Fireplaces and Mantels
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
20th Century English Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Northern Irish Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Early 1800s English George III Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel, Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
18th Century English George III Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
18th Century Irish Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Siena Marble
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
1880s English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Mahogany
1790s English George III Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Iron
Early 18th Century British George I Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary English Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
18th Century English Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Siena Marble, Statuary Marble
Late 20th Century English Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Oak, Wood
Mid-18th Century European Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble, Siena Marble, Statuary Marble
1760s English George III Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
Early 19th Century English George IV Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
1810s Scottish Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
21st Century and Contemporary English Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
1860s English Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Sandstone, Stone
Early 19th Century English George IV Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary English Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Early 20th Century English Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Late 20th Century English Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 19th Century American Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
Late 19th Century English Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Iron
1950s English Victorian Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
18th Century English Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary English Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 20th Century English Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel
Mid-19th Century High Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
Late 20th Century English Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Northern Irish Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
21st Century and Contemporary Northern Irish Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 20th Century English Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
1880s German High Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Elm
Early 19th Century English George IV Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
Late 18th Century Irish Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
1890s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
21st Century and Contemporary English Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
19th Century English Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1870s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Early 20th Century English Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Iron, Metal
Early 1900s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
19th Century English Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1890s Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
20th Century British Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
19th Century French Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
19th Century English Georgian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel
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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