Fireplaces and Mantels
1780s English Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel
16th Century French Gothic Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
19th Century English Gothic Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
15th Century and Earlier French Gothic Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Sandstone
16th Century German Gothic Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
16th Century German Gothic Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
18th Century French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
Mid-19th Century English Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
18th Century French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
Mid-18th Century French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone, Marble
18th Century French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
1880s French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
18th Century French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
18th Century Italian Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
18th Century French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
18th Century French Gothic Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Wrought Iron
Mid-18th Century English Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
1880s French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 20th Century English Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
19th Century English Gothic Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
Early 19th Century Italian Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Mid-18th Century French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
Late 20th Century English Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 18th Century English Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Early 19th Century Irish Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 20th Century English Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Early 18th Century French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
18th Century French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary English Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
18th Century Italian Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
15th Century and Earlier English Gothic Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
18th Century French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Mid-18th Century French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Early 20th Century English Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
19th Century British Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Slate
1880s French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
18th Century Italian Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Mid-18th Century Belgian Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
19th Century Belgian Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
16th Century French Gothic Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Late 20th Century English Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
1840s French Gothic Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
18th Century French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
Mid-18th Century French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
21st Century and Contemporary British Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Mid-18th Century French Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
17th Century German Gothic Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
18th Century Belgian Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
1810s English Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
18th Century Belgian Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Early 18th Century Belgian Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
19th Century Italian Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron, Bronze
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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