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Office Chairs and Desk Chairs For Sale
Antique Victorian Hand Crafted Mahogany Clerks Revolving Desk Chair
By Hands & Sons
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Chair 2025 3 TW
Antique English Victorian Hand Crafted Mahogany Classic Clerks Revolving Desk Chair With Shaped Seat.
Fixed seat height with iron base.
Extra dimensions
Height t...
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Late 19th Century British Late Victorian Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Iron
Duo Balance work chair/design armchair by Peter Opsvik for Stokke
By Stokke, Peter Opsvik
Located in Harderwijk, NL
This is the Duo Balance work chair designed by Peter Opsvik and produced by Stokke. It is an ergonomic design, featuring solid steam-bent beech wood and upholstered in dark blue fabr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Beech
2010s Herman Miller Eames Soft Pad Management Desk Chair in Grey w/ Manual Base
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an Eames Aluminum Group Soft Pad Management Chairs Model EA435, initially designed by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller in 1969. This example dates to the 2010s. The de...
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2010s American Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
Kevi Desk Chair
Located in Dronten, NL
A design icon, the Kevi task chair offers adjustable height, adjustable angle back and adjustable seat height. Surprisingly comfortable, the Kevi chair is a favorite among architects...
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1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
Set of 10 Mid-Century Modern Knoll Brno Tubular Chairs Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous set of 10 Brno chairs by Knoll international. All 10 are labeled and in excellent vintage condition with minimal wear, some minor soiling to fabric, very minor. Fabric is a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American International Style Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Steel, Chrome
Empire Solid Mahogany Desk Chair, Early 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
Empire mahogany desk chair or fauteuil de bureau.
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Mahogany
2010s Herman Miller Eames Soft Pad Management Desk Chair in Fabric w/ Pneumatic
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an Eames Aluminum Group Soft Pad Management Desk Chair, Model EA435, initially designed by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller in 1969. This example dates to the 2010s. I...
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2010s American Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
Scand Modern Arne Jacobsen Series 7 Black & Chrome Office Chair by Fritz Hansen
Located in Topeka, KS
Handsome Scandinavian Modern Arne Jacobsen Series 7 black & chrome office chair designed by Fritz Hansen. Beautiful condition, keeping in mind that this is vintage & not new so will have signs of use and wear. There are a few dents & nicks as you would expect with age & wear. It has been touched up & has a new coat of urethane. Please see photos & zoom in for details. We attempt to portray any imperfections. Circa 1993.
Note: Shipping is possible via parcel which may reduce shipping costs
Sculptural, functional, and comfortable! The Series 7 chair was designed by Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen in 1955 and is an icon in modern furniture history. The Fritz Hansen website states that the chair is made from 9 layers of pressure molded veneer for strength, flexibility, and durability despite its slender form. This one was made in 1993 and it is comprised of a molded black painted plywood seat which is uniquely shaped for the human body. Ergonomically enjoyable!! It has the chrome four-star leg base with chromed hooded wheel casters. It’s incredibly versatile, with unique character and unmatchable comfort. It is manually adjustable in height, and it swivels! It will make the perfect office or desk chair in your Scandinavian Modern or mid-century modern style home office or den.
Fritz Hansen was founded in 1872, when Fritz Hansen, a Danish carpenter, founded his own furniture company and in 1915 introduced his first chair in steam bent wood. In 1934, Fritz Hansen began his collaboration with Arne Jacobsen resulting in some of the famous, classic icons of Danish Design including the “Ant” in 1952, the Series 7 in 1955, the Grand Prix in 1957, the Swan in 1958, and the Egg in 1958. Other famous collaborations have resulted in Piet Hein’s super-elliptical table from 1968 and in 1982 Fritz Hansen acquired the rights to a major part of Poul Kjaerholm’s furniture collection. Since the 1980s continuing into the new millennium, Fritz Hansen has added new designs to the collection including the Essay table...
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20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Chrome
Pair of Palatial Venetian Walnut Carved Mid-19th Century Baroque Figural Thrones
By Valentino Besarel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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...
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Brno Flat-Bar Chair Upholstered in Light Grey Velvet, Steel Frame
Located in Wilton, CT
The definition of minimalism in a singular design, achieved by the great Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1929, the Brno flat-bar chair is just that. These are contemporary edition Mies ...
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Steel, Chrome
Classic by Carpanelli Office Armchair in wood and leather
By Carpanelli
Located in Desio, IT
Desk armchair in wood. Upholstery in fabric & leather.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Velvet, Faux Leather, Wood
Fine French 1930s Desk Chair Attributed to Alfred Porteneuve
Located in Long Island City, NY
A fine French Art Deco patinated beech armchair attributed to Alfred Porteneuve.
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Wood, Leather
Hudson Desk Chair by Philippe Starck for Emeco
Located in Asbury Park, NJ
Pleased to offer this great brushed aluminum chair from Emeco. This Starck designed chair sits on 4 wheels. Chair is in nice vintage shape. Ther...
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Early 2000s North American Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
Bauhaus Chair S43 by Mart Stam, 1930s
By Mart Stam
Located in Prague 8, CZ
This chair is one of the most famous and was designed in the 1930s by Mart Stam and made in the former Czechoslovakia in the 1950s. The chair has frames made of tubular chrome-plated...
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Mid-20th Century Czech Bauhaus Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Steel, Chrome
Antique Regency Quality Mahogany Desk Chair
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique Regency quality mahogany desk chair having a quality attractive gadroon and shell carved cresting rail above a shell and scroll carved splat back, elegant shaped reeded arms ...
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19th Century European Regency Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Other
Art deco office chair no.2 by J&J Kohn
Located in Banská Štiavnica, SK
Art deco office chair no.2 by J&J Kohn in very nice original condition.
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Early 1900s Austrian Jugendstil Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Beech, Bentwood
Modern Spheric Ottoman 50cm in Faux Sheepskin by NOOM
Located in Paris, FR
New NOOM furniture collection is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus School in Germany. Ideas of functionalism and conciseness, the combination of craft...
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2010s Ukrainian Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Bouclé, Sheepskin, Wool, Velvet, Faux Fur
Leather Office Chair by Ward Bennett for Bricket Associates
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
A classic desk chair in black leather by Ward Bennett for Brickel Associates with original 5 star chrome base and rolling casters. Measurements tak...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Chrome
20th Century Vintage Grey Velvet Swivel Armchair, 1960s
Located in 05-080 Hornowek, PL
Swivel armchair from the 1970s, produced in the Silesian furniture factory in Swiebodzin - at the moment they are unique. Due to their dimensions, they perfectly blend in even in sma...
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20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Metal
Mariani Wing Executive Office Chair by Luca Scacchetti Italy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Mariani Wing Executive Office chair, Collection Wing.
i 4 Mariani WING Swivel high-back executive chair with 5-spoke base by Desig...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
Contemporary Modern Martin Brattrud Braemar Mid-Back Leather Office Desk Chair
Located in Secaucus, NJ
Elegant Braemar mid-back leather executive office chair, designed by Brian Graham for Martin Brattrud.
A marriage of mid-century forms and traditional club chair design.
Beautifully ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
Set of Six Industrial Stacking Armchairs by W. Gispen for Riemersma, 1950s
By Willem H. Gispen, Riemersma
Located in Antwerp, BE
These chairs designed by W H. Gispen and were made in the 1950s for Riemersma.
The backs of the chairs are made of black lacquered wood, the arm-rests are naturally teakwood and ha...
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1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Metal
Kardex Italia chair, 1930s
Located in Bastia Umbra, IT
Kardex Italia chair, 1930s.
Steel and aluminum office swivel chair in vinyl-covered patina.
On the back of the backrest is a label with "KARDEX ITALIANO" written on it.
Being a ver...
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1930s Italian Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
Modern Spheric Ottoman 50cm Fluffy Edition in Premium Faux Fur by NOOM
Located in Paris, FR
New NOOM furniture collection is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus School in Germany. Ideas of functionalism and conciseness, the combination of craft...
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2010s Ukrainian Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Bouclé, Sheepskin, Wool, Velvet, Faux Fur
Gunlocke Chair Co Armchair
By Gunlocke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Single mid-century modern armchair by Gunlocke chair company. Sculpted arms with padded seat and back.
Please confirm location NY or NJ
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Bruce Talbert probably for Gillows. An Aesthetic Movement walnut side chair
Located in London, GB
Bruce Talbert probably for Gillows of Lancaster and London. An English Aesthetic Movement Walnut side, dining or desk chair with a subtly curved back with feather carved details to t...
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1880s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Antique Mahogany Open Arm Desk Chair
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique mahogany open arm desk chair having an attractive shaped top rail and carved splat to the centre, shaped mahogany open arms with a newly reupholstered...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Other
Early XXth Century Solid Oak Swivelling Desk Chair
Located in Whaley Bridge, GB
Sn5516 Early 20th century revolving office and height adjustable chair in oak, having shaped top rail above slated support, newly upholstered seat in neural light grey fabric and ope...
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Early 20th Century British Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Oak
Art Nouveau Bentwood Desk Armchair by Fischel, circa 1900
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Superb office / desk armchair with bentwood structure (beech) and caned seat.
Manufacturer's stamp and label present.
Art Nouveau, Bohemia (current Czech Republic), around 1900.
By ...
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Early 1900s Czech Art Nouveau Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Cane, Wood, Beech, Bentwood
Mid Century Danish Modern Sculptural Woven Armchair
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous rare and unique style with rush seat and sides. Well designed and constructed, would make a great accent piece in any room. In excellent vintage condition with minimal wear....
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1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Rush, Teak
Early-20th Century Beech Desk Chair with Leather Seat
Located in Opole, PL
Early-20th century beech desk chair with leather seat.
We present you a wooden desk armchair circa before 1939 with the seat upholstered with leather.
This piece of furniture is of ...
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Early 20th Century European Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Beech
Mies Van Der Rohe Pair of Brno Style Chairs
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Pair of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe style flat bar chairs.
Polished flat stainless steel frames upholstered in a Harris wool tweed bluish color over padded seats and backs with a padded...
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20th Century American Bauhaus Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Stainless Steel
Pair of Vintage Mid-century Fabric Desk Chairs by Charles Pollock for Comforto
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
This pair of office armchairs was designed by Charles Pollock for the German manufacturer Comforto during the 70s. The seats are made of durable brown plastic and high-quality olive-...
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1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Plastic
Modern Occasional Chairs, Sweden 1960
Located in New York, NY
These sleek chairs are perfectly proportioned in the minimalist style of the mid century. Lightweight, but made from teak- a strong tropical hardwood they are sprung and cushioned i...
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1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Teak
A Set of 3 Fine French 1930s Office Armchairs - 1 desk chairs and 2 Visitors -
Located in Long Island City, NY
A set of three fine French Art Deco (with a Louis XVI influence) solid mahogany office armchairs comprising one desk chair and two visitor chairs.
Dimensions of the desk chair:
H: 3...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Henrik Tengler Time Chair Frame: Chrome, Upholstery: Silt For One Collection
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Henrik Tengler Time Chair Frame: Chrome Upholstery: Silt For One Collection
The Time Chair, designed by Henrik Tengler in 2012, is a dynamic and comfortable conference chair. Its d...
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2010s Danish Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Chrome
High-Stance Office Chair in Chrome and Vinyl After Charles Pollock, USA, 1960's
Located in Deland, FL
Constructed of steel with chrome plating this HEAVY duty office chair is perfect for almost any workspace and any design pallet from Mid-Century Modern to Industrial and everything i...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Chrome
Stunning Midcentury Armchair Finn Juhl Rosewood
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
Model 209
Midcentury armchair designed by Finn Juhl in jaw dropping solid rosewood. We have seen this chair used as an office chair, side chair, or dining chair. Incredible comfor...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Rosewood
Set of 8 Finn Juhl Rosewood Diplomat Armchairs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Set of 8 Finn Juhl Rosewood Diplomat armchairs Produced by France & son.
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1970s Danish Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Rosewood
Catifa Desk Chair by Studio Lievore Altherr Molina for Arper, 2004
Located in Lisboa, PT
This chair, model Catifa, was designed by Lievore Altherr Molina, for Arper, in Italy, in 2004. It has a bi-color shell in polypropylene, red outside and white inside, that is set ...
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Early 2000s Italian Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Steel
Ernesto Hauner (1931 - 2002) - Furniture - Swivel chair with armrest
Located in Knokke-Heist, BE
Ernesto Hauner (1931 - 2002) - Mobilínea - Swivel chair with armrests made of rosewood with seat and back covered in leather. Central axis in chromed steel and four wooden legs with ...
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1960s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather
Pair of Vintage Gf GoodForm Aluminum Task Chairs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of vintage GF GoodForm aluminum task chairs.
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1960s American Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
Vintage Mid-Century Scandinavian Modern Mahogany Office Chair, 1960s
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
This modernist office chair was made in Denmark during the 1960s. The elegant frame is made of mahogany wood in a shade of dark chocolate. The wide backrest and spacious seat are uph...
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1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Faux Leather, Mahogany
Early Victorian Mahogany Armchair with Tufted Leather Upholstery, England
Located in Miami, FL
An early Victorian armchair in mahogany with curved top rail, scrolled arms, turned front legs and saber back legs. Seat is upholstered in a tufted, beige/camel-colored leather with ...
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1840s English Early Victorian Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Upholstery, Mahogany
Sir Frank Brangwyn attr. Pair of Arts & Crafts mahogany armchairs Chinese style
Located in London, GB
Sir Frank Brangwyn (attributed,) a pair of mahogany armchairs, in the Chinese style with professionally re-upholstered leather padded back and drop-in seat.
These chairs share stylistic qualities with the famous armchairs he designed for the Salle Jacques Cartier aboard the SS Empress of Britain...
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Early 20th Century British Arts and Crafts Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Mahogany
Pair of Vintage Laboratory Chairs, German, Beech, Adjustable, Bar Stool, Kitchen
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a pair of vintage professional laboratory chairs. A German, beech and chromed alloy adjustable seat, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1990.
High quality, professiona...
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Late 20th Century German Industrial Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Metal
Vincent Cafiero Executive Task Chair in Graphite Gray Velvet by Knoll
By Knoll, Vincent Cafiero
Located in Stamford, CT
While under the direction of Florence Knoll, her namesake company was known for more than just the impressive portfolio of designs still celebrated to this day. Knoll’s teams of tale...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Stainless Steel
20th Century Vintage Dark Green Swivel Armchair, 1960s
Located in 05-080 Hornowek, PL
Armchair from the 1970s, produced in the Silesian furniture factory in Swiebodzin at the moment they are unique. Due to their dimensions, they perfectly blend in even in small apartm...
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20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Metal
Eames for Herman Miller Tall Gray Desk Chair Aluminum Group
Located in Detroit, MI
This authentic Eames for Herman Miller Soft Pad Executive Height office chair from the Aluminum Group Collection was manufactured in the 2000s. This classic mid century modern office...
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Early 2000s American Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
Vintage Mid-Century Tufted Green Faux Leather Textile Steelcase 451 Office Chair
By Knoll
Located in Madison, WI
1970's Beautiful Green upholstered bucket seat office or accent chair. in the style of Pollock for Knoll, by Steelcase. This listing is for one chair. Stunning solid black base and s...
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Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Metal
Mid Century Modern Clear Lucite Aluminum Swag Base Rolling Swivel Desk Chair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Mid Century Modern Clear Lucite Aluminum Swag Base Rolling Swivel Desk Chair with Black Loose Cushions. Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: 35" H x 17" W x 19" D x 19" Seat...
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Mid-20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Lucite
Pair of Fine 1930s Beechwood Bridge Armchairs
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of fine French Art Deco solid beech bridge armchairs.
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Beech
Charles & Ray Eames EA117 Office Chair in Black Leather and Chrome, Vitra
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Iconic office chair EA117 belonging to the famous Aluminum Series designed by Charles & Ray Eames for Herman Miller (US) / Vitra (EU). Exceptional comfort is gu...
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1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum, Chrome
Series Seven Office Chair Model 3217 Early Edition By Arne Jacobsen
Located in Lejre, DK
Seven office chair, model 3217, with armrests and swivel function in original dark brown leather designed by Arne Jacobsen in the 1950s and manufactured by Fritz Hansen. The chair is...
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1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
Mariani Wing Conference Office Chair by Luca Scacchetti Italy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Mariani Wing Conference Office chair
i 4 Mariani WING Swivel conference chair with 5-spoke base by Designer Luca Scacchetti.
Conference armchair, covere...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
Eero Saarinen Knoll Executive Dining Chair/Armchairs with Tubular Legs, Set of 4
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Set of four Mid-Century Modern executive dining chair set featuring 2 side chairs and 2 armchairs designed by American-Finnish designer Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) for Knoll.
Compose...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Steel
Lopold Swivel Chair
Located in Milan, IT
Part of the Lopod collection, this chair is designed by Giulio Manzoni and features a structural polyurethane outer shell covered with soft natural brow...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Metal
Charles and Ray Eames Ea117 Office Chair, Cast Aluminum, Synthetic Leather, 1958
Located in New York, NY
Original Condition.
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1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Metal
Antique and Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
An essential part of every office or home workstation, office chairs and desk chairs are critically important to your comfort and getting the job done.
Desk chairs have evolved over time. While writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson pined for a wider range of motion and introduced some improvements to his English-style Windsor chair, inventing the swivel chair along the way. So the next time you roll, recline or swivel at your vintage desk, remember: The third president of the United States had a lot to do with that functionality.
Changes in the availability of resources have also led to innovations in desk chair design. After World War II, for example, optimistic American designers made use of wartime materials in their efforts to create practical domestic goods.
Mid-century modernism is the name given to the broad postwar time period that prioritized thoughtful design. Journalist Cara Greenberg, who coined the term “mid-century modernism,” cites “ergonomic wisdom” as part of the reason for the longevity of the era’s furnishings, and when it comes to sitting in a desk chair for hours at a time, what could be more important than ergonomic support?
As mid-century modernism was marked by resourcefulness and boundless creativity — and produced designers who, in most cases, prioritized comfort and support — it follows that all mid-century chairs are not the same. Nowhere is this perhaps more evident than at Herman Miller. The legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer got its start in the office, with design director George Nelson enlisting the likes of Charles and Ray Eames to produce desk chairs and lounge chairs that are still celebrated today. Elsewhere at the time, the numerous pieces Florence Knoll created for Knoll’s office furniture line were envisioned as design solutions for the changing needs of residential and office spaces.
If you’re working remotely and streamlined seating isn’t your thing, don’t be afraid of making a statement with your office chair. Introduce a touch of drama to your video calls by way of 19th-century desk accessories and the alluring forms we typically associate with antique desk chairs designed in the Empire and Regency styles. For a minimalist touch, a spare, utilitarian Industrial-style office chair can work in any space but will fit in particularly well amid the exposed brick and steel architecture that characterizes a loft apartment.
An inspiring home office cleverly mixes materials and styles to create a welcoming place of productivity and comfort, and if you’re gathering with colleagues at your company HQ, an array of wood, leather and metal office chairs can help integrate disparate textures in a conference room or any other collaborative space. On 1stDibs, explore a diverse collection of office and desk chairs today.
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