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Chairs For Sale
Style: Louis XVI
Color:  Red
19th Century French Hand Carved Wooden Chair in Red Velvet
Located in Sofia, BG
French low seated hand carved chair painted in light beige with elegant decoration in red upholstery and in great condition. Late 19th century.  
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Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Chairs

19th Century French Hand Carved Wooden Chair in Red Velvet
19th Century French Hand Carved Wooden Chair in Red Velvet

19th Century French Hand Carved Wooden Chair in Red Velvet

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19th Century British Antique Chairs

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19th Century English fruit wooden child's chair
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Swedish 19th Century Wooden Child's High Chair
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H 30.5 in W 16.5 in D 22 in
Wooden Chair Louis Philippe Style 19th Century France
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Pretty low chair from the Napoleon III period with a very beautiful turned wooden backrest. This type of chair with a particularly low seat is also calle...
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Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Chairs

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Wood

Wooden Chair Louis Philippe Style 19th Century France
Wooden Chair Louis Philippe Style 19th Century France

Wooden Chair Louis Philippe Style 19th Century France

H 38.39 in W 18.12 in D 17.33 in
Wooden British Chair, 19th Century, England
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
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Wooden British Chair, 19th Century, England

Wooden British Chair, 19th Century, England

H 35.04 in W 15.36 in D 13.39 in
19th Century Aesthetic Movement X-Frame Chair w. Hand Carved Monkey Finials
Located in Lisse, NL
Marvellous, early Arts & Crafts chair with human-like, monkey sculptures. I once learned that one of the goals of art is that it should trigger your imagination. Also, in the sense that it should make you ask yourself the question, what am I looking at and what does it mean (to me)? When I first saw this chair I immediately knew I was looking at a unique work of art and the artistic, human-like monkey sculptures lift it to a whole different level. Realizing that this chair is most likely created in the era of the British Aesthetic Movement around 1880, it came to me how the artist who created this piece could very well have been inspired by a book he may have read, 'on the origin of species' by Charles Darwin. My imagination led me to believe that reading about 'evolutionary biology' could very well have been the seed that was at the root of this marvellous and meaningful work of art. A work of art that lesser creative minds may simply call 'a chair'. Your imagination may tell you something very different and that is why this unique and very well preserved antique also is a great conversation piece. Our price for this 'Darwin chair...
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19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Chairs

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19th Century Aesthetic Movement X-Frame Chair w. Hand Carved Monkey Finials
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19th Century Walnut Victorian Hand-Carved Chairs - a Pair
Located in Louisville, KY
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Pair of 18th/19th Century French Carved Fauteuils
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Pair of Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Hand Carved Walnut Opera Chairs
Located in Fayetteville, AR
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Pair of Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Hand Carved Walnut Opera Chairs

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19th Century French Carved Prayers Chair or Prie Dieux
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
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19th Century French Carved Prayers Chair or Prie Dieux
19th Century French Carved Prayers Chair or Prie Dieux

19th Century French Carved Prayers Chair or Prie Dieux

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Rustic Wooden Chair, France, 19th Century
Located in Antwerp, BE
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Rustic Wooden Chair, France, 19th Century
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19th Century French Hand Carved Wooden Chair Metal Ornaments Red Velvet
Located in Boven Leeuwen, NL
Beautiful chair made in France, circa 1860. Special about the chair are the metal ornaments and the headline contains initials. The chair is fully new upholstered in red velvet.  
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1860s French Louis XVI Antique Chairs

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19th Century French Hand Carved Wooden Chair Metal Ornaments Red Velvet
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Located in Montreal, Quebec
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Pair of Red Louis XVI Style Giltwood Chairs
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Shop Antique and Vintage Chairs on 1stDibs: Lounge Chairs, Dining Chairs and Other Seating for Sale

Chairs are an indispensable component of your home and office. Can you imagine your life without the vintage, new or antique chairs you love?

With the exception of rocking chairs, the majority of the seating in our homes today — Windsor chairs, chaise longues, wingback chairs — originated in either England or France. Art Nouveau chairs, the style of which also originated in those regions, embraced the inherent magnificence of the natural world with decorative flourishes and refined designs that blended both curved and geometric contour lines. While craftsmanship and styles have evolved in the past century, chairs have had a singular significance in our lives, no matter what your favorite chair looks like.

“The chair is the piece of furniture that is closest to human beings,” said Hans Wegner. The revered Danish cabinetmaker and furniture designer was prolific, having designed nearly 500 chairs over the course of his lifetime. His beloved designs include the Wishbone chair, the wingback Papa Bear chair and many more.

Other designers of Scandinavian modernist chairs introduced new dynamics to this staple with sculptural flowing lines, curvaceous shapes and efficient functionality. The Paimio armchair, Swan chair and Panton chair are vintage works of Finnish and Danish seating that left an indelible mark on the history of good furniture design.

“What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts,” said Ray Eames. 

Visionary polymaths Ray and Charles Eames experimented with bent plywood and fiberglass with the goal of producing affordable furniture for a mass market. Like other celebrated mid-century modern furniture designers of elegant low-profile furnishings — among them Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Finn Juhl — the Eameses considered ergonomic support, durability and cost, all of which should be top of mind when shopping for the perfect chair. The mid-century years yielded many popular chairs.

The Eameses introduced numerous icons for manufacturer Herman Miller, such as the Eames lounge chair and ottoman, molded plywood dining chairs the DCM and DCW (which can be artfully mismatched around your dining table) and a wealth of other treasured pieces for the home and office. 

A good chair anchors us to a place and can become an object of timeless appeal. Take a seat and browse the rich variety of vintage, new and antique chairs on 1stDibs today. 

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