Fireplaces and Mantels
Mid-20th Century French Hollywood Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Metal, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Hollywood Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Granite
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Wrought Iron
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Mirror, Wood
Late 19th Century French Hollywood Regency Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Bronze, Brass, Iron
1980s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble, Brass
1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Chrome
20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Iron
1930s Unknown Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Bronze
1850s American Colonial Revival Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Iron
2010s American Mid-Century Modern Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron, Wrought Iron
1970s French Gothic Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron, Wrought Iron
Mid-20th Century Italian Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
20th Century American Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron, Wrought Iron
21st Century and Contemporary English Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
Early 20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Wrought Iron, Brass
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Lucite
Mid-20th Century Hollywood Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Wrought Iron
Early 20th Century Spanish Hollywood Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Bronze, Brass
Early 20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Wrought Iron
Early 20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Wrought Iron
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Wrought Iron
Late 20th Century American Hollywood Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
Mid-20th Century French Hollywood Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Wrought Iron
1950s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
1980s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Composition, Marble, Brass
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.