Monk Dining Chair

Monks Seat

1974 Leather

Artona Series

Pair Of Trestles

B B Italia Black Leather Chairs

1970s Walnut Chairs

Materials

Leather, Walnut

$13,500 / set

H 29.73 in W 20.28 in D 17.72 in

Afra & Tobia Scarpa "Monk" Chairs for Molteni, Ivory Canvas, 1974, Set of 6

By Molteni & C, Afra & Tobia Scarpa

Located in Lonigo, Veneto

Afra & Tobia Scarpa "Monk" dining chairs for Molteni, ivory canvas and walnut, Italy, 1974, set of

Category

Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chairs

Materials

Canvas, Walnut

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Rare Vintage Monk Dining Chairs by Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Italian Collectible

Unavailable

H 29.53 in W 20.48 in D 18.12 in

Rare Vintage Monk Dining Chairs by Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Italian Collectible

By Molteni & C, Afra & Tobia Scarpa

Located in Milan, IT

Offered for sale is a rare set of four "Monk" dining chairs, designer by Afra & Tobia Scarpa for

Category

Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Wood

H 74 in W 44 in D 52 in

Set of Four Afra & Tobia Scarpa "Monk" Chair

By Molteni & C, Afra & Tobia Scarpa

Located in Melbourne, VIC

Elegant "Monk" chair designed by Afra & Tobia Scarpa in 1974 & produced by Molteni. The frame is

Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs

Set of Four Afra & Tobia Scarpa "Monk" Chairs

Sold

H 29.14 in W 17.33 in D 20.48 in

Set of Four Afra & Tobia Scarpa "Monk" Chairs

By Molteni & C, Afra & Tobia Scarpa

Located in Melbourne, VIC

Elegant "Monk" chair designed by Afra & Tobia Scarpa in 1974 and produced by Molteni

Materials

Materials

Fabric, Wool, Upholstery, Oak

Danish Modern Teak Daybed w/ Leather Accents

$3,895

H 16 in W 72 in D 27 in

Danish Modern Teak Daybed w/ Leather Accents

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Transforming a piece of Mid-Century Modern furniture is like bringing history back to life, and we take this journey with passion and precision. With over 17 years of artisanal exper...

Category

Vintage 1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Sofas

Materials

Leather, Upholstery, Teak

Foglio Sconces by Tobia Scarpa in Nickel Finish

$3,400 / set

H 8.25 in W 15 in D 4.5 in

Foglio Sconces by Tobia Scarpa in Nickel Finish

By Tobia Scarpa

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Phenomenal modern and sleek pair of Foglio sconces by Tobia Scarpa in satin nickel outside and lightly aged un-lacquered satin nickel finishes inside.

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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

Materials

Steel, Nickel

$4,500 / set

H 31 in W 29 in D 26.5 in

Pair of Bauhaus Modernist StyleTubular Chairs

Located in New York, NY

Great pair of Bauhaus tubular sling chairs in cowhide and matte steel. The arm covers are black leather that lace up underneath while the seat and back are lace-up cowhide. Similar ...

Category

Mid-20th Century German Armchairs

Materials

Steel

Eames Time Life Apple Core A Turned Wood Stool c. 1970's

$1,200

H 15 in Dm 13 in

Eames Time Life Apple Core A Turned Wood Stool c. 1970's

By Herman Miller, Charles and Ray Eames

Located in New York, NY

Iconic Time Life stool, designed by Charles and Ray Eames, made by Herman Miller circa 1970's. This piece is know as the Apple Core, or A, this example is ion good, original conditio...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Stools

Materials

Wood

Calacatta Violet Marble Circular Coffee Table, Made in Italy

$3,387 / item

H 14.97 in W 17.72 in D 17.72 in

Calacatta Violet Marble Circular Coffee Table, Made in Italy

Located in Lentate Sul Seveso, IT

The Kyushu coffee table is made entirely of calacatta violet marble. The top is circular and 45cm in diameter. Elevate your space with the luxurious Calacatta Violet Marble Side Tabl...

Category

2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

Materials

Marble

Taraxacum Pendant by Castiglioni Italy, circa 1960

$8,800

H 20 in Dm 26 in

Taraxacum Pendant by Castiglioni Italy, circa 1960

By Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni

Located in Culver City, CA

Italy, 1960 Designed by Achille Castiglioni and Pier Giacomo Castiglione, with internal steel structure and transparent resin cocoon. 26”dia x 20”h Ref. L5217 $ 8,400

Category

Vintage 1960s Italian Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Steel

Vico Magistretti 930 "Carimate" Lounge Chair for Cassina, 1960

$5,000

H 26.38 in W 27.96 in D 25.99 in

Vico Magistretti 930 "Carimate" Lounge Chair for Cassina, 1960

By Cassina, Vico Magistretti

Located in Lonigo, Veneto

Vico Magistretti 930 "Carimate" lounge chair for Cassina, red-lacquered wood and straw seat, Italy, 1960. The 930 "Carimate" easy chair was created for the club house of 'Carimate's...

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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chairs

Materials

Straw, Wood

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Monk Dining Chair For Sale on 1stDibs

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the monk dining chair you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Frequently made of wood, animal skin and leather, every monk dining chair was constructed with great care. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer monk dining chair, there are earlier versions available from the 20th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. A monk dining chair, designed in the Mid-Century Modern style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. A well-made monk dining chair has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Afra & Tobia Scarpa, Molteni and B&B Italia are consistently popular.

How Much is a Monk Dining Chair?

A monk dining chair can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $7,193, while the lowest priced sells for $1,533 and the highest can go for as much as $17,800.

Afra & Tobia Scarpa for sale on 1stDibs

Widely recognized as superstars of postmodern Italian design, husband-and-wife team Afra and Tobia Scarpa (1937–2011; b. 1935) collaboratively created chairs, sofas and other furniture that work equally well in both traditional and cutting-edge environments.

Ranging from architecture and interior design to furniture and clothing, the Scarpas’ practice from its beginnings in the mid-1950s to the 21st century has included a diverse scope of projects combining new technology with thoughtful function and sculptural yet simple forms.

Afra Bianchin and Tobia Scarpa met as architecture students at the Università Iuav di Venezia. In a class led by architect and furniture designer Franco Albini, they created their first collaborative piece, the Pigreco armchair, later produced with Gavina. After graduating in 1957, Tobia worked for Murano glass company Venini & Co. before the couple opened a studio in Afra’s hometown, Montebelluna, in 1960. (Tobia, the son of famed glass artist and architect Carlo Scarpa, was born in Venice.)

For Afra and Tobia, a close collaborative process was pivotal to the success of their designs. The duo was also prolific — they designed for the most influential European manufacturers, including B&B Italia, Cassina, Knoll and FLOS. With respect to the latter, Afra and Tobia were among the legendary Italian lighting maker’s earliest collaborators, and their pioneering designs for the brand included the Papillon lamp, one of the first fixtures to use halogen technology. Their most recognized designs include the Bastiano sofa (1962), the Vanessa bed (1959), the Coronado sofa (1966) and the Soriana seating collection (1970). Work on the Soriana sofa began in late 1969 for an early 1970 debut, and it feels as radical today as it did in its heyday.

Architecture was also a central part of Afra and Tobia’s practice, which spanned residential buildings and factories for Italian companies such as Benetton. Their commissions for the global fashion brand included numerous industrial projects, from textile plants to storefronts. By 1985, Afra and Tobia Scarpa’s work was celebrated in a 30-year retrospective at Center Four in Queens, New York. Looking around the 30,000-square-foot exhibition space, Afra joked to the New York Times, “Seeing all those things makes us feel very tired, and now we feel that maybe we worked too much.”

It was not too much for their legacy, as Afra and Tobia Scarpa’s work continues to inspire new generations. Scarpa designs are in collections at the Louvre, the Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The couple was awarded the Compasso d’Oro in 1970 for the Soriana armchair.

Find vintage Afra & Tobia Scarpa lounge chairs, dining chairs, floor lamps and other furniture today on 1stDibs.

A Close Look at Mid-century Modern Furniture

Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.

ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

Emerged during the mid-20th century
Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
A heyday of innovation in postwar America
Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe

CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
Promotion of functionality

MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

Charles and Ray Eames
Eero Saarinen
Milo Baughman
Florence Knoll
Harry Bertoia
Isamu Noguchi
George Nelson
Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa

ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS

VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.

Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.

Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.

Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.

The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.

As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.

Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.

Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.

Finding the Right Dining-room-chairs for You

No matter what your dream dining experience looks like, there is a wide-ranging variety of vintage, new and antique dining room chairs on 1stDibs. Find upholstered dining room chairs, wood dining room chairs and more to outfit any space designated for a good meal, be it in your home or in the great outdoors.

In the early 18th century, most dining room tables and other furniture was designed to look masculine. In America, dining rooms weren’t even much of a concept until the late 1700s, when a space set aside specifically for dining became a part of the construction of homes for the wealthy. Dining room chairs of the era were likely made of walnut or oak. In Europe, neoclassical dining chairs emerged during the 1750s owing to nostalgia for classical antiquity, while the curving chair crests of Queen Anne furniture in the United States preceded the artistically bold seat backs that characterized the Chippendale chairs that followed. If there weren't enough dining chairs at suppertime in the American colonies, men were prioritized and women stood.

In the dining rooms of today, however, there is enough space for everyone to have a seat at the table. Modern styles introduce innovative design choices that play with shape and style. Icons of mid-century modern dining room chairs are plentiful: With its distinctive bentwood back, there is the DCW dining chair by Charles and Ray Eames, while Hans Wegner's timeless classic, the Wishbone chair, remains relevant and elegant decades after its debut. Stefano Giovannoni's White Rabbit dining chairs, in their lovable polyethylene biomorphism, reinvent what dining can look like.

Today's wide range of dining room chairs also means that they can now be styled in different ways, bringing functionality and fun to any sumptuous dining space. No longer do tables have to be accompanied by a matching set of seats. Skillfully mixing and matching colors and designs allows you to showcase your personality without sacrificing the cohesion of a given space.

By furnishing your dining room with cozy chairs — vintage, antique or otherwise — family time can extend far beyond mealtime. The plush upholstery of Victorian-style dining room chairs is perfect for game nights that stretch from dinner to midnight snack. Outdoor tables and dining chairs can also present an excellent opportunity for bonding and eating — what goes better with a delicious meal than fresh air, anyway?

Whether you prefer your chairs streamlined and stackable or ornate and one of a kind, the offerings on 1stDibs will elevate your mealtime and beyond.