Anyone know about this Danish desk?  

As an added note . . . I'm thinking it might be fairly early, maybe 1950's. I don't say that based on anything I know for sure, but having looked under a lot of furniture, it just feels as such.

Looks like a rosewood veneer on top but teak veneer for the rest of it.

Or is it just really odd looking teak?

It is all teak.

If you show some more photos of the undersides and insides of things, I can probably tell you if it is earlier or later.

Here are some more pics.

Yes, that is what danish construction looked like before the particle board revolution. It is probably no later than the very early 1960s. And it is probably no earlier than about 1955. The earlier date comes from the expanded use of teak in the danish furniture business made possible by Charles France's innovation of using carbide tipped blades for cutting and shaping teak.

How about some photos of the drawer construction:

-the front side showing the dovetails and what the drawer faces is made of

-the drawer side showing the dado groove

-the wood the drawer sides are made of

-the rear side from the back showing

-the underside at the back showing how the drawer bottom is attached.

With all of these details you have the fingerprint of the maker. You might just get lucky and someone can tell you who made it. Or with some clever googling you might be able to the front side to some other desk.

I would suggest focussing on greater Scandinavia, as opposed to any of the export markets.

I really appreciate your willingness to help me as I try to learn the origins of this desk. Here are some drawer pics.

So the drawer fronts are a pine substrate with a bit of teak edge banding on the top. The drawer sides are Ramin wood with a stopped dado. The drawer back is not dovetailed in, which is interesting. The drawer bottom is stapled in, not screwed.

I don't recognize this particular set of characteristics. The most unusual thing is that the drawer back is inserted into a slot, not dovetailed. Unfortunately, that is going to be a rare photo to find. You could look for drawers with a pine substrate and ramin sides, though. This could significantly narrow the field.

And based on the construction, you should be looking too high end, nor too low end. Something like Vinde M

Thanks again for your input. I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with manufacturers to know where to go, but I can certainly keep googling. 🙂

I would suggest trying for anything with drawers on Lauritz. Look for the matching drawer sides and look for the handles. You will need to search in Danish, not english. Use google's site:lauritz.com option.

I don't know if this will offer any insight, but I found a desk located just north of London that is basically the same as mine. The drawer pulls and the liquor cabinet are different, and the locks aren't the same. It feels like a later version of mine, to me. It is the ONLY one I have found even close.

I should have mentioned, there was no designer/maker info offered in the listing. I emailed the seller, but he said it had been awhile, and he couldn't recall anything.

That is actually good progress. You've got a new set of handles, and they are much more distinctive. Keep looking for pieces made by the same factory, and you will either find one that is marked, or something will start to make sense.

The more pieces you find from the factory, the easier it will be to spot them.