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Office Chairs and Desk Chairs For Sale
Style: Baroque
Style: Late Victorian
Victorian Oak & Leather Rail Back Revolving Desk Chair With Stud Detailing
Located in High Wycombe, GB
Victorian Oak & Leather Rail Back Revolving Desk Chair With Stud Detailing
With a dark Olive green seat.
Height to top of the arms is 71.5cm
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19th Century British Late Victorian Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Brass
Victorian Polished Green Leather Bentwood Revolving Desk Chair With Studs
Located in High Wycombe, GB
Victorian Polished Antique Green Leather Bentwood Revolving Desk Chair With Studs
Seat has recently been re-upholstered in a pale green leather.
Ch...
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19th Century British Late Victorian Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
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Brass, Iron
Victorian Oak & Leather Rail Back Revolving Desk Chair With Stud Detailing
Located in High Wycombe, GB
Victorian Oak & Leather Rail Back Revolving Desk Chair With Stud Detailing
With a dark Olive green seat.
Height to top of the arms is 71.5cm
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19th Century British Late Victorian Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
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Leather, Oak
Baroque Golden Leather Swivel Chair with Walnut Finishes by Modenese Gastone
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Bespoke Italian office swivel chair for presidential offices. Modenese Gastone Interiors designed and produced this item for a VIP client office in Mont...
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2010s Italian Baroque Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Gold Leaf
Dramatic Set of 17th Century Style Carved and Velvet Upholstered Dining Chairs
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Seven chairs including two arm and five side chairs. The shaped elaborately carved frames with foliate scrolled crest rails and sides. Raised on foliate scrolled curved front legs wi...
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20th Century Baroque Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Wood
ORIGINAL ANTIQUE THONET SWiVEL BERGERE DESK CAPTAINS ARMCHAIR MODEL NUMBER 3
By Thonet
Located in GB
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this super rare, original, antique, Thonet Model No 3 swivel bergère chair circa 1900
Please note the deliv...
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Early 1900s European Late Victorian Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Bentwood
Italian Baroque Silver Mecca Giltwood Throne Armchair, Rome 17th Century
Located in Firenze, IT
This antique Italian Rococo 17th century throne armchair sourced in a palazzo in Rome, features swirls, curls and foliate motif richly hand carved...
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17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Silver Leaf
1950s Ladies Petite Carved Mahogany and Silk Tufted Upholstered Bureau Chair
Located in Germantown, MD
An exquisite 1950s ladies Petite carved Mahogany and silk tufted upholstered Bureau chair in beautiful vintage condition. Comfortable seat in good conditi...
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Mid-20th Century American Late Victorian Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
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Upholstery, Mahogany
Baroque Green Leather Swivel Chair with Walnut and Gold Leaf Finishes, Modenese
Located in PADOVA, Italy
This Modenese Gastone Luxury Interiors item has been precisely conceived for CEOs and presidential offices. Its unique class and sense of power represent the perfect solution for lea...
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2010s Italian Baroque Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
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Italian, Emiliana, Baroque Large Carved & Shaped Walnut Open Armchair, ca. 1680
Located in Atlanta, GA
from the Emilia Romagna region of Italy, having an arched and shaped slightly reclining backrest and fitted seat, with curving carved open arms, raised on tall turned legs joined by ...
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1680s Italian Baroque Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
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19th Century Heywood Bros. and Wakefield Co. Natural Wicker Swivel Piano Chair
Located in Savannah, GA
This fanciful Victorian wicker swivel piano chair has all the bells and whistles of the most prestigious American wicker designers Heywood Brothers ...
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1890s American Late Victorian Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Metal
Baroque Red Leather Swivel Chair with Walnut & Gold Leaf Finishes by Modenese
Located in PADOVA, Italy
This Modenese Gastone Luxury Interiors bespoke item has been specifically conceived for managers and executive offices. Its unique authority and attention to detail represent the per...
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2010s Italian Baroque Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Gold Leaf
19th Century Italian Baroque Carved Walnut Throne Chair
Located in Sheffield, MA
A richly carved walnut Italian throne chair. This arm chair could make a wonderful statement in any room. Use it for a desk chair, next to a fireplace, an office or in the living roo...
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19th Century European Baroque Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Sicilian Sculpted Armchair Baroque Rococo Italy Throne Shell Walnut Linen Velvet
Located in Ettlingen, DE
Authentic Southern Italian, Sicilian throne, as it has been traditionally used in the large rural estates for the padrone, for the noble chief. Seating height would be perfect for a modern writing desk. The seating upholstery is quite firm, giving a good support.
The carvings depicting the rising sun on top, the sea, and acanthus for a long life.
The armchair can be dated around 1715.
Carefully restored. All the carvings are complete, and fully original. Upholstered with an exclusive linen velvet by Maison Charles Burger...
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Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Linen, Walnut
Pair of Palatial Venetian Walnut Carved Mid-19th Century Baroque Figural Thrones
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
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.
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19th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Mahogany
French Baroque 17th Century Louis XIV Walnut Armchair
Located in Troy, NY
Of comfortable size, the four beautifully turned legs joined by conforming stretchers, scrolling, carved arms.
Clean up and polish included. The chair needs to be re-upholstered and...
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Late 17th Century French Baroque Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Chair, 19th century, Italian, Baroque, walnut, upholstered, Missoni
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
The tapering back and rectangular seat re-upholstered in a Missoni fabric. Characteristic boldly turned legs and blocks, the back legs straight. Good colour and patina.
Back hei...
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Late 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
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Walnut
Venetian Style Carved, Gilt and Paint Decorated Dining Chairs
Located in Sheffield, MA
Very special set of 6 Italian Baroque or Swedish Rococo style dining side chairs featuring tall shapely backs, stretcher base, Queen Anne style legs, solid wood construction. Hand pa...
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1890s Italian Baroque Antique Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
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Hardwood
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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?
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