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1960s Bauhaus Style Tubular Steel Boucle Rocking Chair, Marcel Breuer Attributed
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Waxahachie, TX
Striking and sculptural, this vintage tubular steel rocking lounge chair has been newly reupholstered in a rich ivory bouclé, giving the piece a soft, modern texture while preserving...
Steel
Midcentury Scrolled Chrome and Cane Rocking Chair in the Manner of Marcel Breuer
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One SOLD & Only one in stock! An awesome chrome scrolled rocker, giving a Classic a fresh modern look. It features a sturdy chrome tubular frame with wood framed caning seat and ba...
Chrome
Breuer Rocking-Chair
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Paris, FR
Rocking-chair by Marcel Breuer, 1980.
Metal
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H 38.5 in W 19.5 in D 41 in
Scrolled Chrome and Cane Rocking Chair in the Manner of Marcel Breuer
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An awesome chrome scrolled rocker, giving a classic a fresh modern look. It features a sturdy chrome tubular frame with wood framed caning seat and back rest.
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H 42 in W 29.5 in D 36 in
Mid-Century Modern Wassily Style Leather Strap and Chrome Rocking Chair
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This Italian mid-century rocking chair features wide leather straps framed on a sleek chrome frame. With a unique high back design and wide rocker base, this comfortable and sturdy v...
Chrome
Vintage Marcel Breuer Style Rocking Chair
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Crowborough, East Sussex
Vintage Marcel Breuer style scrolled rocking chair. A chrome tubular frame with a black wooden frame and a caned seat and backrest.
Chrome
Vintage Marcel Breuer Style Rocking Chair
Located in Crowborough, East Sussex
Vintage Marcel Breuer style scrolled rocking chair. A chrome tubular scrolled frame with a black wooden frame and a caned seat and backrest.
Chrome
The phrase “rocking chair” didn’t find its way into the dictionary until the mid-18th century. While most of the sitting furniture that we use in our homes originated in either England or France, the iconic rocking chair is a quintessentially American piece of furniture.
A Philadelphia cabinetmaker’s bill for a proto-rocking chair issued in 1742, which identified the seat as a “Nurse Chair with rockers,” is the earliest surviving evidence of this design’s humble beginnings. The nurse chair was a low side chair intended for nursing women, so giving it a soothing rocking motion made sense. Rocking chairs, which saw a curved slat affixed to the chairs’ feet so that they could be literally rocked, quickly gained popularity across the United States, garnering a reputation as a seat that everyone could love. They offered casual comfort without the expensive fabrics and upholstery that put armchairs out of many families’ budgets.
Rocking chairs are unique in that they don’t just offer a place to rest — they offer an opportunity to reminisce. The presence of one of these classic pieces stirs up our penchant for nostalgia and has the power to transform a space. They easily introduce a simple country feel to the city or bring the peaceful rhythm of a porch swing into a sheltered sunroom. Although craftsmen took to painting and stenciling varieties of the chairs that emerged in New England during the 19th century, the most traditional rocking chairs are generally unadorned seats constructed with time-tested materials like wood and metal. As such, a minimalist vintage rocking chair can be ushered into any corner of your home without significantly disrupting your existing decor scheme or the room’s color palette.
In the decades since the first rocker, top designers have made the piece their own. Viennese chair maker Michael Thonet produced a series of rockers in the middle of the 19th century in which the different curved steam-bent wood parts were integrated into fluid, sinuous wholes. Mid-century modernists Charles and Ray Eames added wooden rockers to their famous plastic shell armchair, while Danish designer Frank Reenskaug opted for teak and polished beech, introducing pops of color with small cushions (a precursor to the bold works that would follow in the 1970s and 1980s).
No matter your personal style, let 1stDibs pair you with your perfect seat. Deck out your porch, patio or parlor — browse the vintage, new and antique rocking chairs in our vast collection today.
A rocking chair helps soothe infants, children, and adults alike. The rocking and swaying movement helps create a meditative and lethargic state.
A wooden rocking chair can be cleaned using a sponge, soap, and water. After, you should proceed to pat the rocking chair down with a cloth.
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