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18th Century French Louis XVI Leather Top Bureau Plat
Located in Dallas, TX
Late 18th century French Louis XVI leather top mahogany and gilt bronze bureau plat.
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Antique Late 18th Century Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
18th Century French Louis XV Period Bureau Plat
Located in Charleston, SC
A elegant, slender leg Louis XV period writing table with two drawers dressed with elaborate bronze
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Walnut
18th Century French Louis XVI Brass-Trimmed Table with Gold-Tooled Leather Top
Located in Queens, NY
French Louis XVI (18th century) Provincial fruitwood table desk with a brass edge
surrounding a
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Brass, Gold Leaf
Office Cylinder, 18th Century, Forming Above Library, Louis XVI
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Exceptional Office cylinder, 18th century, forming above library, Louis XVI, rosewood marquetry. h
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Rosewood
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Walnut Architect
s Table or Table Tronchin
Located in Berlin, DE
A late 18th century Louis XVI walnut architect's or mechanical table with a double-hinged ratcheted
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Bronze
Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Bureau Plat, Late 18th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
A Louis XVI ormolu-mounted bureau plat, late 18th century with center drawer and flanking side
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Antique 1790s French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Ormolu
Outstanding 18th Century Period Louis XVI Table
Located in Round Top, TX
An outstanding 18th century period Louis XVI side table - writing table in painted wood with marble
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Antique 18th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
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Wood
Italian, Modenese, Louis XIV Period Walnut 1-Drawer Table, Early 18th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
Likely used as a kitchen or library table, having a rectangular top with bow shaped corners and various inlaid patches, the apron housing one drawer accessible on both sides, raised ...
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Antique Early 18th Century Italian Louis XIV Desks and Writing Tables
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Walnut
Italian, Tuscany, Walnut 2-Drawer Writing Table, Last Quarter of 18th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
escutcheons and a pull-out writing slide, raised on square tapering legs with notched feet.
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Antique 1780s Italian Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Walnut
18th Century Spanish Carved Walnut Desk Table with Wrought Iron Stretcher
Located in Dallas, TX
This elegant fruitwood writing table was carved in Spain, circa 1780. The antique trestle table
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Antique Late 18th Century Spanish Louis XIII Desks and Writing Tables
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Wrought Iron
Italian, Tuscany, Walnut 1-Drawer Writing Table, Late 18th-Early 19th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
Having a rectangular top a conforming case housing 1-drawer, raised on square tapering fluted legs.
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Antique 1790s Italian Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Walnut
Louis XVI Curvilinear Walnut Wood Italian Desk with Drawers and Doors
Located in IT
Louis XVI light walnut wood Italian desk. This piece, which is a centre piece, shows a curvilinear
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Antique Late 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Walnut
A very fine and rare 18th desk by Important Parisian ebeniste Pierre Migeon
By Pierre Migeon
Located in Dallas, TX
A very fine and rare 18th century Secretaire desk by Pierre Migeon Sr. . A family of Important
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Antique Early 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Porcelain, Mahogany, Walnut
18th C. French Louis XIII Figured Walnut Library Table w/Twist
Drawer
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
Remarkable original antique French Louis XIII library table with many great features. This table is
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XIII Desks and Writing Tables
18th Century French Louis XV Marquetry Mechanical Table, "Secrétaire à Culbute"
Located in Berlin, DE
literally translated into "somersault desk": standing on four slender cabriole legs with rectangular and
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Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Bronze
French 1740s Period Louis XV Wooden Desk with Two Drawers and Cabriole Legs
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Louis XV period wooden writing table with two drawers, cabriole legs and scalloped apron
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Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Wood
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Period Walnut Money Changer
s Table
Located in Fayetteville, AR
Found in the region of Languedoc in southern France, this late eighteenth century French Louis XVI
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Fruitwood, Sycamore, Walnut
Italian Louis XVI Desk And Dressing Table With Fine Marquetry, circa 1800
Located in Greven, DE
Louis XVI Desk and Dressing Table
Italy
Walnut, plum, cherry tree
Louis XVI circa 1800
Dimensions
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Antique Late 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Cherry, Fruitwood, Walnut
French Louis XV Period 1750s Walnut Desk with Leather Top and Cabriole Legs
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Louis XV period walnut desk circa 1750 with leather top, single drawer, cabriole legs and
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Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Leather, Walnut
French Louis XVI Period Walnut Metamorphic Drafting Table, 18th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
rings pulls, the drawer front and side panels band inlaid, having two pull-out leather covered writing
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Antique 1780s French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
18th-century, Louis XV Rance Red Carved Marble
Gilded Iron Swan-legged Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This 18th-century French marble top table would be among the world's most lux desks, vanities or
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Marble, Wrought Iron
A French Walnut Writing Table, Probably 17th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
the tray top having canted corners above a frieze drawer, raised on baluster turned supports joined by a beautifully shaped stretcher with a carved finial, resting on five flattened ...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XIII Desks and Writing Tables
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Walnut
Exquisite Louis XIII Style Ebony Table Desk with Cognac Leather
Located in Palm Beach, FL
An Exquisite Louis XIII Style Ebony Table Desk with Cognac Leather Top Framed by Ivory Inlaid
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
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Ebony, Bone, Leather
18th Century Poudreuse and Ladies Desk - Table d
Accouchée, France, circa 1760
Located in Greven, DE
18th Century Coiffeuse and reading table - so-called Table d'Accouchée
France
Rosewood
around 1760
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Antique 1760s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Kingwood, Rosewood
Italian 17th century Louis XIII Table/Desk in Oak and Walnut
Located in Round Top, TX
Italian Louis XIII Table/Desk in Oak and Walnut.
Keywords: sofa table, console, foyer table
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Italian Desks and Writing Tables
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Oak, Walnut
Louis XV Provincial Walnut Occasional Table
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Louis XV provincial walnut single drawer occasional table / writing table, with serpentine shaped
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Antique Late 18th Century European Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Brass
17th Century Italian Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
A great antique Walnut table/ desk circa 1680 in great condition with a fantastic patina. See more
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Italian Louis XIV Desks and Writing Tables
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Walnut
An 18th Century French Provincial LXV Period Cherrywood Beaureaplat
Located in Atlanta, GA
having a rectangular top with slightly rounded corners and a slightly beveled edge above a conforming case consisting of paneled sides and back with carved aprons, the two large draw...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Brass
French Louis XV Bureau Plat
Located in Doylestown, PA
A French Provincial Louis XV bureau plat desk, late 18th century, in cherrywood, with 2 large
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Cherry
$11,500
18th Century Walnut Side Table - Period LXV
Located in Atlanta, GA
18th Century Walnut Side Table - Period Louis XV. Please Note This is an Antique and is One of a
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Walnut
French Louis XV Bureau Plat
Located in Westwood, NJ
French Louis XV ebonized and lacquered red leather top bureau plat with bronze mounts and pulls
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Louis XVI Reading Table
Located in Doylestown, PA
A nice Louis XVI reading table in mahogany, with a small drawer in the apron, a hinged top and
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
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Mahogany
$3,750
Louis XV Bureau Plat In Rosewood Marquetry And Gilt Bronze
Located in BARSAC, FR
Magnificent Louis XV flat desk made of rosewood marquetry treated in frieze on an oak frame
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Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Rosewood
Louis XVI Period Bureau Plat
Located in New York, NY
Despite its clean, simple lines, this Louis XVI period bureau plat has real star power. In mahogany
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Leather, Wood
Antique Venetian Hand Painted Bombay Vanity Dressing Table Desk
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Antique Venetian Hand Painted Bombay Vanity Dressing Table Desk.
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Antique 18th Century Italian Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Italian, Bolognese, Late Baroque Walnut
Brass Mounted 1-Drawer Table, 18th Cen
Located in Atlanta, GA
Having a rectangular top with rounded corners and a molded edge, the conforming case housing one drawer and mounted with patinated brass nailheads in scroll patterns, the turned legs...
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Antique Early 18th Century Italian Louis XIV Desks and Writing Tables
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Walnut
Louis XVI Dressing Table, circa 1780
Located in Greding, DE
An elegant Louis XVI-style dressing or writing table, crafted circa 1780. The table is newly
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Louis XV Marble and Leather Top Bonhuer De Jour
Located in Westwood, NJ
Fine Louis XV inlaid and bronze mounted marble top Bonhuer de Jour with tooled leather top writing
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Louis XVI Mahogany Bureau Plat
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The rectangular leather inset top above a frieze enclosing a central drawer flanked on each side by two small drawers, and simulated drawers to the reverse, raised on straight taperi...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
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Bronze
Louis XVI Stained Fruitwood Marquetry Secretaire
Located in Astoria, NY
Louis XVI stained fruitwood and kingwood marquetry drop-front secretary or secretaire a abbatant
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Antique Late 18th Century Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Fruitwood, Kingwood, Satinwood
Louis XVI Mahogany And Ormolu Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Essex, MA
flanked by two drawers and a single double drawer. Finished back also each end has pull out writing slide
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Lacquered and Veneered Bureau de Dame, 18th to 19th C.
Located in Atlanta, GA
desk put on later legs perfect for a small console or unique side table
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Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
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Hardwood
A Louis XV Table a Ecrire by Jean-Mathieu Chevallier
By Jean-Mathieu Chevallier
Located in Sheffield, MA
An Important Louis XV Ormolu Mounted Kingwood and Fruitwood Marquetry Table a Ecrire
Stamped
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
A Louis XV Ormolu Kingwood
Fruitwood Marquetry Table a Ecrire by Chevallier
By Jean-Mathieu Chevallier
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Fine Louis XV Ormolu Mounted Kingwood and Fruitwood Marquetry Table a Ecrire
Mid 18th Century
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Louis XVI Brass Inlaid Mahogany Bureau Plat Stamped Hazard
By Hazard
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Stamped Hazard twice
The rectangular top inset with a dark green leather and brass edges, over a large frieze drawer flanked on each side with a single smaller drawer, the right dra...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Neoclassical Desks and Writing T...
French Ormolu-Mounted Tulipwood Louis XVI Tambour
Bonheur Du Jour
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
This Louis XVI 'Bonheur du Jour' (ladies writing desk) features an upper part with gallery edged
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Marble, Bronze
Louis XVI painted table with reversible marble top banded in marble
Located in New Orleans, LA
A Louis XVI painted table with reversible marble top - one side black, one side white/grey banded
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
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Marble
A French Louis XIII Walnut 1-Drawer Spiral Twist Table
Located in Atlanta, GA
the rectangular molded edge top above a conforming case housing one drawer with a steel backplate and ring, the turned and spiral twisting legs ending in blocks on round turned feet ...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Steel
Louis XV Walnut Side Table
Located in Houston, TX
Louis XV walnut side table circa 1730-1759. Hand-carved in French walnut, circa 1730-1759, for a
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Antique Early 18th Century French Rococo Desks and Writing Tables
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Walnut
Louis XV Bronze Mounted Kingwood Table C1780
Located in valatie, NY
A Louis XV Bronze Mounted Kingwood Table C1780, the serpentine top with inset leather writing
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Louis XV Ormolu-Mounted Marquetry Bureau en Pente, attributed to Migeon
By Pierre Migeon
Located in Kittery Point, ME
similar model stamped but without its mounts, see Christie's sale 1519, New York 17-18 May 2005, Lot 514.
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Antique Mid-18th Century French Rococo Desks and Writing Tables
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Bronze
A Louis XV Parisian Bureau Plat of Rosewood Veneer, Leather Top
Located in Atlanta, GA
finished on all sides and retaining original cast bronze sabots, the (later) tooled and decorated leather inset top within a rectangular rounded edge framework above three drawers, r...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Louis XV Style Walnut Bureau Plat
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular inset tooled red leather top over a long drawer flanked by drawers, reverse with faux drawers, and raised on cabriole legs, sabot feet.
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Rococo Desks and Writing Tables
Louis XV Period Solid Walnut "Table-à-Écrire"
Located in Austin, TX
French Louis XV period "table-à-écrire" (writing table) in solid walnut with a single dovetailed
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
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Walnut
A Louis XV Red Lacquered Chinoiserie Bureau
Located in Palm Beach, FL
A Louis XV Red Lacquered Bureau with Chinoiserie Landscape Detail and Scalloped Apron on Cabriole
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
A Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Tulipwood, Amaranth, Mahogany Table
Located in valatie, NY
A Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Tulipwood, Amaranth and Mahogany Table á Ecrire, C1780, the rectangular
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Large Louis XVI Leather Top Bureau Plat, ca 1780
Located in Westwood, NJ
Large Louis XVI leather top bureau plat with three drawers, tapered legs, brass trim and bronze
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
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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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