Fireplaces and Mantels
Mid-19th Century European Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Iron
Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Travertine
19th Century European Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Iron
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Wrought Iron
1870s English Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
2010s Northern Irish Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
2010s Northern Irish Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Mid-18th Century English Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Siena Marble
18th Century French Directoire Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone, Marble
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
19th Century Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
20th Century Italian Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Northern Irish Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
21st Century and Contemporary English Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
Mid-18th Century Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone, Limestone
20th Century American Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
19th Century French Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Wood
Late 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Travertine, Marble
1940s French Baroque Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Onyx, Marble, Copper
21st Century and Contemporary European Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Northern Irish Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Mid-19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
21st Century and Contemporary English Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Travertine
20th Century French Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Malachite, Ormolu
19th Century English Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Early 20th Century Directoire Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
Early 19th Century French Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
19th Century French Directoire Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
18th Century French Directoire Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
19th Century French Directoire Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
Early 19th Century French Directoire Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Oak
18th Century and Earlier French Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
Early 19th Century North American Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
Late 19th Century French Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble, Iron
17th Century English Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Late 18th Century French Directoire Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
18th Century French Directoire Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
Late 18th Century French Directoire Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble, Statuary Marble
18th Century French Directoire Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
Late 18th Century French Directoire Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
19th Century Belgian Baroque Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Late 18th Century French Directoire Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
18th Century French Directoire Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
18th Century French Directoire Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
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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