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Located in Charleston, SC
American Walnut rocking chair with rush seat. 19th Century
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Materials
Rush, Walnut
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Located in Trenton, NJ
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Antique 20th Century Oak Spindle Back Rocking Chair with Rush Seat
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USA, 1940s Handmade Birch Rocker with Woven Rush Seat. The details on this piece are subtle but beautiful. The curving back varies from ladder to ladder, the upright arm supports hav...
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Materials
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Located in Atlanta, GA
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Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Children's Furniture
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By Hans J. Wegner
Located in Canaan, CT
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Late 20th Century Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern Rocking Chairs
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Rocking Chair of Ebonized Rush and Rush Seat Attributed to Ernest Gimson
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H 46 in W 22.5 in D 29.5 in
Rocking Chair of Ebonized Rush and Rush Seat Attributed to Ernest Gimson
By Ernest Gimson
Located in Southampton, NY
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Vintage 1910s English Arts and Crafts Rocking Chairs
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Ash, Rush, Wool
Spindle Back Rocking Chair with Rush Seat by Neville Neal, England circa 1920
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By Ernest Gimson
Located in Macclesfield, Cheshire
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Vintage 1920s British Arts and Crafts Rocking Chairs
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American Primitive Rustic Oak Wood Rush Seat Rocking Chair by Cracker Barrel
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American Primitive Rustic Oak Wood Rush Seat Rocking Chair by Cracker Barrel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
American Primitive Rustic Oak Wood Rush Seat Rocking Chair by Cracker Barrel. Circa Late 20th Century.
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Late 20th Century Unknown Primitive Rocking Chairs
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Antique American Rustic Shaker Ebonized Wood Rush Seat Rocker Rocking Chair
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Antique American Rustic Shaker Ebonized Wood Rush Seat Rocker Rocking Chair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique American Rustic Shaker Ebonized Wood Rush Seat Handmade Rocker Rocking Chair. Circa Early 19th Century.
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Antique Early 19th Century Unknown Shaker Rocking Chairs
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Wood
William Birch an Arts & Crafts Light Oak Rocking Chair with Newly Laid Rush Seat
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William Birch an Arts & Crafts Light Oak Rocking Chair with Newly Laid Rush Seat
By William Birch
Located in London, GB
A newly laid rush seat.
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Vintage 1910s English Arts and Crafts Rocking Chairs
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19th C Green Ladder Back Rocking Chair W/ Red Woven Rush Seat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Antique 19th Century American Adirondack Rocking Chairs
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Wood
Antique Stickley School Oak Rocker With Rush Seat C1920
Located in Big Flats, NY
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Oak
19THC ORIGINAL BROWN PAINTED NEW ENGLAND LADDERBACK ROCKINGCHAIR
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Antique 19th Century American Rocking Chairs
Midcentury Teak Spindle Back Rocking Chair with Rush Seat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Located in Philadelphia, PA
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Antique 19th Century Arts and Crafts Children's Furniture
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Hans Wegner J.16 Rocking Chair with Rush Seat
By Hans J. Wegner
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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Vintage 1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Rocking Chairs
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Located in Dayton, OH
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20th Century Shaker Rocking Chairs
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Located in Big Flats, NY
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Antique 19th Century American Shaker Rocking Chairs
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Wood
French Spindle Back Rocking Chair with Rushed Seat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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18th Century English Elm Rocking Chair with Rush Seat
Located in Worcester, Worcestershire
Measures: Width 52 cm 20 1/2 in Seat depth 40 cm 15 1/2 in Height 95 cm 37 1/2 in Rocking chair Period 18th century.
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Antique 18th Century Rocking Chairs
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Early Rocking Chair
Located in Georges Mills, NH
American ladder back rocking chair Rush seat.
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Early American Ladder Back Rocking Chair with Rush Seat, circa 1830
Located in Pau, FR
Great early American ladder back rocking chair with rush seat in excellent condition from circa 1830.
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Antique 1830s American American Colonial Rocking Chairs
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Rush, Wood
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Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the rush seat rocking chair you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Frequently made of wood, natural fiber and rush, every rush seat rocking chair was constructed with great care. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer rush seat rocking chair, there are earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. When you’re browsing for the right rush seat rocking chair, those designed in Arts and Crafts, Mid-Century Modern and Georgian styles are of considerable interest. Hans J. Wegner, Ernest Gimson and William Birch each produced at least one beautiful rush seat rocking chair that is worth considering.
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Prices for a rush seat rocking chair start at $538 and top out at $6,000 with the average selling for $1,600.
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The phrase “rocking chair” didn’t find its way into the dictionary until the mid-18th century. While most of the sitting furniture that we use in our homes originated in either England or France, the iconic rocking chair is a quintessentially American piece of furniture.
A Philadelphia cabinetmaker’s bill for a proto-rocking chair issued in 1742, which identified the seat as a “Nurse Chair with rockers,” is the earliest surviving evidence of this design’s humble beginnings. The nurse chair was a low side chair intended for nursing women, so giving it a soothing rocking motion made sense. Rocking chairs, which saw a curved slat affixed to the chairs’ feet so that they could be literally rocked, quickly gained popularity across the United States, garnering a reputation as a seat that everyone could love. They offered casual comfort without the expensive fabrics and upholstery that put armchairs out of many families’ budgets.
Rocking chairs are unique in that they don’t just offer a place to rest — they offer an opportunity to reminisce. The presence of one of these classic pieces stirs up our penchant for nostalgia and has the power to transform a space. They easily introduce a simple country feel to the city or bring the peaceful rhythm of a porch swing into a sheltered sunroom. Although craftsmen took to painting and stenciling varieties of the chairs that emerged in New England during the 19th century, the most traditional rocking chairs are generally unadorned seats constructed with time-tested materials like wood and metal. As such, a minimalist vintage rocking chair can be ushered into any corner of your home without significantly disrupting your existing decor scheme or the room’s color palette.
In the decades since the first rocker, top designers have made the piece their own. Viennese chair maker Michael Thonet produced a series of rockers in the middle of the 19th century in which the different curved steam-bent wood parts were integrated into fluid, sinuous wholes. Mid-century modernists Charles and Ray Eames added wooden rockers to their famous plastic shell armchair, while Danish designer Frank Reenskaug opted for teak and polished beech, introducing pops of color with small cushions (a precursor to the bold works that would follow in the 1970s and 1980s).
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