Susan Osbourne London Library Chair, Regency Tradition
Located in London, GB
With a gently shaped back and deep, comfortable seat, this established design from our current production, the ‘London Library Armchair’ by Susan Osbourne draws its inspiration from ...
Burlap, Cotton, Calico, Upholstery, Hardwood, Beech, Walnut
Pair of 19th Century Mahogany French Regency Library Chairs
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Pair of 19th Century Mahogany French Regence Library Chairs with Lyre back and gilded accents. gorgeous shape.
Mahogany
French Louis XVI style, Bergere Library chair.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive and stylish French Mahogany Bergere, Library arm chair in the Louis XVI style.
Leather, Mahogany
Pair of Country French Provincial Carved Walnut Armchair Library Chairs
Located in Oakwood, GA
Pair of Country French Provincial Carved Walnut Armchair Library Chairs, 43"H Beautiful Pair of Chairs Armchairs Country French Provincial Carved Walnut Frame Nice wide seats Lovely...
Fabric, Wood
Napoleon III Library Chair, C. 1860
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A handsome French Napoleon III library chair with a substantial, comfortably proportioned form, raised on turned ebonized feet.
Upholstery, Wood
William IV Mahogany Library Chair
Located in Bridgeport, CT
With good weight and quite comfortable and the frame with fine age patina and French polish. The Library Chair measures 19.5” wide by 22.25” deep by 34.75” high.
Brass
Pair of French Leather, Cane and Suede Library Bergère Chairs
Located in Dallas, TX
Quite an attractive pair of 19th century French Louis XVI style barrel back neoclassical armchairs. The carved frames with rich wood tone is complementary to the worn tacked pinkish ...
Leather, Suede, Cane, Wood
Vintage French Louis XVI style Walnut Bergère Wingback Library Reading Chair
Located in Dayton, OH
This classic Louis XVI style wingback bergère is crafted from solid walnut, showcasing a beautifully carved exposed wooden frame with a weathered, natural finish that highlights the ...
Fabric, Walnut
Grafton Furniture French Art Deco Black Leather & Gold Library Club Lounge Chair
Located in Dayton, OH
Late 20th Century / Early 21st Club chair by Grafton Furniture. Features a French Art Deco inspired frame with curved back and scrolled arms. The chair is finished in gold with black...
Leather, Hardwood
French Carved Gilt Wood Green Gold Stripes Bergere Library Chairs, Set of 2
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
On offer on this occasion is one of the most stunning, carved wood chairs set you could hope to find. Outstanding design is exhibited throughout. The beautiful chairs set is statemen...
Upholstery, Wood
$2,133Sale Price|20% Off
Art Deco Style Leather Club or Library Chair, 1940s
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Stunning and rare Art Deco Style club or library chair. Striking French design from the 1940s.
Leather, Beech
Pierre Jeanneret Mid-Century Library Dining Chairs '4'
Located in London, GB
A set of four 'Library' dining chairs. Pierre Jeanneret, India, c1960s. Scarce and collectable. Formed in teak and cane. In good vintage condition, this design remain...
Wood
A Pair of 19th Century French Napoleon III Armchairs
Located in New York, NY
A refined pair of 19th century French library chairs in the Napoleon III taste, distinguished by their elegant proportions and classic turned legs.
Fabric, Silk, Hardwood
Empire Style Mahogany Library Tub Fauteuil de Bureau or Desk Chair
Located in Nashville, TN
Of generous proportions and presence . The front mounted with well cast bronze mounts (of some size and weight ). The top with French interpretations of the Greek Caryatids (very att...
Wood
$1,324Sale Price|20% Off
French Mahogany & leather Library chair Circa 1820s
Located in Dereham, GB
French Restoration Period Mahogany & leather Library chair Circa 1820s French Restauration Period 1815-1830s Mahogany Frame Open elbows with pair Carved Scroll Supports Shaped Scr...
Leather, Mahogany
Pair of French Napoleon III Library Chairs, C. 1860
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An elegant pair of French Napoleon III library chairs featuring gracefully raked backs, generous scrolled arms, and finely turned ebonized feet.
Fabric, Upholstery, Wood
Pair of French Arts and Crafts Gothic Walnut Library Chairs
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
A Pair of French arts and crafts gothic walnut library chairs These beautiful chairs date from around 1880, recently upholsterd, the fabric has been especially designed and chose...
Walnut
Early 20th Century German French Metamorphic Library Steps Farmhouse Chair 1900s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This is a Pine Metamorphic chair, it can be used either as a normal chair or when the top is flipped over it transforms into a step ladder. This is a country piece from Nuremberg Ge...
Wood
Louis XIII Style Walnut Leather Library Chair or Throne Chair
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Imposing 19th century French Louis XIII style library chair or throne chair crafted from walnut.
Brass
Vintage Louis XVI Style Fauteuil Library Arm Chair French Provincial Polka Dot
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in Dayton, OH
Vintage Louis XVI style occasional or desk chair, circa 1960s. Features a flared back leading to open padded and scrolled arms. The arms are downswept along the front leading to flut...
Upholstery, Hardwood
ViNTAGE NAPOLEON HARDWOOD & BRASS INLAID LIBRARY DESK & CAPTAINS OFFICE CHAIR
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely vintage Rosewood with Brass inlay Library Writing Desk with matching Captains chair with Napoleo...
Brass
French Gothic Armchairs, Walnut, Carved Faces, Silk Upholstery, 1870
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Large French Gothic Library Throne Chairs This beautiful pair of wide carved chairs each have a different carved face in the back rail, acanthus leaf carved arm rests and a sturdy ...
Walnut
A mid 19th.c. French library chair
Located in New York, NY
CON23915 A mid 19th.c. French library chair in the Louis XII style. The solid walnut frame is lathe turned and finished by hand .
Upholstery, Velvet
Unavailable
H 45.3 in W 31.5 in D 28.7 in
19th Century French Leather Library Chair with Primitive Carved Detailing
Located in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
Chair tactics: Handsome late 19th century French library chair.
Leather
Pair of French Library Armchairs
Located in Nashville, TN
Early 18th century style French armchairs.
Unavailable
H 37 in W 29 in D 32 in
Large French Walnut Louis XV Style Bergere Library Armchair, circa 1880
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
This is a beautifully proportioned and very comfortable large French late 19th century walnut Louis XV style bergere library armchair, circa 1880.
Fabric, Walnut
Napoleon III Library Chair
Located in New York, NY
Napoleon III library chair, circa 1890. Newly upholstered in smoke velvet with grosgrain button tufted detail.
Velvet
Pair of French Empire Style Mahogany Library Chairs
Located in Detling, GB
French, circa 1850. This stunning pair of chairs are in showroom condition. Reeded along the top over a beautiful flame mahogany panel and reeded scroll arm rests. Recently uphols...
Leather, Mahogany
French Library Chair with Decorative Stretcher
Located in Culver City, CA
Tall back library chair with simple form, decorative front stretcher.
Wood, Fabric
Pair of Antique French Carved Walnut Library Chairs
Located in Suffolk, GB
Fine pair of antique French carved walnut library chairs having outstanding shaped carved tops and arms with a shaped carved frieze.
Walnut
Antique French Country Made Metamorphic Chair / Library Steps
Located in Bristol, GB
Rustic wooden farmhouse adaptable occasional chair/steps A one-off handmade piece, rustic yet elegant. Ingeniously converts into a handy set of steps. In good vintage order with...
Wood
Pair of French Arts & Crafts Salon Library Chairs
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
A pair of French Arts & Crafts salon library chairs These beautiful chairs come with their original individual handwoven linen upholstery, they date back to circa 1880, and showi...
Walnut
Pair of 18th Century French Walnut Os de Mouton Library Chairs
Located in Doylestown, PA
A fine pair of French 18th Century Walnut Os de Mouton Library Chairs, c. 1770.
Walnut
Sold
H 36.5 in W 15 in D 16 in
French Artisan-Made Walnut Folding Ladder Chair Library Ladder, circa 1900
Located in Fayetteville, AR
Originally used by painters to work during the day, and sit upon for lunch, this piece of ingenious French design is a versatile ladder chair, functional as display shelves or as a l...
Walnut
French Leather Desk/Library/Corner Chair
Located in San Francisco, CA
High quality, handmade, solid walnut chair with beautifully aged and worn leather upholstery.
Walnut
French Brown Leather Library Chair With Brass Nailhead Trim
Located in Troy, MI
Handsome brown leather library chair with rolled arms, high curved setback, turned and carved wood legs and stretchers, brass nailhead trim. Seat is 19" high and 20.5 deep. Arms are ...
Brass
19th Century French Empire Library Armchair
By Jacob-Desmalter
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
Jacob-Desmalter, was founded in 1765 by Georges Jacob, who supplied carved furniture and chairs for Queen Marie Antoinette before the French Revolution.
Mahogany
Empire-Style Mahogany Library Chairs
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Unusual set of four French Empire-style mahogany library chairs. Vintage from the mid-20th century.
Early 20th c. French Library Club Chair c.1930-1940
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT Contact us for more shipping options: S16 Home San Francisco. Early 20th c. French sheep hide leather library club chair with riveted back and sides, wooden arms and feet an...
Sheepskin
Sold
H 30.32 in W 17.92 in D 18.9 in
Pierre Jeanneret ‘Library’ chair, model no. PJ-SI-51-A, France/India, 1956
By Pierre Jeanneret
Located in London, GB
Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967) is recognised as a pivotal figure in modernism. His collaborations with his cousin Le Corbusier are especially significant, particularly their codificati...
Wood
Pair of 19th Century Buttoned Leather Library Chairs
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pair of 19th century buttoned leather library chairs on cabriole legs.
Leather, Upholstery
French Art Deco Style Library Leather Club Chair with Nailhead Details
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
French deco-style library chair in distressed leather with nailhead detail.
Leather
Carved Walnut French Wingback Library Reading Chair by E J Victor
By E. J. Victor
Located in Lake Worth, FL
Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A Really Stunning Carved Walnut French Wingback Library Reading Chair by E J VICTOR Featuring detail car...
Cotton, Walnut
One Pair of French Deco Style Library Chairs with Nailhead Detail
Located in Buchanan, MI
One pair of handsome French deco-style library chairs in distressed leather with nailhead detail.
Leather
Sold
H 33.5 in W 28.5 in D 26.5 in
Vintage French Bergere White Washed Oak Library Club Arm Chair Botanical Fabric
Located in Dayton, OH
White washed oak bergere chair. Features a natural frame with scrolled and padded arms, botanical upholstered cushion and cabriole legs scalloped at the knees.
Upholstery, Oak
Antique 19th Century French Tapestry Library Armchair
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A fine quality mid-19th century French walnut library armchair having tapestry seat cover and elegant shaped arms raised on cabriole legs with unusual hoof feet united by wavy cro...
Walnut
Pair of 19th Century Leather Upholstered Library Chairs
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of 19th century mahogany library chairs, each upholstered in hand colored hide, brass studding. Turned mahogany armrests and raised on turned tapering feet.
Leather, Mahogany
Sold
H 40 in W 36.5 in D 40 in
Grafton Furniture French Art Deco Black Leather & Gold Library Club Lounge Chair
Located in Dayton, OH
Late 20th Century Club chair by Grafton Furniture. Features a French Art Deco inspired frame with curved back and scrolled arms. The chair is finished in gold with black leather upho...
Leather, Giltwood
Pair of French Leather Library Armchairs 'Priced Individually'
Located in Austin, TX
A handsome pair of French library lounge (or club) arm chairs upholstered in a beautiful patinated leather - each chair featuring a graceful high back, flared arms, a comfortable rem...
Leather, Upholstery, Wood
Sold
H 34 in W 24 in D 23.25 in
2 Vintage French Louis XVI Walnut & Red Leather Office Library Club Arm Chairs
Located in Dayton, OH
Pair of mid 20th century antique Louis XVI armchairs. Made of walnut featuring a square back leading to scrolled and fluted open arms. The apron of the chair features carved florets ...
Leather, Walnut
With entire areas of our homes reserved for “sitting rooms,” the value of quality antique and vintage seating cannot be overstated.
Fortunately, the design of side chairs, armchairs and other lounge furniture — since what were, quite literally, the early perches of our ancestors — has evolved considerably.
Among the earliest standard seating furniture were stools. Egyptian stools, for example, designed for one person with no seat back, were x-shaped and typically folded to be tucked away. These rudimentary chairs informed the design of Greek and Roman stools, all of which were a long way from Sori Yanagi's Butterfly stool or Alvar Aalto's Stool 60. In the 18th century and earlier, seats with backs and armrests were largely reserved for high nobility.
The seating of today is more inclusive but the style and placement of chairs can still make a statement. Antique desk chairs and armchairs designed in the style of Louis XV, which eventually included painted furniture and were often made of rare woods, feature prominently curved legs as well as Chinese themes and varied ornaments. Much like the thrones of fairy tales and the regency, elegant lounges crafted in the Louis XV style convey wealth and prestige. In the kitchen, the dining chair placed at the head of the table is typically reserved for the head of the household or a revered guest.
Of course, with luxurious vintage or antique furnishings, every chair can seem like the best seat in the house. Whether your preference is stretching out on a plush sofa, such as the Serpentine, designed by Vladimir Kagan, or cozying up in a vintage wingback chair, there is likely to be a comfy classic or contemporary gem for you on 1stDibs.
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Admirers of the sophisticated craftsmanship and dark woods frequently associated with mid-century modern seating can find timeless furnishings in our expansive collection of lounge chairs, dining chairs and other items — whether they’re vintage editions or alluring official reproductions of iconic designs from the likes of Hans Wegner or from Charles and Ray Eames. Shop our inventory of Egg chairs, designed in 1958 by Arne Jacobsen, the Florence Knoll lounge chair and more.
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