Baroque Textiles
BAROQUE STYLE
The decadence of the Baroque style, in which ornate furnishings were layered against paneled walls, painted ceilings, stately chandeliers and, above all, gilding, expressed the power of the church and monarchy through design that celebrated excess. And its influence was omnipresent — antique Baroque furniture was created in the first design style that truly had a global impact.
Theatrical and lavish, Baroque was prevalent across Europe from the 17th to mid-18th century and spread around the world through colonialism, including in Asia, Africa and the Americas. While Baroque originated in Italy and achieved some of its most fantastic forms in the late-period Roman Baroque, it was adapted to meet the tastes and materials in each region. French Baroque furniture informed Louis XIV style and added drama to Versailles. In Spain, the Baroque movement influenced the elaborate Churrigueresque style in which architecture was dripping with ornamental details. In South German Baroque, furniture was made with bold geometric patterns.
Compared to Renaissance furniture, which was more subdued in its proportions, Baroque furniture was extravagant in all aspects, from its shape to its materials.
Allegorical and mythical figures were often sculpted in the wood, along with motifs like scrolling floral forms and acanthus leaves that gave the impression of tangles of dense foliage. Novel techniques and materials such as marquetry, gesso and lacquer — which were used with exotic woods and were employed by cabinetmakers such as André-Charles Boulle, Gerrit Jensen and James Moore — reflected the growth of international trade. Baroque furniture characteristics include a range of decorative elements — a single furnishing could feature everything from carved gilded wood to gilt bronze, lending chairs, mirrors, console tables and other pieces a sense of motion.
Find a collection of authentic antique Baroque tables, lighting, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Item type: New and Made To Order
Style: Baroque
A Fortuny Fabric Cushion in the DeMedici Pattern
Located in New York, NY
A Fortuny fabric cushion in the Demedici pattern, patinated silver ground and welt trim with midnight blue wool sateen back, the pattern, a 17th century Italian design named for the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Down, Silk, Wool
Pair of DeMedici Patterned Fortuny Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of custom DeMedici Patterned Fortuny Pillows in a vibrant green/blue coloration. The backs are a soft green velvet textile that coordinates beautifully. Down inserts, zipper c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Velvet
Pair of DeMedici Patterned Fortuny Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of custom DeMedici Patterned Fortuny Pillows in a vibrant green/blue coloration. The backs are a soft green chenille textile that coordinates beautifully. Down inserts, zipper...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Velvet
Pair of Authentic Vintage Fortuny Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A pair of exquisite Fortuny floral pillows, where each is a testament to the luxurious interplay of color and pattern, set against a mesmerizing silver background. These pillows shi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Linen
Pair of Authentic Vintage Orsini Patterned Fortuny Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A pair of exquisite Fortuny floral pillows, where each is a testament to the luxurious interplay of color and pattern, set against a mesmerizing silver background. These pillows shi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Velvet
Fortuny Textile DeMedici Patterned Lime Green & Beige Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning pair of Fortuny textile pillows adorned with the illustrious De Medici pattern, a design that pays homage to the legacy of the Medici family. This pattern is not merely dec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Velvet
Custom Fortuny Textile Lavender Sachet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fortuny textile sachet filled with lavender, featuring a vibrant shade of blue with swirling acanthus leaves on a white background. The design showcases both the vibrancy and eleganc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton
Lavender Filled Sachet W/ Vintage Fortuny Fabric
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A lavender filled sachet made with Mariano Fortuny's fabric. It features a soft, watercolor-like green pattern on a white background, combining both aromatic and visual appeal
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton
Golden Fortuny Textile Pillows, Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Custom pair of Fortuny pillows made with golden brown & metallic gold cotton fronts and butter colored linen backs. Down inserts, zipper closures.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Linen, Down
Pair of Fortuny Gold & Soft Green Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of custom pillows made with metallic gold & celadon colored Fortuny style fronts and celadon silk backs. Down filled inserts w/ hidden zippers for easy cleaning.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Silk
Pair of Custom Nomi Brown & Gold Textile Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of brown velvet NOMI textile pillows. The fronts are stenciled with metallic gold & silver design. Soft butter colored linen backs. Down filled inserts.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary North American Baroque Textiles
Materials
Linen, Velvet, Down
Pair of Green Velvet NOMI Pillow w/ Gold Stenciling
By Nomi Textiles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of custom pillows made with NOMI textile stenciled velvet fronts and cream velvet backs. Down inserts.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Baroque Textiles
Materials
Velvet, Down
Pair of Custom Authentic Fortuny Textile Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of custom pillows made with unique vintage Fortuny textile fronts. The Fortuny fabric is a soft aquamarine color combined with a dark silvery pewter background. Crisp white line...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Linen, Down
Pair of Fortuny Fabric Cushions in the Glicine Pattern
Located in New York, NY
A pair of Fortuny Fabric cushions with bias edging. The pattern is a 17th century Italian design with wisteria motif. Newly made using vintage Fortuny fabric, circa 1940.
50 down/50 ...
Category
2010s American Baroque Textiles
Materials
Fabric, Feathers
Pair of Custom Gold Metallic Appliqué Velvet Pillows by MLA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of contemporary bark blue velvet pillows decorated with metallic thread acanthus leaf appliques and a golden colored tassel fringe on the ends.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Metallic Thread
Pair of Pink & White Fortuny Style Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of custom pillows made with pink & white Fortuny patterned pillow fronts and soft colored pink backs. Down inserts, zipper closures.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Linen
Pair of Custom Green & Gold Fortuny Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of custom pillows made with dark green and metallic gold Fortuny style fronts and cream velvet backs with self cording. Down insert and zip...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Velvet
Pierre Frey Braquenié Pillow
Located in Copenhagen, DK
PIERRE FREY - BRAQUENIÉ
Beautiful handcrafted throw pillows made in luxurious and decorative Pierre Frey Braquenié fabrics.
The printed cotton fabric is on both sides with piping ...
Category
2010s French Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton
Pair of Appliquéd Red Velvet Pillows by MLA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of contemporary velvet pillows made with 18th century Italian Baroque appliques attached to red velvet fronts. Red silk backs. Down inserts, zipper closures.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Baroque Textiles
Materials
Silk, Velvet
Pair of Appliquéd Soft Yellow Velvet Pilliows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of custom pillows made with 18th century metallic and silk velvet appliqués on cream velvet with silk backs. Handmade metallic tape detail. Down inserts, zipper closures.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Metallic Thread
Pair of Fortuny Fabric Cushions in the Mazzarino Print in Tan and Rust
By Fortuny
Located in New York, NY
A pair of Fortuny fabric cushions in the Mazzarino print, rust and tan colorway with striped bias edging and tan backing. The Mazzarino the pattern is a 17th century French design named after Cardinal...
Category
2010s American Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Feathers, Down, Silk
Pair of Unique Fortuny Pillows w/ Sphinxes
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of custom pillows made with unique Fortuny cotton fronts depicting Sphinxes and soft brown linen backs. Self cording, down inserts.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Linen
Pair of Fortuny Fabric Cushions in the Glicine Pattern
Located in New York, NY
A pair of Fortuny Fabric cushions with bias edging. The pattern is a 17th century Italian design with wisteria motif. Newly made using vintage Fortuny fabric, circa 1940.
50 down/50 ...
Category
2010s American Baroque Textiles
Materials
Fabric
Pair of Unique Fortuny Pillows w/ Birds & Garlands
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of custom pillows made with unique brown, gold & cream cotton Fortuny fronts and a soft brown textured linen back. Self cording, down inserts.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Linen
Pair of Fortuny Cushions with Tassle Fringe in the "Carnavalet" Pattern
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Decorative pair of down-filled silvery-taupe and white Fortuny cushions with tassle fringe.
"Carnavalet" Fortuny pattern
Measures: 20 inches square.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton
Italian Set 2 Burnished Silver Finish Handles in Baroque Style
By DD Dimore
Located in Brescia, IT
This pair of metal handles is the result of the fine Italian craftmanship.
Forged in metal and finished in burnished silver leaf, they are a piece with beauty and elegance to enric...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Metal, Silver Leaf
Pair of Fortuny Fabric Lumbar Cushions in the Lucrezia Pattern
Located in New York, NY
A pair of mitered Fortuny fabric lumbar cushions in the Lucrezia pattern, green and beige color way with silk bias edging, the border in the Jupon pattern.
50 down/50 feather insert....
Category
2010s American Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Silk
Pair of 19th Century Metallic Applique Pillows by Melissa Levinson
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of custom pillows by Melissa Levinson. 19th century gold and silver metallic appliques on blue linen fronts with blue linen backs. 19th century metallic trim at sides of pillows...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Metallic Thread
Pair of Lucrenzia Patterned Fortuny Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of custom green & beige Fortuny Lucrezia patterned pillows with velvet backs. The seventeenth-century Italian design, paying homage to an ancient noblewoman, adds a rich histor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Velvet
Pair of Teal and White Colored Fortuny Style Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of custom petite pillows made with blue & white cotton Fortuny fronts and teal blue velvet backs. Down inserts, zipper closures.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Textiles
Materials
Cotton, Velvet
Baroque textiles for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Baroque textiles 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 textiles created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include more furniture and collectibles, wall decorations, rugs and carpets and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with fabric, cotton and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Baroque textiles made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original textiles, popular names associated with this style include Mariano Fortuny, antique textiles galleries, Cartier, and DD Dimore. 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 textiles differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $18 and tops out at $19,262 while the average work can sell for $760.
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