
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Ormolu

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
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

Fine Quality Louis XVI Style Bureau Plat, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th century Louis XVI style mahogany bureau plat. Having an inset leather top
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Ormolu

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
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Antique 1770s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Ormolu, Brass

19th Century Boulle Ormolu and Ebony Bureau Plat/Desk by Mathieu Béfort, France
By Mathieu Béfort, André-Charles Boulle, Befort Jeune
Located in North Miami, FL
: late 19th century, circa 1880 Style: Regency, Louis XIV Place of origin: France A French bureau plat
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Antique 1880s French Regency Desks

Materials

Metal, Silver, Bronze, Copper, Ormolu

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 Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze-Mounted Kingwood Three-Drawer Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A French Louis XV style gilt bronze-mounted kingwood bureau plat (desk). The gilt banded
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20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Kingwood

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
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Antique Late 19th Century English Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Ormolu

French 19th-Century Louis XV Style Figural Gilt-Bronze Mounted Bureau-Plat Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
-drawer bureau-plat cartonnier with Dual clock-works by Lenoir, Paris, surmounted with a pair two-light
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks

Materials

Ormolu

French 19th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze-Mounted Kingwood Bureau Plat Desk
By H. Conquet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
bureau plat by H. Conquet after a model by Charles Cressent. The shaped rectangular top inset with a
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

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
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Antique 1870s French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Ormolu

19th Century Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Writing Table
Located in Berlin, DE
Bureau plat in the style of the Louis XV Napoleon III Paris, circa 1850-1880. In Bois-Satiné
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Wood, Beech

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
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Antique 1870s Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Ormolu

French 19th Century Louis XV St. Mahogany, Tulipwood and Ormolu Bureau Plat Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
bureau plat desk. The three drawer desk is raised by elegant cabriole legs with handsome fitted paw feet
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks

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
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Antique 1880s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

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
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Metal, Bronze

French 19th Century Louis XV Style Flamed Mahogany and Ormolu Bureau Plat Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A magnificent French 19th century Louis XV style flamed mahogany and ormolu Bureau plat desk. The
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Ormolu

19thc French Louis XVI Style Bureau Plat Desk with Ormolu in Diminutive Size
Located in Savannah, GA
Handsome diminutive size French Louis XVI lady's writing table constructed of mahogany and
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Antique 1880s French Louis XVI Desks

Materials

Ormolu

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 leather top within banded edges and bound with brass, the top rests above an apron wi...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Brass

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
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks

Materials

Brass, 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

Regence Style Ebonised Bureau Plat by Sormani, circa 1880
By Paul Sormani
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Regence style ebonised and gilt-bronze mounted bureau plat by Sormani. Paris, circa 1880
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Antique Late 19th Century French Régence 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

Exceptional Louis XV-Style Rosewood Bureau Plat with Ormolu Mounts
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
This exceptional Louis XV-style Rosewood bureau plat features a hand-tooled leather top and its
Category

20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Brass, Ormolu

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 legs and gilt bronze sabots and casters.
Category

Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks

Materials

Leather, Mahogany

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
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Late 20th Century Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

Royal desk/bureau plat in Louis XV style with veneer
Located in Berlin, DE
Royal desk/bureau plat in Louis XV style with Kingveneer Kingveneer on solid beech wood with
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20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Brass

French Louis XV Italian Bronze Figural Ormolu Brown Leather Top Desk Bureau Plat
Located in Philadelphia, PA
French Louis XV Style Italian Bronze Figural Ormolu Brown Leather Top Desk Bureau Plat. Item
Category

Mid-20th Century Louis XV Desks

Materials

Bronze

Rare Napoleon III French Empire Bureau De Plat Gilt Bronze Writing Table Desk
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original Napoleon III French Empire desk with gilt
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Tulipwood and Amaranth Bureau Plat
By Philippe Claude Montigny
Located in Kittery Point, ME
In the style of Montigny (Philippe-Claude Montigny, mai^tre in 1770), the rectangular tooled leather-lined top surrounded with a later ormolu border, above two frieze drawers and sim...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

Antique Louis Revival Ormolu Mounted Bureau Plat Desk 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a gorgeous antique French Louis Revival gilt bronze mounted amaranth bureau plat, Circa
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Antique 1860s French Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Ormolu

Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Writing Desk, Rosewood and Ormulu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Antique Louis XV style bureau plat writing desk, rosewood and Ormulu mounts, raised on cabriole
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

Very Fine Mid-20th Century Inlaid Ormolu Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Dublin, IE
A very fine Mid-20th Century fruitwood bureau plat, fabulously carved, ormolu mounted, cross banded
Category

Mid-20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Ormolu

Fine Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze-Mounted Tulipwood Bureau Plat
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze-mounted tulipwood bureau plat. Late 19th century. The replaced
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

Louis XV Style Kingwood Ormolu Bureau Plat by Simon Loscertales
Located in Paddock Wood Tonbridge, GB
A beautifully crafted Louis XV French style bureau plat, made in the 1960s by Simon Loscertales and
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Vintage 1960s Spanish Rococo Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

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Bureau Plat French For Sale on 1stDibs

Find many varieties of an authentic bureau plat French available at 1stDibs. A bureau plat French — often made from wood, metal and animal skin — can elevate any home. Your living room may not be complete without a bureau plat French — find older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. Each bureau plat French bearing Louis XV, Louis XVI or Empire hallmarks is very popular. Many designers have produced at least one well-made bureau plat French over the years, but those crafted by Maison Jansen, François Linke and Paul Sormani are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a Bureau Plat French?

Prices for a bureau plat French start at $1,295 and top out at $247,737 with the average selling for $8,602.

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.