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Antique Country French Walnut Bureau Plat
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Outstanding classic French walnut writing desk with breadboard top, turned legs and beautiful soft
Category
Antique 19th Century French Country Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
French Louis XV Kingwood Bureau Plat
Located in Dallas, TX
Handsome French Louis XV kingwood three-drawer bureau plat with parquetry inlays. Having lovely
Category
Vintage 1970s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Kingwood
French Louis XV Style Bureau
Located in Dallas, TX
French Louis XV style walnut and bronze mounted bureau C. 1910. It has a beautiful patina and warm
Category
Vintage 1910s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Desk - French Bureau Du Roi Roll Top
Located in Potters Bar, GB
French Louis XV style desk - or Bureau Du Roi - hand crafted from kingwood
This is based on the original
Category
Vintage 1980s Desks
Materials
Wood
Napoleon III Louis XV Style Marquetry Desk Bureau Plat
Located in London, by appointment only
An elegant 19th century marquetry and ormolu bureau plat desk, the shaped top with central
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Inlaid French Bureau Plat / Writing Table
Located in Woodbury, CT
This early 20th century inlaid bureau plat features an attractive inlaid kingwood harlequin pattern
Category
Early 20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak, Kingwood, Boxwood
19th Century French Ebonised Bureau Plat
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
19th century French ebonised bureau plat with brass mouldings, fluted legs and nicely worn original
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Directoire Bureau Plat, France, circa 1800
Located in Greding, DE
Mahogany veneered French Directoire desk standing on square pointed feet, with four drawers and
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Antique Early 19th Century French Directoire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Fine French Belle Époque Bureau Plat
Located in Dallas, TX
Extraordinary French Belle Époque ebonized bureau plat having a gold tooled leather top. The shaped
Category
Vintage 1940s French Belle Époque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Style Marquetry Bureau Plat
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Lovely marquetry Bureau plat with dark red leather top and excellent ormolu mounts and pulls.
Category
20th Century Desks and Writing Tables
Contemporary Handmade Blue and Pink Bureau Desk by Superpoly
By Superpoly
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Contemporary handmade blue and pink bureau desk by Superpoly
Ceramics displayed inside are not
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2010s French Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Steel
French 19th Century Empire Bureau Plat
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A stately Empire bureau plat with a tooled leather top, c. 1830. The three-piece green leather top
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Louis XV Mahogany and Gilt Bronze Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
Turn of the century bureau plat with shaped rectangular top inset with tooled brown leather, above
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Antique French Writing Table Desk Bureau Plat c.1870
Located in London, GB
A gorgeous antique French kingwood and marquetry bureau plat / writing table, circa 1870
Desk or Bureau Plat, Louis XV Style, 19th Century
Located in New Orleans, LA
Louis XV style ormolu mounted kingwood bureau plat, 19th c., France, the shaped top with inset
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
French Louis Philippe Walnut Cylinder Writing Desk Centre Bureau, 1850
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Beautiful cylinder front desk, opening to reveal an arrangement of small drawer and compartment
Category
Antique 1850s French Louis Philippe Desks
Materials
Walnut
French Directoire-Style Leather-Top Bureau Plat/Writing Desk
Located in New York, NY
An over-sized Louis XVI-style leather-top writing desk on tapered legs ending in brass sabots.
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Desks
Materials
Mahogany
1940s French Black Lacquered Bureau Plat
Located in Houston, TX
An early 20th Century Louis XV style black lacquered writing desk. This desk features brass/bronze
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Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Ormolu
French 19th Century Walnut Bureau Plat
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This antique walnut writing table was found in France and features a writing surface covered in
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Antique 19th Century French Other Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
French Louis XVI Style Antique Writing Table Desk Bureau Plat by Schmit et Cie
Located in Shippensburg, PA
legs terminate in turned brass sabots. The desk retains a single original working key.
Refined
Category
20th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Directoire Bureau Plat, France circa 1800, Mahogany
Located in Belmont, MA
Directoire Bureau Plat, France, circa 1800.
Spacious and chic Directoire desk and the perfect piece
Category
Antique 1790s French Directoire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
French Louis XVI Mahogany Bureau Plat or Writing Desk, circa 1790
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Louis XVI mahogany bureau plat or writing desk with embossed light brown leather top, two drawers
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Antique Late 18th Century French Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Bureau à Gradin Desk by Millet
By Maison Millet
Located in New Orleans, LA
This fabulous and rare bureau à gradin, or tiered desk, was crafted by the highly respected
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Ormolu
$148,500
French Empire Bureau Plat, Early 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Beautiful French mahogany Empire Bureau Plat / Writing Desk, 1st Quarter 19th Century.
Unrestored
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Empire Mahogany Fauteuil De Bureau (Desk Armchair)
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The curved back terminating in carved lion's heads above a black leather seat on ring-turned front legs ending in lion feet and back saber legs.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Mahogany
Early 20th Century French Kingwood Bureau Plat
Located in Martlesham, GB
Early 20th century French kingwood bureau plat / desk, the brass moulded edge top having decorative
Category
Vintage 1910s French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Kingwood
French bleached oak bureau plat c.1900
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
French bleached oak bureau plat with leather top c.1900
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Early 20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Fine 19th Century French Directoire Bureau Plat Writing Table or Desk
Located in London, GB
A highly figured Directoire period French bureau plat, veneered throughout with highly figured
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Antique 19th Century French Desks
Antique French Regence Carved Oak Bureau Plat
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Regence carved oak bureau plat, circa 1880.
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Antique 1880s French Régence Desks and Writing Tables
Ornate 20th Century French Louis XV Leather Top Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Round Top, TX
This remarkable 20th century French writing desk or 'bureau plat' in the Louis XV style, is fitted
Category
Mid-20th Century French Louis XV Desks
French Louis XV Style Figural Maple Burl Writing Desk Napoleon Bureau Plat 72"
Located in Dayton, OH
Monumental Louis XV / Napoleon III style office desk. A serpentine form made from birdseye maple
Category
Vintage 1980s Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Magnificent French Bureau Plat, Late 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Magnificently french Bureau Plat, 2nd half of 19th Century.
Table in Louis XV style, from the time
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Stamped Maison Jansen Louis XVI Ebonized Desk Bureau Plat, 1950s
By Maison Jansen
Located in Paris, IDF
desk is typical of the French neoclassical work of Maison Jansen, Louis XVI inspired. It features three
Category
Vintage 1950s French Neoclassical Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass, Bronze
French Louis XV Bureau Plat Desk with Ormolu and Faux Marble Top by Drexel
By Drexel
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous French Louis XV style bureau plat desk
By Drexel
USA, 1960s
Original antiqued
Category
Vintage 1960s American Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Mahogany Bureau Plat
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
French mahogany bureau plat with original hand-tooled leather top, 19th century.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Desks
French Empire Mahogany Leather Top Bureau Plat
Located in Westwood, NJ
A fine French Empire figured mahogany bureau plat with gold tooled black leather writing surface
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
19th Century Country French Cherrywood Bureau Plat
Located in Hixson, TN
A fine country French bureau plat with leather top which is blind tooled and gold tooled. There are
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Country Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Cherry, Leather
Early 20th Century French Kingwood Bureau Plat
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Large, excellent quality, very elegant French kingwood bureau plat with brass ormolu mounts, oak
Category
20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
19th C. Louis XVI Writing Desk Bureau with Leather Top
Located in Dallas, TX
Elegant 19th C. Louis XVI style" bureau à cartonnier" (c: 1830). The mahogany and king wood bureau
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Excellent Quality French Louis XV Bureau Plat
Located in Dallas, TX
Marvelous French Louis XV black lacquered three-drawer bureau plat. Having gilt bronze mounts and
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Vintage 1920s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
French Napoleon III Style Ebonized Bureau Plat
Located in Astoria, NY
Napoleon III style ebonized bureau plat, the desk with foliate decoration to the top within striped
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
19th c French F Linke bureau plat
Located in Dallas, TX
19th c signed F Linke leather top French Louis XVI bureau plat. Large bronze dore fine Figural
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
20th Century French Empire Bureau Plat
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Fine Empire Gilt Bronze bureau plat with Greek key pattern mounts which is also in the leather top
Category
20th Century Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather
Ebonised and Brass Mounted French Bureau Plat
By Maison Jansen
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
A mid-20th century French ebonized and brass-mounted bureau plat of the style and quality
Category
Mid-20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
French Art Deco Style Fall Front Bureau
Located in Paddock Wood Tonbridge, GB
FRENCH ART DECO BUREAU
This exquisite fall front bureau showcases the exceptional quality of French
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Large French Bureau Plat
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Impressive grand scale French tulip and kingwood inlaid bureau plat with wonderful original worn
Category
Early 20th Century French Desks
Materials
Leather, Tulipwood
$6,161
Directoire Style Leather-Top Bureau Plat Desk on Tapered Legs
Located in New York, NY
Directoire Style Leather-Top Bureauplat Desk on Tapered Legs
Category
Vintage 1940s French Desks and Writing Tables
Bureau De Roi, French Roll Top Desk Louis XV Monumental
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Stunning French Louis XV style desk - or Bureau Du Roi - hand crafted from kingwood
This is based
Category
Vintage 1980s Louis XV Desks
Materials
Kingwood
French Mahogany Empire Bureau
Located in Kastrup, DK
French mahogany empire bureau. Freestanding.
Cylinder flap, pull-out writing plate with green
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Desks
Materials
Mahogany
French Louis XV Style Bureau Plat with Ormolu Mounts French Flat Desk
Located in Miami, FL
A very fine large sized flat desk otherwise referred to as a "Bureau de Ministre", Bureau Plat or
Category
20th Century Italian Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
18th Century French Kingwood Bureau Plat
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
18th Century French kingwood bureau plat having a rectangular cross banded top, with a tooled
Category
Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Kingwood
French Ebonised Bureau Plat
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Impressive French 20th Century ebonised bureau plat in the Louis XV style.
This beautiful bureau
Category
20th Century French Desks
Materials
Brass
$14,541
Antique French Napoleon III Desk Chair (Fauteuil de Bureau) c. Late 19th Century
Located in Westfield, MA
This fine antique French desk chair from the Napoleon III period blends refinement and function
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Walnut
French Rosewood and Marquetry Bureau De Dame
Located in Cheshire, GB
French rosewood and marquetry bureau de dame, the top with a cast brass three quarter gallery over
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Rosewood
19th Century French Mahogany Inlaid Bureau Plat
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Fine quality French bureau plat of small proportions, circa 1870.
Beautifully inlaid to the top
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XIV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Rare Italian Mid-18th Century Lacca Povera Desk or Bureau
Located in Berlin, DE
A rare mid-18th century Lacca Povera desk or bureau, profusely decorated with decoupage vignettes
Category
Antique 1740s French Rococo Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
18th Century French Ebonised Bureau Plat
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
A handsome 18th century French, ebonised bureau plat with old leather top. Having three drawers
Category
Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather
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At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal French bureau desk for your home. Frequently made of wood, metal and animal skin, every French bureau desk was constructed with great care. There are 881 variations of the antique or vintage French bureau desk you’re looking for, while we also have 3 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer French bureau desk, there are earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 21st Century. A French bureau desk, designed in the Louis XV, Louis XVI or Empire style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. You’ll likely find more than one French bureau desk that is appealing in its simplicity, but François Linke, Maison Jansen and Paul Sormani produced versions that are worth a look.
How Much is a French Bureau Desk?
Prices for a French bureau desk start at $171 and top out at $1,844,713 with the average selling for $7,727.
Questions About French Bureau Desk
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 3, 2023In French, the term for a writing desk that often featured a drop-down writing surface is secretaire. This type of desk is called a secretary desk in English. Simply put, a secretary desk is a multifunctional piece of furniture with a hinged writing surface that folds open or drops down. When the leaf is folded out, small inner storage compartments, which are called pigeonholes, cubbies, recesses or drawers, are revealed. On 1stDibs, shop antique secretary desks from some of the world's top sellers.
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