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19th Century French Boulle Bureau Plat
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
An exceptional 19th century French boulle bureau plat of outstanding quality. Having engraved brass
Category
Antique 19th Century Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather
French Mahogany Bureau Plat
Located in Pembroke, MA
French mahogany desk with tooled leather top, brass detailing and keyholes, in the Louis XVI style
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks
Materials
Brass
Vintage French Provincial Petit-Bureau de Dame
Located in Forney, TX
A beautiful petit-bureau de dame (also known as bonheur de jour or lady's secretary desk). Born in
Category
Mid-20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Paint
Antique Ormolu Mounted Bureau Plat Desk Hopilliart Paris 18th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a fine and rare antique ormolu mounted French wood and marquetry bureau plat, Circa 1790 in
Category
Antique 1790s French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Ladies Desk Bureau Walnut Inlay Bonheur de Jour 1880
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Gorgeous high end French walnut ladies writing desk with marquetry inlays
The door is inset with
Category
Antique 1880s Desks
Materials
Walnut
Louis XV Style writing desk /bureau plat black lacquered finish
Located in Houston, TX
The unique black lacquered finish on this desk is dramatic
And has great contrast with the silvered
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Louis XVI Style Lacquered Bureau Plat
Located in Houston, TX
19th century Louis XVI style desk newly lacquered in black with brass wraparound trim and original
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Important French Bureau a Cylindre and Fauteuil de Bureau
Located in New Orleans, LA
The finest ormolu fixtures swathe this Restoration-period roll-top desk (bureau à cylindre) and
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks
Materials
Ormolu
French Restauration Bureau Plat, Walnut, Embossed Leather, France circa 1820
Located in Regensburg, DE
Beautiful, rare French Restauration bureau plat / writing desk in solid walnut and brass with gold
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Restauration Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Gold, Brass
Theodore Alexander French Louis XV Writing Desk Bureau Houses Laptop
By Theodore Alexander
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Alexander leather inlaid writing desk bureau
This is part of a suite, we have six items all matching
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Modern Desks
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
Period French Empire Mahogany Bureau Plat of Desk, 19th Century
Located in Essex, MA
Period first Empire Mahogany desk
--Lyre base form with original gilt bronze mounts
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Empire Desks
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century French Leather topped Bureau Plat
Located in Long Island City, NY
We love the unfussy grace of French Provincial furniture. This table doesn't need much more
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Fruitwood, Leather
French Louis XV Black Lacquer Bronze Figural Ormolu Bureau Plat Writing Desk
Located in Bradenton, FL
French Louis XV Ebonized Black Lacquer Bronze Figural Ormolu Bureau Plat Writing Desk. Featuring
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Bureau Plat from the 19th Century
Located in Hixson, TN
A stately French Empire bureau plat with a leather tooled top. There are four noticeable turned and
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
19th Century Louis XV Style "Bureau Plat" Desk with Leather Top
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
An elegant antique French desk/writing table in Louis XV style. Also called "Bureau Plat". The desk
Category
Antique 1860s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Desk, Black with Gilded Bronze Details
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Louis XV style bureau plat desk, black with gilded bronze details. Tooled leather top. Ebonized
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Louis XV Red Leather Top "Bureau Plat"
Located in Austin, TX
Antique French Louis XV style "bureau plat" (writing desk) of ebonized rosewood with a lustrous
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Bureau Plat Parquetry Writing Table
Located in London, GB
This is an antique bureau plat parquetry writing table of French manufacture dating from Around
Category
Antique 1860s French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Antique French Louis XV Black Painted Desk, Bureau Plat with Bronze Mounts
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique French Louis XV black painted desk, Bureau plat with bronze mounts is a stunning look with
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Painted Louis XV Style Bureau Plat
Located in Old Town Orange, CA
Beautiful Louis XV style bureau plat with two drawers. Perfect desk for your office, or use as a
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Beech
20th Century French Carved Oak Desk Secretary Bureau Bookcase Louis XV Style
Located in Shreveport, LA
French “drop front” or slant front opens to reveal a fitted desk interior with six drawers and 4 open
Category
Vintage 1940s French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Oak
20th Century French Louis XV Style Bureau Plat
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Exceptional 20th Century kingwood marquetry Louis XV-style Bureau Plat. This smaller-scale desk
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique Empire Revival Bureau Plat Desk Writing Table
Armchair 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a fine antique French gilt-bronze mounted mahogany Empire bureau plat complete with it's
Category
Antique 1860s French Empire Revival Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Louis XVI Style Bureau Plat, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality late 19th century French Kingwood parquetry inlaid Bureau plat. Having ormolu mounts
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Kingwood
Very Rare Solid Rarewood French Louis Phillipe 19th Century Campaign Desk Bureau
By Army
Navy CSL
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
solid rare wood Campaign desk bureau with vintage certificate
This desk is very special and really
Category
Antique 19th Century French Campaign Desks
Materials
Harewood
Bronze Mounted Leather Top Inlaid Kingwood Directoire Bureau Plat Writing Desk
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a superb French-made bronze mounted inlaid desk with bronze wrapping the top and brass and
Category
Vintage 1940s French Directoire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Early 19th Century French Empire Fruitwood Bureau Plat
Located in Atlanta, GA
The French Empire fruitwood bureau plat with embossed black leather top, 4 drawers, tapered turned
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique Louis Revival Ormolu Bureau Plat Desk Writing Table 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a gorgeous antique French Louis Revival gilt bronze mounted wood bureau plat, Circa 1860 in
Category
Antique 1860s French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Brass and Mahogany Antique Bureau Plat Desk, Early 20th Century
Located in Shippensburg, PA
FRENCH NEOCLASSICAL STYLE BRASS AND MAHOGANY ANTIQUE BUREAU PLAT DESK
Early 20th Century
This
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Early 20th Century European Neoclassical Revival Desks
Antique Louis Revival Kingwood Marquetry Ormolu Bureau Plat Desk, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
A superb antique 19th century French kingwood, marquetry and ormolu mounted bureau plat, circa 1860
Category
Antique 1860s French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Antique French Carved Oak Secretary Desk Bureau Drop Front Louis XV Style
Located in Shreveport, LA
~ Direct from France
~ A lovely antique French carved “drop front” secretary/desk with
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Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Oak
French Louis XVI Satinwood Bronze Mounted Writing Table Desk Bureau Plat C1950
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a fantastic writing table with gilded bronze ormolu and fantastic satinwood. The desk has a
Category
Vintage 1950s French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Satinwood
c.1780 Rustic French Bureau
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
Rustic French bureau made from walnut with peg construction and original hardware.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks
Materials
Walnut
Louis-quinze-style Bureau Plat, France, circa 1900
Located in Greding, DE
Large Louis-Quinze-style desk in mahogany veneered. The writing surface is covered in brown leather
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
$10,658 / item
18th Century French Louis XV Period Bureau Plat
Located in Charleston, SC
handles. The reverse side has two simulated drawers, allowing this bureau plat to bee freestanding
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
A 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Marquetry Bureau Plat or Desk
Located in Berlin, DE
A 19th century gilt-bronze mounted and marquetry desk of freestanding form. With a brass banded
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
A Fine French Walnut Partners Bureau Plat circa 1835
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Fine French Walnut
Partners Bureau Plat
Circa 1835
The tooled leather top over a frieze
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
A Fine French Brass-Mounted Mahogany Bureau Plat
Located in Sheffield, MA
The ormolu mounted rectangular top with inset gilt tooled leather writing surface, above a central drawer and arched kneehole flanked by two short drawers to the left side and one dr...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
19th Century Marquetry Bureau Plat Writing Table, French
Located in London, GB
This is a gorgeous antique French ormolu mounted marquetry burr walnut, bureau plat or centre table
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Antique 1850s French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Bureau Plat, circa 1910
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Antique French bureau plat comprised of fine kingwood and rosewood veneers with beautifully cast
Category
Antique 1890s French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Kingwood, Rosewood
20th Century French Louis XV Style Wood Inlay Golden Bronzes Bureau Desk
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
comfortable desk with green leather top with golden border. Mobile very elegant but also practical for use
Category
Vintage 1950s French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
Franch Bureau Plat
Located in Kastrup, DK
Elegant and fine made French Directoire bureau plat, circa 1900. Mahogany with bronze mounts on top
Category
Antique 1890s French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
$11,251
Antique French Ormolu Mounted Escritoire Writing Bureau
Located in London, GB
An absolutely stunning antique French ormolu mounted escritoire writing bureau, dating from around
Category
Antique 1890s British Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Directoire Period Bureau Écritoire
Located in Birmingham, AL
18th century Directoire period bureau écritoire in walnut. Slant top above single door on plinth
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Antique Late 18th Century French Directoire Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique French Louis Revival Marquetry Bureau, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a gorgeous antique French goncalo alves & walnut marquetry Louis Revival secretaire a
Category
Antique 1830s French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Walnut
Louis XVI Style Bureau Plat Desk, circa 1940
By Maison Jansen
Located in Doylestown, PA
A very nice Louis XVI Style bureau plat in matte ebonized wood, with brass trim and mounts
Category
Vintage 1940s French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Wood, Leather
Large French Ebonised Bureau Plat
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Very smart French Empire ebonised desk.
This desk retains its original worn rouge leather inset
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Brass
Louis XVI Mahogany Bureau Plat Table, France ca. 1830
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Louis XVI style mahogany bureau plat/writing table with leather top, 3 sliding drawers and slides
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Fine 19th Century French Shaped Ormolu-Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A fine 19th century French shaped ormolu-mounted bureau plat retaining its original tooled red
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Signed Maison Jansen Leather Top Louis XVI Directoire Writing Desk Bureau Plat
By Maison Jansen
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a gorgeous signed Maison Jansen desk from France. The desk is made of solid walnut and has
Category
Vintage 1940s French Directoire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Louis XVI Style Desk/ Bureau Plat, Mahogany with Black Leather Top
Located in Houston, TX
Late 19th century, the rectangular top with an inset leather writing surface within a molded edge and
Topped with a new piece of beveled glass, above a conforming frieze fitted with...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Top Quality French Bureau Gradin. C.1880
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Kingwood French ‘Bureau Gradin’ with leather bookbinding opening doors. Leather in excellent condition
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Antique Late 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Wood
19th Century Régence Napoleon III Ebonized Desk/Bureau Plat Stamped Gros/Paris
By Benjamin Gros
Located in Berlin, DE
Excellent and rare French 19th century Napoleon III ebonized black lacquer Bureau plat or writing
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Directoire Ebonized Bureau Plat w/3 Drawers
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
Exquisite antique French ebonized and gilded Directoire style bureau plat with three drawers and a
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Giltwood
20th Century Inlaid Wood French Napoleon III Style Roll-Top Bureau Desk, 1920
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
French bureau from the first half of the 20th century. Napoleon III style furniture inlaid with
Category
Early 20th Century French Napoleon III Desks
Materials
Wood
French Ormolu-Mounted Mahogany Bureau Plat by Paul Sormani
By Paul Sormani
Located in Manhasset, NY
A French ormolu-mounted mahogany bureau plat by Paul Sormani. This finely detailed and signed late
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Antique 1890s French Belle Époque Desks and Writing Tables
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Bureau Plat
Writing Table
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Late 19th century French neoclassical style bureau plat (writing table). Extensive gilt bronze
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
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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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