Room Divider with Aubusson Tapestries Featuring Birds and Floral Motifs
Located in Antwerp, BE
Four Panel Room Divider Screen with Aubusson Carpets - 20th Century A beautiful four panel room divider decorated with fine Aubusson carpets depicting a lush Italian landscape. This...
Copper
Antique French Needlepoint Firescreen Louis XVI Style Gilt Wood Fireplace Screen
Located in North Hollywood, CA
A beautiful antique French Louis XVI style firescreen featuring an elegant hand-stitched needlepoint tapestry set within a painted and gilt carved wood frame.
Gold Leaf
Louis XV Style Fire Screen In Gilded Wood
Located in BARSAC, FR
Richly carved gilt wood fire screen in the Louis XV rocaille style featuring a superb polychrome tapestry enhanced with pearls decorated with an animated scene (confidences of a "for...
Tapestry, Wood
French Provincial 19th Century Screen 4 Fold
Located in palm beach, FL
Four-leaf wooden screen. Oil on canvas represents a French countryside scene in the 19th century. Magnificent cloudy blue sky and green landscape, traditional house, animals, and a f...
Wood, Paint
Antique French empire fireplace screen, late 19 century
Located in Marinha Grande, PT
Antique French empire fireplace screen, made of wood, faux bamboo, second Empire period, France, 2nd half of the 19th century It is in empire black color with touches of gold on the ...
Brass
19th Century French Victorian Gilt Faux Bamboo Fire Screen
Located in Queens, NY
French Victorian gilt faux bamboo fire screen with needlepoint panel.
Gold Leaf
French 18th Century Louis XVI Style Carved and Painted Screen
Located in Atlanta, GA
Made in France in the eighteenth century, this large paneled screen is made of carved wood in the Louis XVI style and retains its original paint and original mercury glass.
Mirror, Wood
Mid-Century French Louis XV Style Wrought Iron Fireplace Screen
Located in Dallas, TX
Sculptural ironwork and richly carved details give this vintage French fireplace screen an elegant decorative presence.
Wrought Iron
Early 20th century French Louis XV Style Painting Fire Screen, 1900s
Located in LEGNY, FR
Elegant Louis XV-style firescreen dating from the early 20th century, featuring a beautifully hand-painted oil scene depicting a couple in period costume within a charming winter set...
Wood, Paint
$6,985Sale Price|62% Off
French 19th Century Louis XV & Vernis Martin Style Giltwood Fireplace Screen
By Vernis Martin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very Fine and rare French 19th century Louis XV style giltwood carved Vernis Martin Stylefl fireplace screen. The rectangular carved giltwood panel surmounted with four circular oi...
Wood, Giltwood
Louis XV Period Fireplace Screen in Dore Wood and Tapestry 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Louis XV Period fireplace screen in dore wood and tapestry French work, 18th century carved and gilded wooden fireplace screen from the Louis XV period, with original pointed tapest...
Wool
French 18th Century Louis XV Small Marquetry Side Table with Silk Screen
Located in Berlin, DE
French 18th century Louis XV small Marquetry side table, a so-called "Table Chiffonière" with removable Silk Screen A rectangular body with canted corners on cabriole legs holding t...
Bronze
Antique French Louis XVI XV Style Carved Giltwood Green Oval Fireplace Screen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique French Louis XVI / XV Style Carved Giltwood Green Oval Fireplace Screen with Tapestry. Item features beautiful carved floral accents, carved pedestal base, very nice antique ...
Wood
Splendid Louis Midavaine Screen, 1888-1978
By Louis Midavaine
Located in Renens, CH
Splendid Louis Midavaine screen, circa 1925, with 3 articulated leaves in lacquered wood and lacquered wood decorated with a Bengal tiger leaping from an overturned coconut tree. The...
Wood
$63,758 / item
Écho Bois Déchiré Sculptural Screen by Meubles Thouret
Located in Geneve, CH
Fine wood veneers are suspended within a block of pure, light-catching resin, making the dense timber of the Jura forests appear as a weightless, translucent screen.
Resin, Wood
Double-Sided Folding Screen / Room Divider by Maison Lacroix for Roche Bobois
By Roche Bobois, Christian Lacroix
Located in Roma, IT
Double sided scree with hinges and edges in polished stainless stees with brass finish. A striking double-sided folding screen designed by Christian Lacroix for Roche Bobois, combin...
Metal
Serge Damon, Mid-Century Folding Screen, Gilt and Lacquered Wood, France, 1950
By Serge Damon
Located in New York, NY
This extraordinary folding screen depicts four musicians holding, from left to right, a drum, a tambourine, a lute, and a pipe. The four stand before a structure in the background, a...
Wood
Superbly Carved Fire Screen by Francois Linke
Located in New York, NY
This painted-and-gilded fire screen in the Louis XVI style was made by Francois Linke (1855 - 1946), the greatest maker of furniture in Belle Epoque Paris. While not signed, the cabb...
Wood
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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