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Drexel Heritage French Provincial Lounge Chairs Louis XV Silk

$1,017Sale Price|25% Off

Drexel Heritage French Provincial Lounge Chairs Louis XV Silk

Located in Lake Worth, FL

Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A Pair of Vintage French Louis XV Style Lounge Chairs by Drexel Heritage Zippered cushions are silk.

Category

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Small Black Leather Top One Drawer Cabriole Carved Leg Chestnut Desk Console

By Heritage-Henredon, Baker Furniture Company, Globe Furniture, Drexel

Located in Rockaway, NJ

Small Black Leather Top One Drawer Cabriole Carved Leg Chestnut Desk Console Writing Table MINT!

Category

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A gorgeous pair of French Provincial Louis XV style bedside tables By John Widdicomb USA, 1950s Pink lacquered cherry wood, with original brass hardware. Measures: 24"W x 16.5"D ...

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Drexel French For Sale on 1stDibs

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more in our collection of drexel french on 1stDibs. Was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, walnut and brass. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect piece of drexel french — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. Each item from our selection of drexel french bearing Louis XV, Hollywood Regency or Empire hallmarks is very popular. A well-made choice in our collection of drexel french has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Drexel and Heritage Furniture are consistently popular.

How Much is a Drexel French?

The average selling price for a piece of drexel french at 1stDibs is $1,795, while they’re typically $750 on the low end and $3,400 for the highest priced.

Drexel for sale on 1stDibs

While vintage Drexel Furniture dining tables, dressers and other pieces remain highly desirable for enthusiasts of mid-century modern design, the manufacturer's story actually begins decades before its celebrated postwar-era Declaration line took shape.

In 1903, in the small town of Drexel in the foothills of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, six partners came together to found a company that would become one of the country’s leading furniture producers. The first offerings from Drexel Furniture were simple: a bed, washstand and bureau all crafted from native oak wood, sold as a bedroom suite for $14.50.

One of Drexel’s early innovations was to employ staff designers, something the company initiated in the 1930s. This focus on design, which few other furniture companies were committing to at the time, allowed Drexel to respond to a variety of new and traditional tastes. This included making pieces inspired by historic European furniture, like the popular French Provincial–style Touraine bedroom and dining group that borrowed its curves from Louis XV-era furniture. Others replicated the ornate details of 18th-century chinoiserie or the embellishments of Queen Anne furniture. Always ready to adapt to new customer demands, during World War II, Drexel built a sturdy desk designed especially for General Douglas MacArthur.

In the postwar era, Drexel embraced the clean lines of mid-century modernism with the Declaration collection designed by Stewart MacDougall and Kipp Stewart that featured elegant credenzas and more made in walnut, and the Profile and Projection collections designed with sculptural shapes by John Van Koert. In the 1970s, Drexel introduced high-end furniture in a Mediterranean style.

Drexel changed hands and visions throughout the years. It was managed by one of the original partners — Samuel Huffman — until 1935, at which time his son Robert O. Huffman took over as president. It was then that the company began to expand, with several acquisitions of competitors in the 1950s, including Table Rock Furniture, the Heritage Furniture Co. and more.

With the manufacturer’s success — spurred by its embrace of advertising in home and garden magazines — it opened more factories in both North and South Carolina. By 1957, the company that had started with a factory of 50 workers had 2,300 employees and was selling its furniture nationwide.

Drexel underwent a series of name changes in its long history. Its acquisition of Southern Desk Company in 1960 bolstered its production of institutional furniture for dormitories, classrooms, churches and laboratories.

In the following decades, contracts with government agencies, hotels, schools and hospitals brought its high-quality furniture to a global audience. U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers bought Drexel Enterprises in 1968, and it became Drexel Heritage Furnishings.

In 2014, the last Drexel Heritage plant, in Morganton, North Carolina, closed its doors. The company rebranded as Drexel in 2017.

The vintage Drexel furniture for sale on 1stDibs includes end tables designed by Edward Wormley, walnut side tables designed by Kipp Stewart and lots more.