Baroque Armchairs

Our Custom Occasional chair in walnut with barley twist legs and stretchers. Beautifully carved scrolled arms. As shown in COL and nail heads. Can be made in any finish, in solid Wal...

This exceptional vintage wingback armchair, requiring new upholstery, presents a compelling opportunity to restore a gorgeous classic form to its full potential. Defined by its grace...

Stunning Danish baroque style high-backed ear-flap chair hand made in the 1930s The frame and armrests are made beautifully of turned and carved solid oak....

Beautiful baroque seating set consisting of a sofa and two armchairs. Extraordinary workmanship of the woods made according to the canons of the ti...

This elegant pair of 20th-century French armchairs exemplifies timeless design and craftsmanship. Constructed from solid walnut, the chairs feature beautifully styled carved frames w...

Opulent Italian wrought iron Savonarola armchair made in the Baroque or campaign style. The chair features an iron frame with curule style legs and imposing patinated bronze mace fin...

A late 17th century walnut Flemish armchair, later reupholstery (ca 1850) in mid 19th century embossed, gilt and painted leather - possibly Spanish 'Cordoba' A maximalist statement p...

This rare 17th century Charles II high back carved oak armchair features solid wood construction, beautifully carved arms, highly detailed turned frame, and further carved back panel...

Beautiful hand carved European walnut throne chairs circa 1900. Solid and very sturdy. Re-upholstered at a later date with aniline dyed leather seats & fabric backs finished wit...

Distinctive set of four Italian Florentine style 20th century carved Savonarola armchairs crafted from walnut. The chairs feature a campaign style scissor folding frame with curule f...

17th Century Bishop Chair, Armchair. Oakwood. signed 1679. carved sun as emblem of the sun king period. (roi de solail)

Condition: Original Vintage Condition Materials: Oak, Tooled Leather Seat, Velvet Armrest Style: English Baroque This English Baroque armchair from the 1910s carries a throne-like...

A pair of exquisite armchairs from the early 20th century, crafted by a skilled Danish cabinetmaker. Embracing the graceful curves and organic flower motifs of the Art Nouveau moveme...

Extraordinary and exquisite set of original Louis XV salon gold gilded chairs with curved wood edges, intricately carved surfaces and Grey Green Pat...

Discover a remarkable piece of history with this 18th-century Baroque armchair, meticulously preserved and dating back to 1750. Originating from Germany, this exquisite piece embodi...

Hand-carved Swedish Baroque Captain's chair in black with gold trim and Swedish flag. Arms are covered in distressed leather with nail head trim. The chair is covered in gold design with motifs including leaves and shells. Exact provenance and meaning of symbols and letters is unknown. It is believed that this chair was created for the captain of a ship, making it a unique conversation piece for your space. Could be recovered or reupholstered with new leather or left distressed to highlight the age, patina, and history of the chair. This captain's chair would work well as an accent chair, side chair, or a statement dining room head chair...

Stunning & rare Italian venetian highly carved walnut Baroque upholstered arm chair~~ Besarel~~mid-19th century We recently had the good fortune to obtain this rare work of art~~an antique carved walnut arm chair...

An exceptionally rare 17th century Venetian throne chair of remarkable craftsmanship. This impressive piece, standing at 135 cm high with a seat height of 51 cm, epitomizes the grand...

A pair of large red silk armchairs with high curved backs and rolled armrests. Early 20th century France.

An exceptional early 19th century Italian armchair, newly reupholstered to dramatic effect while preserving its soulful, timeworn character. The generously proportioned frame is rich...

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These armchairs are classic examples of Baroque-style seating, most likely French or Spanish in origin, dating from the 19th Century. The rich red velvet upholstery is typical of Ba...

Imposing and dramatic, this Baroque-style throne chair is a true masterpiece of craftsmanship. With its solid wood frame gilded with gold leaf, fine carvings and unique details (ramp...

Impressive 18th century baroque armchair, Sweden, circa 1730. Upholstered in raw linen. Good condition with wear consistent with age and use. Historical secondary color. Structur...

A magnificent example of 19th-century European craftsmanship, this armchair is a study in sculptural elegance and historical grandeur. This piece, originating from Denmark, draws ins...

This is a good pair of early 18th century Italian Baroque hall chairs. The chairs are in overall good condition considering their three hundred years of use. The appropriate upholste...

Antique French throne armchair. Made of walnut featuring carved serpentine design with reticulated floral and acanthus crown. Dimensions: 29" x 28" x 54"h, 21" seat height

Armchair Swedish Baroque oak, Sweden. A single armchair made in Sweden during the early part of the Baroque period. Frame made of oak with an upholstered b...

Impressive early Baroque armchair with straight, upholstered armrests, turned baluster legs, and cross stretchers. The rectangular backrest is topped with a carved crest rail featuri...

A fine pair of walnut Baroque Italian armchairs dating to the middle part of the 17th century retaining parts of extremely old leather seating. Italian circa 1650-70. T...

Italian Baroque Throne Armchair in Nutwood Reupholstered in Velvet Gorgeous Baroque throne armchair made of full nutwood in Italy. The armchair was com...

With a square back and seat upholstered in 17th century distressed needlepoint. Barely twist arms and legs with female bust arm terminals. H form conforming stretchers.

An absolutely fantastic set of four original Louis XVI French armchairs made by Jean Baptiste Lelarge. All four chairs have Lelarge stamp on them . He was one of the most famous furn...

A Mid 18th Century Swedish writing desk armchair painted in black, in solid oak wood. This Scandinavian baroque seating is sturdy and ready to place directly in a studio, a hall or i...

A late 17th century French Os de Mouton armchair, circa 1690. Completely stripped and reupholstered using a high quality stylish off whit...

Set 5 French Chairs Louis XV Style 19th Century In painted and gilded carved wood. Upholstered seats and back. Faults and defects. Never restored Dimensions: (larger) 96 x 52 x 42 cm.

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original 17th century attributed to Andrea Brustolon hand carved Italian walnut armchair with Cherubs...

With rectangular back with original needlepoint on back and seat. Quite worn with losses etc but stable. Turned arms with lions head terminals. Barley twist legs and stretchers. Bun ...

Pair of Italian Baroque-style (20th Century) armchairs with gilt wood filigree frames and burgundy button-tufted upholstery with embroidered flowers (Related items: AGO054, AGO056, A...

Incredible rare solid walnut frame with cane back and seat, Spanish mid-century caned armchair beautiful original condition nice seat. Refinished. Wear consistent with age and use.

A richly carved walnut Italian throne chair. This arm chair could make a wonderful statement in any room. Use it for a desk chair, next to a fireplace, an office or in the living roo...

Late 17th century Italian walnut square back armchair with bobbin turned arms, legs and stretchers, the whole possessing good rich color and crisp t...

18th century Italian giltwood armchairs.

A fine Italian 19th century Baroque style carved walnut figural throne armchair, attributed to Valentino Panciera Besarel (Venice, 1829-1902) in the manner of Andrea Brustolon...

Important ebonized Baroque Venetian armchair, circa 1780 Fratelli Mora. Produced by Fratelli Mora in Bergamo, factory established in 1778. At that time the main production was made ...

Pair of Spanish colonial style armchairs, having leather both seats and backs, and brass nailheads. Measure: Height to the arm: 28.74in.

A early 18th century walnut French wingback armchair. This Louis XIV model is also known as Os de Mouton or 'Sheepclaw feet'. The shape of the feet were a provincial take on the gild...

A fine, large, late 17th century, Flemish, open armchair in the style of Daniel Marot with an upholstered seat This fine, armchair is an, unusually, large size and the carving is of exceptional quality reflecting the status of the owner it was made for. It is sturdy and in usable condition. Chairs of this type, with tall, intricately carved backs, were placed in rows against a wall forming part of the decoration of a room. The carving of the back of this chair is French in style and was based on decorative prints by Daniël Marot The cresting carved with a profusion of acanthus leaf scrolls. The back with fine, pierced carving. The mid-section with a central flowerhead with scrolled shields above and below ornamented with flowerheads acanthus leaf crestings. Two pairs of carved ‘S’ scrolls ornamented with acanthus leaves either side. The tapering turned sections surmounted by ionic capitals and supporting back of the scroll arms carved with acanthus leaf ornament. The front arms supported by baluster and tapering turned sections ornamented with acanthus leaf carving. The legs joined by a shaped ‘H’ stretcher with central finial, on bun feet. The upholstered seat reupholstered in a bargello woven in tones of blue, green, red and gold faced with braid and brass studwork. The back of the chair has an incredible, 19th century, oak support from the cresting to halfway down the back, which has been beautifully carved to conform with the open sections of the back, and two braces down the length of the back. There are also two oak supports behind seat blocks at the top of the legs. These repairs are sensitive to the model of chair and have become part of its character and features in their own right and they are very interesting from a conservation history perspective. There are two old repairs to a small break in the cresting on the right hand side and the hairline cracks are visible, an old repair to a small break in the top right of the central splat with a small piece added and a visible hairline crack. The right side of the back has noticeable worm damage on the right seat block which is probably the root cause of the break on the block on this side from impact as the chair probably fell backwards at some point and either onto its right side or it hit something on that side and the block weakened by worm gave way as the damage to the chair is localised on the far right side. Because the backs are high on these Daniel Marot chairs they are top heavy and invariably do have damage to the backs and crestings from impact damage so this is not unusual. The right block has been repaired thoroughly and is stable and there is no live worm in the chair. It would be possible to disguise these repairs but I have left them as they are consistent with the 19th century date of the supports and conform with museum standards. A full set of photographs...

Armchair Swedish Early Baroque period gilt leather Sweden. An armchair in a generous size made during the Carolean Baroque Era 1650-1720 period in Swede...

A very fine pair of palatial Venetian walnut carved mid-19th century Baroque figural throne armchairs, attributed to Valentino Panciera Besarel (Venice, 1829-1902) in the manner of Andrea Brustolon (1662-1732). The ornately carved thrones, each flanked with figures of standing males supporting a branch-carved armrests with vines. Raised on cabriolet scrolled legs. Provenance: The Castello di Giove in Umbria, Italy, circa 1870-1880. Height: 54 1/4 inches (137.8 cm.) Width: 37 1/4 inches (94.6 cm.) Depth: 32 inches (81.3 cm.) Andrea Brustolon (20 July 1662 – 25 October 1732) was an Italian sculptor in wood. He is known for his furnishings in the Baroque style and devotional sculptures. Biography He was trained in a vigorous local tradition of sculpture in his native Belluno, in the Venetian terraferma, and in the studio of the Genoese sculptor Filippo Parodi, who was carrying out commissions at Padua and at Venice (1677). He spent the years 1678-80 at Rome, where the High Baroque sculpture of Bernini and his contemporaries polished his style. Apart from that, the first phase of Brustolon's working career was spent in Venice, 1680–1685. Brustolon is documented at several Venetian churches where he executed decorative carving in such profusion that he must have quickly assembled a large studio of assistants. As with his contemporary in London, Grinling Gibbons almost all the high quality robust Baroque carving in Venice has been attributed to Brustolon at one time or another. In the Venetian Ghetto, at the Scola Levantina, Brustolon provided the woodwork for the synagogue on the piano nobile, where the carved, canopied bimah is supported on Solomonic columns, which Brustolon had seen in Bernini's baldacchino in the Basilica of St Peter's. His furniture included armchairs with figural sculptures that take the place of front legs and armrest supports, inspired by his experience of Bernini's Cathedra Petri. The gueridon, a tall stand for a candelabrum, offered Brustolon unhampered possibilities for variations of the idea of a caryatid or atlas: the familiar Baroque painted and ebonized figural gueridons, endlessly reproduced since the eighteenth century, found their models in Brustolon's work. His secular commissions from Pietro Venier, of the Venier di San Vio family (a suite of forty sculptural pieces that can be seen in the Sala di Brustolon of the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice), from the Pisani of Strà, and from the Correr di San Simeone families encourage the attribution to him of some extravagantly rich undocumented moveable furniture. Andrea Brustolon's elaborate carved furniture aspired towards the condition of sculpture, such as the Dutch bases for console tables which look like enlargements of the work of the two Van Vianens, Paulus and Adam, perhaps the greatest Dutch silversmiths of the period. These carved pieces display the baroque tendency to develop a form three-dimensionally in space. Brustolon's walnut, boxwood and ebony pieces transcend ordinary functional limitations of furniture; they are constructed of elaborately carved figures. The framework of Brustolon's chairs, side tables and gueridons were carved as gnarled tree branches, with further supports of putti and male figures carved in ebony. Backrests of the chairs, which were never touched in the rigidly upright posture that contemporary etiquette demanded, were carved with allegories of vanity, fire and music, etc. The most extravagant piece delivered for Pietro Venier was a large side table and vase-stand of box and ebony, designed as a single ensemble to display rare imported Japanese porcelain vases. The eclectic allegories include Hercules with the Hydra and Cerberus, males and reclining river-gods (see ref.). For the Correr, less extrovert chairs bear female nudes extended along the armrests. For the Pisani, he carved a suite of twelve chairs (now at the Palazzo Quirinale) with flowers, fruit, leaves and branches to symbolize the twelve months of the year. Work by Brustolon is at the Villa Pisani at Stra. In 1685 Brustolon returned to the house where he was born at Belluno, and from that time devoted himself mainly to tabernacles and devotional sculptures in walnut, boxwood or ivory. His polychromed ivory Corpus from a crucifix is in the Museo Civico di Belluno, which preserves some of Brustolon's preparatory drawings for frames to be carved with putti displaying emblems. A pair of boxwood sculptures, The Sacrifice of Abraham and Jacob Wrestling with the Angel...

Armchairs Pair Baroque Swedish 1650-1750 Gray Velvet Sweden. A pair of large armchairs made during the Baroque period in Sweden. Upholstered in a dark grey cotton velvet with brass n...

A pair of French 19th-20th century Baroque style carved walnut and needlepoint upholstered hall throne armchairs with raised carved armrests and fluted conjoint legs. The tapestries ...

This early Baroque chair is made from rich Italian walnut. The broad antique frame was carved by the Italian sculptor and wood carver Andrea Fantoni, see accompanying photo. The arms...

This antique Italian Rococo 17th century throne armchair sourced in a palazzo in Rome, features swirls, curls and foliate motif richly hand carved...

Attractive 19th century Italian Baroque style carved walnut armchair with beautifully scrolled arms and legs. Upholstered with white and gold fabric. Measures: Arm height is 28 i...

Excellent Set of Four 19th Century Large, Hand-Carved Wood High Back Armchairs Wonderful quality carvings, standing on curved legs which are attached by a stretcher. Details: Heigh...

Mid-18th Century baroque hand-carved 1750 Venetian walnut armchair. Straw seat not original. The 18th Century was in Venice the Golden Age and this armchair is a remarkable work by ...

Consisting of three armchairs and seven side chairs, this superb giltwood suite was made in Italy in the nineteenth century. With slight variations in t...

Two Magnificent French Armchairs with respective Stools early 19th Century armchair measurements: H: 96cm x 76cm c 75cm stool measures: 45cm x 45cm x 50cm Hight wood and italian silk...

Antique French Baroque Carved Mahogany Fireside Throne Chair Newly Reupholstered in Metallic Rose Gold Brazilian Cowhide Beautiful hand carved detailing throughout the chair. This c...