Over the course of nearly seven decades, Charak Furniture Company produced exemplary reproductions of 18th-century-era furniture, including works created in the American colonial and Georgian styles, as well as sophisticated mid-century modern pieces made by the likes of German furniture designer and painter Tommi Parzinger.
Charak was established in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1919. It earned a reputation for exceptional design and durability, and the 1920s were a period of high production for the brand. Charak was a leading manufacturer of reproductions of early American furniture that was influenced by Queen Anne– and Georgian–era design, including secretaries, dressers and cabinets with exquisite details like accented moldings, carved finials, recessed door panels, claw feet and other embellishments.
While the Great Depression put many furniture manufacturers out of business, Charak Furniture Company weathered the era’s difficulties. In fact, during the 1930s, it introduced one of its most enduringly popular dining tables: the drop leaf Danbury table. The solid mahogany table, which features four leaves to comfortably accommodate larger dining parties as necessary, is supported by four slender and elegantly curving legs, a wonderful example of the company's furniture from this era.
In the 1950s, Charak Furniture Company continued to thrive by shifting production to suit modern tastes. It worked with designers like Donald Deskey and Tommi Parzinger to develop collections that boast the clean lines and sleek silhouettes that characterized many of the period’s designs. The collaborations proved fruitful and prolific. The company’s rare revival and mid-century modern pieces have considerable appeal for today’s collectors.
In its heyday, Charak Furniture Company had showrooms in Chicago and New York City. Today, a 1958 desk designed by Deskey is part of the permanent collection at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
On 1stDibs, find an array of vintage Charak Furniture Company tables, storage cabinets, seating and more.
Georgian Style Mahogany Kneehole Desk by Charak Furniture Company
By Charak Furniture Company
Located in Southampton, NJ
Mahogany kneehole desk with banded drawers, one long drawer over a shallow recessed cupboard with one shelf, flanked by three drawers to either side, raised on shaped bracket feet. T...
Brass
Charak Furniture Co. Federal Revival Inlaid Tambour Desk
By Charak Furniture Company
Located in Norwood, NJ
A finely crafted Federal Revival tambour writing desk by Charak Furniture Co., Boston, retaining its original paper label and dated 1933.. Executed in richly figured satinwood and ma...
Marble
Rare Hepplewhite Revival Mixing Table Desk Charak Furniture Co.
By Charak Furniture Company
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Rare Hepplewhite Revival mixing table desk, Charak Furniture Co. Boston, Mass 1930. This fabulous piece has mahogany, flame and satinwood inlaid panels th...
Marble
Late 19thC George II Style Mahogany Kneehole Desk
Located in Altrincham, GB
Late 19thC George II Style Mahogany and Cross Banded Kneehole Desk with Quarter Veneered Sides - Drop Down Cubby Hole, Camphor Lined Drawers and missing Writing Slope * 22.5"w x 17"d...
Mahogany
19th Century Sheraton Revival Inlaid Desk
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th Century Edwardian period, Sheraton Revival inlaid desk. Having a fire screen that pulls up, secret compartments that pop out from the sides for ink and pens....
Mahogany
$5,995
H 30 in W 66.5 in D 36 in
Baker Furniture Egyptian Revival Rosewood Leather Top Executive Bureau Plat Desk
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Egyptian Revival, Neoclassical, or Empire style executive writing desk or bureau plat desk By Baker Furniture USA, Late 20th Century Rosewood, with embossed leather top...
Brass
$4,250
H 47.5 in W 31 in D 24 in
American Gilded Age Hepplewhite-Style Writing Desk in Satinwood w/ Marquetry
Located in INTERLAKEN, NY
From the American Gilded Age, a lovely writing table in satinwood with ebonized details and featuring marquetry inlays depicting classic Hepplewhite themes which include lilies of th...
Leather, Satinwood
$2,480
H 30 in W 62.5 in D 27.5 in
Late 20th Century Inlaid Writing Desk by Hickory & White Furniture.
By Hickory White
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Late 20th Century Inlaid Writing Desk by Hickory & White Furniture. Features an Oval shape in an NeoClassical Revival style with a dark brwon burlwood inlaid, a drawer with m...
Wood
Ca. 1910, Limberts Dutch Arts & Crafts Furniture Co. Writing Desk
By Limbert Dutch Arts and Crafts Furniture Company
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Limbert Furniture Co. of Holland, Michigan quarter sawn white oak classic Arts & Crafts style writing desk circa 1910. The desk features a rectangular top overhanging three drawers w...
Oak
English Hepplewhite Mahogany Three Drawer Writing Table. Circa 1790
Located in Charleston, SC
English Hepplewhite mahogany three drawer writing table with circular brasses and terminating on squared tapered legs. Late 18th Century
Brass
$1,650
H 33 in W 40 in D 21 in
Antique Victorian Revival Walnut Spinet Writing Desk Secretary Library Table
Located in Dayton, OH
This antique early 20th century Victorian Revival spinet desk showcases the elegant craftsmanship and multi-functional engineering characteristic of late 19th-century American furnit...
Walnut
Antique Hepplewhite Leather Top Partners Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare and remarkable early 19th century Hepplewhite partners desk having the original tooled leather top in a crossbanded border, a case with three drawers in each side with beechwood...
Leather, Wood
Baker Furniture Historic Charleston Federal Inlaid Mahogany Console
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Federal or Hepplewhite style console or entry table By Baker Furniture, "Historic Charleston" Collection USA, Circa 1980s Mahogany, with inlaid satinwood marquetry. Me...
Mahogany, Satinwood
Late Victorian Inlaid Mahogany Writing Desk by Maple & Co
By Maple & Co.
Located in Altrincham, GB
Late Victorian Inlaid Mahogany Writing Desk by Maple & Co, with upstand and tooled leather writing surface and fitted with two frieze drawers, the right-hand drawer stamped Maple & C...
Leather, Mahogany
$12,000
H 32 in W 50 in D 29 in
Italian Baroque Revival Inlaid Desk, Ca.1885 from the Collection of Vicente Wolf
Located in New York, NY
A stunning bone-inlaid walnut desk with scroll apron and pierced Baroque legs. Italy, late 19th Century. Handcrafted circa 1885, this beautiful desk shows an intricate geometric in...
Bone, Walnut, Ivory
Tommi Parzinger for Charak Modern Gold Leaf Console, c 1949, Signed
By Charak Furniture Company, Tommi Parzinger
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A rare early-example collectors item, this fully restored Tommi Parzinger for Charak Modern (c. 1949) console table, which also can function as a small writing table, features beauti...
Gold Leaf
Charak Macassar Writing Desk
By Tommi Parzinger, Charak Furniture Company
Located in Astoria, NY
A writing desk by Charak Modern in the 1950s, in Macassar, ebony and mahogany wood with brass hardware. The desk is in overall good vintage condition with some minor scratches to leg...
Macassar
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H 46.75 in W 25 in D 14.75 in
Tommi Parzinger Pink Leather & Mahogany Secretary for Charak Modern, circa 1950
By Tommi Parzinger, Charak Furniture Company
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Exquisitely designed secretary bureau by Tommi Parzinger for Charak Modern. This elegantly executed piece is fabricated from pickled mahogany with tooled leather in a color that fall...
Brass
Macassar Desk by Tommi Parzinger for Charak
By Tommi Parzinger, Charak Furniture Company
Located in Dallas, TX
A Macassar ebony and mahogany desk with brass hardware. Designed by Tommi Parzinger for Charak Modern.
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H 30.25 in W 50.25 in D 21 in
Modernist Walter Charak Macassar Ebony, Mahogany and Brass Desk Midcentury
By Walter Charak, Charak Furniture Company
Located in North Miami, FL
This sleek and fully restored Mid-Century Modern Walter Charak labeled desk and or writing desk for Tommi Parzinger is exquisite. The 4 polished brass corner tabs and brass stretcher...
Wood, Braid