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Office Chairs and Desk Chairs For Sale
Knoll Mid-Century Modern Leather Armchair
By Knoll
Located in Germantown, MD
A 1960s vintage top grain leather revolving office chair by Knoll.
Measures: 27" in width, 23" in depth and stand 35. Adjustable Seat height 18 to 20 inches.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Chrome, Iron
2023 Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen Low Oxford Desk Chairs in Suede 11 Available
Located in Philadelphia, PA
These are Oxford Desk Chairs, Model 3271W, originally designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1965. These particular examples were produced by Fritz Hansen in Poland. They were ordered by an ar...
Category
2010s Polish Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
1986 Ward Bennett for Brickel Associates Executive Office Chair in Oak w/ Fabric
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an Executive Office Chair designed by Ward Bennett for Brickel Associates in 1970. This particular example was produced in 1986 in the United States. The chair features an oa...
Category
1980s American Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Steel
Modern Tan Saddle Leather Desk Chair
Located in Westwood, NJ
A modern tan saddle leather desk chair with brass nailhead trim. A truly timeless classic style crafted in rich tan leather. This ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather
$2,530 / item
2017 Vitra Physix Rolling Desk Chair by Alberta Meda in Black Mesh 3x Available
By Alberto Meda, Vitra
Located in Philadelphia, PA
These are Physix office chairs, originally designed by Alberto Meda in 2012. These particular examples were produced by Vitra in Germany C. 2017. The frame and armrests are comprised...
Category
2010s German Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
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 ...
Category
Early 20th Century European Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Beech
Rare Early 1960s Eames Chair No.680 1st Generation Herman Miller Hille EA101 MCM
Located in London, GB
An iconic and extremely rare first-generation Eames side chair in lovely vintage condition. This fantastic chair is a treasure of design history, produ...
Category
1950s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
Three Baroque Style Inlaid Side Chair, Sold Singly
Located in Sheffield, MA
Three Baroque style inlaid Mahogany Veneered beechwood side chairs, Dutch, 19th century.
Sold singly @ $1500 each.
Category
19th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Mahogany
$1,200 Sale Price / item
20% Off
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...
Category
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Teak
$2,800 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Charles Eames Vintage Orange Upholstered Swivel Chair
Located in Chicago, IL
Charles Eames Vintage Orange Upholstered Swivel Chair (Height Adjustable)
Will confirm dims. Please contact for additional photos and Dealer Shipping Quote.
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Fiberglass
Aesthetic Movement Jacobean Or Old English Armchair after a Design by E W Godwin
By C.J. Plunkett & Co, Edward William Godwin
Located in London, GB
An Aesthetic Movement Jacobean or Old English ebonized armchair.
After a design by E. W. Godwin.
Probably made by C J Plunkett & Co. See The Secular Furniture of E W Godwin by Susa...
Category
1880s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Set of 8 Cream Paint Decorated Fruitwood Dining Chairs with Green Faux Leather
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Dramatic Set of 8 high back cream paint decorated dining side chairs with green faux leather upholstery and accented with brass tacks. The crest with a pierced carved shell motif, ap...
Category
20th Century French Provincial Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Faux Leather, Fruitwood
Jeanneret Easy Chair
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A good authentic Chandigarh easy chair. Artisanally and locally made with pegged solid teak in the 1960s. This type is known as the cane and teak wood armch...
Category
1960s Indian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Cane, Teak
$10,038
C. 2006 Knoll Sapper Series Management Desk Chair by Richard Sapper in Leather
By Knoll, Richard Sapper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is a Sapper Series management desk chair, designed by Richard Sapper in 1979 and produced by Knoll. This example dates to 2006. It features chocolate brown leather upholstery, a...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Steel
Armchair by Nanna Ditzel, Denmark, Danish Modern by Søren Willadsen, 1950s
Located in Hägersten, SE
Armchair designed by Nanna Ditzel. Produced in Denmark by cabinetmaker Søren Willadsen during the 1950s. Designed in 1952. Made from solid oak and upholstery in fabric. Newly reuphol...
Category
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Wool, Oak
Midcentury Office Chair with Tufted Seat and Back
Located in Germantown, MD
A rare midcentury metal swiveling office chair on wheels with PU leather seat and back cushion. Very good vintage condition.
Chair measures 21" in width, 27" in depth and 34.5" in h...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Metal, Iron
One Eames For Herman Miller Executive Chair
Located in Pasadena, TX
One mid century modern executive chair designed by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller. The high back model from the Aluminum G...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
$1,900 / item
Geoffrey Harcourt, Chair 130, 'RCA' Chair, Designed 1960, Produced by Artifort
Located in London, GB
Geoffrey Harcourt, UK (designer)
Artifort, The Netherlands (manufacturer)
Chair 130 - 'RCA' Chair - designed 1960
Curved, veneered plywood, cast aluminium swivel base.
Geoffrey Har...
Category
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Plywood
Set of 5 Cantilever Armchairs in Leather by Matteo Grassi, Model MG15, Italy 70s
Located in Odense, DK
Set of 5 Vintage cantilever armchairs in patinated red / cognac colored leather by Matteo Grassi, made in Italy, 1970s. Stamped. The chairs are strongly reminiscent of bauhaus works ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Bauhaus Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Steel
Office Chair by Jacob & Josef Kohn
Located in Banská Štiavnica, SK
Office chair by Jacob & Josef Kohn.
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Jugendstil Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Bentwood
Desk Chair Style: Art Deco, France, Material Wood and Leather, 1930
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Art Deco desk chair
Material: leather and wood
Year: 1930
Country: France
If you are looking for a desk chair to match your desk, we have what you nee...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Wood
Thonet office chair with rattan seat
By Thonet
Located in Banská Štiavnica, SK
Thonet office chair with rattan seat professionally stained and repolished, new handmade rattan seat.
Category
1910s Austrian Vienna Secession Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Rattan, Beech
Nicos Zographos Alpha Bucket Desk Chairs w/ Bronze Base Cordovan Leather
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Listed for sale is a gorgeous set of six Nicos Zographos Alpha Bucket rolling desk chairs chairs, produced circa 1990. These examples were specified i...
Category
1970s American Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Bronze
Modern Spheric Ottoman in Barnum Boucle White Fabric 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 concise...
Category
2010s Ukrainian Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Bouclé
Sigurd Resell Model ''Cirkel'' Office Lounge Chair for Rastad & Relling
Located in Lynn, MA
Rare office lounge chair model "Cirkel" by Sigurd Resell. Chrome construction with three solid rosewood feet. Retains original faux leather and in great clean condition.
Category
20th Century Norwegian Other Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Chrome
Vitra .04 Studio Task Chair by Maarten Van Severen Circa 2000
Located in Wilton, CT
The Vitra .04 Studio Chair in Classic Red will bring an element of style and modern creative energy to any workspace. Designed by Maarten van Severen, this office chair provides both...
Category
Early 2000s European Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
SURVIVOR OF 1940 GERMAN AIR RAID RESTORED ViCTORIAN CHESTERFIELD CAPTAINS CHAIR
By Chesterfield
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning, fully restored Victorian Claw & Ball feet, Chesterfield tufted office chair...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather
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 ...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Steel, Chrome
VINTAGE RESTORED GAINSBOROUGH HAND DYED WHISKY BROWN LEATHER OFFICE DESK CHAiR
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely hand made in England circa 1950's fully restored Whisky brown leather Gainsborough carver desk a...
Category
1950s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Beech
Chesterfield Tufted Green Leather Captains Directors Library Reading Desk Chair
By Chesterfield
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely, Chesterfield buttoned green leather desk chair
A good looking well-made and decorative captain’s chair, it has a light beechwood f...
Category
20th Century English Victorian Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Beech
Art Deco office set from the 1930s, Poland.
Located in Chorzów, PL
Art Deco office set from the 1930s, Poland.
A set with a beautiful, geometric form characteristic of the Art Deco style. The whole is veneered with richly grained walnut.
Furniture...
Category
1930s Polish Art Deco Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Walnut
$8,680 / set
French 19th Century Napoleon III Egyptian Revival Bronze Mounted Throne Armchair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large and impressive French 19th century Napoleon III Egyptian revival mahogany and bronze-mounted throne armchair with bronze figures of winged sphinxes, circa 1870-1880.
Measu...
Category
19th Century French Egyptian Revival Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Bronze
$9,850 Sale Price
46% Off
MCM Herman Miller Eames Aluminum Group Management Chair in Hunter Brown Leather
Located in Secaucus, NJ
Stunning authentic mid-century modern Eames aluminum group management chair.
A timeless design classic and contemporary with Innovative comfort features.
One of Herman Miller's most ...
Category
2010s American Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
Art Deco French Arm Chair in Walnut
Located in Houston, TX
The comfortable desk chair is from the Art Deco period in France. It has been newly reupholstered in dark grey fabric and re-polished. The chair has leather piping on the edges. Two ...
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Walnut
Set 8 Figured Walnut Modernist Armchairs, conference, Gunlocke
By Gunlocke
Located in Buffalo, NY
Great set of 8 solid figured walnut armchairs, stunning brass corner detail, amazing Mid-Century Modern design, superior quality and construction, extremely comfortable, seats appear...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Brass
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...
Category
Early 20th Century British Arts and Crafts Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Mahogany
Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen Set of Six 'Oxford' Chairs
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen, set of six 'Oxford' desk chairs, metal, fabric, Denmark, design 1965, later production
These classic executive office chairs feature a medium high ba...
Category
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Metal
Ray & Charles Eames for Herman Miller Full Option Rare Green Desk Chair, 1958
Located in Amsterdam IJMuiden, NL
This chair is part of the private collection of Casey Godrie and is situated in his private house.
Ask him for competitive shipping quotes. His incredible Dune Villa, Amsterdam Beach, find more details on his family name plus eu, is for sale soon too. :-)
Alu chair...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
Modern Blue Velvet Desk Chair
Located in Westwood, NJ
Modern Industrial style swivel desk chair with channel quilting blue velvet upholstery on a metal frame with wooden armrests.
Dimensions: 25" W x 28" D x 38" H
Seat - 21" H
Arm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Metal
$1,725 / item
french rustic straw chair
Located in L'AMETLLA DE MAR, ES
antique rustic law french country chair
Category
Mid-20th Century French French Provincial Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Straw, Oak
$140 Sale Price
30% Off
20th Century French Louis XV Carved Walnut and Cane Desk Armchair
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a study or office with this elegant vintage armchair. Crafted in Provence, France, circa 1990, the chair stands on cabriole legs decorated with leaf motifs at the shoulders,...
Category
Late 20th Century French Louis XV Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Cane, Walnut
Original Charles Eames Bürostuhl Vitra EA119 Leder blau Rollen
By Vitra, Charles Eames
Located in Berlin, DE
Wir bieten einen sehr gut erhaltenen Vitra EA 119 Bürostuhl mit Rollen aus dem Jahr 2014 zum Verkauf an. Der Stuhl, der als wahrer Design-Klassiker gilt, wurde von Charles Eames entw...
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Steel, Chrome
2012 Vitra ID Trim Desk Chair Polished Aluminum & Leather by Antonio Citterio
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Listed for sale is a single (multiple chairs are available but the price listed is for one chair) ID Trim chair in very dark brown leather, designed by Antonio Citterio, produced by ...
Category
2010s Swiss Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
2008 Arne Jacobsen Low Oxford Chairs in Cream Leather, Model 3291W
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an Oxford desk or dining chair with arms, Model 3272W, originally designed by Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen in 1965. These examples date to 2008 and were produced in Denmark...
Category
Early 2000s Danish Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
Black Modern Director's Desk Chair
Located in Westwood, NJ
This chair features a sophisticated black leather backrest and seat, paired with a rich Silent black wooden beech frame and elegant accents for a touch of luxury.
Perfect for those...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Wood
$2,097 / item
Pair of George Smith Restored Brown Leather Occasional Armchairs Desk
By George Smith
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of fully restored George Smith Whiskey brown Georgian style Occasional or desk armchairs RRP £10,400 for the pair.
A true mas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Georgian Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather
$5,690 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Antique Spanish Renaissance Style Throne Arm Chair
Located in Sheffield, MA
This Spanish walnut throne chair with a large wide seat made circa 1700. Made from well carved but simply done walnut the chair is centered on a leather covered seat and back with large antique nail heads...
Category
17th Century Spanish Renaissance Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Wood
Adjustable Singer Sewing Machinist Industrial Stool Swivel Chair
By Singer
Located in New York, NY
Industrial style swivel work chair, stool made by the world renown Singer company. The chair is adjustable in height ( Back Rest 28" - 31" x Seat H 16.5" - 20" ). The chair swivel...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Industrial Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Steel
Victorian Antique Bergere Library Swivel Armchair with Leather Seat
Located in Reading, Berkshire
An elegant and rare, Early Victorian antique Bergere library, office, desk, swivel armchair with original maroon leather seat & stud details, on a claw base with
Castors.
The cha...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Wrought Iron
$4,714 Sale Price
40% Off
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...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Chrome
1980 EA 108 Charles Ray Eames Herman Miller ICF Design Swivel Chair
Located in Brescia, IT
Chrome aluminum frame
Black netweave seat
Excellent condition.
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum, Chrome
Mies Van der Rohe for Knoll Polished Bronze Brno Flat Bar 255 Desk Chair
Located in North Miami, FL
The Flat Bar Brno chair model 255 is a remarkable example of modern design by the renowned architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. This particular chair is polished bronze, which makes ...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Bronze
1960s EST Modern Office Leather Task Chair Grafton, WI
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration Industrial office by EST leather task chair Grafton, WI Circa the 1960s.
Stamped by maker
Aluminum with new leather upholste...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
2010s Herman Miller Eames Aluminum Group Executive Desk Chair in Caramel Leather
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an Eames Aluminum Group Executive Desk Chair, initially designed by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller in 1958. This particular example dates to the 2010s. The design fe...
Category
2010s American Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
Art Deco French Counter Leave Armchair or Office Chair, 1930
Located in Markington, GB
Art Deco French counter leave armchair or office chair, 1930.
100% original armchair is in very good condition, lovely Art Deco shape, very comfortable to sit in.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Mid-Century Lucite Desk Chair by Hill Manufacturing
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Single mid-century modern office chair on casters. Sleek lucite body with white cushioned seat. Made by Hill Manufacturing Company for home and office use.
Please confirm item pickup...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Chrome
Outstanding rare Albenga office chair by Gustavo Pulitzer
Located in Munich, DE
Amazing Pulitzer Albenga chair in a very uncommon and impossible to find - all original office version. It is high adjustable, tilts and swivels. using the same construction like old...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Metal
Antique George III period carved mahogany armchair
Located in London, GB
A Mid-18th Century Chippendale period mahogany Armchair having acanthus carved serpentine top-rail above interlaced splat. The Chair, with carved & fluted set-back arms & drop-in sea...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chippendale Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Mahogany
Set of Ten Italian Leather and Chrome Armchairs
Located in New York, NY
A set of ten armchairs in beautiful caramel leather with polished chrome frames. The seats and backs are covered completely with the rich and supple caramel colored Italian leather a...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Chrome
$20,000 / set
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...
Category
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Walnut
$38,950 Sale Price / set
48% Off
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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Scandinavian Mid Century Modern Sofa
Pair Of Brown Leather Armchairs
Lounge Chair And Ottoman Leather
Vintage Club Chair Art Deco
21St Century Dining Chair Chrome
Bruno Mathsson Lounge Chair Pernilla
W Hands And Sons Chair
French Guillerme Et Chambron Armchair
Mid Century Ottoman With Chair
Leather And Wood Dining Chairs
Walnut Hand Carved Rocking Chair
Mid Modern Century Club Chair
Vitra Executive Chair
Vladimir Kagan Desk Chairs
20th Century Maple Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Bruno Taut
Eames Ea 107
Giorgetti Office Chair