Woven Rope Screen

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the woven rope screen you’re looking for. A woven rope screen — often made from fabric, natural fiber and wood — can elevate any home. Find 3 options for an antique or vintage woven rope screen now, or shop our selection of 34 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished piece. Your living room may not be complete without a woven rope screen — find older editions for sale from the 19th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. A woven rope screen made by mid-century modern designers — as well as those associated with Arts and Crafts — is very popular. Many designers have produced at least one well-made woven rope screen over the years, but those crafted by Cassina, Rodolfo Dordoni and Leon Leon Design are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

Whether they are implemented as decorative accents or makeshift partitions to ensure privacy, antique and vintage folding screens and room dividers easily introduce sophistication and depth to any space in your home.

The earliest examples of folding screens are said to have originated in China and go back at least as far as the Han dynasty. Screens of the era were heavy structures made of wood and had hinges of cloth or leather. They were adorned with elaborate landscape paintings that were typically created on silk or paper canvases and applied directly to the screen’s panels afterward. Just as they had been in the 20th century and today, the folding screens then were recognized for both their practical and purely decorative properties.

Japanese room-divider screens were also decorated with paintings but constructed to be lightweight and mobile. They took on considerable event-based importance when the structures gained popularity in the East Asian country, as the folding screens were used in performing arts such as concerts, tea ceremonies and more. Later, artists elsewhere warmed to folding screens and sought to create their own.

In European countries such as France, where they were known as paravent, folding screens began to materialize in apartments in Paris, gaining favor with the likes of pioneering couturier Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who is said to have accrued more than 30 and used them as a precursor to what we now know as wallpaper.

On 1stDibs, find a wide range of antique and vintage folding screens and room dividers, which, given their history, may do a better job of bringing people and cultures together in your home than sectioning off a space. Search by material to find options in metal, fabric or wood, or browse by style for mid-century modern designs and examples from the Art Deco era.