France - Secretaires

Mid-Century Modern Danish secretary in teak.

Slant/drop front secrétaire commode, with arbalete front. Louis XIV style, decorated with hand-painted chinoiserie scenes. A very rare and exquisite piece.

Empire style secretary desk in flamed mahogany and bronze locks. This is an Italian work in the style of Aldo Tura. Circa 1970

This secretary Desk belongs to our ÉGÉE COLLECTION designed by the Parisian designer Eric Gizard. Eric adopts for this collection the refined codes of Scandinavian design, combin...

Meuble de rangement secrétaire scandinave danois vintage des années 50 60, du designer Gunnar Nielsen Tibergaard (avec estampille Made in Denmark, Designed by Tibergaard), très belle...

This large secretary desk is designed by the famous parisian Designer Eric Gizard and delivered fully mounted. The overall dimensions of the b...

This secretary Desk belongs to our ÉGÉE COLLECTION designed by the Parisian designer Eric Gizard. Eric adopts for this collection the refined codes of Scandinavian design, combin...

This Secretaire desk is designed by famous parisian Designer Eric Gizard and delivered fully mounted. The dimensions of the Box itself are width 90 cm / 35.4'' x height 90 cm / 35.4'' x depth 46 cm / 18;11'' Height of the feet is 35 cm / 13.8'' Useful Height behind the lower hinged doors is 37 cm / 14.6'' Overall width of each compartment behind the hinged doors is 42 cm / 16.5'' and useful width is 38 cm / 15.0'' due to the hinges. The vertical interior divider can be moved during the manufacture process to allow the installation of printers with a width> 42 cm / 16.5''. The upper working part is fitted with a flap door on a "push-loose" opening for an efficient work with your laptop and smartphone. The storage space inside the cube and behind the flap is for your screen or to store your paperwork in the removable shelves. The 2 horizontal shelves and the 2 vertical storage...

This large secretary desk is mounted in our French workshops and delivered fully assembled. The overall dimensions of the box itself are Widt...

Unique French Mid-Century Modern cabinet secrétaire by Michel Pigneres made in the early 1970s. This piece is an exquisite example of refined, highly detailed and very well made furn...

This very nice notary furniture is made of mahogany and leather. This is a rare and interesting secretaire with leather drawers. This is a French work...

Massive secretaire with flap in marquetry of cubes on the doors and sides and bronzes (partly gilded): the flap covered with leather inside opens on...

This Secretary desk in solid and veneer ash wood is designed by famous parisian Designer Eric Gizard The Kube itself (without the feet height) is Width 90 cm / 35.4'' x Height 90 cm / 35.4'' x Depth 46 cm / 18;11'' Measures: Height of the feet is 35 cm / 13.8'' Useful Height behind the lower hinged doors is 37 cm / 14.6'' Overall width of each compartment behind the hinged doors is 42 cm / 16.5'' and useful width is 38 cm / 15.0'' due to the hinges. The vertical interior divider can be moved during the manufacture process to allow the installation of printers with a width> 42 cm / 16.5''. The upper working part is fitted with a flap door on a "push-loose" opening for an efficient work with your laptop and smartphone. The storage space inside the cube and behind the flap is for your screen or to store your paperwork in the removable shelves. The 2 horizontal shelves and the 2 vertical storage...

This unusual secretaire desk in sycamore with bronze handles is composed of a small sloping desk with flap closing on four drawers and forming a chest of drawers with three drawers i...

This secretary Desk belongs to our ÉGÉE COLLECTION and is designed by the Parisian designer Eric Gizard. Eric adopts for this collection the refined codes of Scandinavian design, c...

Stunning Scandinavian desk with a clean, elegant design. It features two large and two small drawers on the front, with a niche between the two smaller drawers. The particularly grac...

This large secretary desk is mounted in our French workshops and delivered fully assembled. The overall dimensions of the box itself are Widt...

This large secretary desk is mounted in our French workshops and delivered fully assembled. The overall dimensions of the box itself are Widt...

This large secretary desk is mounted in our French workshops and delivered fully assembled. The overall dimensions of the box itself are Widt...

This large secretary desk is mounted in our French workshops and delivered fully assembled. The overall dimensions of the box itself are Widt...

This secretary desk belongs to our ÉGÉE COLLECTION designed by the Parisian designer Eric Gizard. Eric adopts for this collection the refined codes of Scandinavian design, combinin...

This secretary desk belongs to our ÉGÉE COLLECTION designed by the Parisian designer Eric Gizard. Eric adopts for this collection the refined codes of Scandinavian design, combin...

Wall secretary desk, model Odense. Oiled solid walnut. Natural leather interior full grain untreated. Designed by Møbler Gallery. Made in France by...

Important English commode secretary from the Georgian period with three large drawers. The upper part simulating two drawers is made of a flap which forms the work table covered with...

Gustave-Frédéric Quignon Superb Louis XVI style piece of furniture in very finely carved solid mahogany forming a secretary / document holder cabinet. Opening 6 drawers including...

A Japanese style carved wood cabinet, with a painted decor imitating Japanese lacquer, ornamented with flowers, birds and butterflies. Opening onto two drawers and a paper filer, the upright-secretary door is also fitted with red velvet. Surmounted by a drawer and asymmetrical shelves, composed in the Japanese « zen » spirit, the cabinet stands on four legs joined by an engraved stretcher. The great influence of the Far-East, through China and Japan, in the second half of the 19th century French art could be found first in painting and soon after in decorative arts and furniture as well. Following the Franco-English military campaign led in 1860 against the Imperial army in China, the French troops of Napoleon III brought back from the Summer Palace, a part of the Chinese Imperial court treasure, which will make up the famous Chinese Museum of Empress Eugénie at the Fontainebleau Palace. The French artists won’t be long to take inspiration from those exotic and sumptuous objects for their creations, as they used to do in the 18th century, when the best French cabinet-makers adapted the Chinese lacquers on the luxurious royal chests. But the influence of Japan, at the Meiji period (1868-1912), came also very quickly to France, thanks to the opening of the country in the middle of the 19th century, as well as the development of traveling and the amazing Universal Exhibitions, in which Japan participated for the first time in 1867 in Paris. Then many Japanese objects and prints were imported to France and to all Europe, and for which some collectors spent already fortunes. With Manet and Impressionists generation, the passion for Japanese art, more than a simple taste for an exotic style, was still in fashion until the turn of the 19th century. It provoked not only a craze among the French aristocratic families as well as the wealthy Paris high society, wishing renew their mansion inner decoration, but turned also to a real revolutionary movement among the “avant-garde” artists. Those artists, whoever they were, painters, cabinet-makers or designers of ceramic, bronze and crystal objects, adapted then those techniques and naturalistic motifs unknown until this time. Christofle, very famous since 1867 as a silversmith, was also one of the leaders among the inventors of Japanism. He knew how to use Japanese elements to his own splendid works made in silver or “cloisonné” enameled bronze. During the 1878 Paris Universal Exhibition, Christofle presented with great success his life-sized bronze Japanese ladies torcheres, executed by the renowned sculptor Guillemin. Another famous company to be mentioned, is “L’Escalier de Cristal”, producing art objects and furniture, all of high standard quality and innovating much with their Japanese decor. Highly remarked during the Universal Exhibitions, “L’Escalier de Cristal” collaborated with the greatest artists, such Gallé and Rousseau for glass- and ceramic wares, and the cabinet-makers Lièvre and Viardot, whom made furniture including sometimes authentic Japanese elements. In 1872, Alfred Perret and Ernest Vibert opened in Paris, at 33 rue du Quatre-Septembre a store that offered “natural bamboo furniture and cane seats” and all kinds of textile fittings for furniture. This furniture used for winter gardens and terraces of mansions knew then a resounding success. They developed their business around 1884 with their Japanese style furniture, very close to that executed by Gabriel Viardot (1830-1906). In 1886, the company appearing in the category of “Chinoiserie and Japoneries” offered, in addition to furniture and seating creation, works of art and inlaid furniture directly imported from the Far East ; an activity that expanded rapidly. Their exotic fantasy furniture presented at the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1889 and 1900, rewarded them two silver medals. In 1894, the company was listed under the name “Perret et Vibert”, headed by the son of Alfred Perret and Ernest Vibert. The same year, they redesigned their store on rue du Quatre-Septembre, creating ten new show-rooms, showing complete furniture sets of Japanese and Chinese style inspiration. It was not until 1895, that the company was finally named “La Maison des Bambous” and organized then in their shops an “exhibition of country furniture and seats for castles and villas”, which was visited by Empress Eugenie to furnish her villa Cyrnos at Cap Martin. She actually was a regular customer of the “Maison des Bambous” as she bought repeatedly furniture. In October of the same year, the king of Greece...

Metaphysical Cube, a cabinet designed by Gianluca Pacchioni, Italian artists represented by Galerie Negropontes in Paris, France. It is a unique piece made with white onyx, liquid br...

Secretaire / scriban art deco in maple veneer, circa 1950 Medium condition, small lack of wood, veneer, varnish to redo.

Unique, Beautiful and rare Week Drawers Cabinet, elegant small chest of drawers in wood marquetry in frieze, ebony, amaranth fillets and Greek ebony on the drawers. Marquetry on the...

Guillerme et Chambron, Secretaire in blackened oak, Edition Votre Maison, circa 1970.

Secretary shelves 1950 with crosspiece, with an indoor lamp of dimension height 186 cm for a width of 130 cm and a depth of 50 cm. Style: Scandinavian.