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Model Experiment armchair, designed by Yrjö Kukkapuro, manufactured by Avarte, 1980s. Black painted wood and chromed metal frame, leather upholstery. Good vintage condition, minor pa...

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...

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...

19th Century Italian Neoclassical painted settee features a multi-chair back style in a decorative floral painted theme. Slender tapering cabriole legs and a lightly patterned Uphols...

A remarkable mid-century rattan sofa that embodies the relaxed elegance of Old Florida design. Professionally restored and refinished in Benjamin Moore’s Catalina, this substantial s...

Model 04 distinguishes itself from the other members of Series 01 with its unique bled of industrial design and simplistic charm. Featuring an adjustable seat and solid wood features...

Fabulous bar stools in iron created using the hairpin leg style, heavy duty, with the original naughahyde seat covers, patterned red. They swivel for ease of movement and comfort. 8 ...

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...

A refined and graceful set of eight French painted dining chairs featuring oval cameo cane backs made in the grand Louis XVI taste. The carved beech chairs frames are finished in a s...

Set of 6 unique folding chairs. Seat & back collapse in a unique way, folding towards each other part. Chairs have been painted and recovered but the vinyl on a few chairs is undone,...

A refined pair of 18th-century Swedish Louis XVI armchairs, elegantly crafted from beech wood and finished in a white painted frame with gilt leaf detailing. The chairs feature beaut...

Sourced in Lyon, France, this elegant grand set of ten French Louis XVI dining chairs dates to the late 18th to early 19th century and features oval cane backs and matching cane seat...

Distinctive pair of mid 20th century design armchairs, model CM 194. This pair of chairs are early works designed by the visionary designer Pierre Paulin for Th...

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.

Set of 3 rare stackable Wilman chairs designed in 1956 by renowned Finnish designer, Ilmari Tapiovaara, and manufactured in Finland by Wilhelm Schauman Fanerfabrik. These innovative...

Set of six French Louis XVI dining chairs sourced in Provence. Crafted in the early 20th century, the chairs feature shaped trapezoidal backs, carved floral corner blocks, fluted tap...

“Real” hand-made in France, authentic Tolix Steel Stacking Stools in Pale Pink. We have amassed a collection of over (1000) pieces of genuine Tolix steel stacking Chairs, Counter Stools and Bar Height Stools as well as Tolix Steel Tables. Most of our Tolix inventory is new, but have been sitting in a warehouse for over a decade and most all will have minor surface scuffs. We also are listing on 1stdibs...

Fabulous 3 pc suite of split reed rattan consisting of a 3 seat sofa 70w x 34.5d x 32h x 16.5sh, and a pair of lounge chairs 33.5w x 36d x 32h x16.5sh. Fantastic style with a cup an...

The Headless Mule (“Mula sem Cabeça”) is one of Brazil's most enduring folklore figures. A woman transformed into a fire-breathing creature as punishment for a forbidden love. A stor...

This is a very decorative early 19th century English Regency open arm chair that retains its original painted surface. The seat caning has an ol...

Tolix Original French Counter Stools Blood Orange Set (2) Other Colors Available in Counter Height, Bar Height and Dining Table Height Stools, plu...

A fine Swedish Rococo armchair with carved backrest and turned arm rests. Wide seat atop cabriolet legs with turned H-cross construction. Tastefully repainted in pale blue and origin...

Pair of Scandinavian painted pine benches circa 1890. Good quality rustic pair of Swedish painted benches made in pine.  These almost certainly would have been on rail station or so...

Swedish painted rocking stool that is newly upholstered in washed Belgium linen and finished with antique brass nailhead trim detail.

Antique storage bench from the 1860s in grey-painted pine wood with high back and storage. Antique storage bench from the 19th century. — Type: Storage bench — Material: Pine wood —...

An exquisite set of eight French Louis XVI style restored dining chairs, consisting of six side chairs and two armchairs, sourced in Paris, France. This elegant set features classic ...

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...

High Quality Vintage Ebonized Maple Wood Windsor ArmChair by Nichols and Stone. Measures 23" in width, 23" in depth, 33" in height. Seat height is 16.5" and arm height is 27.5". Seat...

This 1960s Hollywood Regency set of 8 patio dining chairs enchant with black neo baroque frames full of enough romance and garden glamour to make you smile. Like a growing garden, wh...

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...

Refurbished single caned Cesca Chair in black. The cane back and bottom were sanded then painted in black as the original gloss was wearing down and needed a full refinishing job. No...

Vintage Art Deco Metal Basket Weave Old Green White Porch Outdoor Spring Arm Chair. Item features original green and white painted finish, woven basket weave seat and back, metal fra...

Italian, Baroque/Rococo period (18th century) footstool with the most elegant carvings across the apron and cabriole legs. Presently the boxed seat is upholstered in a serene shade o...

An original Westport Chair designed by Thomas Lee in 1903 and produced by his friend carpenter Harry Bunnell in 1905. This chair is one of the ...

The Beatles Yellow Submarine Chairs created and Painted by Artist Todd Fendos These Chairs pay tribute to the imaginative Beatles film... se...

These L. Hitchcocks chairs are as one would expect coming from Hitchcock, simply splendid. With their signature black painted finish and gold stencil work overall, the age, patina an...

Early to mid 20th century vanity bench / stool. Off white painted cabriole legs; grape purple needlepoint seat embroidered with a bouquet of flowers. French provincial / Queen Anne /...

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 ...

This is for one of the most iconic modern design chairs ever made, the famous Red and Blue Chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1918 and manufactured by Gerard van de Groenekan in th...

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...

A French 19th century square piano stool with recent ebonized (painted) finish and reupholstered seat to emphasize the Louis XVI style. The boxy sea...

Charming set of six Swedish dining chairs with richly carved seat backs with lyre and leaf motifs. Recent upholstery seat in linen.

A refined pair of early 20th century French Louis XVI style side chairs, sourced from Provence, France. Each chair features an oval backrest, newly upholstered with a sophisticated c...

A Swedish pair of Louis XVI style benches (interchangeable as footstools or ottomans) dating to the 1700’s. These classically styled benches have...

19th century French Louis XVI style bergère marquise upholstered armchair in painted wood frame with neoclassical architecture embellished hand-carved...

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Painted Armchairs ~ Fauteuils from a grand salon set was discovered in a Paris apartment, and reflects the lasting beauty of French neoclassical...

More information coming soon… Known as a gig seat, this rare and fascinating bench would have been mounted to the frame of an English curricle (carriage) in the 1700s. The seat, wh...

Antique storage bench from the 1860s in grey-painted pine wood with carved details and storage. Antique storage bench from the 19th century. — Type: Storage bench — Material: Pine w...

Very special set of six C1840 half spindle dining chairs in original yellow pai t with hand stenciling. Plank seats which are one board all in excellent very tight condition. Beautif...

A very attractive set of eight early 20th Century Gustavian style dining chairs. Highly decorative with a later aged white paint finish the set comprises of two carver chairs and si...

Rare occasional stool "sella" designed by Achille Castiglioni in the 1950s. This stool belongs to the 1960/70s production. Leather seat by brooks (old metal label); chrome plated and...

Elegant Louis XVI style stool with oval upholstered seat, supported by fluted tapering legs and a molded apron with inset panel detail. The frame is finished in green with gilt accen...

A refined pair of French Louis XVI style side chairs, dating to the early 20th century and sourced in Provence, France. Structurally revised in our workshop, each chair has been rein...

A beautifully assembled set of ten Hitchcock dining chairs, crafted in ebonized hardwood with handwoven rush seats and the signature stenciled pierced splat that has made Hitchcock f...

A handsome pair of early 20th century accent side chairs made in Grand Louis XVI style, sourced in Provence. The chairs feature a painted finish, fluted tapering legs, carved rosette...

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...

Pair of late 18th century Swedish period Gustavian chairs with hand scraped to its most original finish. This type of chair is called the Swedish model, oval back frame with carved r...

This exceptional pair of vintage lounge chairs captures the quintessence of mid-century tropical luxury. Featuring a classic barrel-back silhouette, the frames are expertly construct...

Here's a very decorative bench in the style of Swedish designer, Folke Bensow (1886-1971). In fact, this bench seems to be made to similar specifications as the original model from 1...

We are pleased to offer this elegant set of eight 19th Century English, later painted dining chairs. These chairs are sturdy and ooze elegance with their unique looped open back desi...