4 Panel Room Dividers Hand Painted
Antique 1870s French Empire Screens and Room Dividers
Brass
1990s Philippine Neoclassical Screens and Room Dividers
Canvas, Hardwood, Paint
Antique 1890s French Neoclassical Screens and Room Dividers
Walnut
Vintage 1980s Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
Vintage 1920s Italian Neoclassical Screens and Room Dividers
Canvas
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Antique Early 1900s Indonesian Screens and Room Dividers
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Vintage 1980s Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
Mid-20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Early 20th Century Unknown Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Mother-of-Pearl
Antique 1890s English Late Victorian Screens and Room Dividers
Brass
20th Century Asian Edo Screens and Room Dividers
Wood, Paper, Fabric
20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Mother-of-Pearl, Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
Antique 19th Century Rococo Screens and Room Dividers
Canvas, Wood
Mid-20th Century Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
Antique 19th Century European Victorian Screens and Room Dividers
Leather, Wood
Vintage 1950s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Brass, Gold Leaf
Mid-20th Century Chinese Renaissance Screens and Room Dividers
Gesso, Wood
Antique Mid-18th Century German Rococo Screens and Room Dividers
Canvas
Antique 19th Century French Neoclassical Screens and Room Dividers
Wood, Paper
20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Screens and Room Dividers
Ebony, Plastic, Teak
Vintage 1970s Unknown Rustic Screens and Room Dividers
Wood, Paint
Vintage 1930s Mexican Rancho Monterey Screens and Room Dividers
Foil, Gold Leaf
20th Century French Neoclassical Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
Mid-20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Wood, Lacquer, Paint
Late 20th Century Unknown Chesterfield Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Screens and Room Dividers
Wood, Paint
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Wood, Lacquer, Paint
Antique 1890s French Belle Époque Screens and Room Dividers
Fabric, Canvas, Paint
Antique Early 1900s Screens and Room Dividers
Lacquer
Early 2000s Italian Screens and Room Dividers
Stainless Steel
2010s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Mahogany
Antique Mid-18th Century Dutch Baroque Screens and Room Dividers
Leather, Linen
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Screens and Room Dividers
Gold Leaf
21st Century and Contemporary American Hollywood Regency Screens and Roo...
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
Late 20th Century American Neoclassical Screens and Room Dividers
Plaster, Wood, Paint
Mid-20th Century American American Colonial Screens and Room Dividers
Wood, Paint
Vintage 1980s Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
Mid-20th Century Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Canvas
Vintage 1950s Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Paper
Vintage 1980s Chinese Tribal Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Paper, Wood
Vintage 1940s American Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Silver Leaf
Mid-20th Century French Provincial Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
Antique 19th Century French Screens and Room Dividers
Giltwood, Wood
20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Late 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Brass
Antique 1860s Italian Neoclassical Screens and Room Dividers
Canvas, Paint
20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Gold Leaf
Vintage 1960s Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Paint
Antique Early 19th Century Italian Other Screens and Room Dividers
Canvas
Vintage 1950s American Screens and Room Dividers
Antique 19th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Paint
Antique 19th Century French Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Leather
Vintage 1930s American Screens and Room Dividers
Wood, Paint
Antique 18th Century French Screens and Room Dividers
Paint
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Finding the Right Screens-room-dividers for You
Whether they are implemented as decorative accents or makeshift partitions to ensure privacy, antique and vintage folding screens and room dividers easily introduce sophistication and depth to any space in your home.
The earliest examples of folding screens are said to have originated in China and go back at least as far as the Han dynasty. Screens of the era were heavy structures made of wood and had hinges of cloth or leather. They were adorned with elaborate landscape paintings that were typically created on silk or paper canvases and applied directly to the screen’s panels afterward. Just as they had been in the 20th century and today, the folding screens then were recognized for both their practical and purely decorative properties.
Japanese room-divider screens were also decorated with paintings but constructed to be lightweight and mobile. They took on considerable event-based importance when the structures gained popularity in the East Asian country, as the folding screens were used in performing arts such as concerts, tea ceremonies and more. Later, artists elsewhere warmed to folding screens and sought to create their own.
In European countries such as France, where they were known as paravent, folding screens began to materialize in apartments in Paris, gaining favor with the likes of pioneering couturier Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who is said to have accrued more than 30 and used them as a precursor to what we now know as wallpaper.
On 1stDibs, find a wide range of antique and vintage folding screens and room dividers, which, given their history, may do a better job of bringing people and cultures together in your home than sectioning off a space. Search by material to find options in metal, fabric or wood, or browse by style for mid-century modern designs and examples from the Art Deco era.
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