Metal Folding Screen Room Divider
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Metal, Iron, Gold Leaf
2010s American Screens and Room Dividers
Steel
20th Century Indian Hollywood Regency Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Late 20th Century Chinese Neoclassical Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Late 20th Century Unknown Chesterfield Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
20th Century Unknown Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Glass
20th Century Unknown Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Glass
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Early 2000s American Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
2010s Italian Screens and Room Dividers
Metal, Brass, Iron
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Canvas, Wood
Mid-20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
20th Century American Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
2010s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Aluminum
20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Chrome
20th Century American Rustic Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
2010s Italian Screens and Room Dividers
Gold Plate, Metal
Vintage 1930s American Screens and Room Dividers
Rattan
Late 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Brass, Metal
Vintage 1980s Italian Space Age Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
2010s Portuguese Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Early 20th Century French Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Metal, Gold Leaf
1990s Wardrobes and Armoires
Cord, Braid
Mid-20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Screens and Room Dividers
Brass, Gold Leaf
Late 20th Century Japanese Screens and Room Dividers
Paper
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror
2010s Turkish Modern Painted Furniture
Wood, Paint
2010s Belgian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble, Metal
2010s Italian Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Vintage 1960s European Scandinavian Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Wicker, Straw, Rope
2010s Italian Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Vintage 1950s American Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Vintage 1980s European Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
2010s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Wood, Mirror
2010s Italian Screens and Room Dividers
Metal, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Copper
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Gold Leaf
Mid-20th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
2010s Italian Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency More Mirrors
Metal
Late 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Pine
Vintage 1940s Spanish Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary American Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary European Brutalist Screens and Room Dividers
Cut Steel
Vintage 1980s Asian Chinoiserie Paintings and Screens
Hardwood
1990s American Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Vintage 1950s French Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Wood, Pine
Vintage 1950s Italian Screens and Room Dividers
Mid-20th Century French Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Vintage 1970s Belgian Space Age Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Mid-20th Century English Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Vintage 1930s French Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Vintage 1980s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Brass
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Metal Folding Screen Room Divider For Sale on 1stDibs
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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