Victorian Carved Fireplace Surround
Antique Early 1900s Scottish Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Vintage 1940s British Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Antique 1850s English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Statuary Marble
Antique 1880s English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Vintage 1940s Scottish Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Granite
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Antique 1860s English High Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Antique 1880s Scottish Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Antique Early 1900s English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
Antique 1870s Scottish Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Antique 1880s Scottish Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Antique 1870s English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 1880s French Louis XVI Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 1880s Scottish Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Carrara Marble
Vintage 1950s British Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Vintage 1960s British Early Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Antique Late 19th Century Fireplaces and Mantels
Sandstone
Antique 1870s British Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Antique Late 19th Century Fireplaces and Mantels
Oak
Antique Late 19th Century Fireplaces and Mantels
Oak
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Antique 1890s English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Antique 1870s Scottish Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Antique Early 19th Century English Victorian Fireplace Tools and Chimney...
Marble, Statuary Marble
Antique Late 19th Century European Palladian Fireplace Tools and Chimney...
Oak
Antique 1840s Scottish Early Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Antique 1880s American High Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Oak
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Statuary Marble
Early 20th Century Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
Antique 19th Century French Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique Late 19th Century Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Antique 1890s English Palladian Fireplaces and Mantels
Oak
Vintage 1950s English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 1880s English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Carrara Marble
Antique 1860s Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 1880s British Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
Vintage 1950s English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Antique 1890s Scottish Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique Early 1900s British Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble, Carrara Marble
Antique 19th Century Gothic Revival Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Limestone
Antique 19th Century Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique Mid-19th Century English High Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Firep...
Mirror, Giltwood
20th Century English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble, Statuary Marble
Antique 1880s American Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Mirror, Walnut
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century William IV Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Statuary Marble
Antique 19th Century American Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Walnut
Antique 19th Century English Early Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique Late 19th Century Fireplaces and Mantels
Oak
Early 20th Century Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone, Limestone
Antique 1880s English Victorian Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Mahogany
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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.