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
$1,882 / set
H 21.66 in W 24.02 in D 35.83 in
Pair of Italian Mid-Century-Modern Lounge Chairs in Ochre Boucle, 1970s Italy
Located in Zagreb, HR
Pair of Vintage Italian Mid-Century Modern lounge chairs or club chairs. Modules can be used as a modular sofa or modular seating set. Beautiful and unique shape. A 1970 design and p...
Bouclé, Foam, Wood
Sasco Semi-Flush Mount Brass Light Fixture, Custom Finishes
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
The Sasco is a versatile custom-made solid brass and glass globe light fixture, which can be mounted on the ceiling or wall. Shown here in our factory brass, an uneven unfinished br...
Brass
Pair of Modern Walnut Side Tables
By Theodore Alexander
Located in Westwood, NJ
A Pacific walnut side table, the square top with rounded corners and a reeded edge above a similar under tier, on bobbin turned legs. Dimensions: 26" W x 26" D x 28.5" H.
Wood
$6,500 / item
H 14 in W 36 in D 20 in
Modern Oval Coffee Table in Oak Wood Cylinder Base and Glass by Ercole Home
By Ercole Home
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Palazzo oval coffee table with green and ivory glass sits on 2 Rift White Oak Wood pedestals by Ercole Home. This new bespoke coffee table design by Ercole Home is available today fo...
Art Glass, Walnut, Cut Glass
Akari Model 1AG Light Sculpture by Isamu Noguchi
By Isamu Noguchi, Akari
Located in Glendale, CA
Akari model 1AG light sculpture by Isamu Noguchi. This table lamp has a shade made from handmade washi paper, ink and bamboo ribs with the original Noguchi Akari manufacturer's sta...
Metal
$1,650 / item
H 16.1 in Dm 11.5 in
'Plissé White Edition' Pleated Textile Table Lamp by Folkform for Örsjö
By Örsjö Industri AB
Located in Glendale, CA
'Plissé White Edition' pleated textile table lamp by Folkform for Örsjö. This unique table lamp was awarded “Lighting of the Year 2022” by Residence Magazine Sweden, who called it “...
Textile
Pair of 70s Style Italian Bamboo and Brass Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Monumental size Bamboo lamps. Crafted in Italy and made to order, these lamps are modern and chic. Production lead time 2-4 weeks. Base diameter 8 inches, hat diameter 20 inches, he...
Brass
Early Marco Zanuso Lady Chair, Italy, 1960s, New Pure Mohair
By Marco Zanuso
Located in Lewes, East Sussex
An early, authentic Marco Zanuso lady chair, Arflex, Italy, 1960s. Newly reupholstered in a luxurious, premium, burnt orange / rust coloured 100% mohair fabric. Brass feet with nat...
Brass
$2,692Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 9.45 in W 21.66 in D 21.66 in
Acerbis LOKUM S Coffee Table in Amber by Sabine Marcelis
By Sabine Marcelis, Acerbis
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Matter, light and colour come together in an intense interaction of materials. This collection embodies the elegance of pure forms, elevated through the use of hand-blown glass. Sabi...
Glass, Art Glass
$26,000
H 29.9 in W 39.4 in D 37.4 in
“Moleca” Lounge Chair with Ottoman in Rosewood & Leather, Sergio Rodrigues, 1963
By Sergio Rodrigues
Located in New York, NY
An exceptionally rare example of the Moleca lounge chair and ottoman, designed by Sergio Rodrigues in 1963 and produced exclusively that year. The model represents a pivotal moment ...
Leather, Hardwood, Wood
2 parts sofa in stainless steel by Studio Glustin
By Glustin Creation
Located in Saint-Ouen (PARIS), FR
2 parts sofa in stainless steel with seating upholstered with a fabric by Dédar. Creation by Studio Glustin. France, 2023.
Stainless Steel
$1,487Sale Price|20% Off
H 33.86 in W 31.5 in D 31.5 in
Mid-Century Brutalist Solid Pine Lounge Chair, Sweden, 1970s
Located in Hilversum, NL
Introduce a bold statement piece to your interior with this Mid-Century Brutalist lounge chair, crafted from solid pine in Sweden during the 1970s. The chair’s strong, geometric de...
Bouclé, Pine
Lounge Chair for Brazil Industries, Percival Lafer
By Percival Lafer
Located in LAGUNA BEACH, CA
Percival Lafer Lounge Chair for Brazil Industries circa 1970s Edelman Leather, Brazillian Rosewood 28 3/4 x 40 x 28 3/4 inches.
Leather, Rosewood
$3,600Sale Price|20% Off
H 27.5 in W 31 in D 32.5 in
Wonderful Percival Lafer "S-1" Leather Brazilian Rosewood Lounge Chair
By Percival Lafer
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Wonderful Percival Lafer rosewood and leather S-1 lounge chair. Lafer's S-1 design features Brazilian exoticness paired with Scandinavian sensibility. Of Lafer's designs, the S-1 i...
Leather, Rosewood
$12,300 / item
H 33.47 in W 37.41 in D 34.65 in
Lounge Chairs 'MP-81' by Percival Lafer, Brazil, 1970s
Located in Antwerp, BE
MP-81 lounge chairs by Percival Lafer, designed in the 1970s, exemplary pieces of Brazilian mid-century modern design. These chairs feature beautifully restored red leather paired wi...
Leather, Walnut
$9,500
H 35.5 in W 33 in D 35 in
Fabulous Brazilian Rosewood Jean Gillon Lounge Chair and Ottoman for Probel
By Jean Gillon
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Fabulous Brazilian rosewood Jean Gillon Lounge Chair and Ottoman for Probel. This set is in remarkable vintage condition-came from a million dollar mansion in Washington D.C. The cha...
Leather, Rosewood
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.