Stools
1880s English High Victorian Antique Stools
Upholstery
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Stools
Leather
Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Stools
Fabric, Wood, Walnut
19th Century English Victorian Antique Stools
Oak
1780s English Georgian Antique Stools
Upholstery, Walnut
1740s British George II Antique Stools
Oak
Early 19th Century Irish Georgian Antique Stools
Leather, Mahogany
1880s English Victorian Antique Stools
Upholstery, Hardwood
21st Century and Contemporary English Victorian Stools
Wood, Leather
19th Century English Victorian Antique Stools
Walnut
1890s English Victorian Antique Stools
Brass
19th Century British Victorian Antique Stools
Rosewood
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Stools
Upholstery, Hardwood
19th Century European Victorian Antique Stools
Iron
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Stools
Wood, Fabric
1720s English George I Antique Stools
Walnut
19th Century Italian Victorian Antique Stools
Giltwood
1880s Italian Victorian Antique Stools
Walnut
19th Century English Victorian Antique Stools
Walnut
19th Century English Victorian Antique Stools
Walnut
19th Century British Victorian Antique Stools
Elm
1880s English Victorian Antique Stools
Walnut
19th Century English Victorian Antique Stools
Oak
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Stools
Oak
18th Century Danish Georgian Antique Stools
Oak
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Stools
Upholstery, Giltwood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Stools
Wood, Mahogany
18th Century English Georgian Antique Stools
Ash, Elm
1840s English Early Victorian Antique Stools
Upholstery, Hardwood
19th Century North American Victorian Antique Stools
Walnut
1850s English Victorian Antique Stools
Walnut
19th Century English Victorian Antique Stools
Walnut
18th Century George II Antique Stools
Upholstery, Mahogany
1720s English George I Antique Stools
Upholstery, Walnut
19th Century English Victorian Antique Stools
Walnut
19th Century European Victorian Antique Stools
Wood
1860s British Early Victorian Antique Stools
Oak
Late 20th Century Georgian Stools
Fabric, Mahogany
Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Stools
Cane, Beech, Elm
1890s English Late Victorian Antique Stools
Oak
1840s English Victorian Antique Stools
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Stools
Oak
1880s Indian Victorian Antique Stools
Upholstery, Oak
1890s Late Victorian Antique Stools
Brass
1860s English Victorian Antique Stools
Rosewood
1820s English Georgian Antique Stools
Leather
Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Stools
Cane, Beech, Elm
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Stools
Elm
19th Century English Victorian Antique Stools
Walnut
19th Century Victorian Antique Stools
Walnut
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Stools
Oak
1750s English George II Antique Stools
Walnut
19th Century British Victorian Antique Stools
Rosewood
Early 18th Century English George II Antique Stools
Wood
Mid-19th Century English George II Antique Stools
Walnut
1880s English Late Victorian Antique Stools
Wood
Mid-19th Century English George II Antique Stools
Mahogany
19th Century English Victorian Antique Stools
Hardwood
Antique, New and Vintage Stools
Stools are versatile and a necessary addition to any living room, kitchen area or elsewhere in your home. A sofa or reliable lounge chair might nab all the credit, comfort-wise, but don’t discount the roles that good antique, new and vintage stools can play.
“Stools are jewels and statements in a space, and they can also be investment pieces,” says New York City designer Amy Lau, who adds that these seats provide an excellent choice for setting an interior’s general tone.
Stools, which are among the oldest forms of wooden furnishings, may also serve as decorative pieces, even if we’re talking about a stool that is far less sculptural than the gracefully curving molded plywood shells that make up Sōri Yanagi’s provocative Butterfly stool.
Fawn Galli, a New York interior designer, uses her stools in the same way you would use a throw pillow. “I normally buy several styles and move them around the home where needed,” she says.
Stools are smaller pieces of seating as compared to armchairs or dining chairs and can add depth as well as functionality to a space that you’ve set aside for entertaining. For a splash of color, consider the Stool 60, a pioneering work of bentwood by Finnish architect and furniture maker Alvar Aalto. It’s manufactured by Artek and comes in a variety of colored seats and finishes.
Barstools that date back to the 1970s are now more ubiquitous in kitchens. Vintage barstools have seen renewed interest, be they a meld of chrome and leather or transparent plastic, such as the Lucite and stainless-steel counter stool variety from Indiana-born furniture designer Charles Hollis Jones, who is renowned for his acrylic works. A cluster of barstools — perhaps a set of four brushed-aluminum counter stools by Emeco or Tubby Tube stools by Faye Toogood — can encourage merriment in the kitchen. If you’ve got the room for family and friends to congregate and enjoy cocktails where the cooking is done, consider matching your stools with a tall table.
Whether you need counter stools, drafting stools or another kind, explore an extensive range of antique, new and vintage stools on 1stDibs.