Fireplaces and Mantels
2010s American Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
1950s English Victorian Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Early 1900s English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Early 20th Century British Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
1860s British High Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass, Iron
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Wood, Pine
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble, Carrara Marble
Mid-20th Century French Hollywood Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
19th Century European Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Wood, Mahogany
1880s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
1880s American High Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Oak
1980s English Victorian Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Steel
1840s English Early Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
1880s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Early 20th Century English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Wood, Oak
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Wood, Mahogany
1880s Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Oak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
1890s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1840s English Early Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone, Marble
Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
1870s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Early 20th Century European Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1880s English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1890s English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
Late 19th Century British High Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Wood, Oak
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Wood, Oak
19th Century European Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron, Wrought Iron
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Oak, Wood
1860s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1880s English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron, Wrought Iron
19th Century French Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1840s Scottish Early Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
1880s British Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Early 20th Century Unknown Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron, Wrought Iron
1950s English Victorian Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron, Wrought Iron
1870s Scottish Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
19th Century French Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron
19th Century British Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Iron, Wrought Iron
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Wood, Walnut
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Metal, Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Carrara Marble
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Fireplaces and Mantels
Wood, Oak
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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