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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.
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut, Leather
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
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Antique Mid-18th Century Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
$23,734
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
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Antique 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
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
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
A Louis XV Period Cherry Table
Located in San Francisco, CA
A Louis XV Cherry Table. Third Quarter, 18th Century.
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
18th Century French Walnut Table with Turned Legs
Located in Carmel, CA
This beautiful 18th Century French walnut table has finely turned legs and a beautiful deep
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Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Louis XV Cartonnier with Clock
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
A highly unusual Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted marquetry cartonnier. France, 18th century. This
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Period Table
Located in Dallas, TX
Louis XV period table in cherry, C. 1760 Provincial. Center drawer, felt top, carving at knees of
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Cherry, Felt
$3,400 / set
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.
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
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
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Italinao, Roller Desk from the 1700s in Walnut and Maple
Located in Barletta, IT
Roller desk in walnut and maple. Inside the roller, a pull-out drawer desk top, a central open
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Antique Late 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Maple, Nutwood
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
Signed Walnut Leather-Top Louis XV Escritoire, France circa 1740
Located in Lake Forest, IL
Walnut Louis XV Leather Top Writing Table, Signed J.P. Latz
Single Drawer with Simple Ebony
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Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Marquetry Bureau Plat and Cartonnier
By Mathieu-Guillaume Cramer
Located in London, Middlesex
ébénistes français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Published by Chêne, 1989, p. 326, fig. 374.
Comparative
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Rosewood
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
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
$17,115
Small Liseuse Side Table Louis XVI French Mahogany and Fruitwood, 1780s
Located in Mönchengladbach, NW
fittings.
France, Louis XVI, approx. 1780.
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Marble, Brass
Antique German Louis XVI French Painted Table with Drawer, circa 1790
Located in Houston, TX
bedside table or writing table desk.
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Antique Late 18th Century German Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
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
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Antique 1760s Dutch Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
French Louis XV Ormolu-Mounted Amarante Bureau Plat
Located in Nice, Cote d
Azur
Rectangular top with tooled light brown leather writing surface within a gilt-surround, above three
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
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
Materials
Ormolu
Bonheur du jour, "à la Grecque"
By Roger Vandercruse dit Lacroix
Located in Geneva, CH
Rare Bonheur su jour "à la grecque" in marquetry of precious wood with motives for vases and utensils on the background of wood of violet in frames of rosewood.
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Table á Ecrire
By Jean-Adelbert Vovis
Located in Vienna, AT
writing slide, below two drawers sans traverse.
France, Epoch Louis XVI ca. 1770 - 1780
Furniture by
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak, Tulipwood, Boxwood
$37,000
"Bonheur Du Jour" with Frames
By Adam Weisweiler
Located in Geneva, CH
Rare "Bonheur du jour" in frames, of rectangular shape, in mahogany massif and veneer of mahogany in one nets of ebony and clear wood.
It presents a rich bronze ornamentation very...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Antique 18th Century Louis XVI Cylinder Bureau Writing Desk from France
Located in Vienna, AT
Very elegant freestanding antique French cylinder writing desk veneered with polished Acajou
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Marble, Brass
18th Century Louis XIV Walnut Wood Travel Italian Writing Desk, 1750s
Located in Wyboston Lakes, GB
This is like a travel desk, the legs below fall apart and split from the top.
Is in solid walnut
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Antique 1750s Italian Louis XIV Secretaires
French Boulle Bureau Plat / Library Table, Late 18th Century
By André-Charles Boulle
Located in Charleston, SC
marquetry writing desk is finished on both sides with three drawers on the front and faux drawers on the
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XIV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Ormolu
18th Century Louis XV Writing Desk
Located in Round Top, TX
A sensational French Louis XV period desk in painted wood and leather top. Tremendous painted
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Antique Mid-18th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
18th Century Writing Desk Louis XVI style Walnut Wood
Located in Milan, IT
Louis XVI style, 18th century
Writing desk
Walnut wood, 122 x 82 x 58 cm
The refined
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Antique 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Louis XV Ormolu Writing Table Desk, 18th C
Located in Astoria, NY
Louis XV ormolu-mounted kingwood-veneered writing table, 18th c and later, apparently unsigned
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Antique 18th Century Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Kingwood
Louis XVI Writing Desk
Located in New Orleans, LA
Walnut writing desk
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
$6,500
A Louis XVI Kingwood
Tulipwood Inlaid Writing Desk, 18th Century
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Louis XVI Kingwood
Tulipwood Inlaid
Writing Desk with Bronze mounts
Late 18th Century
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
18th Century antique French Louis XVI Bureau Plat Writing Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Late 18th Century antique French bureau plat from the Transition Period from Paris, circa 1760
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Beech
Baker Louis XVI Writing Desk
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in North York, ON
This writing desk would be the perfect buy for those with a taste for vintage as well as modern
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Wood
18th Century French Louis XVI Mahogany and Gilt Bronze Writing Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
Late 18th century French Louis XVI mahogany and gilt bronze writing desk. Leather top gilt bronze
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Antique Late 18th Century European Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Late 18th Century Writing Desk with Marble Top
Located in New York, NY
French Louis XVI writing desk with white marble top. Gilt bronze-mounted top panel has four pull
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
18th C. Walnut Library Table Writing Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
Elegant 18th C. Louis XV walnut “table de bibliothèque". The table features a gilt-tooled red
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Late 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Period Walnut Writing Table or Desk
Located in Birmingham, AL
An elegant Italian Louis XVI period writing table or desk handcrafted of solid walnut with a
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Antique Late 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
A Fine 18th Century French Louis XVI Mahogany Dressing Writing Table Desk
Located in Shippensburg, PA
An exceptional dressing table of the finest quality, this exquisite work features the most exhuberant cuts of crotch-mahogany across the apron and top. The center drawer is character...
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Carrara Marble, Brass, Bronze
A Fine Louis XVI Mahogany Writing Table, 18th Century
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Fine Louis XVI Mahogany Writing Table
18th Century
The rectangular slightly dished top above
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
18th Century French Louis XV Chinoiserie Desk
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Louis XV Chinoiserie Japanned Desk Fourth quarter, 18th century; black japanned shaped desk with
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
18th Century Louis XV Petite Writing Table
Located in Doylestown, PA
A charming Louis XV writing table in walnut with small drawers on each end, a shelf along the back
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
18th c. Gustavian Writing Desk with Blackish Top
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A writing desk from the second Gustavian period, Late Gustavian, which meant that you were looking
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Swedish Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
French Louis XV Style Writing Desk Bureau Plat
Located in Astoria, NY
French Louis XV style cherry wood writing desk or bureau plat with shaped rectangular top banded in
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Antique 18th Century Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
Fine Louis XV Writing Desk Stamped J Schmitz
By Joseph Schmitz
Located in Benington, Herts
A fine Louis XV mid-18th century French kingwood writing desk stamped J Schmitz. Of serpentine form
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
18th Century Bleached Walnut Italian Desk / Scrittoio / Writing Table
Located in Carmine, TX
Writing desk handmade in Italy in the late 1700s using walnut and pegged construction. This is a
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Antique Late 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Original 18th C.Petite Antique French Louis XV Walnut Writing Table, Ladies Desk
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
18th c French writing table or petite desk or side table was gone over with a fine toothed comb
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Antique 1790s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
c.1780 French Louis XIII Writing Desk
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
French Louis XIII walnut writing table with barley twist legs and a curved cross stretcher with a
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
A Louis XVI Kingwood
Tulipwood Inlaid Writing Desk
Located in Sheffield, MA
The rectangular top over two drawers with bronze mounts and two pullouts, all on tapering legs ending in sabots
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
French 18th Century Painted Louis XV Table / Small Desk
Located in Buisson, FR
Wonderful small Louis XV table /desk with stunning patina. Great feature is the hidden drawer on
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
18th Century French Louis XIII Walnut Desk
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rich beautiful walnut desk with single drawer.
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Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables
A Louis XV Provincial Walnut Writing Desk
Located in Berlin, DE
A rectangular top above a frieze drawer raised on hipped cabriole legs ending in hoof feet. In excellent original condition with original lock and escutcheon, having retained a natur...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Régence Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
18th Century French Provincial Louis XV Cherry Slant Front Desk
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Louis XV Cherry slant front desk (bureau en pente), French provincial, 18th century. Slant lid with
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
18th Century Louis XVI Mahogany Lady
s Writing Table / Dressing Table
Located in Kastrup, DK
Small and elegant Louis XVI ladies writing table / dressing table in mahogany.
Single drawer below
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Antique 18th Century Danish Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century French Walnut Table Desk Louis XV
Located in Atlanta, GA
18th Century French Walnut Table Desk Louis XV
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Antique Writing Walnut Desk
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Antique Piedmontese walnut writing desk, simple and useful. It didn't have handles and I don't
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Antique Late 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
French Louis XV Period Oak 2-Drawer Writing Table, mid 18th century
Located in Atlanta, GA
the rectangular top with molded edge atop a conforming case housing two drawers and having a shaped apron, raised on cabriole legs
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Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
18th Century Spanish Carved Walnut Three-Drawer Writing Table Desk Console
Located in Dallas, TX
Complete your library or study with this elegant antique fruitwood writing table from Spain
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Antique Mid-18th Century Spanish Louis XIII Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron
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Louis 18th Writing Desks For Sale on 1stDibs
An assortment of louis 18th writing desks is available at 1stDibs. Each of these unique louis 18th writing desks was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, walnut and metal. Louis 18th writing desks made by Louis XVI designers — as well as those associated with Louis XV — are very popular at 1stDibs. Many louis 18th writing desks are appealing in their simplicity, but Conrad Mauter, Hazard and Jean-Baptiste Fromageau produced popular louis 18th writing desks that are worth a look.
How Much are Louis 18th Writing Desks?
Prices for louis 18th writing desks start at $950 and top out at $181,692 with the average selling for $6,800.
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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