Fireplaces and Mantels
21st Century and Contemporary English Early Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
Early 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble, Statuary Marble
1880s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Late 19th Century American Late Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Sandstone, Stone
1880s English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
Late 19th Century American Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
1950s English Victorian Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
1860s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Mid-19th Century High Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
1880s German High Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Elm
1890s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Late 19th Century French High Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1890s Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Early 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Ceramic
19th Century French Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
1870s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Early 1900s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
1850s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Belgian Black Marble
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble, Carrara Marble
19th Century Belgian Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Belgian Black Marble
1940s British Victorian Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
1950s English Victorian Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Walnut
1840s Scottish Early Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Early 1900s English Late Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1890s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
19th Century British Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Wrought Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
19th Century Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
1890s English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Early 20th Century Directoire Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron, Wrought Iron
1850s English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Walnut
19th Century American Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel, Wrought Iron
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
19th Century British Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Wrought Iron
1890s English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
19th Century French Directoire Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
1880s English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
19th Century Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
19th Century British Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Wrought Iron, Brass
1880s American Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
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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