Folk Art Home Accents
FOLK ART STYLE
Folk art is a genre of art that shares the creator’s traditions, offering not just an artistic display but an opportunity to learn about a culture. Antique, new and vintage folk art typically reflects a heritage or location. It can include utilitarian objects and handmade art as diverse as weather vanes, duck decoys, portraiture and paintings, carnival art and quilts.
Quilts are a quintessential part of American folk art but their roots are international, with quilting dating back to Ancient Egypt. The practice spread to Europe and was especially prominent in the Middle Ages, with one of the oldest surviving examples being the Tristan quilt made in Sicily in the 14th century. They were made as bedcovers and clothing, including as a layer for knights to wear beneath their armor. Native American folk art includes functional objects reflecting their heritage, such as baskets, textiles and wooden pieces.
Elsewhere, the vast range of work associated with Mexican folk art includes masks made by Mexican craftspeople for traditional celebrations and ceremonial dances. Mexican masks are part of the country’s folk-art traditions that go back thousands of years and play a role in festivals and theater.
Works in the folk art tradition are valuable because of the skills involved, like weaving, hand-carving wood and even stonework. Many folk artists are self-taught, while some train as apprentices within their community. By using available materials and taking a personal approach to their creations, artists ensure each piece is unique and conveys a story.
During the Great Depression, artistic materials in America were hard to come by, so artisans used discarded wood from cigar boxes and shipping crates to make highly stylized, notched pieces — most often picture frames and boxes — that are today sought after by collectors. This folk art style is called tramp art and was popular from roughly 1870 until the 1940s.
Folk art brings vibrant culture and traditions into your home. Browse an extensive collection of antique, new and vintage folk art on 1stDibs.
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Style: Folk Art
Signed Bustamante Brass Fireplace Screen / Wall Animal Sculpture
Located in Stamford, CT
Mexican artist, Sergio Bustamante wall sculpture or fireplace screen with a Garden of Eden menagerie of flora and fauna. Lions, giraffes, birds, butterflies, turtle, armadillo, rabbi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Brass, Copper
Original Painted Blue Dome Top Trunk with Birds and Flowers, Sweden dated 1841
Located in Round Top, TX
Original blue painted dome top oak trunk from Sweden with traditional hand-painted details including beautiful bird and floral motif along top and front.
Monogram of AHD and date "18...
Category
Mid-19th Century Swedish Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wrought Iron
Antique Two Panel Screen Hand Painted on Fabric and Wood, Early 1900s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A petite German late 19th or early 20th century screen hand painted on fabric and wood, early 1900s
screen with wooden structure and fabric interior, hand painted on one side. The pa...
Category
Early 1900s German Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Original Blue Painted Dome Top Trunk from Sweden dated 1804
Located in Round Top, TX
Original blue painted dome top oak trunk from Sweden with traditional hand-painted details include floral motif along top and front.
Monogram of KND and date "1804" indicate this tru...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wrought Iron
Original Hand Painted Dome Top Blue Trunk With Flowers, Sweden dated 1828
Located in Round Top, TX
Original blue painted dome top oak trunk from Sweden with traditional hand-painted details include floral motif along top and front.
Monogram of HPD and date "1828" indicate this tru...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wrought Iron
Antique Mexican Hand painted Olinalá Screen Divider
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Antique Mexican Hand painted Olinalá Screen Divider
Circa 1930. We offer this rare and beautiful Antique Mexican Hand painted Olinalá Screen Divider made in Olinalá Mexico.
About Ol...
Category
1930s Mexican Vintage Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Wedding Chest, Circa 1880
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A painted pine wedding chest from Hungary with the original blue paint, circa 1880. Clean on the inside. Neat coffee table, collector's item or st...
Category
1880s Hungarian Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Pine
Original Hand Painted Flat Top Pine Trunk With Flowers, Hungary circa 1880
Located in Round Top, TX
Original hand-painted folk art flat top pine trunk.
Original traditional floral motif painted in brown, orange/reds, brown/black, yellow, white and black.
Restored and waxed, in soli...
Category
Late 19th Century Hungarian Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wrought Iron
Original Ice Capades Travel Trunks, c.1940s
Located in Savannah, GA
A pair of Ice Capades travel trunks dating to their inception in the early ‘40s. A boys and a girls trunk, possibly used for skates or drums. Label on top for Ice Capades of ’42. N...
Category
1940s American Vintage Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood, Paint
Antique Original Hand Painted Green Dome Top Trunk with Flowers, Sweden Dated 18
Located in Round Top, TX
Original green painted dome top oak trunk from Sweden.
Monogram of PMS and date "1857" indicate this trunk may have been for a dowry or wedding present.
Traditional hand-painted de...
Category
Mid-19th Century Swedish Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Iron
19th Century Swedish Marriage Chest
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
19th century Swedish marriage chest.
This chest is decorated with flora, fauna, and hearts and is dated 1834.
Category
19th Century Swedish Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Original Painted Flat Top Trunk With Flowers, Austria dated 1804
Located in Round Top, TX
The paint is all original on this delightful flat top trunk from Austria.
The flowers in vases are depicted in the front panels, which was a popular folk art design throughout the 18...
Category
Early 19th Century Austrian Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood, Paint
Vintage African Pair of Wooden Hand Carved Busts Sculptures
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Wood sculpture hand carved vintage tribal Folk Art bust of an African men and women sculptures.
Pair of vintage handcrafted wood sculptures of African men and women bust with headdress and jewelry.
These two busts depict tribal African couple...
Category
Mid-20th Century African Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Hardwood
Hand Carved Wooden Balinese Busts Sculptures
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage midcentury hand carved ebony wooden Balinese busts sculptures.
Hand carved sculpture in wood depicting a Balinese couple.
Bust of a man and wom...
Category
Mid-20th Century Balinese Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood
19th Century, Swedish Floral Painted Dome Top Wedding Trunk
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Charming mid-19th century Swedish wedding trunk or dowry trunk featuring floral painted reserves over a blue background. This dome-top oak trunk ...
Category
19th Century Swedish Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Iron
Vintage Carved Mexican Aztec Mayan Figure Onyx Stone Bookends 1950s
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage 1950s Pair of Carved Aztec Onyx Stone Bookends.
Mexican Aztec Mayan Figure Onyx Book Ends.Hand carved marble stone pyramid Aztec Mayan.
Pair of v...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Limestone, Marble
Antique Scandinavian Round Storage Box “Tejne” Decorated Pine, Late 19th Century
Located in Aarhus C, DK
Large Antique Scandinavian storage box made from wood, made in the last half of 1800. It's most likely from Sweden or Denmark.
It's a so called "Tejne" made for storing and transp...
Category
Late 19th Century Scandinavian Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood
WWI Era Military Trunk Painted by Artist Ira Yeager
By Ira Yeager
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Amazing folk art military radio trunk with a painted bust of an native American Indian by artist Ira Yeager (American 1938-2022). WWI era canvas covered trunk used to store radio parts...
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Paravent, Unique Folding Screen, Handwoven in Ethiophia
Located in Berlin, BE
The "Paravent" is a unique, handwoven piece designed in Berlin and manufactured in Addis Ababa, Ethiophia. The folding screen is made of cotton and false banana fibres in the shades ...
Category
2010s Ethiopian Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Aluminum
Green painted Southern Yellow Pine 19th century carriage strong box forged iron
Located in Mobile, AL
Green folk painted Southern yellow pine carriage trunk or strong box. The size is just about perfect for liquor bottles, too. Dovetail construction with hand forged clasp and hinges. The original finish was likely brown and it looks like it got it's first coat...
Category
1840s American Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Metal and Wood American Bird Cage, Circa 1905
Located in Incline Village, NV
Hand made Folk Art American wire metal and painted wood birdcage, probably from Pennsylvania circa 1905. Having a rectangular body with a dome top; suitable for hanging, or surface decorative presentation, this birdcage is functional albeit it lacks a perch. The single door entry/exit is spring loaded, and there is a metal slide out removable tray at the bottom. The tole painting...
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Hand Carved Marble Stone Pyramid Aztec Mayan
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Pair of vintage green and white marble Aztec Mayan stone bookends.
Vintage handcrafted large heavy natural marble bookends with Aztec Mayan green head on a pyramidal form.
These are very substantial, heavy and well handmade bookends.
They are hand carved white with white natural color of the marble and the green marble carved Mayan head...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Marble
Heavy 19th Century Painted French Window Shutter 3 Fold Screen, Room Divider
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Heavy 19th century painted French window shutter 3 fold screen, room divider
This is a very heavy piece, the screen is 3 hard wood shutters w...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Pair of Impressive Mounted Woolly Mammoth Teeth Bookends
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pair of impressive mounted Woolly Mammoth teeth bookends.
Each tooth is set into a carved out block of wood, then the hole was fill and teeth surround...
Category
15th Century and Earlier American Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Enamel
Early Colonial Stained Maple Handmade Travel Trunk / Chest with Hinged Top
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Handmade travel trunk carved from maple wood planks with applied steel hinges and clasp.
The hinged top opens to reveal a removable, divided tray providi...
Category
Early 19th Century American Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Maple
Dutch 19th Century Folk Art Architectural Miniature Mansion Pigeon / Birdcage
Located in Buisson, FR
Beautiful and unique Dutch Folk art Pigeon/birdcage in the form of a manor . This type of birdcages were made in the North of he Netherlands . They were miniature versions of the ori...
Category
19th Century Dutch Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood
19th Century Danish Hand Painted Domed Top Trunk
Located in London, GB
Swedish Hand Painted Domed Top Trunk
Iron, pine, paint, metalwork. A Swedish 19th-century hand-painted dome top dowry trunk with its original blue paintwork. The facade depicts th...
Category
19th Century Swedish Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Iron
Vintage Magician Magic Suitcase Hand Painted Folk Art
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Fantastic Magician's suitcase. Hand painted and lettered. Vintage Folk Art rabbit trick and card paintings. Great bookshelf display.
Category
1940s American Vintage Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Fabric, Canvas
Handmade Leather Mexican Carrying Case, C.1900-1940
Located in San Francisco, CA
About
An all leather handmade carrying case from Mexico with incised leather on both sides and intact leather strap. The leather strap is woven throug...
Category
Early 20th Century Mexican Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Leather
19th Century Zanzibar Trunk
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
A 19th century Zanzibar trunk.
A superb piece showing the wonderful craftsmanship of the brass workers
This hardwood chest which originally was p...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Pair of American Folk Art Tin Clad Pug Dog Bookends
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of American Folk Art Tin Clad Pug dog bookends
USA, circa 1940s
A great pair of hand-crafted, possibly one of kind American Folk Art Tin Clad pug d...
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Tin
Chinese Bookends of Soapstone hand carved, Republic Period circa 1920s
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
These are a beautiful pair of Chinese soapstone Bookends made in China during the Republic period, Circa 1920.
These bookends are individ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Soapstone
Vintage Owl Bookends Wood Spain, 1960s
Located in Den Haag, NL
Very nice hand carved wooden owls. 1960s Spain.
Category
1960s Spanish Vintage Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Fruitwood
Hand Carved African Zebra Bookends
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Nice pair of hand carved heavy wood bookends African Zebra sculptures.
This fine detailed hand carved and hand painted elephant bookends.
Each zebra sculpture with base and side is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Kenyan Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Hardwood
Vintage American Wood Shoe Molds Bookends
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage American wood women shoe form molds mounted as bookends
Vintage wooden shoe making mold from the 1930s.
A pair of shoe form bookends, these well carved solid wood shoe mould would have been used to make handmade shoes.
These molds were traditionally made for each customer and would be used each time they came into the cobbler for a new pair of shoes.
It is in good original condition with the patina and metal that shows age.
Cobbler molds size 6.5 B model 258
Made from solid wood, I love these moulds because of their individual nature but also they are almost a piece of sculpture.
This elegant women wooden shoes bookends form mold make a great addition to your vintage decor.
Vintage hand carved wood cobbler shoe molds...
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Colorful Hand Painted Watermelon Folding Screen
Located in Atlanta, GA
Colorful hand painted Folk Art watermelon folding screen, Yucatan, Mexico, circa 1970s. This piece is a versatile size and can be used as a folding screen, room divider, or headboard...
Category
1970s Mexican Vintage Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood
18th Century Swiss Polychrome Decorated Blanket Chest Trunk
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Colorful 18th century Swiss blanket chest or trunk featuring a polychrome decorated finish. Beautifully decorated with blue painted iron strapping and a floral motif on top. Dated 17...
Category
18th Century Swiss Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Iron
Three-Panel Folding Screen by Egbert Norman Clark
Located in Stamford, CT
Three-panel folding screen with a scarlet macaw, cockatoo and hyacinth macaw. Signed and dated "E.N Clark 1934".
Artist is Egbert Norman Clark, New Y...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Delightful Antique Painted Hope Chest with Handpainted Dutch Figures
Located in Hopewell, NJ
A wonderful folk art hand painted antique trunk or chest in a yellow gold having charming male and female Dutch peasants adorning the top. Great size fo...
Category
Early 1900s North American Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Pair of Vintage Western Last Co, Women's Shoe Mold Bookends
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pair of women's size 6 cobbler shoe forms converted to bookends (circa 1930s St. Louis, Missouri, USA). Since the shoes themselves were used as molds to m...
Category
1930s American Vintage Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Burmese Ladies Make-Up Trunk
Located in Pasadena, CA
A Burmese ladies' teak make up trunk, inlaid with brass. The words "Mandalay Box" are inlaid on one side of the front of the trunk, below the brass fitti...
Category
Late 19th Century Burmese Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Birdhouse
Located in Chicago, IL
A whimsical early 20th century American Folk Art purple Martin pine birdhouse with two levels, eight entrances, and a wonderfully shingled roof and weath...
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Pine
Bernard Steffen "Persian Panorama" Tri-Fold Wood Screen, Bernard Steffen Denmark
By Georg Jensen
Located in Buffalo, NY
"Persian Panorama" Folkart, tri-fold screen or room divider serigraphed by Bernard Steffen, designed by Georg Jensen, Denmark, Limited production. Numb...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wood
American Shellwork Standing Mirror in the Form of a Harp
Located in Downingtown, PA
American shellwork standing mirror in the form of a Harp,
circa 1885
The unusual 19th century American shellwork standing mirror is in the form of a harp....
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Shell
Small Antique Shepherd’s Chest, 1880’s
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Small antique shepherd’s box with geometric decoration from the Carpathian Highlands, ca.1880. Also called sarcophagus coffins or Wallachian coffins because of their association wi...
Category
1880s Hungarian Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Beech
Original Red Painted Folk Art Flat Top Pine Trunk, Hungary circa 1880
Located in Round Top, TX
Original hand-painted folk art flat top pine trunk.
Original traditional floral motif painted finish in red/burnt orange, brown/black, yellow and green.
Restored and waxed, in solid ...
Category
Late 19th Century Hungarian Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Wrought Iron
Folk Art Folding X Frame Luggage Rack This is a good sturdy piece
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Folk Art Folding X Frame Luggage Rack
This is a good sturdy piece, it is made in beech and has a tough petite point embroidered webbing forming the top platform, the stand is robust...
Category
1960s Vintage Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Beech
Chest from Moldava, circa 1800
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Hardwood chest from Moldava, circa 1800. The chest is decorated on the outside with carvings.
The chest is free of woodworm. Over the years the two back legs became a bit shorter.
Category
Early 19th Century Moldovan Antique Folk Art Home Accents
Materials
Fruitwood
Folk Art home accents for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique folk art home accents for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage home accents created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include more furniture and collectibles, folk art, decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Folk Art home accents made in a specific country, there are North America, Europe, and United States pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original home accents, popular names associated with this style include Sergio Bustamante, hettler.tüllmann, Ira Yeager, and Georg Jensen. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for home accents differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $155 and tops out at $6,200 while the average work can sell for $1,800.
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