Ulf Rollof, Sculpture "Heated Chair", 1993
By Ulf Rollof
Located in Stockholm, SE
Sculpture "Heated chair" 1993, mixed media. By Ulf Rollof b. 1961, Sweden. Chair with heating
1990s Swedish Post-Modern Chairs
Metal
Ulf Rollof, Sculpture "Heated Chair", 1993
By Ulf Rollof
Located in Stockholm, SE
Sculpture "Heated chair" 1993, mixed media. By Ulf Rollof b. 1961, Sweden. Chair with heating
Metal
$6,800Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 38.5 in W 29 in D 38 in
Rare Pair Jean Gillon Rosewood Leather Lounge Chair Ottoman Probel Brazilian
By Jean Gillon
Located in Pemberton, NJ
light wear to the seats-see photos. Both chairs have some wires underneath which might be for heated
Leather, Rosewood
Heated Indoor/Outdoor Cast Stone Evia Chair, Custom Frame, Ocean
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Inspired by a leather sling chair, the Evia Chair is an elegant piece of heated furniture made of
Cast Stone, Stainless Steel
Heated Indoor/Outdoor Cast Stone Evia Chair, Custom Frame, Bone
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Inspired by a leather sling chair, the Evia chair is an elegant piece of heated furniture made of
Cast Stone, Stainless Steel
Heated Indoor/Outdoor Cast Stone Evia Chair, Custom Frame, Orange
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Inspired by a leather sling chair, the Evia Chair is an elegant piece of heated furniture made of
Cast Stone, Stainless Steel
Unavailable
H 30 in W 31 in D 29 in
Heated Indoor/Outdoor Cast Stone Evia Chair, Custom Frame, Charcoal
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Inspired by a leather sling chair, the Evia Chair is an elegant piece of heated furniture made of
Cast Stone, Stainless Steel
Unavailable
H 30 in W 31 in D 29 in
Heated Indoor/Outdoor Cast Stone Evia Chair, Custom Frame, Arctic White
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Inspired by a leather sling chair, the Evia chair is an elegant piece of heated furniture made of
Cast Stone, Stainless Steel
Unavailable
H 28 in W 46 in D 35 in
Heated Indoor/Outdoor Cast Stone Helios Love Chair, Custom Frame, Orange
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Built for one but big enough for two, the Helios Love chair is a revolutionary piece of heated
Cast Stone
Unavailable
H 28 in W 46 in D 35 in
Heated Indoor/Outdoor Cast Stone Helios Love Chair, Custom Frame, Orange
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Built for one but big enough for two, the Helios Love Chair is a revolutionary piece of heated
Cast Stone
Unavailable
H 28 in W 46 in D 35 in
Heated Indoor/Outdoor Cast Stone Helios Love Chair, Custom Frame, Ocean
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Built for one but big enough for two, the Helios love chair is a revolutionary piece of heated
Cast Stone
Unavailable
H 28 in W 46 in D 35 in
Heated Indoor/Outdoor Cast Stone Helios Love Chair, Custom Frame, Ocean
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Built for one but big enough for two, the Helios love chair is a revolutionary piece of heated
Cast Stone
Unavailable
H 28 in W 46 in D 35 in
Heated Indoor/Outdoor Cast Stone Helios Love Chair, Custom Frame, Charcoal
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Built for one but big enough for two, the Helios love chair is a revolutionary piece of heated
Cast Stone
Unavailable
H 28 in W 46 in D 35 in
Heated Indoor/Outdoor Cast Stone Helios Love Chair, Custom Frame, Charcoal
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Built for one but big enough for two, the Helios love chair is a revolutionary piece of heated
Cast Stone
Unavailable
H 27.25 in W 36.25 in D 29.5 in
Heated Indoor/Outdoor Cast Stone Kosmos Chair with Custom Frame, Charcoal
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
The Kosmos is the newest and lightest piece of heated furniture made of cast stone and stainless
Cast Stone
Unavailable
H 28 in W 46 in D 35 in
Heated Indoor/Outdoor Cast Stone Helios Love Chair, Custom Frame, Arctic White
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Built for one but big enough for two, the Helios Love Chair is a revolutionary piece of heated
Cast Stone
Unavailable
H 28 in W 46 in D 35 in
Heated Indoor/Outdoor Cast Stone Helios Love Chair, Custom Frame, Arctic White
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Built for one but big enough for two, the Helios Love chair is a revolutionary piece of heated
Cast Stone
Unavailable
H 28 in W 46 in D 35 in
Galanter and Jones Heated Cast Stone Helios Love Chair, Custom Frame, Bone
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Built for one but big enough for two, the Helios love chair is a revolutionary piece of heated
Cast Stone
Unavailable
H 28 in W 46 in D 35 in
Galanter and Jones Heated Cast Stone Helios Love Chair, Custom Frame, Bone
By Galanter and Jones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Built for one but big enough for two, the Helios love chair is a revolutionary piece of heated
Cast Stone
Svago SV 395 Zero Gravity Recliner Heated Vibrating Massage
Located in Chattanooga, TN
-Gravity Recliner, a chair designed to offer not just comfort but restorative luxury. Upright, the piece
Faux Leather
Sold
H 47.5 in W 30.75 in D 43.3 in
Pair of Svago SV 395 Zero Gravity Recliners Heated Vibrating Massage
Located in Chattanooga, TN
-Gravity Recliner, a chair designed to offer not just comfort but restorative luxury. Upright, the piece
Leather
Moderne-Style Bent Bamboo Lounge Chair
Located in New York, NY
Modern style lounge chair made from heated and bent bamboo
$19,150
H 29.53 in W 133.86 in D 125.99 in
On the Rocks Sofa by Francesco Binfaré for Edra, Italy, 2004
By Francesco Binfaré, Edra
Located in Antwerp, BE
Designed by Francesco Binfaré for Edra in 2004, On the Rocks is a bold, sculptural sectional sofa made up of three seating elements and one large, freely positioned backrest. With no...
Fabric
Pierre Paulin, Lounge Chair, Metal, Leather, Netherlands, 1960s
By Pierre Paulin
Located in High Point, NC
A brown leather and metal "F-444" lounge chair designed by Pierre Paulin and produced by Artifort, Netherlands, c. 1960s. Overall Dimensions (inches): 37.8” H x 32.75” W x 29.5” D ...
Metal
Bench Line in Solid Cedar Wood
Located in Paris, FR
Bench line in natural solid cedar wood. Wood treated with natural pine extracts wax. Solid cedar wood include movement, cracks and changes in wood conditions, this is the essential...
Wood, Cedar
Industrial Glass & Brass Gas Lamp Pendant, Italy, 21st century
Located in Culver City, CA
Industrial Glass and Brass Gas Lamp Pendant, Italy, 21st century In the style of an industrial gas lamp pendant, converted to electric.
Brass
Willy Guhl Dog House, 1960s Switzerland
By Willy Guhl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amazing industrial cement dog kennel by Swiss designer Willy Guhl for Eternit. Large size with dark, heavy patina and lichen. Doggy door opening on left front side. A beautiful minim...
Cement
Aldo Tura Italian Brown Parchment Veneer Desk
By Aldo Tura
Located in Queens, NY
Italian 1940/1950s brown parchment veneer desk with brass trimmed edge and 4 drawers supported on 2 rectangular pedestals with a vanity panel. (ALDO TURA)
Brass
$5,448
H 20.08 in W 22.05 in D 15.75 in
Pierre Chareau SN3 Stool in Patinated Steel and Black Wood, 1980s Reissue
By Pierre Chareau
Located in PARIS, FR
SN3 stool designed by Pierre Chareau, originally conceived in the 1930s and reissued in France during the 1980s. This edition faithfully reproduces the original design, with a patina...
Metal
Danish 1940's Fritz Hansen Leather Sofa with New Sheepskin Seat
By Fritz Hansen
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Rare Danish club sofa produced in Denmark likely, circa late 1930s to early 1940's by Fritz Hansen of Denmark. Legs made from solid beech. Comfortable and super solid with nice and s...
Leather, Sheepskin, Beech
Pair of Hans Coray Landi Chairs
By Hans Coray
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Hans Coray Landi chairs.
Aluminum
Swedish Modern Armchairs, 1930s
By Axel Einar Hjorth
Located in Stockholm, SE
Rare pair of early 1930s Swedish pine armchairs. These chairs combine sculptural presence with refined materials — solid pine frames with rich grain and original olive-green velvet u...
Pine
19th Century French Louis XVI Limestone Fireplace Mantel
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Add a romantic and refined touch to your space with this exquisite Louis XVI period fireplace mantel in hand-carved limestone, originating from 19th century France. Offered by Scherm...
Stone, Limestone
$6,000
H 26 in W 80.5 in D 37 in
1960s PK-41 Rectangular Dining Table by Poul Kjaerholm for E. Kold Christensen
By Poul Kjærholm, E. Kold Christensen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is a PK-41 Rectangular Dining Table, designed by Poul Kjaerholm for E. Kold Christensen in 1964. This table dates to the 1960s. It features a top made of Oregon Pine and has fou...
Steel, Chrome
Hans Coray "Landi" Armchair
By Hans Coray
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hans Coray (1906-1991) for P&W Blattmann Melallwaren-Fabrik 'Landi' chair, Switzerland, 1939, in aluminum, 1st Edition Measures: Arm 21" H Seat 17" H.
Aluminum
$3,087
H 28.75 in W 29.14 in D 27.37 in
Vintage safari lounge armchair 'Natura' by Karin Mobring for Ikea - 1970s
Located in Linkebeek, BE
Vintage safari lounge armchair 'Natura' by Karin Mobring for Ikea Vintage - Seating - Safari Measures : 74cmx69,5cm SH:35,5cm Materials : Pine - Leather Wear consistent with age an...
Leather, Wood
Unavailable|$9,800
H 31 in W 63 in D 35 in
Midcentury French Faux Bois Concrete Confident or Tête-à-Tête Garden Bench
Located in Wichita, KS
A very rare faux bois concrete confident or tête-à-tête (conversation seat). This beautiful garden bench has the appearance of tree bark, found in the Provence region of France, c. 1...
Concrete
$26,635
H 25.6 in W 37.41 in D 80.71 in
De Sede DS80 Daybed Sofas in Cognac Tan Leather - Switzerland, 1970s
By De Sede
Located in Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland
Introducing this gorgeous center piece Cognac Brown DS80 patchwork sofas by De Sede. The arm and back supports made in lacquer wood can be moved to left to right and back and front f...
Leather, Wood
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
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.
With respect to the latest obsessions in design, cane seating has been cropping up everywhere, from sleek armchairs to lounge chairs, while bouclé fabric, a staple of modern furniture design, can be seen in mid-century modern, Scandinavian modern and Hollywood Regency furniture styles.
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.
No matter your style, the collection of unique chairs, sofas and other seating on 1stDibs is surely worthy of a standing ovation.