Ornate Antique Louis Style 3-Piece Metal Fire Insert
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
Perfect for completing a fireplace with a flourish of prestige, this late 19th/early 20th century antique fire insert exudes grandeur and opulence.
Brass, Steel, Iron
Louis XV Style Hand-Carved Onyx Mantel with Cast Iron Insert, 1880
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Louis XV style mantel in onyx This fireplace is sold with its original cast iron insert and with its marble floor.
Onyx
Thomas Jeckyll, Aesthetic Movement Fire Insert, Made by Barnard Bishop & Barnard
By Thomas Jeckyll, Barnard Bishop & Barnard
Located in London, GB
Thomas Jeckyll. An Aesthetic Movement cast iron fire insert with stylized flower details. Made by Barnard Bishop and Barnard of Norwich. This insert takes ten standard 6 inch squar...
Iron
Arts & Crafts Copper Fire Insert with Hand Crafted Stylized Floral Decoration
Located in London, GB
A period English Arts & Crafts copper fire insert with handcrafted stylized floral decoration and hand riveted details throughout. Internal measurements: Height, 27inches Width,...
Copper
Pair of Anglo-Japanese Cast Iron Fire Inserts by T Jeckyll
By Thomas Jeckyll
Located in London, GB
An Anglo-Japanese cast iron fire insert which shows strong design similarities between Thomas Jeckyll's work for BBB and E W Godwin for S S and Shorland Manchester under the cape of ...
Iron
T. Elsley attri. Aesthetic Movement brass fire insert w. upper central peacock
By Thomas Elsley
Located in London, GB
Thomas Elsley attributed. A rare Aesthetic Movement brass fire insert with an upper central peacock and Japanese basket weave decoration around it. Each side is designed to display t...
Brass
Copper Fire Insert with a Figural Sculpted Roundel, Attributed to Alfred Stevens
By Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
Located in London, GB
Alfred Stevens (attributed) probably for Hoole and Co., a copper fire insert with a figural sculpted roundel. See Sotheby's with Paul Reeves 'The Best of British design from the 19...
Copper
Aesthetic Movement Cast Iron Tiled Fire Insert with Hand Painted Sailing Scenes
By Thomas Jeckyll
Located in London, GB
An Aesthetic Movement decorative cast iron fire insert and grate in the style of Thomas Jeckyll, with sunflower and stylised foliage decoration to the cast iron hood with two hand pa...
Iron
Pair of Aesthetic Movement Cast Fire Inserts with Mintons Aesop's Fables Tiles
By John Moyr Smith, Thomas Jeckyll, Minton
Located in London, GB
Thomas Jeckyll in the style of. A rare pair of Aesthetic Movement cast iron fire inserts, each with twelve Minton tiles, printed in blue and white with comical designs by John Moyr...
Iron
Louis XV Oak Fireplace with Hand-Carved Mirror, France, 1880
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Same style and with the same sculpture as mantel N°510, although they are not a real pair. This fireplace is sold without any insert or hearth.
Oak
Bicolor Vintage Fireplace Surround Timeless Design Lines Natural Beauty & Patina
Located in Beervelde, BE
Whether placed around a working fireplace, an electric insert, or as a decorative mantelpiece, this mantelpiece exudes functional architecture and art—a true centerpiece for a living...
Stone
Antique Fireplace Mantel of Rouge Royal marble, 18th century, Louis XVI
Located in Made, NL
Use: Decorative mantel or working fireplace (with suitable insert/flue solution).
Marble
French Fireplace Surround In Bleu Beaujolais Region Stone For Timeless Decor
Located in Beervelde, BE
This French reclaimed architectural element works with a square firebox or insert. Elegant antique fireplace sold by Maison Leon Van den Bogaert Antique Fireplaces and architectural ...
Stone
Antique 19th C Wrought Iron Fireplace Grate
Located in New York, NY
Exceptional wrought iron fireplace grate, log holder, insert. This example is in very good, original clean and ready to use condition, one knob finial has been reattached with metal ...
Wrought Iron
Louis XVI Style Paneling with Louis XVI Period Mantel and Trumeau
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
The mantel is sold without the sides that are modern or any fireplace insert but with its marble floor.
Wood
Grand Victorian Neo Gothic Register Grate, Circa 1850
Located in London, GB
A Grand Victorian Neo Gothic fireplace register grate insert, with beautifully decorated grate and a peaked arch and gothic decoration around the opening, English Circa 1850.
Iron
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Grand Baroque Composition Made in Naples in the Mid-17th Century
Located in Budapest, HU
It could be inserted above a fireplace as in use by the family that inherited it.
Wood
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.
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