Early 20th Century Seating

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning, original Art Deco circa 1920's Chesterfield club armchair with coil sprung base an...

Shapland and Petter of Barnstaple. England. An Arts and Crafts oak double piano stool, window, or duet seat with stylized details throughout. Las...

Beautiful French rustic sofa or bench from the early 20th century. This characterful sofa or bench is a country house piece of furniture in folk art with an unusual straight shape. T...

Pair of Northern Europe Biedermeier Birch Armchairs with Ebonized Wood details, Early 1900s. Matching a Sofa of the same style in another listing...

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...

Half Moon Fauteuil with original upholstery, can be renewed on request with no further cost Designed by: Josef Hoffmann Executed by: J. & J. Kohn, model nr. 428/F, Vienna, from 1910 ...

This set of six chairs (4 side and 2 arm chairs), were produced in Italy by Salvatore Leone in the early 20th century. They are made from stained bentwood with caned seats and backs....

Circa 1900 this pair of antique armchairs have been painted over the gilt. This paint has then been rubbed back revealing the gilt in places. The seats and the more recent upholste...

Small French two seated canapé with lovely hand carved and painted frame with small floral elements in Louis XV style. The piece is still wearing its original grey silk upholstery wh...

This is a pair of early 20th century carved French bergère chairs. The frames are sage green paint with almost deep russet painted details. The floral linen upholstery is recently do...

A settle bench with solid arched back and shaped wings, having lift top bench seat revealing storage. Geometric chip carved decoration to back, sides and front. Good color and useful...

Gabriel Englinger, lounge chair, wood, long pile velvet upholstery, France, 1928. This rare Art Deco armchair, designed by the esteemed designer Gabriel Englinger in 1928, epitomize...

Exquisite, 1920s French painted bergère in the Louis XV style. The chair features delicately carved details, a fresh coat of “greige” paint with a light coat of hand applied antiqu...

Manufactured in Austria by the Jacob & Josef Kohn company. Very good original condition. It can withstand normal daily use. Fixed knitted seat

Antique chair from around 1900. Dimensions: height 94 cm / height of the seat. 45 cm / width 46 cm / dep. 58 cm

Antique French Louis XVI Neoclassical Style Gold Silk Upholstered Fauteuil Parcel Gilt Arm Chairs - a Pair. Item features original gold silk fabric with urn and wreath pattern, parce...

A fine canapé or settee sofa with clean lines in French-polished Cuban mahogany with banding and marquetry in satinwood of foliage along crest and rosettes on corners of back and scr...

Chair from the antechamber of the Rudolf Kraus apartment, brother of Karl Kraus, the famous wordsmith. This Apartment in Vienna 1, Nibelungengasse 13, was presented by Adolf Loos on ...

An adjustable bentwood and cane rocking chaise longue designed in 1880-1883 and produced by Gebruder Thonet, Vienna Austria, c. 1900.

Magnificent and rare Art Deco Amsterdamse School three seat bench. Design by Willem Penaat. Striking Dutch design from the 1920s. Solid oak three-seat bench with decorative hand-carv...

Few pieces in 20th-century furniture design hold the same canonical status as these 1928 swivel chairs, conceived by the groundbreaking trio Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charl...

Wylie and Lochhead attributed. A pair of rush seated side or bedroom chairs with four square cut-outs to the top of the shaped back rest. Both chairs have been professionally restore...

French Art Deco fruitwood bergere arm chair carved with leaf & rosette motifs and upholstered in beige silk. (Attributed to LEON JALLOT)

A gorgeous antique Mission or Arts & Crafts sewing rocker By Gustav Stickley (model #2627) USA, Circa 1900 Solid quarter sawn oak, with brown leather seat. Measures: 18.25"W x 24...

A very nice set of six late 19th / early 20th century French fruitwood dining chairs with the desirable double-lyre X stretcher base and nicely contoured legs ending in scrolled carv...

Antique English Pub Chair Fireplace Hearth Carved Tiger Oak Breton Brittany. Direct from England to us, a charming antique English pub chai...

A fantastic settee designed by Marcel Kammerer and manufactured by Thonet, Austria, circa 1910. It is made of dark or almost black stained beech wood in mahogany tone and French pol...

Very fine carved walnut French Art Nouveau corner lounge chair.

An Early 20th Victorian Carved Walnut and Upholstered Side Chair measuring 20" in width, 20" in depth and standing 36.25" in height with a seat height of 18"

This swivel chair is a bit ornate but still has a nice light feel to it. It wood finish is original with a dark reddish color and a slight aged patina. Strangely enough I've walked b...

A small leather gym horse that has been converted to a bench. Add a unique piece of history to your home with this small leather gym horse bench. This gorgeous bench is an original f...

This is a gorgeous giltwood oval back French settee that dates to the 1900s era and will show a distressed giltwood finish and beautiful original Aubusson floral upholstery. The fram...

Set of 10 vintage Regency style dining chairs, 8 sides and 2 arm chairs. The armchairs have scrolled arm resting on turned supports. The frames have a generous seating and back rest area with impressive detail supported by tapered turned legs and stretchers. Great set of chairs for a conference room table chairs. Measures: Side chairs: 19.5 x 19.5 x 36" H/SH 18.5" Arms chairs: 24 D x 23.5 W x 36" H/ SH= 18.5"/arm H = 26" Search terms: Hollywood Regency style, antique dining chairs. jacobean style, renaissance style, gothic style. Baroque dining chairs, English Tudor dining chairs, Italian baroque dining...

The vintage sofa is in Louis XVI style and it is of fine Italian manufacture from the early 1900s. The large sofa has three seats and it’s upholstered in the beautiful original green...

Originally made by Thonet with the Nr: 567 - for the Café Heinrichshof - oposite the Vienna States Opera House, destroid 1945. Published first in 1908 in a "Sesselalbum" by Thonet (J...

These Classic, antique Art Deco club chairs were crafted in France, circa 1920. The stately chairs stand on round wooden feet and feature wide, rounded armrests, a pitch back with an...

Set of 6 French Art Deco Dining Chairs Jules Leleu Style, Dining Chairs with Beige Upholstered Seats Channel the timeless elegance of French Art Deco with this captivating set of s...

Angular and elemental, this French carpenter’s bench speaks in the quiet dialect of agrarian utility. Its silhouette—low, tapered, and architectural—evokes the austerity of a rural o...

A gorgeous antique Mission or Arts & Crafts period settle sofa By Stickley Brothers USA, Early 20th Century Solid quarter sawn oak frame, with upholstered seat and back cushions. ...

France / 1900 / bench / oak wood / Rustic / Mid-century A rustic mid-century full oak bench with natural finish and authentic patina. Handcrafted in France around 1900. This nice an...

A classic French early 20th century ebonized banquette upholstered in blue leather. Discover the allure of French elegance with this handsome early 20th century ebonized banquette, u...

Pair of Antique Dutch Corner Knitting Chairs – Turned Oak & Rush Seat – ca. 1900 A beautiful matching pair of vintage Dutch corner chairs, each with unique character and slight diff...

20th century bentwood sofa in the Thonet style, circa 1925, caned seat This sofa it´s very heavy and sturdy. Height from the floor to the arms : 70cm

Set of three Art Nouveau early 20th century Art Nouveau armchairs. Beautifully carved chair frame made of fruitwood with upholstered seats and back...

Elegant early 20th century English wing chair with mahogany frame and new linen upholstery.

Hello, We would like to offer you a beautiful Art Nouveau set made in Vienna, c. 1900-10. The set consists of two armchairs and a settee. The pieces were made by the best craftsmen w...

A rare Antique Beech Wood X Framed Cane back Arm chair. With its unusual Savonarola looking frame makes this wonderful chair both charming and a practical hall or bedroom chair that ...

Evoking the charm of an English garden, this wrought iron bench from circa 1920 features graceful lines and a timeworn patina that speaks to its age and authenticity. The backrest is...

William Birch. Liberty and Co retailer. A classic pair of Arts and Crafts rush seat oak chairs with a wide curved headrest and attractive wild grain. Ring turned legs with ring turne...

Set of 2 armchairs from the 30s in France Structure covered by Macassar ebony veneer Cushions covered by beige Alcantara fabric Unique design

This is a SUPERB nice MASSIVE Morris Chair made by The Sikes Chair Company from Buffalo New York. The artist also had a location in PHILLY PA Pennsylvania...

A wonderful pair of French Art Deco Armchairs, dating from the 1920s.    

English Antique comfortable Country House Curved Three-Seat Linen Sofa

A rare and exceptional pair of Mission or Arts & Crafts period club chairs or armchairs By Stickley Brothers USA, Circa 1900 Solid quarter sawn oak frames, with leather upholstere...

Rattan and wicker chaise lounge. Grey painted liner lounge in rattan and wicker with adjustable back rest. In very good condition and sturdy frame with only very minor losses. A very...

An antique Indonesian captain's chair from the early 20th century, with slatted wood, pierced splat and looping arms. This antique Indonesian captain's chair from the early 20th cent...

Morris & Co attributed. An Arts and Crafts stained beech armchair with a Morris fabric seat.

M H Baillie Scott attri, An Arts & Crafts Oak Chair With Stylised Floral Cut-Outs to the back and Pierced Tulips to the aprons below the front and the sides of the seat. A very progr...