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Mid-Century Kienzle GMT World Time Zone Brass Table Clock, Germany, 1960s
By Kienzle Clocks
Located in Vienna, AT
A beautiful modernist brass desk clock with a world map clocks face and world time zones. Executed
Category
Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Brass
Modernist Brass Desk Top Globe
By Paul McCobb, Replogle Globes
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Modernist brass desk top globe. Excellent patina to the original brass stand.
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Globes
Materials
Brass
Italian Modernist Solid Mahogany Desk
Located in New York, NY
Exceptional solid mahogany desk. Modernist steel structure supports two sets of suspended drawers
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Cabinets
Materials
Mahogany
LeCoultre Modernist Style Art Deco Style Desk Clock, circa 1950s
Located in Long Beach, CA
WARRANTY: 18 months on the movement
LIFETIME SERVICE COMMITMENT
This impressive Modernist Style clock was
Category
Vintage 1950s Swiss Modernist Pocket Watches
Mirrored Modernist Vanity or Desk
Located in New York, NY
A sleek and stylish modern vanity or desk in distressed mirror.
Category
Late 20th Century American Art Deco Vanities
Materials
Mirror
Modernist Console/Desk In Walnut
Located in Doylestown, PA
An unusual walnut console table/desk in asymetric form, with ebonized and silver-plated moldings
Category
Vintage 1940s Unknown Console Tables
Materials
Walnut
Italian Modernist Style Walnut Table Desk
Located in Montreal, QC
Italian modernist style walnut table desk with the four splayed fitted with brass hoofs.
Italy
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Tables
Materials
Walnut
Modernist 1930s Desk Lamp by Ruton
Located in Gloucester, GB
Modernist 1930s desk lamp by Ruton
- Heavy cast iron base
- Steel shade
- Takes E27 fitting
Category
Vintage 1930s Dutch Art Deco Table Lamps
Modernist Bakelite Desk Lamps, circa 1920s
Located in Gloucester, GB
Modernist Bakelite desk lamps, circa 1920s.
- Price is per lamp
- Made from a dark brown
Category
Vintage 1920s German Bauhaus Table Lamps
$402 / item
Selection of Modernist Brass Desk Lamps
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Modernist Brass Desk Lamps, circa 1950's. From left to right, they are:
1) Austrian
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Mexican Modernist Double Dresser with Desk
By Eugenio Escudero
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration a beautiful modernist double dresser with a built-in desk.
Unusual
Category
Vintage 1950s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Materials
Bronze
Modernist Brass Desk or Table Lamp
Located in San Mateo, CA
Desk lamp by National Lighting Company. The brass is a brushed finish. This lamp has two light bulb
Category
Vintage 1950s American Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Steel
Modernist Mid-Century Pivoting Brass Desk Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Modernist Mid-Century desk lamp in brass. Features 3/4 circle form brass shade that pivots on two
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Striking Chrome Modernist Mirrored Top Console/Desk
Located in New York, NY
Chrome Modernist mirrored top three-drawer console/desk. Bears thick rectangular supports at
Category
Vintage 1970s Console Tables
Materials
Chrome
Modernist French Nickeled Brass Desk Lamp, 1930s
By Jacques Adnet
Located in La Teste-de-Buch, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Modernist Art Deco desk lamp made in France in the 1930s. In the manner of Jacques Adnet. The lamp
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Modernist Articulated Desk Lamp By Kurt Versen
By J.T. Kalmar, Kurt Versen
Located in Sagaponack, NY
An elegant and finely rendered patinated brass desk lamp having a weighted disc base and gracefully
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Steel
Modernist Yellow Fiberglass Gooseneck Desk Table Lamp
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Yellow fiberglass single cone desk table lamp. The flex arm gooseneck and base are in black. Cone
Category
Vintage 1950s American Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Modernist Black Desk Lamp with Swing Arm
Located in New York, NY
Black metal desk lamp with swing arm. Argentina, circa 1970.
Signed with maker's
Category
Vintage 1970s Argentine Table Lamps
Modernist Brushed Steel Desk Lamp, Netherlands, 1930s
By J.J. Pieter Oud
Located in The Hague, NL
This striking desk or table lamp in brushed steel was manufactured in The Netherlands in the 1930s
Category
Vintage 1930s Dutch De Stijl Table Lamps
Materials
Wire, Steel
Modernist Machine Age Art Deco Chrome Desk Lamp, c1930
Located in Devon, England
Original modernist chrome desk lamp of substantial quality, fully chromed so is in lovely condition
Category
Mid-20th Century English Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Enamel, Chrome
Johannes Andersen Modernist Teak Desk or Dining Table
By Johannes Andersen
Located in New York, NY
Stunning 1960s modernist teak dining table designed by Johannes Andersen. Beautiful design it can
Category
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Teak
Mid-Century Modernist Lucite Waterfall Vanity or Desk
Located in New York, NY
This vanity/desk features a waterfall design in clear lucite with a pull out drawer in white lucite
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vanities
Stunning Rosewood Modernist Arne Vodder Secretary Writing Desk
By Arne Vodder
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rosewood chest or dresser pull-out desk, beautiful bookmatched woods, superior quality, birch
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Secretaires
Materials
Rosewood
Modernist
Architectural / Post Modern Clamp Task Desk Lamp
Located in Oakland, CA
Post Modern design in this clamp desk lamp chromed wire architecture with a cord tension for
Category
Vintage 1970s Unknown Post-Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Chrome
Modernist Green Speckle Double Gooseneck Desk Table Lamp
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Green and black speckle metal cone double gooseneck adjustable flex arm desk table lamp with black
Category
Vintage 1950s American Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Modernist Floating Desk Chair with U-Form Design
Located in New York, NY
This stunning chair can be used in so many ways. It could be used as a desk or vanity chair.This
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Chairs
Modernist Czech, 1950s Cream and Brass Desk Lamp
Located in London, GB
The lamp is very efficient with diffused light shining through the crème and brass shades.
Typical design of Czech modernism.
Category
Vintage 1950s Czech Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
1950s French Modern Brass
Black Steel Desk Lamp Modernist
By Maison Jumo
Located in BUSSUM, NH
Heavy quality French Desk lamp from the 1950s 1960s with an industrial modernist look to it.
Heavy
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Steel
Le Corbusier for Lumax Modernist Glass Desk Tidy Catchall
By Lumax, Le Corbusier
Located in Atlanta, GA
architects of the 20th century, Le Corbusier, is the perfect desk tidy, ashtray, or catchall. Manufactured by
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Materials
Glass
Hallmarked Modernist Danish Cutout Square Glass Vase Desk Accessory
Located in North Miami, FL
This gorgeous vase that has modernist incised cutout forms is a combination of clear and frosted
Category
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
Modernist Stainless Steel Box by Stanley Szwarc Desk Accessory
By Stanley Szwarc
Located in North Miami, FL
quite modernist. It is lined in green felt as was originally done by him. It is signed on the back
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stainless Steel
Modernist Chrome and Plastic Desk Lamp, Sculptural, Architctural Design
By Robert and Richard Sonneman
Located in Buffalo, NY
Sleek ,simple desk lamp.. Pure 1960s classic..Duel option light capability..Bright and soft light
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Chrome
Carl Auböck Modernist Horn Desk Pen Holder, Austria, 1950s
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
A decorative desk pen holder from the 1950s, designed and executed by Carl Auböck, Austria. Made of
Category
Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern More Furniture and Collecti...
Materials
Horn
Mid-Century Modernist Two-Light Desk Lamp in Brass
Located in Astoria, NY
A vintage desk lamp in brass, with Dual adjustable lights, each with cone form shades and
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Modernist Italian 800 Silver Desk/Jewellery Box c.1960
Located in Bath, GB
opens to reveal a handsome wooden interior, perfect for using as a desk, jewellery or cigar box
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Teghini, Firenze - Modernist Silver Plated Desk Box c.1970
By Teghini
Located in Bath, GB
A highly collectable silver plated desk box with a novelty lid in the form of the back of an
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Unusual Modernist Two-Tone Swivel Desk or Side Chair
By Adrian Pearsall, Eero Saarinen
Located in Buffalo, NY
Adrian Pearsall meets Eero Saarinen, most unusual Mid-Century Modern swivel chair. Beautiful sculpted walnut base, moulded top, half black 1950s fabric, back white Naugahyde. All ori...
Category
Vintage 1950s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Swivel Chairs
Materials
Metal
Modernist Cini Boeri for Knoll International Dining Table Desk
By Cini Boeri, Knoll
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous round 59 inch diameter glass top table which sits cantilevered on a stainless steel base. Internally locked on and with 5 heavy duty weights to counter balance the table. St...
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Stainless Steel, Iron
Modernist Pine 1940s Swedish sports cabin Dining Table Desk
By Axel Einar Hjorth, Carl Malmsten
Located in Forest, BE
This is a small and unusual dining table made out of pine. Produced in Sweden around the 1940s. The base is elegant with nice details. It will brighten any projects. Nice patina with...
Category
Vintage 1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Pine
Rare Art Deco Modernist Silver Plate Desk Table Lamp
By Donald Deskey
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an incredible and unique lamp in the style of Donald Deskey. Circa 1940s. This lamp has been completely restored to almost new condition. The lamp has been rewired, the base ...
Category
20th Century American Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate
1980
s Modernist Red Phython Skin Swivel Italian Desk Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Stunning 1980's modernist brass and red Phython skin swivel Italian desk lamp, in vintage original
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Vico Magistretti for Oluce. "Slalom" desk lamp in modernist style.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Vico Magistretti for Oluce, "Slalom" desk lamp in modernist style.
Painted metal and red plastic
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Ultra Chic Mid-Century Modernist Adjustable Desk Lamp in Brass
Located in New York, NY
This exceptional Mid-Century Modernist adjustable desk lamp is solid brass with white enamel
Category
Vintage 1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Midcentury Wood and Naugahyde Modernist Dual Desk or Letter Tray
Located in San Diego, CA
Midcentury wood and naugahyde modernist dual desk letter tray, circa 1970s. Nice piece with wood
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Magazine Racks and Stands
Materials
Naugahyde, Wood
Mexican Modernist Wall Unit with Desk, Attributed to Eugenio Escudero
By Eugenio Escudero
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration a beautiful custom made wall unit with built in desk. Attributed to Eugenio
Category
Vintage 1950s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Mid-Century Modernist Ebonized Walnut Klismos Desk or Occasional Chair
Located in New York, NY
leather seat. This would make the perfect desk or occasional chair and it has been mint restored as well
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Stunning Modernist Walnut and Brass Dresser/Desk by Helen Hobey Baker
By Helen Hobey
Located in Buffalo, NY
Stunning modernist walnut and brass dresser /desk by Helen Hobey Baker.. Superior quality and
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
American Modernist Walnut and Cane Tall Back Sitting Desk Accent Armchairs
By Kipp Stewart, John Keal
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful set of American modernist walnut and cane tall back sitting or desk accent arm chairs
Category
Mid-20th Century Armchairs
Materials
Walnut
Rare Stilnovo Modernist Brass Table or Desk Light, Italy, 1960s
By Stilnovo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Highly rare and beautiful Stilnovo table lamp in perfect condition. Produced during the 1950s and in perfect original condition. Adjustable perforated orange metal shade. Fantastic b...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Metal
Jaeger LeCoultre 1950 Swiss Retro Modernist Mechanical Desk Clock Near Mint
By Jaeger-LeCoultre
Located in Miami, FL
Desk clock designed by Jaeger LeCoultre.
Fabulous geometric desk-table clock, created in
Category
Vintage 1950s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Mantel Clocks
Materials
Steel
Ultra Chic Mid-Century Modernist Stitched Leather Occasional or Desk Chair
By Karl Springer
Located in New York, NY
This ultra chic Mid-Century Modernist occasional chair features clean modern lines, the back and
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
1970s Modernist Sintesi Green Desk Lamp by Ernesto Gismondi for Artemide
By Ernesto Gismondi, Artemide
Located in Aci Castello, IT
A Sintesi desk lamp designed by Ernesto Gismondi and manufactured by Artemide in the 1960s. It's an
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Iron
Modernist Chrome Desk Lamp by Roger Nathan for Saint Germain Lumière, 1970s.
By Christian Liaigre
Located in Lille, FR
Modernist Chrome Desk Lamp by Roger Nathan for Saint Germain Lumière, 1970s.
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Aluminum
Vintage 1980s Modernist Space Age Black Metal and Plexiglass Desk Table Lamps
By IKEA
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Vintage 1980s modernist space age black metal and plexiglass desk or table lamps. Nicely
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Chrome
Mid-Century Modernist Cini Boeri Lunario Desk/Table by Gavina for Knoll
By Cini Boeri, Gavina
Located in New York, NY
This Mid-Century Modernist Cini Boeri Lunario desk/table by Gavina for Knoll features an elliptical
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Tables
Modernist Live-Edge Figured Cherrywood Dining Table or Desk Griff Logan
By Griff Logan
Located in Buffalo, NY
Handcrafted free edge dining table by Griff Logan, manner of George Nakashima. Griff Logan woodworker, stunning.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Ta...
Materials
Wood
Rare Stilnovo Modernist Brass Table or Desk Light attributed to Stilnovo
By Stilnovo
Located in Voorburg, NL
Highly rare and beautiful table lamp in perfect condition, attributed to Stilnovo, circa 1954. Produced during the 1950s and in perfect original condition. Adjustable perforated vani...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Cut Steel
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Find many varieties of an authentic modernist desk available at 1stDibs. Each modernist desk for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, wood and brass. There are 2214 variations of the antique or vintage modernist desk you’re looking for, while we also have 151 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. Your living room may not be complete without a modernist desk — find older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. A modernist desk made by mid-century modern designers — as well as those associated with Art Deco — is very popular. You’ll likely find more than one modernist desk that is appealing in its simplicity, but Jacques Adnet, Herman Miller and Werkstätte Carl Auböck produced versions that are worth a look.
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The average selling price for a modernist desk at 1stDibs is $2,391, while they’re typically $50 on the low end and $150,000 for the highest priced.
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