Fireplaces and Mantels
1950s French Industrial Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron, Wrought Iron
Late 18th Century European Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Fruitwood
Mid-20th Century Dutch Fireplaces and Mantels
Belgian Black Marble
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Steel, Wrought Iron
1930s French Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Bronze, Wrought Iron
Late 18th Century French Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Poplar
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron, Wrought Iron
1790s American American Colonial Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Wire
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Wrought Iron
1950s French Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
1790s American American Colonial Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Wire
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
1780s British George III Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Wrought Iron
Mid-20th Century French Fireplaces and Mantels
Bronze, Iron
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Wrought Iron
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Chrome
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron, Wrought Iron
1950s British Victorian Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
1950s French Romantic Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1960s British Regency Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Chrome
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Chrome
1940s French Baroque Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Onyx, Marble, Copper
1790s American Neoclassical Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Composition
1940s Scottish Georgian Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
1780s American American Colonial Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Wrought Iron
1960s English Arts and Crafts Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
Mid-20th Century Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Late 18th Century Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Oak, Walnut
Mid-20th Century Spanish Other Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Iron, Bronze
1960s English Victorian Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Iron
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Glass, Mirror
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Glass
Late 18th Century British Adam Style Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Mid-20th Century Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
1780s English George III Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Steel
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Mid-20th Century Italian Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Chrome, Brass, Steel
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Chrome
1950s British Victorian Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
Late 18th Century Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Wood, Pine
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
1780s English George III Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel
Late 18th Century Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Wood, Pine
1940s English Georgian Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
1790s American American Colonial Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Wire
Mid-20th Century Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
1930s English Georgian Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
1790s American Federal Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Poplar
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.
Find a collection of antique and vintage fireplaces and mantels on 1stDibs today.
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