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Seating For Sale
Style: Empire
Style: Anglo-Indian
Empire Salon Suite, France 1810, Manner of Jacob Desmalter (1770-1841)
Located in Leimen, DE
Empire Salon Suite, France 1810
Step back in time to the opulent era of 19th-century France with the exquisite Elegant Empire Salon Suite, crafted i...
Category
Early 1800s French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Bronze
Pair of ormolu mounted and lacquered metal curule chairs in the Empire style
Located in London, GB
These beautiful, simple, and sophisticated, curule chairs were executed in the Empire style, combining the majesty of Roman rule with Napoleonic imperial France. Long a symbol of rule and power, curule chairs originally appeared in the Roman Republic, called sella curulis, seats reserved exclusively for those who held imperium, i.e. those who held positions of military or governmental command. Inherited by many subsequent civilisations, and a favourite of European kings wishing to frame their own authority within this Roman tradition, they feature heavily in Empire period France, holding a particular associated with Napoleon. These particular pieces are made of lacquered metal and are mounted with ormolu...
Category
20th Century French Empire Seating
Materials
Metal, Ormolu
20th Century antique Empire Style Lion canapé Sofa beech bronze
Located in Berlin, DE
Imperial stylish lion Kanapee in Empire style. Finely detailed carving work on solid ebonized beechwood. Gilded. Winged, protruding lions heads in bronze.
Category
20th Century French Empire Seating
Materials
Beech
Pair Russian Empire Ormolu Mounted Side Chairs, Circa 1820-1830
Located in Rochester, NY
A good pair of antique Russian Empire circassian walnut side chairs in beautifully aged original finish / finely detailed ormolu mounts / gilded paw like front feet / newly construct...
Category
Early 19th Century Russian Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Ormolu
Original Empire Set of a Sofa 2 Armchairs and 1 Table Mahogany with Bronze Figur
Located in Berlin, DE
Original Empire sofa circa 1860-1870 from an Empire room.
Massive mahogany cast with Empire caryadites bronze.
The armchairs are made of a different fabric than the sofa and should b...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Mahogany
Set early Empire solid mahogany wood and sheepskin armchairs, France 1820s
Located in Meulebeke, BE
France / 1820 / 2 armchairs / mahogany, sheep skin / Romantic / Antique / Empire
Set of two early Empire armchairs constructed of solid mahogany wood and with sheepskin upholstery. ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Sheepskin, Mahogany
Neoclassical Empire Early 19th Century Mahogany Desk Armchair
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
An unusual North European mahogany desk armchair with original brass castors. Fully carved armrests with eagle heads, the design probably by a designer from Berlin or Copenhagen (e.g...
Category
Early 19th Century German Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Brass
Armchairs Pair of Swedish Mahogany Brown Gilded Details Green and White Seat
Located in New York, NY
A pair of armchairs made in Sweden during the Karl Johan period 1810-1840. Frame made in mahogany with gilded details. Upholstered in a durable outdoor Rogers and Goffigon stripe.
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Empire / Biedermeier Armchair, circa 1810, Mahogany
Located in Berlin, DE
Mahogany solid wood, partially veneered. Semicircular backrests, Bergeren-form.
Restored and reupholstered with original Wollrips fabric covered.
(C-147).
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Mahogany
ANTIQUE CIR 1890 ANGLO INDIAN ELEPHANT COLONIAL FOLDING MILITARY CAMPAIGN CHAiR
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare circa 1890 Anglo Indian Elephant upholstered Colonial Military Campaign folding chair
Please...
Category
1890s Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Seating
Materials
Wood, Upholstery
Pair of Leather and Wicker Anglo Indian Stools or Ottomans
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive pair of mid century Anglo Indian stools or seats with leather tops featuring embossed images of the Taj Mahal on classic hourglass form wicker bases paint decorated in black.
Category
20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Seating
Materials
Leather, Wicker
Pair 19th Century French Empire Style Chairs With Red Silk Upholstered Seat
Located in Sheridan, CO
Extraordinary pair of French Empire style mahogany chairs featuring a tub or gondola form frame. Minimally decorated having a curved back,...
Category
Late 19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Silk, Mahogany
French, Empire Provencal Armchair
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A rare, beautiful, early-19th century Napoleon I, First Empire provencal armchair, a period piece, newly upholstered in the traditional laurel-leaf ...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Wood
Important Empire Early 19th Century Fauteuil by Jean-Joseph Chapuis
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Despite his long life, very little is known about the general production of menuisier (chairmaker) Jean-Joseph Chapuis (1765-1864) and even less about his use of bent laminates, which must be viewed as the most advanced of its kind until the appearance of Michael Thonet’s work of the 1830s.
The profound reverence for the classical world in enlightened circles in early 19th century Europe and the United States often resulted in the archaeological resurrection of the art, architecture, and design of ancient Greece and Rome. No chair employing the innovative technique of bending wood more boldly expresses this allegiance to the past than this armchair painted in le style antique and based on the ancient Roman sella...
Category
Early 19th Century Belgian Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Cane, Bentwood
21st Century Empire-Style Bed Bench with Plated Fabric by Modenese Interiors
Located in PADOVA, Italy
This lovely pleated bench by Modenese Gastone Interiors will make a classy statement at the foot of a bed or as part of the decor in any living or night ...
Category
2010s Italian Empire Seating
Materials
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
Rare Anglo-Indian Chair 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Rare chair
Anglo-Indian, 19th century.
In teak wood with Ivo... inlays, decorated with plant motifs, with a female figure in the centre.
Small flaws.
Dim.: 94.5 x 53.5 x 80 cm.
very...
Category
19th Century English Anglo-Indian Antique Seating
Materials
Wood
1900's Empire Ivory Tan Silk/Satin Upholstered Settee
Located in Louisville, KY
This early 1900's settee is a unique Empire style with simplistic and elegant lines with scrolls and intricately carved claw feet. This piece is done in a beautiful ivory and tan sil...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Empire Seating
Materials
Upholstery, Wood
Antique Carved Veranda Chair, Ceylonese, Teak, Ornate Seat, Victorian, C.1880
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique carved veranda chair. A Ceylonese, solid teak ornate seat, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1880.
Exceptional craftsmanship to this superb showpiece chair
Di...
Category
1880s Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Seating
Materials
Teak
Early 19th Century Empire Pear-Wood Sofa, Restored, Made in Austria
Located in Brandys nad Labem, Středočeský kraj
Austrian Empire inlaid sofa
Made of pear-wood. (Inlaid)
Completely restored.
Surface was done by shellac polish.
Category
Early 19th Century Austrian Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Pearwood, Fabric, Upholstery, Wood
Very Fine and Rare Pair of Early 19th C Italian Empire Carved and Gilt Chairs
Located in Dallas, TX
A very fine and rare pair of Empire period mahogany and parcel gilt armchairs. Fine French polished wood and finely detailed gilt carving . Covered in a dark blue leather
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Mahogany
Pair of French Empire Style Campaign Chairs
Located in New York, NY
A pair of French Empire style Campaign chairs. The pliant metal frame with brass lion's paw feet mounts and saber form legs designed to fold and accommodate fabric upholstery over th...
Category
1920s French Empire Vintage Seating
Materials
Brass
Empire Walnut and Gold Leaf Hand-Made Sitting Chair by Modenese Gastone Interior
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Have a seat on this wonderfully upholstered empire side chair by Modenese Gastone Interiors featuring a wood frame gold leaf applied in details, upholstere...
Category
2010s Italian Empire Seating
Materials
Gold Leaf
1920s Pair of Rosewood Cane Seat Folding Lounge Chairs
Located in Germantown, MD
A pair of folding Anglo Indian lounge chairs that evokes the romance of a 1920s ship's voyage across the Indian Ocean. As stylish as they are practical, these portable lounge, patio ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Anglo-Indian Seating
Materials
Cane, Rosewood
19th Century Pair of French Velvet Armchairs with Ebonized Wood
Located in Prato, IT
19th Century Pair of Anglo-Indian rare armchairs in ebonized wood with original moire velvet.
Category
1890s French Anglo-Indian Antique Seating
Materials
Velvet, Wood
19th Century Continental Walnut Armchair
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality continental carved walnut armchair, remaining in very good condition.
Width: 73cm Depth: 102cm Height: 100cm.
Category
19th Century European Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Walnut
Unique Empire Three-Piece Suite from Czechia 'Bohemia', 1810s, Fully Restored
Located in Brandys nad Labem, Středočeský kraj
Czech lack Empire three-piece suite.
Made of paer wood.
Completely restored, new professional upholstery included.
Surface was done by high gloss polish.
Dimensions:
Sofa
Hei...
Category
1810s Czech Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Fabric, Upholstery, Pearwood, Lacquer
Pair Of French 19th Century Empire St. Patinated Wood And Giltwood Armchairs
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking pair of French 19th century Empire style Patinated wood and Giltwood armchairs. The pair of throne chairs are raised on impressive front quiver like circular tapered legs ...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Antique Pair of Anglo Indian Rosewood Caned Armchairs
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive pair of 19th Century Anglo Indian chairs handcrafted in indigenous rosewood featuring dramatic carved crests with floral motifs, caned backs and seats, elegant arms with c...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Seating
Materials
Cane, Rosewood
Pair of 19th Century English Regency Carved Mahogany and Upholstered Side Chairs
Located in Germantown, MD
A Pair of English Regency mahogany frame dining chairs, early 19th century. Features exquisite carved back-splats in conjunction with further foliate carvings to the top crest, strip...
Category
19th Century Unknown Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Mahogany, Upholstery, Giltwood
Empire Style Padded Chair
Located in Premariacco, IT
Single chair from the 1950s in wood with backrest and seat in the original fabric of the time.
Shows normal signs of wear, note how little it has been used. The seat is still prot...
Category
1950s Italian Empire Vintage Seating
Materials
Fabric, Wood
French Empire Style Curule Stool with Gilded Accents and Linen Upholstery
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Empire style painted wood curule stool from circa 1900 with gilded accents, curved X-shaped legs, carved campanula and rosettes motifs, newly re-upholstered in linen fabric....
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Seating
Materials
Fabric, Upholstery, Wood
Amazing Set of Armchair and 2 Chair First Empire Napoleon III Early 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Set of armchair and 2 chair First Empire Napoleon III early 19th Century
France
measure armchair: 86cm x 64cm x 54cm
measures chairs: 82cm x 50cm x 45cm
wood
proveniente : Roman...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Wood
Pair of Empire Style Window Seats
Located in Lymington, GB
A smart pair of Empire-style window seats of superb quality, and in excellent condition.
Supported on stained-oak tapering square legs with gilt-brass mounts and hairy paw feet.
Upholstered and buttoned in faded vellum-green hide...
Category
20th Century Empire Seating
Materials
Wood
Pair of New Linen Upholstery French Empire Style Ball Finials Benches MINT!
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Pair of New Linen Upholstery French Empire Style Ball Finials Benches MINT!
Category
20th Century American Empire Seating
Materials
Upholstery, Walnut
Set of Four French Empire Fauteuil Armchairs in the Manner of Jacob Frères
Located in Long Island City, NY
These four early 19th-century Empire fauteuil armchairs, in the manner of the Jacob Frères cabinetmaking firm of the late 18th century, each feature a distinctive pediment-shaped cre...
Category
1810s French Empire Antique Seating
Italian Neoclassical Hall Bench
Located in New York, NY
Italian neoclassical hall bench. Large and handsomely proportioned cassapanca / walnut bench in two parts with upper dental carved trim around arms and paneled back. All fitted into ...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Walnut
White Wingback Chair With Ottoman, Denmark, 1950s
Located in Antwerp, BE
White; Fabric; Wingback Chair; Ottoman; Danish Design; 1950s; Walnut; Wood; Scandinavia; Scandinavian Design; Empire; Pouf; Lounge Chair; Upholstery;
Stylish 1950s high back lounge...
Category
1950s Danish Empire Vintage Seating
Materials
Fabric, Walnut
Antique living room set from the end of the 19th century.
Located in Chorzów, PL
Antique living room set from around 1890, France.
Furniture in very good condition, after professional renovation. Seats and backrests have been covered with new fabric.
Dimensions...
Category
1890s French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Walnut, Fabric
Pair of Vintage Regency Style Anglo Indian Silver Metal Clad Chairs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Regency Style Anglo Indian Silver Metal Clad Chairs
Also know as "Dowry Wedding Chairs"
India, circa 1950
"intricate silver metal cladding"
"fabric in "ok" not perfect cond...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Seating
Materials
Metal
Vintage Pair of Empire Style Fauteuils with Carved Dolphin Arms by Century, USA
Located in Morristown, NJ
Late 20th c., high quality American made pair of custom upholstered Fruitwood frame armchairs, labeled under seat.
This pair of armchairs from Century Furniture Industries in Hickor...
Category
1980s American Empire Vintage Seating
Materials
Fabric, Upholstery, Wood
Living Room Suite in the Antique Empire Style Beech Hand Carved
Located in Berlin, DE
Very exact fine-carved sculpture made of solid, blackened beechwood. Poliment gold-plated. Scratched frame on sculpturally carved legs ending in claws. Armrests volute-shaped bent in...
Category
20th Century French Empire Seating
Materials
Wood
Pair of French 19th Century Empire St. Mahogany and Giltwood Stools
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome pair of French 19th century Empire st. Mahogany and giltwood stools. Each circular stool is raised by three square tapered legs with the front leg displaying a handsome pa...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Mahogany, Giltwood
Noble Venetian Armchair in Blue and Gold Fabrics with Pillow
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Complete a lavish living room set up with this sophisticated royal blue armchair. The carefully selected upholstery fabric adds a unique charm on the gold-painted solid wood of this sofa. The deep seated...
Category
2010s Italian Empire Seating
Materials
Gold Leaf
Empire Walnut and Gold Leaf Hand-Carved Sitting Chair by Modenese
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Come have a seat at this wonderfully upholstered chair by Modenese Gastone Interiors featuring a wood frame gold leaf applied in details, upholstered with ...
Category
2010s Italian Empire Seating
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pair of Stately Antique French Empire Style Armchairs
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Pair of high quality gorgeous vintage French Empire style club chairs from Bloomingdale's with handsome carved dolphin armrests. Probably walnut, faux painted a greige color.
#4271
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Category
1940s American Empire Vintage Seating
Materials
Wood
Vintage Italian Empire Style Gold Giltwood Swedish Gout Stool Footstool Ottoman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Italian Empire Style Gold Giltwood Swedish Gout Stool Footstool Ottoman. Item features bun feet, solid wood construction, gold gilt distressed finish, nicely carved details, ...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Empire Seating
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Vintage Henry P. Urban Chairs With Carved Frames & Faux Paint
Located in Santa Barbara, CA
Highly decorative Pair of Empire Style Faux Painted and Parcel-Gilt Armchairs
by Henry P. Urban.
Chairs painted with faux paint Both in good condition with very minor nicks and scu...
Category
1980s American Empire Vintage Seating
Materials
Hardwood, Giltwood, Paint
French Empire Style 19th Century Painted Wood Marquise with Carved Palmettes
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Empire style painted wood marquise chair from the 19th century, with carved palmettes. Born in France during the politically dynamic 19th century, this French Empire style m...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Upholstery, Wood
Pair of French Empire Fauteuils in Mahogany with Bronze Doré Ormolu, circa 1810
Located in Miami, FL
An exquisite pair of Empire armchairs/ fauteuils in fine mahogany with bronze dore´ ormolu mounts decorating the upper crest and lower back splat, with rosettes and palmettes on legs...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Bronze
A 19th century Empire st. Mahogany, Giltwood, Ormolu and Leather armchair
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stately and most handsome Continental 19th century Empire st. Mahogany, Giltwood, Ormolu and Leather armchair. This wonderful chair is raised by curved Mahogany legs leading to a c...
Category
19th Century European Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Ormolu
French Empire Style Mahogany Pink Chaise
Located in Queens, NY
French Empire-style (19th Century) mahogany chaise with bronze trim and large pink and gold cushion upholstery
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Bronze
Pair French Empire Chairs
Located in Swadlincote, GB
Wonderful pair French Empire chairs, ebony legs and recently upholstered in linen, very good overall condition,
32" high
29" wide
30" overall depth
20" seat depth
14" seat height
...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Ebony
Pair of Antique Empire Black & Gold Chairs W Red Clarence House Seats
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Pair of Antique Empire Black & Gold Chairs W Red Clarence House Seats. Each has been freshly upholstered in red Clarence House fabric with gold stars. This listing is from one pair ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Wood
Wicker Reed Stool or Pedestal Drink Table
Located in New York, NY
A blonde wicker pencil reed stool in the Anglo Raj style. Stool is sturdy and well-made and can support a human being (as intended.) Stool can...
Category
2010s Anglo Raj Seating
Materials
Wicker, Reed, Rope
Pair of early 20th century Swedish carved birch armchairs
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Pair of early 20th Swedish carved birch armchairs circa 1920.
Good quality pair of birch armchairs in the karl johan taste.
Shaped and carved back rest, flowing to the scrolling ar...
Category
Early 20th Century Swedish Empire Seating
Materials
Fabric, Birch
Set of Four Ebony Carved Cane Seat Dining Armchairs
Located in Hudson, NY
The set of four ebony carved arm chairs, shown here, are from India, circa 19th century. Featuring hand-caned seats, each chair is intricately carved of ebony wood and as stylish tod...
Category
19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Seating
Materials
Ebony, Upholstery
Gorgeous Pair of French Empire Carved Walnut Armchairs with Dolphin Armrests
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Handsome pair of classic French Empire walnut square back carved armchairs with stunning dolphin armrests.
Measures: Seat height 17.5
Arm height ...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Seating
Materials
Upholstery, Walnut
Set of Three Elegant Mahogany, Empire Style Chairs, One Pair and a Single Chair
Located in New York, NY
Gorgeous chairs white great patina and beautiful lines on these Swedish Empire style chairs. They are late 1800s, early 1900s Swedish. We can recover chair for you on request. Touch ...
Category
Early 20th Century European Empire Seating
Materials
Mahogany
Unique Chairs, Sofas and Other Seating for Sale on 1stDibs
With entire areas of our homes reserved for “sitting rooms,” the value of quality antique and vintage seating cannot be overstated.
Fortunately, the design of side chairs, armchairs and other lounge furniture — since what were, quite literally, the early perches of our ancestors — has evolved considerably.
Among the earliest standard seating furniture were stools. Egyptian stools, for example, designed for one person with no seat back, were x-shaped and typically folded to be tucked away. These rudimentary chairs informed the design of Greek and Roman stools, all of which were a long way from Sori Yanagi's Butterfly stool or Alvar Aalto's Stool 60. In the 18th century and earlier, seats with backs and armrests were largely reserved for high nobility.
The seating of today is more inclusive but the style and placement of chairs can still make a statement. Antique desk chairs and armchairs designed in the style of Louis XV, which eventually included painted furniture and were often made of rare woods, feature prominently curved legs as well as Chinese themes and varied ornaments. Much like the thrones of fairy tales and the regency, elegant lounges crafted in the Louis XV style convey wealth and prestige. In the kitchen, the dining chair placed at the head of the table is typically reserved for the head of the household or a revered guest.
Of course, with luxurious vintage or antique furnishings, every chair can seem like the best seat in the house. Whether your preference is stretching out on a plush sofa, such as the Serpentine, designed by Vladimir Kagan, or cozying up in a vintage wingback chair, there is likely to be a comfy classic or contemporary gem for you on 1stDibs.
With respect to the latest obsessions in design, cane seating has been cropping up everywhere, from sleek armchairs to lounge chairs, while bouclé fabric, a staple of modern furniture design, can be seen in mid-century modern, Scandinavian modern and Hollywood Regency furniture styles.
Admirers of the sophisticated craftsmanship and dark woods frequently associated with mid-century modern seating can find timeless furnishings in our expansive collection of lounge chairs, dining chairs and other items — whether they’re vintage editions or alluring official reproductions of iconic designs from the likes of Hans Wegner or from Charles and Ray Eames. Shop our inventory of Egg chairs, designed in 1958 by Arne Jacobsen, the Florence Knoll lounge chair and more.
No matter your style, the collection of unique chairs, sofas and other seating on 1stDibs is surely worthy of a standing ovation.
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