Paint Seating

A pair of carved and giltwood bergere armchairs upholstered in a rose and cream striped fabric, with loose seat and back cushions and bolster pillows. The painted and parcel-gilt fra...

A C R O T E R I O N is pleased to offer this exceptionally important set of twelve circa 1785 English George III period Hepplewhite style hall seats or dining chairs of hall seat for...

Designed by Hans J. Wegner in 1950, the CH22 was among the inaugural collection produced by Carl Hansen & Søn and remains one of the designer's most celebrated lounge chairs. Cha...

A Lloyd Loom lounge or deck chair, synonymous with Classic English style, featuring a flowing, squared back of painted woven wicker and wire over a wood frame. Perfect for an indoor...

19th-century Swedish slagbänk bench with spindle back, reeded panels, and beautifully worn layered paint. The removable seat opens to reveal generous storage beneath, while the origi...

Elegant without being overly formal, this antique French Louis XVI fauteuil has the kind of quiet presence that immediately softens a room. Its oval medallion back, hand-carved frame...

Swedish set of four dining/side chairs from circa 1790, in classic Gustavian taste for elegant proportions and timeless details. Their painted frames reveal patinated layers of teal,...

This elegant French two-seat sofa, crafted in the Louis XVI style, dates from the early 20th century and beautifully captures the refined neoclassical aesthetic that has remained tim...

Sourced in Provence, France, this early 20th century French daybed is executed in the Louis XVI taste and showcases an elegant combination of painted wood, hand caning, and original ...

Swedish 18th century Gustavian style settee/banquette with its original hand-scraped & painted finish over the carved pine frame. The solid construction makes for a sheltering so...

A glamorous Swedish Empire style settee from the early 19th century (circa 1820) as a painted wood frame sheltering the fully upholstered interior of a single bench cushion, three ba...

A distinguished set of eight French Louis XV-style side chairs dating to circa 1910, crafted with finely shaped and painted frames exhibiting elegant cabriole legs, serpentine aprons...

What an extraordinary and visually arresting piece — the painted heron against the radiating fan motif on the back, continuing into a second fan panel on the stretcher below, is imme...

Chair of klismos form in figured birch, the broad rectangular back panel painted with a scene depicting a musician playing the aulos accompanied by a dancing female figure amid styli...

Fantastic Sheraton plank bench and in old original paint with hand stenciling throughout the seat and back. Hand turned spindles, stretchers and legs. A good portion of the original ...

Atmospheric Hungarian bench from the 1920s with a characterful rustic appearance. The bench is painted in a fresh green colour, which has beautifully worn over the years and formed a...

Elegant pair of Louis XV style bergère chairs featuring carved solid wood frames with a charming weathered finish. Newly upholstered in a soft, natural pale blue linen, the chairs ar...

Classis springer lounge chairs from the Art Deco period. Heavy cast iron frames that will give and rock abit when sat upon. Slatted backs and strapped seats, Very comfy and durable. ...

Magnificent vintage Modern Chesterfield style sofa composed of a beige twill upholstery with an all over diamond tuck pattern over very firm foam structure and black painted flat rectangular feet in the style of “The Chester Moon...

Fantastic set of 8 Adirondack styled chairs all handmade with old world techniques. All of the joinery is hand pegged and or splined where two pieces meet. All of the chairs are a li...

Fantastic set of four Shovel Chairs by Paul McCobb c1960. Such a unique design with ribbed dowel like backs and a shovel style seat out of maple sitting on a welded iron base with ca...

Vintage LC1 chair designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand, circa 1928. Base in chrome tubular steel, cognac color leather upholstery. Marked/engraved on the f...

These French ballroom chairs, dating to the mid 19th century, exemplify the grace and craftsmanship of the Second Empire period. These would make fabulous accent chairs!! Retaining t...

Set of six Pennsylvania plank seat side chairs painted gray with floral decorated back splat and crest rail. The chair elements are black pinstriped and banded in gold. American, ci...

A charming pair of Louis XVI era 'Fauteuils en Cabriole', upholstered in stripes of luxurious cream and gold satin silk, edged in gold-braid trim. Discovered in a Provençal mansion, ...

This set of chairs are lacquered creme color with a use of age. They are Louis XVI style, they are large, comfortable, ideal as side chairs in a room.

Of English origin, this piece represents the peak of the late 19th-century country house aesthetic, blending a sturdy British frame with a sophisticated Continental-style textile. ...

Set of (8) French Louis XV style dining chairs in a bleached walnut wood. The chairs are newly upholstered in a washed Belgium linen with ...

Each with square upholstered back and seat framed by a carved and painted wooden structure, detailed with floral motifs and rosettes. The arms are molded and scrolled, resting on flu...

Scandinavian Modern armchair, design Pauli Blomstedt, manufactured by J.Merivaara Oy, 1930s. Painted wood and steel pipe frame. Reupholstered with quality fabric by Lauritzon. Good ...

A refined set of eight early 20th century French Louis XVI style dining chairs, sourced in Paris and structurally revised in our workshop for stability and daily use. The frames reta...

A beautiful rare wicker set, over the top large scale suite of closely woven fully skirted wicker furniture , American, C. 1920, in a gorgeous air brush style shaded French green fi...

A gorgeous set of eight Neoclassical or French Regency Louis XVI style dining chairs In the manner of Baker Furniture Late 20th century Carved hand painted and gold gilt mah...

Early 19th century Swedish Gustavian bench or settee crafted in pine. The top rail features egg-and-dart molding and is crowned with four carved finials. The upper back is decorated ...

Iconic N. 14 Bistro dining chair or side chair designed by Michael Thonet, rendered in black painted beech bentwood frame with a woven wicker cain...

A graceful set of six late 19th century French dining chairs crafted in the Louis XVI style and sourced from Provence, France. Hand-carved and finished in creamy white paint, the fra...

More information coming soon… From the 1700s, this hand-carved Tuscan cassapanca bench features a hand-painted coat of arms on the shapely backrest. The seat lifts to reveal a stor...

Set of 6 Vintage American Wicker & Rattan Barrel-Back Armchairs, MCM Coastal A beautifully crafted set of six vintage wicker and rattan armchairs, showcasing classic American mi...

A fine American captain's chair featuring the traditional Federal-style stenciled details on a Windsor chair style frame - a low-back armchair with a curved, horseshoe-shaped crest r...

An exquisite late 19th-century petite accent side chair in the Louis XVI style, sourced from Provence, France. The hand-crafted frame features an elegant oval backrest and is finishe...

A chinoiserie flow blue and white ceramic garden stool or drinks table. This lovely piece will be great on a patio or in a living room. It can be used as extra seating in a pinch, or...

Elegant pair of Louis XVI style bergère chairs featuring a gray-painted wood frame with straight crests, low arms, and partial gilt highlights, accentuating the carved neoclassical d...

Incredible full size sofa by the Monterey Furniture Company, made in California, circa 1930's. The sofa features a solid wood ( probably Alder Wood ) frame with heavy wrought iron j...

A beautiful example of the Swedish Model chair wearing original paint with newly upholstered slip seats. These beautiful chairs have oval pierced backs and charming turned legs with...

Set of four chairs only. On offer on this occasion is one of the most stunning, rare dining chairs you could hope to find. A set of 4 rope cord and wood dining chairs in the style of...

Iconic vintage Bauhaus black painted bentwood & cane Josef Hoffman Prague 811 armchairs imported by Stendig for Thonet, a set of 4. Beautiful condition, keeping in mind that these are vintage and not new so will have signs of use and wear even if it has been refinished or restored. Specifically, there have been a few small repairs in the caning of all chairs and one chair seat has been replaced completely. It has been replaced with sheet cane and not individually woven. Please see photos, zoom in for details, and see long description as they are part of the condition report. We attempt to portray any imperfections. Circa, Early to Mid-20th Century. Much like a fine wine or the Mona Lisa, some things just get better with age… That’s just a fact! Including these iconic vintage black painted bentwood & cane Josef Hoffman Prague 811 armchairs by Stendig for Thonet! Talk about the ability to withstand the hands of time!! This Josef Hoffman 811 chair was originally designed in 1925 but remains a current and fabulous design that is highly sought after today. This set of 4 is comprised of beautiful black painted bentwood frames bearing slender rounded arms, slightly flared legs, and marvelous natural cane seats AND backs!! SPECTACULAR!!! Can’t you just SEE these beauties surrounding your kitchen table, breakfast nook, game table, or simply used as extra seating in the family room? We certainly can! Just the right touch of Bauhaus magnificence to any room and they’re sure to complement your home with their classic, historical excellence, whatever your style whether its Bauhaus, Art Deco, Mid-Century Modern, or Modern!! Josef Hoffman was one of Austria's most important architects and designers and was central to the development of art and design in Vienna. He grew up with three sisters and was nicknamed Pepo. His father was the town mayor and a successful businessman. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, a radical anti-historicist movement, and together with Koloman Moser created the Wiener Werkstatte cooperative workshop. A highly individualistic architect and designer, Hoffmann's work combined the simplicity of craft production with a refined aesthetic ornament. Between 1901 and 1905, he designed four villas in Vienna and a sanatorium in Brussels that was called “Stoclet House”, for which he developed a “cubistic” language of form, with an emphasis on straight, unadorned lines. In 1905, he established the Kunstschau with painter Gustav Klimt and, two years later, founded the Deutscher Werkbund. Hoffmann worked well into his 80s, continuing to use the geometric motifs that influenced the art deco style of the 1920s. In 1928 his work appeared in the Art in Industry exhibition held at Macy’s in New York City, where it exerted a strong influence on American designer Donald Deskey. Hoffmann is one of the seminal figures in the modern decorative arts movement of the first half of the 20th century. Stendig was totally the brainchild and passion of Charles W. Stendig. You cannot write or talk about Stendig without explaining Charles. He was a pioneer of import goods in the mid-century. After serving in WWII as a paratrooper, he studied business with emphasis on international trade at NYU and City College of New York. Afterward first working for Raymor, another pioneering distribution company, for about two years, departing to start his own business: Stendig. He opened his first showroom in 1956 in midtown Manhattan. He is credited for sparking America’s interest in furniture from Finland, Switzerland, Italy, and Czechoslovakia. He imported from the likes of Thonet, Asko, and De Sede; and from iconic designers including Le Corbusier, Josef Hoffmann, Eero Aarnio, Tapio Wirkkala, Marcel Breuer, Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Carlo Mollino, Carlo Scarpa, and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni to name just a few. By the late 1960’s, Stendig had showrooms in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco with a large headquarters in NYC. They were exciting and good times but short lived. The business was a challenge and when an offer was made by Burlington Industries to purchase, Charles agreed. He stayed on till 1976 to oversee and then retired. I have searched the internet to no avail to find out if a Stendig division is still in operation. But I can only find the Stendig Calendar, the only calendar in MoMA’s collection, which was designed for Stendig by Mossimo Vignelli, still offered. But I am having a hard time deciding who is creating and offering it. I do know Burlington Industries was bankrupt by 2001, purchased in 2003, merged with Cone Mills in 2004 and subsequently into ITG or International Textile Group. But the Stendig name reins as an icon of high style mid-century offerings. Thonet was founded by Michael Thonet. Michael was born in 1796 and was apprenticed by his father to a cabinetmaker. Shortly after he married, Michael opened his one-man cabinetmaking shop creating furniture and cabinetry in the traditional manner by carving the needed parts and then joining them together. In 1830 he began experimenting with bending wood into curved shapes and thus began a successful furniture company that has remained continually in operation for nearly 200 years. Thonet’s early work was very Biedermeier in style and not made for the common man. Gradually his designs became more Art Nouveau. In 1951 his chairs for the Crystal Palace at the London World’s Fair won a prize medal and by the late 1950s he began to make his first “consumer” chair. In 1875, a year before Michael’s death, Thonet’s five factories made 620,000 chairs. Then in 1876 after his death the company became Gebruder Thonet. But all was not roses. In 1869 the Thonet patents lapsed and by 1893 there were 52 bentwood companies in Europe. However, Thonet persevered. They branched out. They merged. They added designs by Le Corbusier and Breuer and alternative materials such as tubular chrome in place of bentwood to their offerings. Business boomed and waned through the years and there was even a Thonet revival, so to speak, beginning in the 1940s on into the mid-20th century. Till today, in the 21st century, Thonet is still a furniture company to be reckoned with almost 200 years later. We are in love with this iconic set of 4 Prague 811 chairs...

A C R O T E R I O N is pleased to offer this exceptionally fine and doubly rare circa 1815 English regency period chair of petite modified klismos form, the solid mahogany frame havi...

Great set of 4 vintage oak craftsman style barstools with original dark green finish with distressed details that give them a very French country feel. Beautiful dowel construction ...

A fabulous American Victorian painted yellow wrought iron wire Grand shoe shining stand by Royal Products Chicago. Born in the late 19th century, the tall shoeshine chair...

Odds are good that you haven't seen many of these, with their scallop shell backs and seats, dolphin-head arms, and particularly such strange, roughened, coral-textured legs suggesti...

Genuine French Tolix chairs that were designed so that you can safely (according to Tolix that is) stack the steel chairs twelve high. Currently we have over 300 pieces of authentic ...

Mid 19th century large painted Swedish bench day bed Large rustic Swedish pine bench / day bed circa 1850. Very heavy i...

Large Swedish 19th century painted pine bench circa 1890. Here we present a Swedish painted bench which has been dry scraped through its various layers of lifetime paint. Shaped ba...

A charming pair of vintage wooden stools, featuring three splayed legs connected by crossbars for added stability. The stools are painted in a rich red tone, with natural wear, paint...

A fine American captain's chair featuring the traditional Federal-style stenciled details on a Windsor chair style frame - a low-back armchair with a curved, horseshoe-shaped crest r...

An elegant set of six French dining chairs made in the style of Louis XV sourced from Provence, France. Beautifully hand-crafted from solid wood finished in light creamy antique whit...

An iconic chair designed by Italian postmodern designer Alessandro Mendini (1931-2019). This wonderful postmodern work of art presented as a chair is in excellent condition and ready to display in your space. Proust was originally created in 1978 for the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara. It was immediately recognized as an icon of twentieth century design and one of the most renowned and essential reference points in the quest for form and aesthetic perfection. Cappellini inherited the piece in 1993 and today Proust Geometrica...

Swedish early 19th century Gustavian painted sofa circa 1810. Stunning sofa in original paint.  This would have been a day bed with a pull out section to the front, but it has since...

Vintage Louis XV Style Carved Settee. White washed in a distressed vintage finish. Newly upholstered in a neutral linen fabric. Please contact us for competitive shipping quotes.

Antique hand painted long pine bench is embellished with traditional Eastern European folk art painting with blue accents and red flower bouquets all set against a brown background. ...