Early 20th Century Seating

Josef Hoffmann beehive dining chairs professionally stained and repolished.

Designed by Jindrich Halabala, a renowned designer credited with ushering in the mass market production of furniture in his native Czechoslovakia. Made by UP Zavody, a well-known Cz...

This is a very rare pair of antique Charles Limbert pieces - Chair & Rocker Set. They are signed with the Limbert mark. Made with a wonderful selection of oak. Both pieces are in min...

A luxurious square Art Deco stool with a fine storage room underneath the seat. Birch veenered and reupholstered a glamorous vintage fabric from the 1990s. Made by a French cabinetma...

Anonymous Probably France; ca. 1900 Giltwood and upholstered Approximate size: 30 x 19 x 19 inches (ea.) A distinctive suite of three giltwood (probably walnut) corner armchairs bl...

Rare pair of easy chairs model 5313 designed by Kaare Klint. Produced by Rud. Rasmussen Cabinetmakers in Denmark.

Set of four large slender bentwood dining set by Thonet, early 20th century European production. Seat fabric can be changed with C. O. M. (one yard...

Bauhaus style sofa with chrome-plated steel tubular frame. Manufactured by Hynek Gottwald in the 1930s. Chrome tubular steel is in perfect origina...

American Victorian (Mission) natural wicker tete-a-tete (conversation seat) with shaped back and tapestry upholstered seat and back. (HEYWOOD WAKEFIELD)

This is an antique L&JG Stickley Morris Chair made in 1907. This piece displays an authentic L&JG Stickley red decal, indicating that this is a ...

1900 English wood Bobbin armchair. Needs reupholstering.

Set of 6 Louis XIV style oak dining room chairs, circa 1900. With a cupids bow crest rail, upholstered seats, turned front legs and stretcher bars. Upholstery with brass nail trim. C...

This beautifully shaped Art Deco dining chair, designed by J.A. Muntendam for L.O.V. Oosterbeek in the 1920s, is a refined example of Dutch craftsmanship. Made from solid oak, the ch...

This is a superb, very tall pair of French-made Louis XV style throne chairs. These armchairs are upholstered in gorgeous figural scenic needlepoint upholstery. The chairs are in go...

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...

Superb American office armchair in oak and leather seat. USA. Circa 1900 Industrial style, Belle Epoque, Victorian, Art Nouveau Cast iron mechanism. Swivel seat adjustable in height ...

Magnificent and rare Vienna Secession bench or settee. Design by Jacob and Josef Kohn. Striking Austrian design from the 1900s. Original lacquered beech and bentwood curved frame....

Beech wood construction high backed, front legs turned and fluted with brass ends, upholstery with spring core. Made in Austria in the 1920s, designed by Oskar Strnad or Hugo Gorge. ...

Elegant antique dutch tripod corner chairs made from beautifully crafted wooden frames and rush seats. These antique chairs ahve a beautiful design and have a both functional and ve...

A pair of gentleman’s wing back leather chesterfield library chairs. These are very roomy chairs, the ultimate in Vintage Country House C...

Early 20th Century Venetian Rococò armchairs and sofa by Atelier Cadorin Venice in hand-carved walnut and leather upholstered, wax polished Al...

Circa 1930 1930’s English mahogany bergere suite. Reupholstered in linen with foam core feather wrap cushions   Measures: Sofa W140...

Early 20th century Spanish bench made from oak. The back is exquisitely hand carved with two differents motifs, surrounded by decorative ca...

This hand-carved wooden armchair, named "Le Pins," embodies the Art Nouveau style of Louis Majorelle, featuring intricate carvings of pine needles and pinecones. Reflecting Majorelle...

An oak and brown velvet armchair, model Gillberga, produced by Nordiska Kompaniet, Sweden, 1920s. Seat height 19”. 

Vintage Salterini Art Nouveau Scrolling Wrought Iron Garden Patio Blue Chaise Lounge Chair. Item features a unique "hooded" frame, scrolling wrought...

Finland, 1920-30s Mohair Velvet, stained oak Local, National and International delivery options available. We will always try and find the best value for money and safest way to tr...

Drawn with the quiet confidence of a single, unbroken line, this pair of French barrel-back lounge chairs distills the spirit of 1930s design into a composition of curved mass and at...

Pair of French Neoclassical-Style Giltwood Armchairs Country: France Materials: Carved Gold-Leaf Wood, New Alpaca Mohair Condition: Newly Reupholstered, New Alpaca Mohair Style: ...

Beautiful antique camelback sofa with Chippendale style legs. Newly upholstered in white linen.

Antique JB Van Sciver Oak Wood Swivel Ship Captains Courthouse Chair. Item features a floor mount, porcelain enamel cast iron pedestal base, reversible s...

This antique occasional chair is made from maple in the style of Biedermeier. Appraisers say the chair is either from Scandinavia or Germany....

Period Edwardian oak bench from England. The top is made from a single plank and has a beveled edge. This follows down to a simple apron which is hand carved decorated on all four...

Pair of Chinese Art Deco deck chairs/ moon gazing chair made of Hongmu wood (blackwood). Paneled seat with slightly curved armrests. Great craftsmans...

This set of 4 chairs manufactured by Prag-Rudniker Korbfabrikation in 1902 represents a nice, museum quality collection of important design of the Vienna Secession. The collection includes tinted Oak and Cane Chair Mod. 464 and a pair of highback dining chairs designed by Hans Vollmer and a chair designed by Wilhelm Schmidt. Prag-Rudniker Korbfabrikation started to collaborate in 1900 with many prominent architects and designers of the geometrical Viennese Secession, such as Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Otto Prut, and Josef Zotti...

An impressive teak day bed that can be used as a regular bed frame or a statement piece pool side. Beautiful century old teak wood with lovely character and minimalist carving on thi...

Original hand-carved Oromo stool from Ethiopia, early 20th century. Crafted from a single piece of wood, it features a beautifully curved, bowl-shaped seat supported by three sturdy ...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of Art Deco circa 1920's, Bordeaux leather lightly restored wing club armchairs Please...

Extending English arts and crafts metamorphic salon smokers chair in the manner of William Morris retailed by Liberty's of London with pull out foot rest creating a sumptuous lounger...

Antique Victorian Wicker Rattan Bentwood White Sculptural Sunroom Sofa Set with Chairs - 3 Pc Set. Item features (1) Sleek sculptural sofa (1) barrel back lounge chair (1) rocking c...

Antique Austrian Biedermeier Style Burled Curved Back Vanity Accent Chair in Plush Green Velvet Chenille This antique Austrian Biedermeier Style burled accent chair is a timeless pi...

Bauhaus chair by Marcel Breuer, model B34, in original condition. It is a first version from 1920s. The tubular steel frame and the wooden elements in it's original state. The chai...

These hand crafted chairs and hand painted chairs have hand rushed seats and in fine sturdy condition.This set of four chairs are two arm chairs and two regular chairs.

Notable Italian made set of chairs with classic Klismos form in walnut with gilt inlay carved inset back panels and hand-caned seats. The attention to detail in the construction is v...

Made by influential Austrian furniture manufacturer Thonet. This Art Deco rocking chair originates from Bohemia in the early 20th century and was manufactured by Fischel-Thonet. The...

Vintage French Hollywood Regency Art Deco Style Mahogany Arm Chairs - a Pair. Item features solid wood construction, nicely carved details, tapered legs, sleek sculptural form. Circa...

Wonderful hand made three legged stool with adjustable height ( 16.5-23'' ) Painted black wood legs with cast iron elements. The top has a newer leather top. Fits with Midcentury Modern and more...

A smart and very well made antique leather Gainsborough armchair. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1900-1910 period. The quality is superb, this is a nice early mo...

Beautiful set of six "box" armchairs by Pierre Jeanneret, circa late 1950s. These chairs show some the most intricate caning we've ever seen on Jeanneret chairs. Please look carefully. The chairs have aged gracefully over the past 70 years and now show fantastic character. Please note: original Jeanneret chairs...

Finely hand carved Louis XV style walnut bench with colorful velvet upholstery, France, 1920s-1930s. This stylish banquette stands up on graceful cabriole shaped legs with hoof feet...

A fine find! These barrel armchairs model No. 729/2F, designed by Joseph Hoffmann, circa 1906. The simplicity of this chair design: is made up of a u-shaped horizontal rail that form...

Bench, French, in the Louis XVI style. The piece features hand carved details and its original patinated colors in Ivory and gold leafing. Traditional burlap cover with a sage trim. ...

Extremely rare armchairs no.6521 Thonet Otto Wagner in very good original contidion with signs of use.

This is a gorgeous set of 1920s era French made louis xv gilded armchairs. The upholstery is in good conditon but is used so it may have signs fo age and use. The frames are in good ...

'Gościcino' Lounge Chair in Solid Oak, Webbing and Wool Poland 1930s This is a lovely and comfortable lounge chair in solid oak by the Polish furniture maker 'Gościcino' from the ci...

Secession dining chairs no.413 by Josef Hoffmann for Thonet Debrecen in very nice original condition.

Set of 8 (6 + 2) mahogany sheraton revival dining chairs These elegant dining chairs stand upon elegant tapered legs with spade feet The seats are of a stuff over form We have variou...

Set of four large slender bentwood dining set by Thonet, early 20th century European production. Seat fabric can be changed with C. O. M. (one yard...