Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Mid-19th Century English Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1880s Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1860s Scottish Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1890s Scottish Late Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1840s Scottish Early Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1880s English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1840s English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1860s English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1880s French Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1860s Scottish Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1850s English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron, Wrought Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron, Wrought Iron
Early 1900s British Art Deco Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Steel
1880s Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1880s Scottish Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1840s Scottish Early Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1840s Scottish Early Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
Early 1900s British Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1890s Scottish Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1870s Scottish Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
Early 20th Century Unknown Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Brass
19th Century European Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron, Wrought Iron
19th Century British Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron, Wrought Iron
1860s Scottish Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1850s Scottish Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Brass, Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron, Wrought Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron, Wrought Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron, Wrought Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron, Wrought Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron, Wrought Iron
1870s Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron, Wrought Iron
1880s English Arts and Crafts Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1880s Scottish Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1830s Scottish Early Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron, Wrought Iron
Late 19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
Late 19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1880s English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Carrara Marble
19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron, Wrought Iron
1820s Scottish Early Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1890s Scottish Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1860s Scottish Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1880s English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Marble
1880s Scottish Aesthetic Movement Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron, Wrought Iron
1880s Scottish Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Carrara Marble
1870s English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Marble
1880s Scottish Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Carrara Marble
1870s British Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Carrara Marble
1880s English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Mahogany
1840s Scottish Early Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Carrara Marble
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Statuary Marble
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
Early 1900s English Late Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Iron
1890s Scottish Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Marble
19th Century English Victorian Antique Victorian Fireplace Insert
Marble
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Finding the Right fireplaces-mantels for You
While we likely wouldn’t mourn the invention of home heating and air-conditioning, these innovations did tragically reduce the widespread need for fireplaces and mantels in our living rooms.
Once an essential fixture in all homes, the fireplace, which, along with the chimney, is as old as the Middle Ages, was actually rendered redundant with the advent of the cast-iron heating stove during the 18th century. Victorian-era heating stoves were popular in the common areas of a living space for their capacity to heat as well as for their lack of smoke compared to fireplaces. However, improvements in craftsmanship as well as the Industrial Revolution meant that fireplaces were evolving in form and functionality.
Even as HVAC systems would eventually see to it that fireplaces weren’t a necessity, no mechanically engineered thermal heating and ventilation technology can replicate the feeling of warmth and camaraderie that a flickering fire guarantees. We just love a good fireplace.
“With antique fireplaces, you get heart, soul, character and architecture,” says Tony Ingrao, a Manhattan-based interior designer who purchased an important 16th-century French limestone fireplace for a client’s Greenwich Village townhouse.
Vintage fireplaces and mantels have earned their coveted position as desirable focal points in any room over the course of a staggering evolution in design that has yielded everything from intricately carved works of limestone to sleek works of wood paneling and rolled steel.
As log after log turns into ash, these iconic designs prove their timelessness and value, monetarily and as prized decorative monuments. Whether you seek to simply warm a space or completely transform it, an eye-catching new mantel for your blazing hearth — be it an elegant neoclassical design, a marvelous work of marble in the Louis XV style or an unconventional contemporary variation — is the perfect solution.
Find a collection of antique and vintage fireplaces and mantels on 1stDibs today.