$2,250 / item
Suelo Modern Side Chair
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
This Suelo® modern side chair is beautifully constructed from solid wood in Ohio, USA.
Hardwood
$3,000 / item
Suelo Modern Outdoor Side Chair
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
This Suelo® outdoor modern side chair is beautifully constructed from solid wood in Ohio, USA.
Mahogany
Bertu Side Chair, Suelo Modern Leather Side Chair, Knotty Alder
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
This Suelo® Modern Side Chair is beautifully constructed from solid wood in Ohio, USA.
Wood
$3,000 / item
Suelo Slatted Outdoor Side Chair
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
This Suelo® slatted outdoor side chair is beautifully constructed in Ohio, USA.
Mahogany
$3,000 / item
Suelo Slatted Outdoor Side Chair
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
This Suelo® Slatted Outdoor Side Chair is beautifully constructed in Ohio, USA.
Mahogany
$2,500 / item
Modern Suelo Side Chair, Turned Leg
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
This modern Suelo® side chair, turned leg is beautifully constructed from solid wood in Ohio, USA.
Maple
$1,450 / item
Suelo Modern Wood Dining Side Chair
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
This Suelo® modern wood dining side chair is beautifully constructed from solid wood in Ohio, USA.
Hardwood
Bertu Side Chair, Suelo Side Chair, Leather and Maple
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
The beautiful shape and hand turned legs make this the perfect modern chair for any space, indoor or outdoor. The Suelo® Collection consists of an arm chair, side chair, bench, daybe...
Maple
Contemporary Leather Flex Chair
By Pedro Useche
Located in Boston, MA
Charcoal and sand. Structure with strips of solid wood and natural finishing. Natural or faux leather.
Stainless Steel
Suelo Modern Lounge Chair
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
This Suelo® Modern lounge chair is beautifully constructed from solid wood in Ohio, USA. This silhouette is simple, modern, and sleek with comfortable back and seat cushions. This is...
Hardwood
$900 / item
H 32.29 in W 20.87 in D 21.26 in
Contemporary Chair in Solid Wood, Upholstered in Leather or Textiles
By SIMONINI
Located in Vila Cordeiro, São Paulo
Dry chair collection. The Dry chair concept is to work in a mixture of distinct references resulting in a modern classic in a dance between the retro and the modern. A heavy and i...
Leather, Textile, Upholstery, Laminate, Hardwood
Suelo Outdoor Modern Lounge Chair
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
This Suelo® outdoor modern lounge chair is beautifully constructed from solid wood in Ohio, USA. This silhouette is simple, modern, and sleek with comfortable back and seat cushions....
Mahogany
$1,165 / item
H 32.29 in W 18.51 in D 21.66 in
"Oscar" Minimalist Chair in Solid Wood with Leather or Fabric
By Alessandra Delgado
Located in Alto da Lapa, SP
When she created Oscar chair, Alessandra Delgado was inspired by the master architect Oscar Niemeyer´s work. The Oscar chair is made of solid wood and although very sturdy it is ligh...
Wood, Leather, Canvas, Velvet, Polyester
$995 / item
H 32.29 in W 20.87 in D 21.26 in
Contemporary Chair in Solid Wood, Upholstered in Leather or Textiles with Arms
By SIMONINI
Located in Vila Cordeiro, São Paulo
Dry chair collection. The Dry chair concept is to work in a mixture of distinct references resulting in a modern classic in a dance between the retro and the modern. A heavy and i...
Leather, Textile, Upholstery, Laminate, Hardwood
Hergon Chair
By Emmemobili
Located in Milan, IT
One of the ideas from which Hergon was brought to life is the intention to maximize the ergonomics offered by the backrest. A dynamic seat, featuring the strong and innovative lines ...
Wood
$1,200 / item
H 35.04 in W 22.05 in D 24.02 in
Dining chair in Leather and solid wood, Contemporary Brazilian Design
By SIMONINI
Located in Vila Cordeiro, São Paulo
This dining room armchair is part of the Arrow collection, which carries the concept of precision and the figurative arrow element abstraction, present thru the design. Using the ha...
Leather, Textile, Hardwood
$950 / item
H 32.29 in W 20.87 in D 21.26 in
Contemporary Chair in Natural Solid Wood, Upholstered Leather, with Arms
By SIMONINI
Located in Vila Cordeiro, São Paulo
Dry chair collection. The Dry chair concept is to work in a mixture of distinct references resulting in a modern classic in a dance between the retro and the modern. A heavy and i...
Leather, Textile, Upholstery, Laminate, Hardwood
$2,422 / item
H 27.96 in W 19.69 in D 27.56 in
Contemporary Mexican Easy Chair in Walnut Wood and Natural Leather Seat
By Laura Noriega
Located in Guadalajara, Jal.
The “Your Skin” easy chair is a comfortable low chair with a solid and light structure perfect to accentuate with its impeccable and minimal aesthetics the decoration in every room o...
Leather, Walnut
Suelo Slatted Outdoor Lounge Chair
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
This Suelo® Slatted outdoor lounge chair is beautifully constructed in Ohio, USA. This silhouette is simple, modern, and sleek with comfortable back and seat cushions. The wood frame...
Mahogany
Minimalist Outdoor Chair in Hardwood, Metal and Fabric
By SIMONINI
Located in Vila Cordeiro, São Paulo
This minimalist chair is made for use outdoors with solid wood, metal and fabrics. The chair's multi-finish structure is combined with outdoor fabrics such as the Batyline to create ...
Metal
Chile Modern Side Chair
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
This Chile modern side chair is beautifully constructed from solid wood in Ohio, USA. The lounge chair's silhouette is simple, modern, and sleek with comfortable back and seat cushio...
Hardwood
Chile Modern Lounge Chair and Ottoman
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
This Chile modern side chair is beautifully constructed from solid wood in Ohio, USA. The lounge chair's silhouette is simple, modern, and sleek with comfortable back and seat cushio...
Hardwood
Bertu Lounge Chairs, Groove Quick Ship Lounge Chair
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
Need something now? We are offering a few of our pieces, including this Groove Lounge Chair, ready to ship! 20% off and in perfect/excellent condition. These are all one-off pieces. ...
Oak
$2,800 / item
H 29.53 in W 35.83 in D 31.5 in
Modern Organic Style Collana Armchair in Solid Wood, Leather Flexible Seating
By SIMONINI
Located in Vila Cordeiro, São Paulo
THE COLLANA SERIES – WHERE ARTISTRY MEETS COMFORT IN EVERY CURVE." THE ARMCHAIRS The Collana armchairs are a celebration of refined design and unparalleled comfort. Crafted to elev...
Leather, Textile, Upholstery, Fiberglass, Hardwood
Capiz Shell Table Lamp, Model Cornelia
By Dusty Deco
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cornelia Table Lamp is a lamp that is made from capiz shells which gives the material an irregular structure. This makes each lamp unique, something that adds to its character and pe...
Brass
Bertu Counter Stools, White Oak Counter Stool, Chile Stool
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
Bertu Counter Stools, White Oak Counter Stool, Chile Stool This White Oak Chile Counter Stool is beautifully constructed from solid wood in Ohio, USA. The stool is chunky and modern...
Wood, Oak
$2,884 / item
H 31.5 in W 11.82 in D 47.25 in
Tadao Alto Concrete Contemporary Console, 100% Handcrafted in Italy
By Gaia Rebecchini, Laura Mochi Onori, Lorenzo Rebecchini
Located in Rome, Lazio
The Tadao line, created in homage to the famous architect with whom we share a minimalist approach and the creative use of the material, is the perfect synthesis of our philosophy: o...
Concrete
$2,800 / set
H 17.5 in W 10.5 in D 6.5 in
Pair of Art Deco Style Murano Smoked Glass Wall Sconces, Italy Contemporary
Located in Miami, FL
Pair of Art Deco style Murano smoked glass wall lights, contemporary Smoked / fume color and horizontal striation texture Black opaline finial and brass accents Art Deco inspired de...
Brass
$2,000 / item
H 8.5 in Dm 17.5 in
Vintage Inspired Handcrafted Fluted Farmhouse Porcelain Pendant Light
By DBO Home
Located in Sharon, CT
Classic, elegant, with a perfectly imperfect touch. We just love our new porcelain Parasol Fluted Pendants. Inspired by a vintage pie cover, we designed them to hang over our kitchen...
Brass
'Floatation' Japanese Paper Suspension Lamp for Ingo Maurer
By Ingo Maurer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Floatation' Japanese paper suspension lamp for Ingo Maurer. Designed and produced by Ingo Maurer, one of the most celebrated German lighting icons since 1966. With imagination, cre...
Metal, Iron
$1,638 / item
H 13.78 in Dm 9.45 in
Murano Round Green Glass and Brass Modern Wall Light and Sconces, 2020
Located in Roma, Lazio
Very special Murano glass wall light, stylish and elegant, their design truly unique in their kind. Beautiful coloring. The wall light is composed of a brass stem where a system for...
Brass
Handmade Cocktail Side Table by J.M. Szymanski, Blackened Steel
By J.M. Szymanski
Located in Bronx, NY
TABLE NO. 3 - LARGE J.M. Szymanski D. 2017 Playfully imagined, this sculpted bottom-frame supports a smooth top-surface that is ideal for drinks and small items--some might say it’s...
Steel, Iron
$1,170 / item
H 32.29 in W 21.66 in D 19.69 in
Shell Dining Chair, Linen Schwarzwald Dedar, by Vintola Studio, Europe, Poland
Located in 05-080 Hornowek, PL
Springy, very comfortable and stabile dining seats. They are contemporary chairs inspired of 1960s style. They can be used as armchairs and dining chairs. Chair was designed by Vi...
Bouclé, Velvet, Beech, Linen
Large 'Floatation' Japanese Paper Suspension Lamp for Ingo Maurer
By Ingo Maurer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large 'Floatation' Japanese paper suspension lamp for Ingo Maurer. Designed and produced by Ingo Maurer, one of the most celebrated German lighting icons since 1966. With imaginatio...
Metal, Iron
$6,647 / set
H 24.01 in W 18.12 in D 14.18 in
Pair of Park Night Stands in Espresso Brown Lacquer by Yaniv Chen for Lemon
By Lemon
Located in Amsterdam, NL
The Park nightstand is the epitome of exquisite craftsmanship, featuring meticulously proportioned dimensions and exceptional detailing that make it an ideal bedside companion. Our f...
Lacquer
Modern Style Side Table in Antique Pewter with Aged Patina
Located in Old Town Orange, CA
Antique pewter colored side side table. Top has an antique patina, to look as if it is aged. Its sleek clean moder edge is smooth, this table is light weight, easy to use anywhere in...
Metal
Pair Rectangular Oak Side Tables on Forged Iron Bases
Located in Troy, MI
We found these tables in France, but believe they are of Spanish origin and date from the 1930s. This pair of small rectangular tables tops show honest wear - see detail photos - an...
Iron
Art Deco Italian Round Side Table in Walnut
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Side table, walnut veneer, Italy, 1930s This round side table is a great example of Italian Art Deco design from the 1930s. It’s made with a warm walnut veneer that gives it a opule...
Walnut
Vintage Decorative Gramophone Horn, Wood and Metal, Industrial Style
Located in Linkebeek, BE
Decorative gramophone horn in wood Antique - Decoration - Phonograph Materials : Wood - Metal Wear consistent with age and use : See photos please
Metal
LUzpot
By Lumfardo Luminaires
Located in Los Angeles, CA
LUzpot is an elegant directional ceiling fixture inspired by classical mid century Italian design. This fixture has a thin stem and rotates and partially angles. Made in solid aged b...
Brass
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.