Arts and Crafts Stools
ARTS AND CRAFTS STYLE
Emerging in reaction to industrialization and mass production, the Arts and Crafts movement celebrated handcrafted design as a part of daily life. The history of Arts and Crafts furniture has roots in 1860s England with an emphasis on natural motifs and simple flourishes like mosaics and carvings. This work is characterized by plain construction that showcases the hand of the artisan.
The earliest American Arts and Crafts furniture dates back to the start of the 20th century. Designers working in this style in the United States initially looked to ideas put forth by The Craftsman, a magazine published by Wisconsin native Gustav Stickley, a furniture maker and founder of the Craftsman style. Stickley’s furniture was practical and largely free of ornament. His Craftsman style drew on French Art Nouveau as well as the work he encountered on his travels in England. There, the leading designers of the Arts and Crafts movement included William Morris, who revived historical techniques such as embroidery and printed fabrics in his furnishings, and Charles Voysey, whose minimal approach was in contrast to the ornamentation favored in the Victorian era.
American Arts and Crafts work would come to involve a range of influences unified by an elevation of traditional craftsmanship. The furniture was often built from sturdy woods like oak and mahogany while featuring details such as inlaid metal, tooled leather and ceramic tiles. The style in the United States was led by Stickley, whose clean-lined chairs and benches showcased the grain of the wood, and furniture maker Charles Rohlfs, who was informed by international influences like East Asian and French Art Nouveau design.
Hubs in America included several utopian communities such as Rose Valley in Pennsylvania and the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony in New York, where craftspeople made furniture that prioritized function over any decoration. Their work would influence designers and architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, who built some of the most elegant and iconic structures in the United States and likewise embraced a thoughtful use of materials in his furniture.
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Style: Arts and Crafts
Torii, Rough Black Acacia Wood Stool
By Moonler
Located in Chiangmai, TH
The introduction of Torii, a minimalist collection infused with the Japanese spirit and
culture. The collection draws influence from the traditional Japanese gate which is typically
found in Shinto shrines or the house of a family with a newborn baby.
Japanese Torii gates...
Category
2010s Thai Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Wood
Pair English Arts & Crafts Cotswolds School Oak Stools End Tables, C.1950
Located in London, GB
Pair English Arts & Crafts Cotswolds School Oak Stools End Tables, C.1950
A near pair. Good solid construction in excellent condition commensurate with age.
Dimensions:
1: L41 x D...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Oak
Arts and Crafts Golden Oak and Leather Stool
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Arts and Crafts Golden Oak and Leather stool
This is a very attractive high stool, it has a square seat and is set on sturdy square stretchered legs, the stool has a soft leather ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Oak
Elegant Victorian Walnut Occasional Stool
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Elegant Victorian walnut occasional stool.
This is a lovely quality stool is made in walnut and set on cabriole legs, it is newly upholstered with ...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Chenille
Round Stool with Artisan Embroidery
Located in HUIXQUILUCAN, MX
At Casa Ocampo conscious of Mexico's cultural wealth and the vulnerable state of the artisans, we look to enhance and market the ethnical commerce of contemporary design, produced un...
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2010s Mexican Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Pine
Contemporary Iris Bar Stool with Leather and Brass
Located in New York, NY
In Greek mythology, Iris is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. Inspired by this rainbow, it is a combination of layers and intentions. This minimal and elegant geometrical shaped bar stool...
Category
2010s Turkish Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Brass, Stainless Steel
Lifetime Furniture 403 Mission Oak Arts & Crafts Leather Ottoman Stool Footstool
By Lifetime
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Lifetime Furniture 403 Mission Oak Arts & Crafts brown leather ottoman footstool. Item features brown leather loose cushion, model no. 403, solid wood construction, beautiful wood gr...
Category
20th Century American Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Leather, Oak
Workshop Industrial Wood Tripod Stool
Located in Barcelona, ES
Industrial Wood stool with a three-legged base and canvas round seat. Spain, 1920s-1930s.
This workshop stool has a heavy construction, great shape and character. It has three legs ...
Category
20th Century Spanish Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Wood, Pine, Canvas
Rustic Low-Profile Stool in Woven Rope on Wood Frame Arts & Crafts
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Low stool
Rustic low stool in woven cotton rope with wood frame Arts & Crafts
No signature or label
Measures: 16 W x 12.88 D x 6.63 H inches
Preowned original unrestored conditio...
Category
1960s Vintage Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Rope, Wood
Country View Amish Handcrafted Mission Oak Low Stools
Located in Germantown, MD
A solid pair of country view amish handcrafted mission oak low stools or footstools in great vintage condition. Measure 15 inches in width, 13.5 inches i...
Category
Late 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Oak
English Arts & Crafts Walnut and Leather Stool
Located in Norwich, GB
An Arts & Crafts Cotswold School manner walnut and leather lattice strapwork topped stool. Circa 1920. Paper label "Burton", presumably the maker.
Made in solid figured walnut, wi...
Category
Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Pair of Arts and Crafts Golden Oak and Leather Stools
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
A pair of arts and crafts golden oak and leather stools
These are a very attractive pair they have a square seat and are set on sturdy stretchered legs
The stools are in good so...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Oak
Late 19th Century Arts & Crafts Brown Leather Stool with Brass Nail Head Trim
Located in Middleburg, VA
Late 19th century Arts & Crafts brown leather stool with brass nail head trim
Original leather covering is cracked but could be reupholstered or ...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Brass
Russell Stool
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Russell stool, a handcrafted recreation of one of Gordon Russell's earliest and most successful Cotswold School designs, crafted in white oak by Wooster and Essex having an uphol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Oak
Contemporary Oak and White Boucle Mistral Bar Stool
Located in New York, NY
Mistral bar stool is designed to bring fresh, modern, natural style to its environment. Black polished metal and American white oak legs are combined with elegant white boucle fabric.
Category
2010s Turkish Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Metal
21st Century Marquetry Wood Veneer Geometric Nightstand
Located in New York, NY
This exclusive "Dip Nightstand" is made from four monochrome colors of veneer wood. It is uniquely created by assembling geometric pieces together, portraying a fascinating 3D illusion. This handmade crafted round nightstand...
Category
2010s Turkish Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Wood
Contemporary American White Oak Yellow Mistral Bar Stool with Copper Legs
Located in New York, NY
Mistral bar stool is designed to bring fresh, modern, natural style to its environment. Polished copper and white American oak legs are combined with colorful fabrics.
Category
2010s Turkish Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Oak
Handmade Oak Stool with Leather Strap Top, Arts & Crafts Late 19th Century
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good handmade stool with a well turned solid oak frame and a woven leather strap top, all dating to the Arts & Crafts period of the late 19th century.
The stool is made of solid oak. The frame joints into four legs with ring turned detail and with four jointed rectangular cross stretchers between the legs, making this a very strong construction. The seat top is made of interwoven reddish-brown leather straps which sit on fabric webbing below the leather and give additional support to the seat. The seat is finished off with four narrow leather strips that run along the lower seat edge, one on each side, that are secured by brass nail studs.
The stool has developed a good patina from age and use and the reddish-brown leather has a deep natural mature shine, only achieved by repeated polishing and use over the years.
This piece is made in the 17th century Jacobean style but we date the stool to the late 19th century, made in the English Arts & Crafts period of the late 19th century.
Please note the images are taken both indoors and outdoors in different light conditions.
Notes on English leather topped seating
Leather covers on English seating dates back to the middle ages and the 16th century. Mature leather seats can be as tough and polished as the wood of the frame itself. During the reign of Elizabeth 1st...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Oak
Contemporary Malicious Bar Stool with Polished Brass Studs and Black Leather
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by the ancient "Chair of Nails Torture", which was studded with spikes and used by inquisitors, "Malicious" was designed to create a feeling of disturbance, hesitation and f...
Category
2010s Turkish Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Metal
Victorian Beech and Elm High Studio Stool
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
A Victorian Beech and Elm High Studio Stool
A lovely country piece, and very useful, the stool is good and sound, with good patination and a thick round elm seat
It is 27” high, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Elm
Swivel High Stool in Bentwood
By Thonet
Located in Barcelona, ES
Revolving high stool in bentwood with upholstered seat and backrest. Thonet style, Austria, 1930s
Nicely constructed in turned bentwood standing up on four legs with a foot rest ring.
The wood structure is strong and sturdy. Height adjustable. Nice aged patina.
This eye-catching rotating stool...
Category
20th Century Austrian Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Wood, Bentwood
Rare & Sturdy Vintage Pair of Handcrafted Oak Arts & Crafts Stools w Curved Seat
Located in Lisse, NL
Great style and wonderful condition pair of semi-antique solid oak stools.
Finding this rare pair of vintage stools was a treat and to have found them in this amazing condition made...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Wood, Oak
Hand Painted Wooden Motus Surf Bench with Marble Legs
Located in New York, NY
Motus.
A bench designed with the idea of constant movement, even when anchored to a fixed place, Motus combines handcrafted lime wood with contrasting marble legs. The seat is hand painted, with an image reminiscent of The Great Wave off Kanagawa...
Category
2010s Turkish Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Marble
Contemporary Black Stained Oak and White Boucle Mistral Bar Stool
Located in New York, NY
Mistral bar stool is designed to bring fresh, modern, natural style to its environment. Black polished metal and black stained oak legs are combined with elegant white boucle fabric.
Category
2010s Turkish Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Metal
Arts & Crafts Wooden with Leather Inlay Height Adjustable Stool or Piano Chair
Located in Lisse, NL
Rare and stunning antique, rotating chair.
This stylish Arts & Crafts stool, we believe, started its life as a piano chair, but it may also have been used as a chair for a craftsman...
Category
Early 20th Century European Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Stainless Steel
Arts & Crafts Wood and Straw Stool, Early 20th Century, United Kingdom
By Adolf Loos
Located in Brussels, BE
Elegant early 20th century stool, United Kingdom.
Dark turned wood, straw seat.
Good original condition.
Dimensions: 68 cm W, 37 cm D, 46 cm H, seat height: 43 cm.
All purchases are ...
Category
1910s British Vintage Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Straw, Wood
Contemporary Iris Bar Stool in Polished Dark Gray Finish
Located in New York, NY
In Greek mythology, Iris is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. Inspired by this rainbow, it is a combination of layers and intentions. This minimal and elegant geometrical shaped bar stool...
Category
2010s Turkish Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Stainless Steel, Nickel
Shapland & Petter, A Good Arts & Crafts Oak Double Piano Stool Or Window Seat
Located in London, GB
Shapland and Petter of Barnstaple. England.
An Arts and Crafts oak double piano stool, window, or duet seat with stylized details throughout.
Las...
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Oak
English Arts & Crafts Leather and Oak Stool
Located in Greenwich, CT
English oak and leather Arts & Crafts stool having thick tanned leather seat with over scale brass studs, over "cup and cover" turned legs with reeded tops, joined by stretcher base,...
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Leather, Oak
21st Century Marquetry Wood Veneer Cubic Dip Stool
Located in New York, NY
This exclusive "Dip Stool" is made from three monochrome colors of veneer wood. It is uniquely created by assembling geometric pieces together, portraying a fascinating 3D illusion. ...
Category
2010s Turkish Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Wood
Liberty & Co, an Arts & Crafts Moorish Oak Stool with Embossed Leather Seat
Located in London, GB
Liberty & Co., an Arts & Crafts oak stool with original embossed leather seat depicting flowers in bloom with stylized carved devices to all four sides and Moorish arched details.
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Leather, Oak
Wonderful Early 20th Century English Arts & Crafts Leather Top Stool
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderful early 20th century English Arts & Crafts period oak stool with its original woven leather top with brass nailhead trim, stretchers with a pierced square design, and fantastic flared feet...
Category
Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Leather, Oak
Arts & Crafts stool, 1920s
Located in Uppsala, SE
Arts & Crafts stool from the 1920s with lathed legs and stretchers. Later off-white paint. One of the stretchers are missing. Good used condition with norm...
Category
Early 20th Century European Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Wood
Antique Arts & Crafts Stick and Ball Thebes Bentwood Slat Wooden Stool
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Arts & Crafts Stick and Ball Thebes Bentwood Slat wooden stool. Item features bentwood slatted seat, twisted legs, very nice antique item. Circa Late 1800s - Early 1900s. Mea...
Category
Early 20th Century North American Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Wood, Paint
Arts & Crafts Golden Oak Stool
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Arts & Crafts golden oak stool
This is a very unusual piece it made in 1” thick oak and has a curved top, it is thicker at each side than it is in the ce...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Arts and Crafts Stools
Liberty and Co. A Stained Beech and Leather Thebes Stool.
Located in London, GB
Liberty and Co. a stained beech Thebes stool, with a re upholstered red leather seat.
Category
Late 20th Century Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Beech
Arts & Crafts Vintage Oakwood Thebes Stool 1910 attr Liberty & Co United Kingdom
Located in Vienna, AT
Vintage oakwood Thebes stool handmade in Arts & Craft tradition, which was made c. 1910 attributed to Liberty & Co, UK.
An earlier model of this presented stool is shown at the exhibition in the British Museum in London and was designed and manufactured circa 1400 before Christ...
Category
1890s British Antique Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Oak
Tall Arts & Crafts Ebonized Maple Leather Upholstered Stool
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Single, tall, Arts & Crafts, shop stool features an ebonized maple frame with ecru leather seat and back circa 1930s. Backrest is height adjustable.
Category
1930s American Vintage Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Leather, Maple
Tree Trunk Stool & Side Table
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Antique wood stump stool or side table from antique Waldo collection, actual tree trunk, finished to be a stool or side table. Medium wood color.
Mea...
Category
20th Century Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Wood
Arts And Crafts stools for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Arts and Crafts stools for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage stools created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include seating, tables, folk art and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, oak and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Arts and Crafts stools made in a specific country, there are Europe, United Kingdom, and England pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original stools, popular names associated with this style include Merve Kahraman, Liberty & Co., Kenton Jeske, and Edward Barnsley. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for stools differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $300 and tops out at $9,838 while the average work can sell for $1,598.
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