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Lounge Chairs For Sale
Style: Victorian
Style: Baroque
Antique Cast Iron Gothic Garden Chair
Located in Sheffield, MA
Impressive English cast iron painted garden throne chair with high back and wonderful decorative details that will add interest to any garden. Part of the decoration is missing but s...
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Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Iron

Armchairs in Oak & Wool, Louis XIII Style, By a French Cabinetmaker in the 1930s
Located in Odense, DK
These armchairs are a classic representation of Victorian Louis XIII style crafted by a skilled French cabinetmaker in the early 20th century. Made from sturdy oak wood and upholster...
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Early 20th Century Danish Victorian Lounge Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Oak

Rare English Victorian Mahogany Reclining Library Chair, circa 1840
Located in Salisbury, GB
This rare Victorian mahogany reclining library chair was made circa 1840. The mahogany frame with the sliding footrest that is stored under the chair, then slides out on a runner ...
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1830s English Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Leather, Mahogany

Victorian English Country House Hampton & Sons Armchair - Howard & Sons Style
Located in Stockbridge, GB
Victorian Country House Hampton & Sons Armchair A stunning victorian deep seated country house armchair by renowned makers Hampton & Sons, Pall Mall London. It has a great shape to ...
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Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Brass

Victorian Style Carved Fruitwood and Upholstered Lounge Chair
Located in Germantown, MD
A Victorian Style Carved Fruitwood and Upholstered Lounge Chair in good vintage condition. Clean upholstery Measures 29" in width x 31" in depth x 39.5" in height x 20" seat height ...
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Mid-20th Century American Victorian Lounge Chairs

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Upholstery, Fruitwood

Meadowcraft Dogwood Green Wrought Iron Outdoor Patio Coil Spring Chairs, Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Meadowcraft Dogwood Green Wrought Iron Outdoor Patio Coil Spring Chairs - a Pair. Circa Mid to Late 20th Century. Measurements: 38" H x 26"...
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Mid-20th Century Victorian Lounge Chairs

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Wrought Iron

Oversized Baroque Style Lounge Chair by Tomlinson
Located in Palm Beach Gardens, FL
An amazing oversized lounge chair by Tomlinson, upholstered in a pinkish-red damask fabric. The custom-made pillows are included, as shown. The pillow's intricate trim work showcases...
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1990s American Baroque Lounge Chairs

Materials

Textile, Wood

Victorian leather easy library chair
Located in Salisbury, GB
Victorian leather easy chair This Victorian leather easy chair was made circa 1885. The deep buttoned back and a deep seat. It stands on oak turned legs with castors under. This desi...
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1880s English Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Leather, Oak

Victorian Walnut Open Armchair With Serpentine Seat On Scroll Supports & Castors
Located in High Wycombe, GB
Victorian Walnut Open Armchair With Serpentine Seat On Scroll Supports With Original Brass Castors With A Textured Patterned Upholstery Has it's original brown ceramic castors
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19th Century British Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Brass

19th Century Gillows Walnut Open Armchair
Located in Batley, GB
A superb quality mid-19th century armchair by Gillows of Lancaster. Raised on finely worked walnut turned front legs and arm supports without splayed chamfered legs to the rear, all ...
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19th Century British Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Walnut

Mid 19th century French mahogany and leather reclining chair
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Fine quality mid 19th century french mahogany and leather reclining chair circa 1860. We are pleased to be able to offer this stunning french f...
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Mid-19th Century French Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Leather, Mahogany

Antique Pair of Victorian Lion & Shamrock Carved His & Hers Oak Library Chairs
Located in Glasgow, GB
A superb pair of Victorian his and hers library chairs, circa 1870, the gentleman’s armchair with carved lion head terminals to the padded armrests, each with shaped back and deep seat and recently reupholstered in aubergine purple velvet chenille with braid trim, standing on turned Irish shamrock carved legs with brass caps and white porcelain castors, the brass stamped ‘WT&S Patent’ for William Tonks & Son. In good condition and comfortable these deep seated chairs...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Brass

Pair of Victorian Parlor Balloon Chairs in Red Velvet
Located in Saint Louis, US
A lustrous crushed red velvet paints the concave back of this rare beauty. The sheer height of these chairs gives them a throne-like feeling. The outside back is covered in a satiny ...
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1970s American Victorian Vintage Lounge Chairs

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Leather, Velvet

Custom Cotton Glazed Floral Chintz Upholstered His and Hers Lounge Chairs
Located in Morristown, NJ
20th c. his and hers chairs. One wingback with scroll arms and loose seat cushions, the other with tight seat and slightly curved back. Both with a pleated skirt over wood legs, unma...
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Late 20th Century American Victorian Lounge Chairs

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Cotton, Upholstery, Wood

Pair of Danish Modern Highback Lounge Chairs in Style of Henning Kjærnulf, 1960s
Located in Odense, DK
A sculptural pair of comfortable highback lounge chairs crafted from high-quality materials, and their style is reminiscent of the work of Danish designer Henning Kjærnulf. Armrest c...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Baroque Lounge Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Oak

Beautiful Victorian Walnut Showframe Lady’s Salon Chair
Located in Crawley, GB
This is a classic Victorian, antique salon lady’s chair dating to the mid 19th century, c.1840. Raised on stout, oblique cabriole legs Featuring bulbous knee and scrolled toe Swe...
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Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Walnut

19Th Century Armchair By T. H. Filmer & Sons
Located in Batley, GB
19th century gout armchair by T. H. Filmer & sons. The Walnut base raised on large ceramic Cope & Collinson casters and its original pull-out adjustable gout stool. A very comfortabl...
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Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Walnut

Large Heavily Carved Figural Victorian Walnut Throne Chair with Putti Cherubs
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
For customers that require professional insured delivery we are proud to have teamed up with a nationwide professional delivery company that will assist with coordinating your delivery needs! They offer a reasonable flat-rate fee for delivery and set up to the ground floor of your home. They deliver to the vast majority of the lower 48 states. They offer a flat rate for most of our items with exclusions for the largest or most complex items such as breakfronts or crystal chandeliers or other items of greater complexity. For those items please ask for a shipping quote prior to purchase as these rates are different from our stated pricing. For those items please ask for a shipping quote prior to purchase. Most deliveries to the East Coast will be 295.00, to the mid-west and Southern mid-west 395.00. To the areas west of Kansas 495.00 and the farthest points to the West coast will be 595.00. Again, some areas we can't cover, however we can deliver to most of the lower 48 states so please inquire to be sure! Delivery times range from as fast as 1-4 weeks for the east coast to 5-9 weeks to the farthest areas of the west coast, sometimes longer and sometimes even shorter. If it is a time sensitive purchase, we may be able to accommodate you for a higher price. It is our goal to please each and every one of our customers with the highest standard of service possible. You must realize and accept that we are shipping antique, vintage and quality used furnishings to your home. We cannot control traffic, weather, and acts of God. There will be times when additional patience will be necessary. This antique carved throne chair...
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Early 1900s European High Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Walnut

Beautiful Antique Victorian Walnut Lady’s Chair
Located in Crawley, GB
Beautiful Antique Victorian mahogany ladies chair boasting a lovely shaped back, serpentine front rail, standing on shaped cabriole legs to the front out swept back legs in original ...
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Late 19th Century British Late Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Walnut

Pair English 19th Century Slipper Chairs
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a pair of c. 1870 English Slipper that have been brought into the 21st century with a fine Clarence House Linen in a French gray and ivory abstract damask pattern. The intern...
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Linen, Wood

19th Century English Country House Armchair in the Manner of Holland and Sons
Located in Batley, GB
A very good quality 19th century armchair with nice shape and form. Recently upholstered in an off white silky type fabric not by us but done well and very much ready to use. Mea...
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Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Walnut

English Victorian Captains Chair - 19th Century England
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Beautiful Victorian era armchair called "Captain Chair" or "Smoker Chair" in turned wood with four legs connected by a spacer. This ideal piece of furnit...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Oak

Victorian Era Campaign Chair with Lidded Ottoman, circa 1890s
Located in Peabody, MA
A rare late Victorian folding campaign chair with accompanying lidded storage ottoman chest, circa 1890s. Chair measures 24.25" wide, 30.5" deep, 37....
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1890s American Late Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Upholstery, Mahogany

Vintage French Victorian Style Carved Mahogany Frame Lounge Arm Chair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage French Victorian Style carved mahogany frame lounge arm chair. Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: 35" H x 26" W x 28" D x 17" Seat height x 24" Arm height.  
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Mid-20th Century Victorian Lounge Chairs

Materials

Mahogany

Victorian Style Spoon Back Parlor Lounge Chair
Located in Pasadena, TX
Victorian style spoon back parlor lounge chair. Victorian style chair with a spoon back. Mahogany with Cabriole legs on original castors. ...
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Late 19th Century North American Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Mahogany

19th Century, Holland and Son Armchair
Located in Batley, GB
A superb mid-19th century deep seated armchair by Holland & sons. Raised on walnut legs all capped with the original W Hopkins & son's brass caste...
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Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Walnut

Museum Quality Antique William Birch Adolf Loos Knieschwimmer Lounge Armchair
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this important Museum quality William Birch made and stamped, retailed through Hampton & Son’s, designed by Adolf Loos Knieschwimmer lounge armchai...
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1880s English Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Hardwood

Baroque Armchair in Giltwood and Black Velvet
Located in Milano, IT
Beautiful armchair taken over by an elite Venetian bourgeois family, whose design is also an inspiration. The armchair is made of gilded wood in the mighty frame, with 4 supporting f...
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1880s Italian Baroque Antique Lounge Chairs

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Velvet, Giltwood

Victorian Blue Green Woven Wicker Sunroom Sofa Rocking Chair Lounge Chair 3 Pcs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Victorian Blue Green Woven Wicker Sunroom Sofa Set Rocking Chair and Lounge Chair - 3 Pc Set. Item features (1) sofa, (1) lounge chair, (1) rocking chair, woven "arrow" desig...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Lounge Chairs

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Wicker

Pair of 19th Century Irish Mahogany Armchairs
Located in Dublin, IE
A very fine pair of 19th century Irish mahogany framed armchairs, with rectangular back and out-scrolling arms, covered in a grey velvet fab...
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19th Century Irish Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Mahogany

Good Victorian Style Spoon Back Easy Chair
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
A Good Victorian Style Spoon Back Easy Chair The chair has a solid frame and it stands on cabriole legs. There is a deeply buttoned back and a broad curved top rail. This very c...
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Mid-20th Century Victorian Lounge Chairs

Materials

Beech

Italian Baroque Throne Armchair in Nutwood Reupholstered in Velvet
Located in Morazzone, Varese
Gorgeous Baroque throne armchair made of full nutwood in Italy. The armchair was completely new upholstered inside / outside with red velvet, the cushi...
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1920s Italian Baroque Vintage Lounge Chairs

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Velvet, Nutwood

Pair Domestic Cotton Victorian 'Deconstructed' Tufted Scroll-back Chair, 1900
Located in Silvolde, Gelderland
Absolutely stunning and beautiful pair original Victorian lounge chairs, completely and professionally restored in "deconstructed manner". These restored lounge chairs are newly upho...
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19th Century Swedish Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Cotton, Linen, Pine

Pair of Tufted Cerused Lounge Slipper Chairs
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Tufted Cerused Lounge Slipper Chairs upholstered in a velvet fabric. The chairs have cerused oak legs with the front legs having casters.
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20th Century Baroque Lounge Chairs

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Oak, Velvet

Pair of Original 18th Century Louis XV Salon Gold Gilded Chairs
Located in Doha, QA
Extraordinary and exquisite set of original Louis XV salon gold gilded chairs with curved wood edges, intricately carved surfaces and Grey Green Pat...
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Mid-18th Century French Baroque Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Gold

Large Woven Wicker Rattan Victorian Style Wingback Lounge Arm Chair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large Woven Wicker Rattan Victorian Style Wingback Lounge Arm Chair. item features a large Impressive size, woven wicker frame, wingback design, quality craftsmanship, great style an...
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Late 20th Century Victorian Lounge Chairs

Materials

Wicker, Rattan

English 19th Century Mahogany Armchair
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very good quality mid 19th century English mahogany library armchair, in the French hepplewhite style, having central set carved cartouche to top rail over upholstered back and sea...
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Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Mahogany

Vintage Woodard Chantilly Rose Wrought Iron Garden Patio Bouncer Lounge Chair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Woodard Chantilly Rose Wrought Iron Garden Patio Bouncer Lounge Chair. Item features spring/bouncer frame, classic Chantilly Ros...
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Mid-20th Century North American Victorian Lounge Chairs

Materials

Wrought Iron

19th Century Victorian Armchair, Mahogany Frame with Upholstery
Located in London, GB
An English Victorian armchair, 19th century, raised on mahogany turned front legs with original brass castors and buttoned back. Style r...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Metal, Brass

19th Century Domestic Cotton Victorian 'Deconstructed' Tufted Scroll-Back Chair
Located in Silvolde, Gelderland
Absolutely beautiful original Victorian lounge chair, completely and professionally restored in "deconstructed manner". This restored lounge chair is newly upholstered in domestic c...
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19th Century Swedish Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Cotton, Linen, Pine

Victorian Cream Sleigh Back Country House Armchair
Located in Hastings, GB
A gorgeous sleigh back arm chair, dating to circa 1860 fully professionally reupholstered in Harrington Herringbone Jute, solid beech frame on turned walnut feet, all the original br...
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1860s English Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Beech

Antique Woodard Chantilly Rose Wrought Iron Patio Bouncer Lounge Chair - a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Woodard Chantilly rose wrought iron garden patio bouncer lounge chair, a pair. Item features his and her frames (one chair slightly bigger), classic Chantilly rose pattern, w...
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Mid-20th Century North American Victorian Lounge Chairs

Materials

Wrought Iron

Armchair Upholstered Kelim Knole Vintage Country House Massive
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A large, vintage, country house, knole armchair upholstered in a kelim textile A Classic country house piece with the high back and wings creating a ...
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1980s English Baroque Vintage Lounge Chairs

Materials

Fabric

Mid-19th Hindley & Sons Country House Armchair
Located in London, GB
An elegant Hindley & Sons upholstered armchair with satinwood legs, newly covered using naturally dyed antique linen in bottle green. English, early nineteenth century.
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Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Linen, Satinwood

Rare 1954-1959 Howard & Son's Lenygon & Morant Armchair Original Ticking Fabric
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original 1954-1959 Howard & Son’s armchair retailed through Lenygon & Morant LTD 48 South Audley St London W1 A very good looking well made and decorative armchair, it has the original label to the base, the Howard & Son’s period ticking fabric...
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1950s English Victorian Vintage Lounge Chairs

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Upholstery

Vintage French Bergère Lounge/ Armchair in Orange Mohair
Located in Pasadena, TX
Vintage French bergère lounge/ armchair in orange mohair Large, comfortable lounge chair with ornate gilted detailing throughout. Has buttons...
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Mid-20th Century Baroque Lounge Chairs

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Mohair

Upholstered Club Chair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early 20th-century English club chair, freshly reupholstered in a beautiful charcoal linen. With ebonized turnip-style feet and capacious rolled arms, the classic shape is comfortabl...
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1890s English Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Wood

19th Century White Cotton Victorian 'Deconstructed' Tufted Scroll-Back Chair
Located in Silvolde, Gelderland
Absolutely beautiful original Victorian lounge chair, completely and professionally restored in "deconstructed manner". This restored lounge chair is newly upholstered in domestic co...
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19th Century Swedish Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Cotton, Linen, Pine

Vintage Victorian Style Spoon Back Lounge Chair
Located in Pasadena, TX
Vintage Victorian style spoon back lounge chair Charming, decorative chair with a padded arched spoon back over upholstered seat in a flocke...
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Late 20th Century North American Victorian Lounge Chairs

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Mahogany

Vintage Garden Tete-a-Tete
Located in Sheffield, MA
Add this vintage painted metal Tete-a-Tete to your garden for added seating, charm and interest. Garden bench, outdoor seating, tete a tete.  
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Early 20th Century American Late Victorian Lounge Chairs

Materials

Wire

Stephen Webb for Collinson & Lock Attr. Late Victorian Inlaid Mahogany Armchair
Located in London, GB
Stephen Webb for Collinson & Lock of London, attributed. A good quality English Renaissance Revival finely inlaid Mahogany button back uph...
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1870s English Late Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Mahogany

English 19th Century Club Chair
Located in Vosselaar, BE
Elegant English late 19th-early 20th century Howard type upholstered club chair. Rolled and buttoned back and arms with a buttoned swell front and standing on turned mahogany legs wi...
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Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

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Mahogany

Pair of Italian 19th Century Baroque Carved Arm Throne Chairs, Figural Carvings
Located in Stamford, CT
Pair of Italian 19th century Baroque carved arm throne chairs. The pair with figural carvings and putti sleeping on beds of leafs, 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. 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 1678-1680 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 18th 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...
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1890s Italian Baroque Antique Lounge Chairs

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Wood

Laminated Rosewood John Henry Belter Victorian Slipper Lounge Chairs, a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Pair of antique laminated rosewood John Henry Belter Victorian salon slipper lounge chairs, a pair. Item features laminated rosewood bentwood backs, b...
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19th Century Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Laminate, Rosewood

Beautiful Thonet High Back Armchair No 6351 Black, Cane
Located in Miami, FL
Original cane and black finish, stamped Thonet. Beautiful lines.
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1890s Austrian Late Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Cane, Wood

Pair of French 19th-20th Century Baroque Style Carved Thrones Armchairs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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 ...
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1890s French Baroque Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Wool, Walnut

Vintage Victorian Style Chair
Located in Pasadena, TX
49” Vintage Victorian style chair. Vintage tapestry style fabric and intricately detailed woodwork.
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Early 20th Century American Late Victorian Lounge Chairs

Materials

Walnut

Antique Ebonized Reading Chair on Castors, Late 19th Century
Located in Uppsala, SE
Diminutive antique reading chair with ebonized legs on castors, late 19th century. Either you sit on it like a normal chair our you can turn arou...
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Late 19th Century British Late Victorian Antique Lounge Chairs

Materials

Brass

Antique and Vintage Lounge Chairs for Sale: Wassily Chairs, Eames Chairs and Other Celebrated Seats

While this specific seating is known to all for its comfort and familiar form, the history of how your favorite antique or vintage lounge chair came to be is slightly more ambiguous.

Although there are rare armchairs dating back as far as the 17th century, some believe that the origins of the first official “lounge chair” are tied to Hungarian modernist designer-architect Marcel Breuer. Sure, Breuer wasn’t exactly reinventing the wheel when he introduced the Wassily lounge chair in 1925, but his seat was indeed revolutionary for its integration of bent tubular steel.

Officially, a lounge chair is simply defined as a “comfortable armchair,” which allows for the shape and material of the furnishings to be extremely diverse. Whether or not chaise longues make the cut for this category is a matter of frequent debate.

The Eames lounge chair, on the other hand, has come to define somewhat of a universal perception of what a lounge chair can be. Introduced in 1956, the Eames lounger (and its partner in cozy, the ottoman) quickly became staples in television shows, prestigious office buildings and sumptuous living rooms. Venerable American mid-century modern designers Charles and Ray Eames intended for it to be the peak of luxury, which they knew meant taking furniture to the next level of style and comfort. Their chair inspired many modern interpretations of the lounge — as well as numerous copies.

On 1stDibs, find a broad range of unique lounge chairs that includes everything from antique Victorian-era seating to vintage mid-century modern lounge chairs by craftspersons such as Hans Wegner to contemporary choices from today’s innovative designers.

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