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Screens and Room Dividers For Sale
Item type: Antique and Vintage
1970s Organic Modern Rattan Polychromed 3-Panel Folding Screen/Room Divider
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
1970s organic modern polychromed three panel folding screen/room divider
Usa, Circa 1970s
A shapely 'roundel' example, fitted with three tapering panels each one with floating gree...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
Red Chinoiserie Bamboo Handpainted Fireplace Screen
Located in West Hartford, CT
Exquisite Chinese fireplace screen with a black lacquered bamboo frame inset with panels of handpainted cranes and flowers on a brilliant red background.
Category
Early 20th Century Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bamboo, Wood, Paint
Vintage 4 Panel Japanese Screen, Decorated on Both Sides
Located in Sheffield, MA
4 panel, decorated on both sides, each panel is 16" wide, height is 6 feet.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Set of 4 Decorative Faux Book Binding Doors / Screen
Located in Montreal, QC
Set of 4 decorative faux book binding / door screen
with molded decorative books.
Category
1980s Canadian Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Charles and Ray Eames Plywood Folding Screen / Divider, , F S 6, , , Herman Miller
Located in Buffalo, NY
Stunning vintage plywood divider by Charles and Ray Eames, for Herman Miller. Model “FSW-6” (folding screen wood) was designed and released to market in 1946. Consists of six adjusta...
Category
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Fabric, Plywood
"Carlton" Shelf or Room Divider by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis, Italy, 1981
Located in Miami, FL
Ettore Sottsass Carlton Shelf, 1981, by Memphis Italy, room divider in very good condition.
Iconic piece of contemporary Italian design, signed and numb...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Laminate, Wood
Midcentury Room Divider by Ludvik Volak for Drevopodnik Holesov, 1960s
Located in Lucenec, SK
Midcentury wall divider designed by Czech architect, Ludvik Volak and produced by Drevopodnik Holešov in the former Czechoslovakia in the 1960s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Plywood
18th Century French Painted and Decoupage Screen
Located in Doylestown, PA
A charming 6-panel screen or paravent, with whimsical floral and classical motifs, primarily oil on canvas with charming early decoupage in the top panels, classical dolphin motif in...
Category
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Paper
Rare Pair of Queen Anne Pole Screens
Located in Westwood, NJ
A rare pair of Queen Anne mahogany pole screens with urn finials and embroidered silk work depicting the eastern and western hemispheres of the world as of...
Category
18th Century American Queen Anne Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Silk
Four Fold Screen Original Painting by Mikel Dalbret Artist Vintage Room Divider
By Mikel Dalbret
Located in Mimizan, FR
Original one of a kind Screen signed Mikel Dalbret room divider.
Mikel Dalbret was born in Tunisia 1941 living and painting in the Pays Basque region of France since 1985 with exhibi...
Category
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Robert Crowder "Weeping Willows and Herons" Hand Painted Screen
Located in Locust Valley, NY
Hand painted four-panel screen by Robert Crowder, "Weeping Willows and Herons." Beautiful white herons and green willows painted on gold background. Lette...
Category
20th Century American Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Paint
Folding Screen Model 'Balla' by Giacomo Balla for Simon Gavina, Italy, 1971
Located in Brussels, BE
Folding screen model 'Balla' by Giacomo Balla for Simon Gavina, Italy, 1971.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Italian four-wing floral fabric screen, 1940s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian four-wing floral fabric screen, 1940s
Four-wing screen with floral pattern and curved legs in white painted wood
Foldable in both directions
Good conditions
Category
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Rattan Room Divider Screen, Partition, Italy, 1900s
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful and ancient screen in bamboo canes.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Other Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Exceptional 18th Century Flemish Paravant - Foldding Screen
Located in Atlanta, GA
An exceptional 18th century Flemish 4-panel paravant - foldding screen. Beautifully constructed from hand tooled leather with magnificent polychrome. The colors are spectacular. Wond...
Category
18th Century Belgian Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Leather
Vintage Plywood Screen by Charles & Ray Eames
Located in New York, NY
An early folding plywood screen by Charles and Ray Eames. Each wood panel is joined by off-white canvas hinges.
USA, circa 1950-1960.
Folds nearly flat for storage or transport.
L...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Stuart Travis Art Deco Painted Asian Style Folding Screen with Bird Scenery
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco period heavy wood folding screen hand-painted in Asian style in 1928 with a multitude of highly detailed birds in natural setting by American artist, illustrator, cartograph...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
19th Century Black Lacquer Chinese Folding Screen
Located in London, GB
This exquisite and highly ornate 19th century black lacquer Chinese folding screen features 6 panels, each depicting parts of a large outdoor scene...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Multi-gemstone
Japanese Handmade and Painted Four-Panel Screen
Located in Buchanan, NY
Interesting folding screen with a hand-painted floral scene on the front and contrasting geometric patterned backside. Handmade in Kyoto, Japan. This item is available for rental onl...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Rare Four-Panel Art Deco Bandstand or Screen of Famed "Trocadero" Cafe, 1930s
By Rock-Ola
Located in Buffalo, NY
Super rare Jazz -themed Art Deco Screen, made by Rockola. Original hand-painted Bandstand salvaged from the famous Trocadero Cafe' Sunset Strip. Late night French style club opened i...
Category
1930s American Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
Lacquer & Brass Divider by Frank Kyle
By Frank Kyle
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This striking and modernist three-panel screen finished in deep brown lacquer has raised brass patterning on both sides and is set on stylish brass feet. Designed and manufactured b...
Category
1950s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Colorful Carved and Parcel Gilt Geometric Design Four-Panel Screen
Located in Chicago, IL
Carved wood and parcel-gilt four-panel screen with muted lacquer coloring of persimmon, teal, black and taupe. The back is finished as well in black lacquer with carved and lacquered...
Category
1960s American Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Late 18th C Scottish Regency Fire Screen with Needlepoint
Located in Charleston, SC
A late-18th century Regency mahogany fire screen, circa 1790, with needle point screen on a carved Cuban mahogany stand.
Category
Late 18th Century Scottish Regency Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Mahogany
Carved Oak Screen
Located in New York, NY
Unusual English four-panelled screen. Oak framing with decorative frette work of stylized flowers crowned by carved scroll top piece. Each panel: 83" H x 3...
Category
19th Century English Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Antique and Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Whether they are implemented as decorative accents or makeshift partitions to ensure privacy, antique and vintage folding screens and room dividers easily introduce sophistication and depth to any space in your home.
The earliest examples of folding screens are said to have originated in China and go back at least as far as the Han dynasty. Screens of the era were heavy structures made of wood and had hinges of cloth or leather. They were adorned with elaborate landscape paintings that were typically created on silk or paper canvases and applied directly to the screen’s panels afterward. Just as they had been in the 20th century and today, the folding screens then were recognized for both their practical and purely decorative properties.
Japanese room-divider screens were also decorated with paintings but constructed to be lightweight and mobile. They took on considerable event-based importance when the structures gained popularity in the East Asian country, as the folding screens were used in performing arts such as concerts, tea ceremonies and more. Later, artists elsewhere warmed to folding screens and sought to create their own.
In European countries such as France, where they were known as paravent, folding screens began to materialize in apartments in Paris, gaining favor with the likes of pioneering couturier Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who is said to have accrued more than 30 and used them as a precursor to what we now know as wallpaper.
On 1stDibs, find a wide range of antique and vintage folding screens and room dividers, which, given their history, may do a better job of bringing people and cultures together in your home than sectioning off a space. Search by material to find options in metal, fabric or wood, or browse by style for mid-century modern designs and examples from the Art Deco era.
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