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Screens and Room Dividers For Sale
Period: Mid-20th Century
Period: 1950s
Vintage Wrought Iron Adjustable Display Easel / Painting Stand in Romantic Style
Located in Lisse, NL
Hand-forged in the midcentury era easel stand.
If you are looking for different than normal and decorative at the same time then this vintage wrought iron easel could be perfect for you. Hand-forged out of iron, casually painted white and decorated with stylized metal flower brackets, this highly practical and open design easel brings just that extra bit of 'joie de vivre' that your living space or gallery might need. It is very easy to fold open and it stands perfectly strong and firm on its circular, flat metal feet. The chain holding the backrest in place, makes it perfectly safe also. In our images all the stylized flowers that hold the paintings are on the easel, but you would normally only use two for holding one painting. However, there is the possibility of having more paintings or drawings (or menus) on display. By unscrewing the butterfly nuts...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Romantic Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
Art Deco Wrought Iron Fire Screen
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Art Deco wrought iron fire screen, with golden antelope, double sided.
Measures: Thickness 1.5cm.
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
Tall Midcentury Bookcase '1 of 3'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Part of a 3-piece set. Mid-Century Modern design with walnut grain throughout, sculpted handles.
(Please confirm item location - NY or NJ - with dealer).
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Walnut
1970s Chinese Lacquered Folding Screen with Nacre Inlay Asian Motifs
Located in Marbella, ES
1970s Chinese lacquered folding screen with mother of pearl inlay Asian motifs.
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
1970s Chinese Lacquered Folding Screen with Nacre Inlay Asian Motifs
Located in Marbella, ES
1970s Chinese lacquered folding screen with mother of pearl inlay Asian motifs.
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
French Art Deco Neoclassical Style Wrought Iron Fireplace Screen with Arrows
Located in Houston, TX
French Art Deco Neoclassical style wrought iron fireplace screen with Arrows.
Beautiful period French Art Deco Neoclassical style wrought iron fireplace screen or fire screen with ar...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
1940s Birch Conveyor Belt Room Screen
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A room divider or screen fashioned from a birch conveyor belt, the birch slats joined by riveted bands of leather.
Category
1940s American Industrial Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
Gilt Metal Midcentury French Partition Screen
Located in Copenhagen K, DK
Stunning and fairy-tale-like room divider/screen from France, in gilt metal. Five panels with wonderful ornamental details and a perfect addition to many an interior. Gorgeous patina.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
Sensational Turquoise Scrubbed Wood and Caned 3 Panel Screen
Located in Hopewell, NJ
A stunning 3 panel screen having turquoise Caribbean blue painted scrubbed wood frame and feet with natural colored caning on the panels.
71” H middle panel
68” H side panels.
Category
1940s French Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Cane, Wood
Room Divider by Fred Leyman
By Fred Leyman
Located in Stockholm, SE
Spectacular sculptural room divider by Fred Leyman, custom-made for Majorna Library in Gothenburg in 1963. This piece is one of four that are each unique, made from wrought iron and hardened leather. The room dividers were granted substantial public interest and the studies for them were subsequently exhibited at Liljevalchs Konsthall in 1966. They were returned to the artist in the 1990s and acquired by Nordlings from the Leyman family in 2016.
Fred Leyman was a Swedish artist, schooled at the renowned Valand Art Academy in Gothenburg during the 1950s. Leyman worked in a distinctly modernist style influenced by the international modernist movement, music, political ideas and the environment in which he lived. He is best known for his around 40 large-scale sculptures erected in public spaces in Gothenburg and other parts of southwestern Sweden.
Fred Leyman lived on the island of Orust with his wife and children, in accordance with what he found to be ”a good life” close to nature on a small farm with sheep and horses. He was also deeply interested in music, particularly traditional folk music. Both the open, marine landscape of Orust and the rhytmical qualitites in music were vital forces in his artistry and in the development of his personal style. Leyman used iron and steel and sometimes wood and leather in his sculptures. These are characterized by sharp and billowing graphic lines and the use of negative space, seemingly always reaching somewhere. It is an expression striking the perfect balance between abstract and concrete.
Leyman’s materials of choice were particularly suitable for large and sustainable...
Category
1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
Vintage Industrial Room Divider
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This gorgeous vintage modern screen features a unique metal designed frame. Makes a great addition to any home of office.
(Please confirm item locati...
Category
1960s Industrial Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Room Divider by Vittorio Borrachia, Italy, 1955
Located in Barcelona, ES
Vittorio Borrachia
Room Divider
Manufactured by Vittorio Borrachia
Italy 1955
Larch wood, formica
Measurements:
280 cm x 44 cm x 300h cm
110.23 in x 17.32 in x 118.11
P...
Category
1950s European Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Formica, Wood
Six-Panel Tapestry Upholstered Screen, France, 1940s
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Colorful six-panel folding screen or room divider. Each wood panel is clad in a vivid wool tapestry and framed with blue velvet. Decorative brass nailhead trim. The other side is pla...
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Extraordinary and Important Four-Panel Antique Mirrored Screen
Located in East Hampton, NY
So many details to this beauty. Starting with the mirror on mirror wainscoat, diamond shape design bottom half, faux marble finish on the base. Each t...
Category
1930s French Romantic Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Mirror
French Mid-Century Modern Neoclassical Faux Bamboo Gilt Iron Screen by Bagues
Located in New York, NY
French Mid-Century Modern neoclassical screen / room divider in gilt wrought iron faux bamboo by Maison Baguès, circa 1940-1950. The elegant piece i...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
3 Panel Hand Painted Rare Papier Mâché Screen
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
3 panel hand painted rare papier mâché folding screen.
Superfine handmade papier mâché old stock screen from Kashmir with intricate facets and 18-kar...
Category
1960s Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Other
Bernard Steffen "Persian Panorama" Tri-Fold Wood Screen, Bernard Steffen Denmark
By Georg Jensen
Located in Buffalo, NY
"Persian Panorama" Folkart, tri-fold screen or room divider serigraphed by Bernard Steffen, designed by Georg Jensen, Denmark, Limited production. Numb...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Folk Art Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Maximalist Four-Panel Hand Painted Screen, After Jean Cocteau, 1950s
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Miami, FL
A striking surrealist hand painted floor screen comprised of four canvas panels with profiles centering a "visage de faune" (faun's face), a...
Category
1950s French Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Tall Midcentury Bookcase '1 of 3'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid-Century Modern bookcase with drawer storage and fold down desk/cabinet.
Part of a 3 piece unit.
(Please confirm item location - NY or NJ - with dealer).
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Walnut
Large Paris Opera Tromp L'Oeil 4 Panel Theatrical / Decorative Screen, 1940
Located in New York, NY
Large French painted Tromp L'Oeil 4 Panel Theatrical / Decorative Screen from the Paris Opera Ballet, circa 1940.
The screen is an elegant presentation of a classical scene featuring 2 twisted columns and rustication from a Renaissance building flanking an open cartouche with the image of towers in the distance. The piece stands at an impressive height of 92" and each panel is 14" wide.
Provenance: Paris Opera Ballet, Paris, France.
References: Choreographers or Principal Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet have included Rudolph Nuryvev, Maurice Bejart, Pina Bausch.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Neoclassical Revival Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Tall Midcentury Bookcase '1 of 3'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid-Century Modern walnut bookcase with cabinet storage. Part of a 3 piece unit.
(Please confirm item location - NY or NJ - with dealer).
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Walnut
Mid-Century Modern Brutalist Abstract Room Divider Screen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Striking, Mid-Century Modern, Brutalist, abstract, room divider or screen comprised of three 20 inch, painted aluminium panels that feature centre rings within the design to hold ves...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Aluminum
Room Divider by Fred Leyman
By Fred Leyman
Located in Stockholm, SE
Spectacular sculptural room divider by Fred Leyman, custom-made for Majorna Library in Gothenburg in 1963. This piece is one of four that are each unique, made from wrought iron and hardened leather. The room dividers were granted substantial public interest and the studies for them were subsequently exhibited at Liljevalchs Konsthall in 1966. They were returned to the artist in the 1990s and acquired by Nordlings from the Leyman family in 2016.
Fred Leyman was a Swedish artist, schooled at the renowned Valand Art Academy in Gothenburg during the 1950s. Leyman worked in a distinctly modernist style influenced by the international modernist movement, music, political ideas and the environment in which he lived. He is best known for his around 40 large-scale sculptures erected in public spaces in Gothenburg and other parts of southwestern Sweden.
Fred Leyman lived on the island of Orust with his wife and children, in accordance with what he found to be ”a good life” – close to nature on a small farm with sheep and horses. He was also deeply interested in music, particularly traditional folk music. Both the open, marine landscape of Orust and the rhythmical qualities in music were vital forces in his artistry and in the development of his personal style. Leyman used iron and steel and sometimes wood and leather in his sculptures. These are characterized by sharp and billowing graphic lines and the use of negative space, seemingly always reaching somewhere. It is an expression striking the perfect balance between abstract and concrete.
Leyman’s materials of choice were particularly suitable for large and sustainable...
Category
1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
1950s Three-Panel Folding Screen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vienna Werkstatte style screen, circa 1950, in gold and silver leaf with red lacquer background and multi-colored decoration. Double-sided with diffe...
Category
1950s Austrian Vienna Secession Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
Fabric Collage Floor Screen by Rose Lautman
Located in Hanover, MA
Rose Lautman, worked exclusively in fabric collage with a meticulous hand and a fine needle.
Rose's artwork was exhibited in galleries primarily in Sara...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Fabric
Decorative Wooden Screen with Carved Koi Carp Fish, 1940s
Located in Den Haag, NL
Decorative wooden screen with carved koi carp fish, 1940s.
Category
1940s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Arthur Umanoff Three-Panel Folding Screen in Yellow
Located in New York, NY
A screen and room divider by designer Arthur Umanoff, produced circa 1950s, in welded and enameled metal with three folding panels, composed of cut-out baluster rails and ball form f...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
20th Century French Bulletin Board with Lyre Legs Style
Located in Miami, FL
20th century French bulletin board with lyre legs.
Blue felt for stick notes.
Category
Mid-20th Century Spanish Spanish Colonial Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Wrought Iron and Wood Mediterranean Modern Folding Screen or Divider
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wrought iron and wood (balls) Mediterranean Modern folding screen or divider. Wonderful bronzed verde green patina, bi-fold, hand delivery availab...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
Rare Salvador Fiume Four-Panel Screen
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Rare Salvador Fiume Surrealist four-panel screen
Signed and dated.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
"Sailors and Mermaids, " Stunning, Unique Screen, France
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This stunning assemblage of 12 Art Deco paintings, depicting mythological and 1930s contemporary themes, all in oil on canvas, have been set into a walnut folding screen...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Paint
Vladimir Kagan Architectural Louvered & Illuminated Room Divider with COA, 1967
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An incredibly rare louvered and illuminated room divider in solid walnut floating over a cylindrical brass foot, custom-designed by Vladimir Kagan circa 1967. Six sculptural, marquise-shaped slats are angled at 45 degrees to the frame and flank the light box which houses a single 6-foot fluorescent bulb.
Authenticated by and registered with the Vladimir Kagan Design Group, this piece is offered to the collector with all corresponding documents including certificate of authenticity, company letter, related archival photos, and numbered registration plaque. While their archivists have seen similar slatted dividers that Kagan designed (see last image in this listing), they’d not seen one with an incorporated lighting element before and thus feel that this example may well be one-of-a-kind or, at the very least, from a strictly limited run.
That said, it seems that this general concept of combining lighting with room partitioning...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
1960s Black Rattan Screen
Located in L'Escala, ES
Beautiful and rare geometric black rattan screen manufactured in France in 1960s.
In perfect vintage condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Rattan
Chinoiserie Gilt Metal Faux Bamboo Folding Screen Attributed to Maison Baguès
Located in Stamford, CT
Midcentury chinoiserie gilt metal bamboo three-panel folding screen attributed to Maison Bagues. Heavy, very well made cast brass bamboo with painted gilt finish.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
"Three" Panel Rattan Screen with Inserted Woven Grass Panels for Privacy
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
"Three" panel rattan screen with woven grass panels for privacy with brass hardware.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
1940s French Lacquered Screen
Located in Cathedral City, CA
French red and black lacquered four panel screen with gold trim finish.
Category
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Art Deco Fire Screen
By Paul Kiss
Located in Sagaponack, NY
An Art Deco wrought iron fire screen having hammered and gilded surface work and a central motif depicting a vase holding a bouquet of flowers. Attributed to French master metalworke...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
Elegant Pair of French Sycomore Folding Screens in the manner of Maxime Old
By André Arbus
Located in Montreal, QC
Important pair of sycomore room dividers/ screens in the manner of Maxime Old, decorated with losange shape mouldings, fitted with nickel plated hinges and mounts . These where cust...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Sycamore
Engraved Pink Tinted Glass Panel, circa 1940
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Engraved pink tinted glass panel, circa 1940.
Category
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Glass
Salvador Corona Folding 4 Panel Floor Screen of Patzcuaro, Acapulco circa 1938
Located in Camden, ME
Salvador Corona painted four-panel wooden floor screen created in his studio in Mexico circa 1938.
This rare hand crafted multi medium room divider was the property of the daughter of one of Mexico's wealthiest families of the period, who married the head of an international railroad supply company in their Warren McArthur furnished apartment on Park Avenue.
The custom designed Warren McArthur furniture was a gift of the Pullman Company.
In the early 1950s she opened a shop in Boothbay, Maine and later on upper Lexington Avenue specializing in the crafts of Mexico.
This may have been a wedding present to her from the artist, her family or a close friend.
The screen shows a the harbor of 19th Century Acapulco with the major buildings with gold leaf tiled roofs, Spanish galleons in the bay, a whale spouting in the distance, birds, and silver leafed palm trees .
The harbor scene is bordered in gilt painted cord. Within which are appliquéd cutout medallions of various local fish and air bubbles covered in tinfoil ,a new material in the 30s. The tinfoil is finely etched in a variety of intricate patterns. Some of the appliqués are glazed in gold.
The reverse side of the screen is an ivory white back ground with vignettes from the Maximilian era of Mexico.
The screen is in good condition with wear consistent with its age.
Salvador Corona was born on his family's ranch Hacienda Mideras in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Corona’s family moved to Mexico City in 1903 when he was 8. He attended the New English College in Mexico and then crossed into a career in bull fighting entering the ring for the first time in 1913. In 1919 in Guadalajara he was gored and turned to painting.
He was given his first painting lessons by fellow bullfighter Jose Jimenez.
Corona’s painting career spanned many decades and diverse formats including murals, furniture and decorative household items.
In 1939, the Mexican government invited him to exhibit a set of painted furniture at it's booth at the World’s Fair in New York City. There, it was presented to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a gift. Corona’s work attracted many famous patrons, including the Duchess of Windsor, Gary Cooper and writer Clare Booth Luce.
Salvador Corona’s work featured many Spanish Colonial vignettes, and he became an authority on Spanish and French costumes of the 1800s, which are frequently depicted in his paintings. His favorite subjects often included Mexican Colonial criollos and Purepecha (Tarascan) Indians. Birds and other animals feature prominently in his work.
His traditional self-developed folk art style images depicted pastoral colorful scenes of Maximilian era Mexico painted on white backgrounds.
His work can be divided into three categories: a vice-regal era with European and Creole noblemen mixed with Indians; stylized landscapes of Patscuaro, Acapulco or the Canal of Santa Anita; and his iconographic Mexican Virgins...
Category
1930s Mexican Rancho Monterey Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Foil, Gold Leaf
Engraved Pink Tinted Glass Panel, circa 1940
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Engraved pink tinted glass panel, circa 1940.
Little splinter on the bottom (see picture) but not visible when assembled.
Category
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Glass
Decorative Mid-Century Modern Artisan Iron and Glass Screen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Brilliant and uniquely constructed, artisan free-standing wrought iron screen. Acquired from the original owner, this stunning decorative arts piece was purchased back in the early 1...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Steel
Tennessee Williams "Wisteria" Folding Screen by Charles Hollis Jones
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful Lucite folding screen designed by Charles Hollis Jones in 1968 for Tennessee William as part of the "Wisteria" line.
The folding screen is executed in tinted green Lucit...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Andrianna Shamaris Sumatra Palm Screen
Located in New York, NY
Hand-carved screen sculpted from a hollowed out Sumatra palm tree with incredible width. Great as a room divider or as an outdoor shower partisan.
Andrianna Shamaris, Inc. The Leade...
Category
1950s Organic Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Reclaimed Wood, Wood
Pair of American Art Moderne Faux Painted 3 Fold screens
Located in New York, NY
Pair of American Art Moderne (1940s) rust painted faux woven rush 3 fold screens with diamond design (priced as a Pair)
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
"Peacock in Garden of Clouds, " Spectacular Art Deco Lucite Screen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Quite extraordinary and probably unique, this hand-painted folding screen depicts -- on each side -- a peacock striding among flowers in a trellised garden, with clouds at every leve...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Lucite
Large "Ganesh & Parvati" Painted Iron Screens, India, circa 1950s
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Delightful pair of large iron screens, depicting the Hindu deities Parvati and Ganesh.
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Screens and Room Dividers
"Bathers, " Brilliant Late Art Deco Folding Screen in Pointillist Manner, 1958
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A vivid example of late Art Deco painting, executed in a pointillist manner, this four-panel screen was created by John Sennhauser, a Swiss-born artist who was active in New York fro...
Category
1950s American Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Mid-Century French Rollin Gilt 4-Fold Screen
Located in New York, NY
French 1940s 4 fold gilt wood framed screen with a gilt bronze inset frame over a white moire with a star design. (attributed to LUCIEN ROLLIN)
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Giltwood
c.1930 Mediterranean Resort Painted Steel Screen
Located in Chicago, IL
Unique resort furniture with floral motifs once dominated the Mediterranean coast, where it was very popular with visitors and locals alike. Made from steel with original paint, these screens were utilized as mobile dressing areas when dressed with fabric. Today they are wonderful accents from a past romantic era...
Category
1930s French Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
Alvar Aalto, Wooden Room Divider, Late 1960s, Artek
Located in Helsinki, FI
The 100 slatted wall / room divider by Alvar Aalto is a dynamic interior element assembled from narrow vertical pine slats and can be rolled up and opened as a straight or in numerou...
Category
1960s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Pine
Room Divider Screen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Unique black and white room divider. Great accent piece or changing screen.
Location: Brooklyn NY.
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bamboo
Rare Pine Screen / Room Divider, Sweden, 1960s/70s
Located in London, GB
A rare pine screen / room divider, Sweden, 1960s/70s. In good condition with minor signs of age and wear relative to age and use. The screen curves and bends and can be put in variou...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Pine
French parchment folding screen circa 1960
Located in PARIS, FR
Élégant French folding screen in Parchment circa 1960
4 panels L 50 cm each
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Parchment Paper
Folding Screen, Rattan and Woven Wicker 3 Panel
Located in Van Nuys, CA
The Folding Screen with Rattan and Woven Wicker panels is a charming 3-panel room divider featuring butterfly hinges for easy folding and storage. Crafted with natural rattan and int...
Category
1940s Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Rattan
Stunning large room divider designed and manufactured in France during the 1950s
Located in Antwerp, BE
Stunning large room divider designed and manufactured in France during the 1950s. This Modernist divider is made out of solid oak and features a series of six individually rotatable ...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Oak
Copper and Chrome "Skyscraper" Andirons by Donald Deskey
Located in Oakland, CA
An Art Deco Pair of “Skyscraper” Andirons designed by Donald Deskey, famed designer of Radio City Music Hall as well as hundreds of furnishings,household decorative objects and graph...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Copper, Chrome
Japan 4 piece panel room divider ''underwater world'' 1950s
By Zhang Daqian
Located in Den Haag, NL
Very nice 4 piece Table Screen / Divider . Underwater world .
complete with Gold Fish . Beautiful color . silkscreen
Category
1950s Japanese Chinoiserie Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Paper
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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