Desk sets, intended for home or office letter-writing and other business, used to be commonplace. Do you remember the ones of the 1950s and 1960s? Most had tooled leather or composition blotter ...

It could be said that auction houses specialize in scarcity and rareness. But occasionally, they may come across a piece so unique, so peculiar even, that it garners national attention. Such was the ...

Using found Edwardian writing desks, Sonia E. Barrett animates her sculptures with expressive faces redolent of African ...

In 1970 the fledgling author, scrounging around for something on which to craft his prose, purchased a piece of furniture once owned by Masters cofounder Clifford Roberts that may have had Ike’s ...

Collectors and museums are excited about the Oct. 21 auction of a rare piece of early Kentucky furniture: a tall desk made for a prominent pioneer and passed down through six generations of his family ...

DEAR Helaine and Joe: My parents gave me this secretary they have had for as long as I can remember. It is oak and has a paper label that reads “Larkin Co. Buffalo, New York, Made by our factory No. 5 ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Three days before the UK went into government-ordered lockdown in late March, I posted a picture of my new remote ...

Say goodbye to ring marks and water stains on your vintage furniture, thanks to the expert advice from a Mount Vernon master restorer. Westchester recommendations are objective, unbiased, and curated ...

As an expert in antique furniture, Colette Gilbert McClain looks for the devil in the details. Where others may see an old desk as simply a piece of wood, she’s attuned to pick out the stories it may ...

An old desk passed off as a Civil War memorial has been exposed as a fraud thanks to a dogged antiques journalist and a pair of "smoking gun" photographs. A civil war-era secretary desk acquired by ...