Regency Home Accents
REGENCY STYLE
Like France’s Empire style, Regency-style furniture was rooted in neoclassicism; the characteristics of its bedroom furniture, armchairs, dining room tables and other items include clean lines, angular shapes and elegant details.
Dating roughly from the 1790s to 1830s, antique Regency-style furniture gets its name from Prince George of Wales — formally King George IV — who became Prince Regent in 1811 after his father, George III, was declared unfit to rule. England’s Regency style is one of the styles represented in Georgian furniture.
George IV’s arts patronage significantly influenced the development of the Regency style, such as the architectural projects under John Nash, which included the renovation of Buckingham House into the formidable Buckingham Palace with a grand neoclassical facade. Celebrated designers of the period include Thomas Sheraton, Henry Holland and Thomas Hope. Like Nash, Hope instilled his work with classical influences, such as saber-legged chairs based on the ancient Greek klismos. He is credited with introducing the term “interior decoration” to English with the 1807 publishing of Household Furniture and Interior Decoration.
Although more subdued than previous styles like Rococo and Baroque, Regency interiors incorporated copious use of chintz fabrics and wallpaper adorned in chinoiserie-style art. Its furniture featured fine materials and luxurious embellishments. Furniture maker George Bullock, for instance, regularly used detailed wood marquetry and metal ornaments on his pieces.
Archaeological discoveries in Egypt and Greece informed Regency-era details, such as carved scrollwork, sphinxes and palmettes, as well as the shape of furniture. A Roman marble cinerary chest, for example, would be reinterpreted into a wooden cabinet. The Napoleonic Wars also inspired furniture, with martial designs like tented beds and camp-style chairs becoming popular. While the reddish-brown mahogany was prominent in this range of pieces, imported woods like zebrawood and ebony were increasingly in demand.
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Style: Regency
Vintage 19th Century Regency Gilt Swag Folding Screen
Located in west palm beach, FL
A fabulous 19th Century vintage folding screen. Stunning carved swag detail and inset silk jacquard panels. A wreath of laurels with a mirrored panel at the top. Acquired from a Palm...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Silk
Vintage Pair of Giltwood and Mirror Obelisks
Located in west palm beach, FL
A fabulous pair of vintage giltwood and mirror obelisks in gold and black. Each obelisks is two separate pieces. The top is attached to the bottom. Acquired at a Palm Beach estate.
Category
Late 20th Century North American Regency Home Accents
Materials
Gold
Pair of Regency Giltwood Pole Screens with Hand-Tinted Engravings
Located in New York, NY
Each columnar upright surmounted by an urn finial and supporting an adjustable octagonal firescreen inset with a period colored engraving depicting figures in Classical settings, app...
Category
1790s English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
Regency Style Mahogany Library Steps
Located in Essex, MA
Typical form with green leather treads and turned tapered legs.
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Vintage Regency Brass Gladiator Helmet Bookends, a Pair
Located in west palm beach, FL
A fabulous pair of vintage Regency bookends. Chic brass gladiator helmets in a high polish finish. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.
Category
Mid-20th Century North American Regency Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Regency Style Walnut Library Steps
Located in Clermont, FL
Regency style solid wood library steps. Beautifully carved, three steps are supported by tapered legs and a reeded column back. Finish is a medium brown walnut stain, with patina sho...
Category
19th Century British Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Very Fine Vintage Hardwood Green Leather Side Table Metamorphic Library Steps
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this sublime Regency style metamorphic library steps into a side table with green leather top and step grips
This is an important and sophistic...
Category
Early 20th Century English Regency Home Accents
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
English Regency Style Metamorphic Library Table with Leather Lined Steps
Located in San Francisco, CA
An English mahogany Regency style metamorphic library table with a brown tooled leather top opening to become a set of library stairs with 4 gilt-tooled leather treads supported on turned legs. This type of metamorphic furniture...
Category
Early 20th Century English Regency Home Accents
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Regency Style Leather and Brass Stick Ladder
Located in Essex, MA
Folds into a stick. Wood core covered in brown leather with brass tacks. Hook latch to keep it closed. When closed its 91 inches high. Rungs are 9.25 inches wide.
Category
Early 20th Century English Regency Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Vintage English Mahogany and Leather Library Step Ladder on Casters
Located in Dallas, TX
This Regency step-ladder was created in England, circa 1950. Built of mahogany, the three stairs cabinet sits on small, fluted and tapered legs ending with brass wheels; both sides a...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Regency Home Accents
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Fine Pair of Regency Palisander Tapestry Fire Screens
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Fine pair of regency palisander fire screens circa 1820.
Fine piece of early 19th century design. Screens hold up with friction and are adjustable. Striking palisander with good c...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Palisander
Vintage Regency Wrought Iron Gate Screen
Located in west palm beach, FL
Fabulous vintage Regency wrought iron gate screen. Beautiful pair of free standing panels in a pale gold. Perfect as a room divider, garden trelli...
Category
Mid-20th Century North American Regency Home Accents
Materials
Gold, Wrought Iron
Regency 19th Century Pair of Rosewood Fire Screens
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
An exceptionally fine quality pair of regency rosewood fire screens, of very unusual design, having exceptional carved decoration to frames, enclo...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Rosewood
Regency Lane’s Pocket Globe, Dated 1818
By Lane's
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A 3 ½ inch Regency Lane’s pocket globe, dated 1818, the terrestrial globe with the seas in light green and the land masses outlined in darker green, contained within a hinged black shagreen case, the concave interior of the case applied with the engraved celestial charts...
Category
1810s English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Burr Walnut Brown Leather Regency Metamorphic Reading Armchair to Library Steps
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this pair of large and collectable Regency style metamorphic armchair which converts into Library steps after the original 18th century design by Gillows of Lancaster with Burr Walnut panels
A very good looking and well made pair, I have never seen a Regency style piece with Burr Walnut panels before, the leather seat pads have been restored by my leather polishers, they have been hand dyed six times, antiqued and sealed
The period 1800-1825 was a great one for ‘patent’ or ‘metamorphic’ furniture This chair, which transforms into a short set of steps for use with bookshelves, is close to a design for a ‘Library Chair’ published in Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of the Arts in July 1811, which was made by the London firm of Morgan and Saunders, of Catherine Street, Strand.
They were well known for their ingenious furniture, including reading chairs with writing surfaces attached and a great variety of travelling beds...
Category
18th Century English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Spiral Library Steps
Located in Sturminster Marshall, Dorset
Two matching (one right hand, one left hand), fine Georgian design spiral design library steps with turned hand pole support, column decoration and inset leather treads.
We are curr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Regency Home Accents
Materials
Leather, Wood
Empire Parcel Gilt Mahogany Fire Screen
Located in Morristown, NJ
19th c., France. Substantial double sided fire screen. A mahogany rectangular frame is relief carved with parcel gilt bellflower borders and sides. The screen has a double sided prin...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Wood, Mahogany, Giltwood
English Regency Style Gilt Metal 3 Compartment Bird Cage
Located in New York, NY
English Regency style bird cage with gilt metal bars and structure, two domed upper cages and one large rectangular cage with finial decor, stretcher base, and pull out drawers benea...
Category
20th Century Regency Home Accents
Materials
Metal
19th Century Regency Painted Pole Screens, a Pair, The Betty Seeler Collection
Located in Morristown, NJ
A pair of fine English Regency painted pole screens from The Elizabeth Seeler Collection. 19th c., one depicting a young man, the other a young woman, bo...
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Wood, Mahogany, Paint
Fine Pair of Regency Period Pole Screens
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
A superb pair of regency pole screens of elegant design with gilt metal appliqués to the grained rosewood stands and cast paw feet.
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Fine Pair of Floor Globes by J & G Cary, Dated 1820 and 1833
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A fine pair of 15 inch floor globes by J & G Cary, dated 1820 and 1833, each set into a mahogany stand with a vase shaped support and three legs centred on a compass, one with a labe...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Adjustable Fire Screen, Walnut, Needlepoint, Decorative, Pole, Regency
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique adjustable fire screen. An English, walnut and needlepoint decorative pole screen, dating to the Regency period, circa 1820.
A screen with beautiful carved craf...
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Walnut
Pair of Table Globes by J & W Newton, Dated 1820
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of 12 inch table globes by J & W Newton, dated 1820, each with 12 hand coloured gores, graduated meridian rings, set within ebonised stands with three turned legs. The terrest...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Wood
English Regency Style 19th Century Carved Oak 2-Fold Screen
Located in New York, NY
English Regency style (19th Century) carved oak 2 fold screen with dolphin and scroll design.
Category
19th Century Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Oak
Regency Rosewood Book Tray Attributed to Gillows
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Regency rosewood book tray, circa 1815, attributed to Gillows, the turned spindle three quarter gallery incorporating a pair of pierced handles, above the ...
Category
19th Century British Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Rosewood
Beckford Bed Steps
Located in Sturminster Marshall, Dorset
A finely craved and decorated pair of bed steps in mahogany with leather inset treads and column supports.
We are currently working to a 30-36 week lead time.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Regency Home Accents
Materials
Wood, Leather
Pair of English Regency Birdseye Maple Pole Screens
Located in Stamford, CT
Pair of English Regency pole screens in bird’s-eye maple, circa 1815. The piece also features floral motifs. Please note of wear consistent with ag...
Category
1810s English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Birdseye Maple
Antique, Pole Screen, Regency, Fire Screen, Needlepoint, Tapestry, circa 1820
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique pole screen, an English, Regency fire screen with needlepoint tapestry panel dating to the early 19th century, circa 1815.
Ra...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Rosewood
English 1815 Regency Camphor Wood and Leather Trunk with Painted Floral Decor
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English painted Regency period camphor wood trunk from the early 19th century, with hand painted floral decor. Born in England during the Regency period, this exquisite camphor wo...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Tiger or Lion Cat Paw Decorative Object or Bookend the Regency Style
Located in New York, NY
A substantial tiger or lion cat animal paw decorative object sculpture or bookend, in the Regency design style, circa late-20th century. Piece is a nice size and well-defined. Dimens...
Category
Late 20th Century Regency Home Accents
Materials
Composition
Antique Pole Screen, English, Regency, Fire Screen, Rosewood, Crewelwork
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique pole screen, an English, Regency fire screen in rosewood with crewelwork, needlepoint panel dating to the early 19th century, ci...
Category
19th Century English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Rosewood
19th Century Antique Tapestry Display Stand, Regency Mahogany Needlepoint
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
Rare to find, this is an unusual antique tapestry display stand dating to the Regency period circa 1830.
Riding on the original brass castors
Out-swept legs extend from the platform delineated with ebonised stringing
Ring turned baluster support to scrolled bracket support
Mahogany frame enclosing three sliding screens...
Category
19th Century British Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Tapestry, Mahogany
Regency Style Mahogany 3-Fold Screen with Glass Panels
Located in New York, NY
English Regency style (20th Century) mahogany 3 fold screen with 3 beveled glass panels per fold and an open design top section
Category
20th Century British Regency Home Accents
Materials
Mahogany, Glass
Regency Mahogany Metamorphic Armchair
Located in Essex, MA
With horizontal tablet crestrail with scrolled ends over down scrolled arms raised on saber legs, chair folds forward to form a ladder.
Category
1810s English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Other
American Mahogany Serpentine Rail Library Steps, Circa 1810
Located in Charleston, SC
American mahogany three-tiered upholstered library steps with serpentine rails, cross stretchers, and terminating on turned bulbous legs. Early 19th century.
Category
1810s American Antique Regency Home Accents
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 Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Mahogany
Regency Brass Inlaid Rosewood Metamorphic Bench
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The rectangular padded seat covered in brown leather, opening to reveal a set of library steps, over a solid inlaid seat-rail and ring-turned tapering legs ending in castors.
18in. ...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Brass
English Regency Mahogany Library Ladder
Located in New York, NY
English Regency mahogany library ladder with spiral steps and a central pillar surrounding a rectangular cabinet with a front door.
Category
19th Century English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Brass
English Regency Metamorphic Library Ladder
Located in New York, NY
English Regency mahogany metamorphic library table/steps with hinged top & lion finial on a scrolled base. (with registry tag for J. Brodey, Bristo...
Category
19th Century English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Important Blue John Columns, Circa 1810
Located in New York, NY
Rare pair of small Blue John columns dating to the English Regency period. These columns are cylindrical in form and rest upon a square pedestal base with white and black marble acce...
Category
19th Century English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Marble
Pair of Regency Gilt-Brass Mounted Pole Screens
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair of Regency gilt-brass mounted pole screens, circa 1830. Formerly the property of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth.
Category
19th Century English Antique Regency Home Accents
Materials
Mahogany
Regency home accents for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Regency home accents for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage home accents created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include more furniture and collectibles, building and garden elements, seating and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, mahogany and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Regency home accents made in a specific country, there are Europe, United Kingdom, and England pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original home accents, popular names associated with this style include George & John Cary, John & William Newton, and Lane's. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for home accents differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at £321 and tops out at £73,481 while the average work can sell for £2,558.
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