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.
Find a collection of antique Regency tables, seating, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Vintage Indian Rug Inspired by the Book of Kells
Located in Dallas, TX
77553 Vintage Indian Rug Inspired by the Book of Kells, 09'00 x 12'00. Step into a realm where textile artistry meets sacred manuscript, where every knot becomes a whisper from a mon...
Wool
Vintage Indian Runner, Flora & Fauna Meet Earth-Tone Elegance
Located in Dallas, TX
78538 Vintage Indian Runner, 02'07 x 11'08. Earth-tone elegance meets cozy comfort in this hand knotted wool vintage Indian runner. The decorative details and soft pastel colors wove...
Wool
Vintage English Donegal Handmade Gray & Tan Designed Wool Rug
Located in Norwalk, CT
Beautiful vintage English Donegal hand-knotted wool rug with a gray color field. This piece has a tan-designed frame with peach, yellow and gray accents in a leafy vines pattern desi...
Wool
Distressed Antique Pastel Rug, Regencycore Meets Bridgerton Style
Located in Dallas, TX
76756 Distressed Antique Indian Rug, 11'05 x 16'01. Regencycore meets rustic sensibility in this hand knotted wool distressed antique Indian rug. The highly decorative details and pa...
Wool
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Antique Turkish Sparta Palace Size Rug with Luxe Regency Venetian Style
Located in Dallas, TX
71780 Antique Turkish Sparta Palace Size Rug with Luxe Regency Venetian Style 11'00 x 20'06. Rich in color, texture and beguiling ambiance, this hand-knotted wool palace size...
Wool
Mid-19th Century English Regency Period Brown Floral Axminster Rug
Located in New York, NY
English Regency Period Brown Floral Axminster Rug Made in England, circa 1830 Wilton carpet, Regency period 24' 6" x 16' 9" (747 x 511 cm)
Wool
Smaller 19th Century English Needlepoint Carpet
Located in Shipston-On-Stour, GB
Large decorative late 19th Century English needlepoint tapestry carpet. The chequerboard centre with Prince of Wales plumes of feathers. Within a red border of heraldic shields and f...
Wool
Hand-Knotted Rug in Petag Tabriz antique design
Located in Lohr, Bavaria, DE
A beautiful contemporary rug showing a design of the PETAG company. PETAG - Persische Teppich Aktien Gesellschaft - was a german company that was found in 1911 in Berlin / Germany. P...
Wool
Gorgeous Antique Donegal Arts & Crafts Style Rug Designed by Gavin Morton
Located in New York, NY
Donegal Carpet Ireland 10’4” x 13”6” - 315 x 411 Early 20th century; c. 1910 Wool pile of symmetric knots on a wool foundation Designed by Gavin Morton The Donegal factory in Killybe...
Wool
Mansour Handwoven Arts & Crafts Donegal Rug, Wool, Kashmir, New Design
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Originally designed and crafted in Donegal Ireland in early 1900s, this magnificently decorative brand new Donegal-inspired carpet was hand woven and created in Kashmir. This Arts & ...
Wool
$1,499
W 108.27 in L 143.31 in
9x12 Earth Tone Geometric Vintage Pattern Hand Knotted Wool Rug ( G-14625 )
Located in agra, uttar pradesh
Indulge in the timeless elegance of our high-quality hand-knotted traditional wool rug. Rug Features: ⚫ CUSTOMIZE in any SIZE ⚫ Material- 100% Wool ⚫ Weave- Hand-knotted in India ⚫ C...
Wool
Contemporary Wool Hand-woven Floral Khotan-Style Rug
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This unique one of a kind rug from Kashmir features a brilliant color combination and an amazingly decorative border. 100% natural wool pile. Brand new.
Wool
$12,000
W 114.17 in L 94.49 in
19th Century - French Restoration Period - Handwoven Antique Aubusson Rug
Located in New York, NY
-French restoration period handwoven antique Aubusson rug, -circa 1830 -wool -290 x 240 cm / 9.5 x 7.87 ft At Boccara Gallery, we have an important collection of Aubusson rugs from the 18th-20th century. The style developed in Aubusson is recognized today as one of the most influential of the European rug and tapestries History. Workshops to produce Aubusson flat-woven rugs were established under the royal warrant in 1743 to manufacture pile carpets primarily for the nobility. Many weavers who settled in France were Huguenots who had fled Spain during the Inquisition in the early 16th century. By issuing the edict of Nantes, Henry IV granted all non-Catholics freedom of worship, thereby protecting the carpet weavers in Aubusson. Aubusson weavers became the finest craftsmen in the world. Louis XIV’s influential Prime Minister Colbert established the long and hard...
Wool
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W 47 in L 70 in
Vintage Indian Art Deco Rug Inspired By Edward McKnight Kauffer
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Indian Deco carpet from the second quarter of the 20th century inspired by Edward McKnight Kauffer.
Wool
19th Century Handwoven Wool Donegal Rug, Ireland, Green Floral Design
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This traditional handwoven Irish Donegal rug has a shaded bottle-green field with a counterposed design of angular vines issuing palmettes and open palmettes, in a refined jade borde...
Wool
Large Antique Irish Donegal Rug, Hand-Knotted Wool, 22x28 ft
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This handwoven antique Irish Donegal long rug has a pale blue field with an overall design with pairs of light green leafy sprays issuing from a shaded pink stem linked by a blue ros...
Wool
Early 19th Century Floral Bessarabian Rug
Located in Los Angeles, US
Antique Bessarabian Rugs / Kilims in both pile and tapestry weaving technique are some of the more beautiful carpets to have been produced in Europe. Many of the Bessarabian Kilims w...
Wool, Cotton
Antique Indian Agra Rug hand knotted red blue gold
Located in Lohr, Bavaria, DE
Beautiful antique Indian rug from Agra. Good overall condition with some low pile and old restorations. This stunning hand knotted rug originates in ancient Agra, the city of the Ta...
Wool
Wonderful Fine Large Antique Kirman Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Very beautiful and fine early 20th century large valuable rug with nice indo Persian design with a central medallion and beautiful floral design also with beautiful natural colors wi...
Wool
Antique Turkish Sparta Palace Size Rug with Luxe Regency Venetian Style
Located in Dallas, TX
71994, antique Turkish Sparta Palace size rug with Luxe Regency Venetian style. Rich in color, texture and beguiling ambiance, this hand knotted wool palace size...
Wool
Vintage Persian Mashhad Area Rug with Arabesque Baroque Regency Style
Located in Dallas, TX
77355, vintage Persian Mashhad area rug with Arabesque baroque Regency style. Ravishing and vibrant this hand knotted wool vintage Persian Mashhad area rug features an eight-point cu...
Wool
Contemporary Turkish Oushak Rug with Eclectic Regency or Modern Venetian Style
Located in Dallas, TX
52509, contemporary Turkish Oushak rug with eclectic Regency or modern Venetian style. This hand knotted wool contemporary Turkish Oushak area rug features an all-over geometric pattern composed of Harshang-style motifs, blooming palmettes, organic shapes, and meandering vines floating on an abrashed field. It is enclosed with a Harshang border flanked with an inner and outer subsidiary guard border. This new contemporary Turkish Oushak rug was made from the wool of an antique Kilim. The process starts from unraveling the wool from a 100 year old antique Kilim rug and ends with a new transformation into an Oushak rug. Perfect for a living room, bedroom, dining room, front room, library, studio, study, loft, and lounge, or it would make an excellent choice for a state room, great room, private Chambers, drawing room, or music room. With its rich and contrasting colors, this Regency style Oushak rug pairs nicely with high-gloss furniture and decor. Well-suited for a wide range of interior styles: Traditional, Regency, Eclectic, Modern, Contemporary, Venetian, Renaissance, Cottage, Bungalow, Farmhouse, Manor House, Neoclassical, Regency, Empire, Georgian, Arts & Crafts, Craftsman, Tudor, Jacobean, Colonial Revival, Art Deco, Mid-Century Modern, Bohemian, boho chic, and Romantic Gothic. Rendered in robust striations and variegated shades of charcoal, coffee, dark gray, stone gray, oyster gray, dark gray, slate, light gray, beige, sand, taupe, cerulean, seafoam, ruby red, robin's egg, peach, pale coral, grape, raisin, lavender, eggplant, orange, teal, royal blue, and indigo. Complementary Sherwin Williams Colors and Hues: Keystone Gray, Malabar, Foxy, Sycamore Tan, Indigo, Muddled Basil, Sunset, Softer Tan, Ramie, Cocoa Whip, Homestead Brown, Honied White, Coral Bells...
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Antique Persian Mashhad Area Rug with Arabesque Baroque Regency Style
Located in Dallas, TX
77029 Antique Persian Mashhad Area Rug with Arabesque Baroque Regency Style. This hand-knotted wool antique Persian Mashhad Area rug with Arabesque Art Nouveau style features a central curvilinear floral medallion on a field of dancing vines and tendrils surrounded with elaborate spandrels of medallions and corners. The antique Mashhad rug...
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Antique Turkish Sparta Rug with Venetian Regency Style
Located in Dallas, TX
70769 Antique Turkish Sparta Rug with Venetian Regency Style. With its rich detailing, vibrant colors, and symmetry, this hand-knotted wool antique Tu...
Wool
Antique Turkish Oushak Rug
Located in New York, NY
Whimsical colorful Turkish Oushak rug with a Directional prayer niche motif in predominant accents in sky blue and green.
Wool
Turkish Deco Rug Pillow
Located in New York, NY
A pillow created from a turkish deco rug.
Cotton, Foam, Wool