Screens and Room Dividers
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Canvas, Wood
Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Canvas, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Beech
Early 20th Century Scandinavian Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Iron
20th Century European Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Gold Leaf
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Velvet, Oak
Early 20th Century Spanish Baroque Screens and Room Dividers
Wrought Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Baroque Screens and Room Dividers
Crystal, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Argentine Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Iron
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Lacquer
19th Century Baroque Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Bronze
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Hardwood, Fruitwood
1960s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Metal, Brass
Late 20th Century French Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Fabric, Wood
20th Century French Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Paint, Giltwood
2010s Italian Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Brass
1960s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Chrome
Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
20th Century American Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Glass, Maple
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Brass, Wrought Iron
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Oak, Glass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Wrought Iron
Mid-19th Century French Art Deco Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Ironstone
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Wrought Iron
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Wrought Iron
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Wrought Iron
Early 20th Century Dutch Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Wood, Pine
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Iron, Wrought Iron
20th Century French Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Fabric
18th Century German Baroque Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Paint, Canvas
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Giltwood, Upholstery
20th Century American Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Metal
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Paint
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Wrought Iron
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Sycamore
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Lucite
1950s American Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Giltwood
1990s Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Lacquer
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Copper, Chrome
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Brass
2010s American Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Straw
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
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.