With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the carved marble fireplace you’re looking for. Each carved marble fireplace for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using
stone,
marble and
statuary marble. If you’re shopping for a carved marble fireplace, we have 1052 options in-stock, while there are 112 modern editions to choose from as well. Your living room may not be complete without a carved marble fireplace — find older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. When you’re browsing for the right carved marble fireplace, those designed in
Louis XVI,
Regency and
Louis XV styles are of considerable interest.
Chesney's,
Ryan & Smith Ltd. and
Edwin Lutyens each produced at least one beautiful carved marble fireplace that is worth considering.
Prices for a carved marble fireplace can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $920 and can go as high as $609,747, while the average can fetch as much as $16,569.
While we likely wouldn’t mourn the invention of home heating and air-conditioning, these innovations did tragically reduce the widespread need for fireplaces and mantels in our living rooms.
Once an essential fixture in all homes, the fireplace, which, along with the chimney, is as old as the Middle Ages, was actually rendered redundant with the advent of the cast-iron heating stove during the 18th century. Victorian-era heating stoves were popular in the common areas of a living space for their capacity to heat as well as for their lack of smoke compared to fireplaces. However, improvements in craftsmanship as well as the Industrial Revolution meant that fireplaces were evolving in form and functionality.
Even as HVAC systems would eventually see to it that fireplaces weren’t a necessity, no mechanically engineered thermal heating and ventilation technology can replicate the feeling of warmth and camaraderie that a flickering fire guarantees. We just love a good fireplace.
“With antique fireplaces, you get heart, soul, character and architecture,” says Tony Ingrao, a Manhattan-based interior designer who purchased an important 16th-century French limestone fireplace for a client’s Greenwich Village townhouse.
Vintage fireplaces and mantels have earned their coveted position as desirable focal points in any room over the course of a staggering evolution in design that has yielded everything from intricately carved works of limestone to sleek works of wood paneling and rolled steel.
As log after log turns into ash, these iconic designs prove their timelessness and value, monetarily and as prized decorative monuments. Whether you seek to simply warm a space or completely transform it, an eye-catching new mantel for your blazing hearth — be it an elegant neoclassical design, a marvelous work of marble in the Louis XV style or an unconventional contemporary variation — is the perfect solution.
Find a collection of antique and vintage fireplaces and mantels on 1stDibs today.