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Screens and Room Dividers For Sale
Period: Mid-20th Century
Period: 1920s
Important Room Divider by Michel De Klerk
By Michel De Klerk
Located in Antwerp, BE
Important room divider with significant detailing of the Dutch 'Amsterdamse School' period.
Michel De Klerk might be the most renowned architect of this early 20th century period....
Category
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
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
Edgar Brandt Inspired Wrought Iron Screen or Room Divider
Located in Houston, TX
Edgar Brandt inspired wrought iron screen or room divider.
Fabulous one of a kind antique Neoclassical style three-panel hand forged heavy weight wrought iron screen or room divider,...
Category
1920s Unknown Neoclassical Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
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
Three-panel screen in carved wood and Vienna straw, 1920s.
Located in Roma, RM
Three-panel screen in carved wood and Vienna straw, 1920s.
Product details
Dimensions: 200 W x 180 H x 3 D cm
Category
1920s Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Straw, Wood
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
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
Mid-Century Room Dividers by L. Volak for Drevopodnik Holesov, 1960s, Set of 2
By Ludvik Volak
Located in Żory, PL
This room divider was designed by Ludvik Volák for Dřevopodnik Holešov in the 1960s.
Made of bent, veneered plywood. These room dividers have been completely restored, varnished in a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Plywood
Large Italian Gilt Metal Faux Bamboo Screen Room Divider
Located in Miami, FL
a large faux bamboo metal screen.
Category
1950s Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
Charles and Ray Eames; Vintage FSW-6 Room Screen, Early Production, 1946
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
Charles and Ray Eames FSW-6 folding room screen, designed in 1946. The original production examples used a canvas webbing as in this example. Mult...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
1950s Vintage Police Work Road Blocks Rat Rod Garage Shop Hazard Traffic Signs
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Vintage Industrial steel road block/traffic cop construction blockade. Decor for hotrod greaser garage or man-cave. Made in USA, circa 1950s. Fair Vintage C...
Category
1950s American Industrial Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Steel
40's Deco Folding 4 Panel Privacy Screen or Room Divider w/ Inset Cream Fabric
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Deco Folding Privacy Screen with Stylized Black Iron Frame. Four Folding Panels each with Inset Cream Fabric, Fabric, not original to the screen...
Category
1940s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Iron
Danish Teak Single Column Wall Unit Room Divider by Hans Wegner
Located in Kensington, MD
Danish Teak Single Column Wall Unit / Room Divider by Hans Wegner
Use alone or add to your wall system with this single column in teak designed by Hans...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Teak
Hans Wegner Danish Teak Single Column Wall Unit / Room Divider with Display Case
Located in Kensington, MD
Hans Wegner Danish Teak Single Column Wall Unit / Room Divider with Display Case
Additional information:
Material: Teak
Featured at DC
Use alone o...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Teak
Beautiful 4 Panel Coromandel Asian Screen
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Glamorous 4 panel accordian Asian Coromandel screen having carved, painted and gilded figural decoration. The back side is also finished with s...
Category
1950s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Scandinavian Modern Room Divider in Beech and Rattan
Located in Valby, 84
Rare Scandinavian Modern Room Divider in Beech and Rattan made in Scandinavia in the 1960s.
This room divider has a frame made of dark stained beechwood and with panels made of ra...
Category
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Rattan, Beech
Etched Glass and Eglomise Three Panel Skyscraper Style Art Deco Divider
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a superb skyscraper style French Art deco dressing screen. The screen is deeply etched in multiple depths and has a variety of themese ranging from waves to floral patterns and chevron shapes. The screen is in superb condition and seems to have no signs of age or wear besides the bronze hinges which do have patina. This is a fantastic piece of decorative...
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Rare Vivai Del Sud Mirrored Screen / Room Divider, Italy, 1970s
Located in London, GB
Rare Vivai Del Sud mirrored screen divider, Italy, 1970s. In good original condition with some signs of age and wear relative to age and ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Rattan, Wood
Pair of Brutalist Style Modernist Bronzed Patinated Cast Aluminium Room Dividers
Located in Montreal, QC
Pair of brutalist style modernist bronzed patinated cast aluminium room dividers.
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Aluminum
Half-Size FSW-6 Screen by Charles and Ray Eames
Located in New York, NY
Half-size FSW-6 screen in ash plywood and canvas. Designed by Charles and Ray Eames and manufactured by Herman Miller, Zeeland, MI, circa 1948. Unmarked.
Category
Mid-20th Century German Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas, Plywood
Byōbu of Japanese Screens, 1930s
Located in Brussels , BE
The Byobu of Japanese screens, 1930s.
The Byobu folding Japanese screens "wind wall" are Japanese screens composed of 4 to 6 panels painted wit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Paper
Pinewood Room Divider Model 100 by Alvar Aalto for Artek, Finland, 1940s
By Alvar Aalto, Artek
Located in Praha 2, Hlavní město Praha
Rare pinewood room divider model 100 designed by Alvar Aalto for Artek in Finland, 1940s.
This rare room divider, designed by renowned Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto and...
Category
1940s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Pine
Vintage Interwoven Mahogany Four Panel Screen
Located in New York, NY
Intricately designed vintage mahogany four panel screen with interwoven design.
Total Width when fully extended is 64". Each individual panel is W 15.75".
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Mahogany
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
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
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
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...
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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...
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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
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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