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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mitch Bass first bought ...

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 ...

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 ...

Purchase a beautiful antique desk, but unfortunately the center drawer is too low to the ground that it smashes my legs between my chair and the desk. I'm hoping to cut out just the center drawer, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

A report of an elderly man whose historic desk and other heirlooms were sold by a storage facility in New York after he forgot to pay the bill has left readers divided about laws and restitution in ...