Fireplaces and Mantels
Mid-19th Century English Adam Style Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
19th Century English Adam Style Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel
1750s German Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Ceramic
Late 19th Century English Adam Style Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Mahogany
18th Century Dutch Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
18th Century English Adam Style Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
18th Century English Adam Style Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Late 20th Century English Adam Style Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel
1830s Belgian Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
19th Century French Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1750s Irish Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
1910s English Rococo Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Late 20th Century Rococo Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel, Brass
Early 19th Century Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
18th Century English Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Wood
Mid-20th Century English Adam Style Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble, Statuary Marble
Early 19th Century French Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
18th Century French Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Early 18th Century French Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
19th Century British Adam Style Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Early 19th Century Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
18th Century English Adam Style Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Wood
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 18th Century English Adam Style Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
20th Century Rococo Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Late 20th Century English Adam Style Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 20th Century English Adam Style Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
Early 1900s French Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble, Ormolu
Mid-18th Century British Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
19th Century British Adam Style Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Iron
19th Century American Adam Style Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Mid-19th Century French Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
19th Century French Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Porcelain
Late 18th Century French Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
Mid-18th Century German Rococo Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Walnut
20th Century American Rococo Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Early 1900s English Adam Style Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel, Iron
Antique and Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
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.
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