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Industrial Stools

INDUSTRIAL STYLE

Industrial floor lamps, bar stools, desks and other industrial-style furnishings have experienced a resurgence in popularity with the rise of interest in minimalist design.

It's a look that celebrates the past even as it suggests vigor, productivity and brawn. The newly chic industrial style of decor repurposes the simple, sturdy furniture of an earlier world of commerce — brushed-metal storage cabinets and display shelves, task lamps and pendant lights with enameled shades, work tables with worn wooden tops and cast-iron bases — and couples them with aesthetic touches emblematic of energy and optimism, from bright upholstery fabrics to flowers.

The rise in prominence of the industrial style has come hand-in-hand with the residential repurposing of former manufacturing and warehouse districts throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. In many loft apartments created in shuttered factories, the architectural envelope has been left intact.

Industrial-style interiors feature elements like raw brick walls, exposed steel beams and oak floors whose history is written in every pit and gouge. Iron and glass transom windows give definition and interest to small kitchen areas anchored by kitchen islands made of marble, steel and brass, while taxidermy or vintage neon signs serve as wall art in living rooms dotted with leather club chairs. Patina is the keynote to a decor in sync with such surroundings. 

On 1stDibs you will find industrial furniture designs that wear their age beautifully — and were built to last.

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Style: Industrial
Period: 1930s
Adjustable Oak and Steel Stool by Toledo
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A black patinated steel adjustable-height stool with an oakwood seat and a ring footrest. Designed and manufactured by Toledo in the USA, 1930s. Adjusts from 25.5" to 28.5" H.
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1930s American Vintage Industrial Stools

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Steel

A Hospital dispensary stool c. 1930 France
Located in SOTTEVILLE-LÈS-ROUEN, FR
A Hospital dispensary stool c. 1930. Curved steel and sheet metal, adjustment by endless screw. Very stable and solid. Superb period patina. Dimensions: H45/70 D30 [cm]
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1930s French Vintage Industrial Stools

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Steel

American Designer, Stool, Metal, USA, 1930s
Located in High Point, NC
A green-painted metal industrial stool designed and produced in the US, 1930s. Seat height 17” 
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1930s American Vintage Industrial Stools

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Copper

Vintage Danish Shoemaker Chair, 1930s.
Located in Asaa, DK
Vintage Danish Shoemaker Chair, 1930s. Three legged hand-carved shoemakers stool or milk stool in solid stained beech. Club shaped legs with stretchers for footrest and stability. S...
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1930s Danish Vintage Industrial Stools

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Beech

1950's French Industrial workshop stool/Aron Et Roux Paris stool
Located in London, Lambeth
1950'S Arnon et Roux Paris cast metal base adjustable Industrial stool rare stool has a heavy self threaded cast base with raised lettering. The seat is solid birch .Classic origi...
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1930s French Vintage Industrial Stools

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Iron

Industrial wooden French painters stool with rich patina from the 1930s
Located in Meulebeke, BE
France / 1930s / painters stool / rich original patina / industrial / Mid-century / vintage An exquisite industrial painters stool from France, dating back to the 1930s. This unique...
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1930s French Vintage Industrial Stools

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Wood

Pair of Industrial Steel Factory Stools by Rowac Robert Wagner Chemnitz, 1930s
Located in Nijmegen, NL
This pair of stools were designed by Robert Wagner and made by Rowac in the 1930s. They feature a steel frame, a wooden seat and Rowac stamp with number 37 underneath the seat. They ...
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1930s German Vintage Industrial Stools

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Metal

1930's Adjustable Swivel Seat Backless Industrial Toledo Workshop Stool
Located in Buffalo, NY
1930's adjustable swivel seat backless industrial Toledo Workshop stool, definitely the cleanest example I have ever owned, looks like it was made yeste...
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1930s American Vintage Industrial Stools

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Metal

Pair of Industrial Stools and Wooden Seats, Italy, 1930
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of adjustable stools with footrest for the bistro industry. The 4 legs are made out of tubular iron, black color, and the site is made out of solid wood. Screwing or unscrewing ...
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1930s Italian Vintage Industrial Stools

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Iron

1930s Dimpled Industrial Artists Painters Sculptors Stool Vintage Iron Wheels
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Very heavy, vulcanized and waffled upholstery is starting to tattered along the edges. Super weighty over 25 lbs. Seat dia: 13 1/2 x base dia: 14 1/2 x H: 19 1/4 to 24 1/2 in.
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1930s American Vintage Industrial Stools

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Metal

Industrial Work Stools by Ama, circa 1930s
Located in Gloucester, GB
Industrial work stools by Ama, circa 1930s - Price is per stool - Steel frame - Solid Elm seat with ply backrest - Designed by Albert Menger - Produced by Ama, Nordhalben - G...
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1930s German Vintage Industrial Stools

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Steel

Industrial Work Stools by Ama, circa 1930s
Located in Gloucester, GB
Industrial work stools by Ama, circa 1930s - Price is per stool - Steel frame - Solid Elm seat with ply back rest - Designed by Albert Menger - Produced by Ama, Nordhalben -...
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1930s German Vintage Industrial Stools

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Steel

Industrial Work Stools by Ama, circa 1930s
Located in Gloucester, GB
Industrial work stools by Ama, circa 1930s - Price is per stool - Steel frame - Solid Elm seat with ply backrest - Designed by Albert Menger - Produced by Ama, Nordhalben - ...
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1930s German Vintage Industrial Stools

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Steel

Industrial Work Stool By Ama, circa 1930s
Located in Gloucester, GB
Industrial work stool by Ama, circa 1930s - Ply seat - Sprung steel back rest - Designed by Albert Menger - Produced by Ama, Nordhalben - German, 1930s - Measures: 39cm wide ...
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1930s German Vintage Industrial Stools

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Beech

W.H. Gispen for Gispen, for Make Up Tabouret in Chrome and Black, circa 1930
Located in Amsterdam IJMuiden, NL
This item is part of the private collection of Casey Godrie and is situated in his private house. Ask him for competitive shipping quotes. His incredible Dune Villa, Amsterdam Beach...
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1930s Dutch Vintage Industrial Stools

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Chrome

Patinated Cast Iron Barstool
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A patinated cast iron barstool with a dished wooden swivel seat and "pleated" apron on a leaning base culminating from a teardrop foot.
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1930s American Vintage Industrial Stools

Materials

Iron

Solid Oak and Leather Workshop Drafting Stool
Located in Brooklyn, NY
1930's, solid oak, workshop stool with newly upholstered caramel brown leather seat. The diameter of the seat is 14in and the foot ring is 13in high.
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1930s American Vintage Industrial Stools

Materials

Leather, Oak

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Art Deco Stool, Material Iron, Country France, 1930
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
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Argentina was the country of new opportunities, labour was needed and religious freedom was assured, in many cases the of the family travel first until they were settled and then the rest of the family members join them. In the immigrant museum “Ellis Island Immigrant Building” in New York you can se the promotional posters of the boats that would take them to a new life. Between the years 1895 and 1896, Argentina had the highest DGP (gross domestic product) per capita in the world according to the Maddison Historical Statistics index, this situation arose due to the large amount of food being exported to European countries, which were at war. The Argentinean ships left the port of Buenos Aires with food, but they returned with furniture, clothes and construction elements, (it´s common to see this the old buildings of the historic neighbourhood of San Telmo, the beams with the inscription “Made in England)”, as well as many markets that were built in Buenos Aires, such us the San Telmo Market, whose structure was brought by ship and afterwards assembled in 900 Defensa Street. With the great influence of European immigrants living in the country, the children of the upper classes travelled to study in France, resulting in the inauguration of “La Maison Argentinienne”, on 27th of June 1928, in the international city of Paris, which hosted many Argentinians that were studying in Frace. It´s the fourth house to be built after France, Canada and Belgium, being the first Spanish-speaking one. Still in place today (17 Bd Jourdan, 75014, Paris, France). Many of the children of these wealthy families who attended international art exhibitions, museums and art courses abroad, took a keen interest in the European style. This is why Buenos Aires was at the time referred as “The Paris of South America”. Between the years 1890 and 1920 more than a hundred Palaces were built on Alvear Avenue the most exclusive avenue in Buenos Aires. Today some of these palaces have been transformed into museums, hotels and embassies. In the year 1936, the Kavanagh building was inaugurated, it was the tallest reinforced concrete building in South America. During 1994 the American Society of Civil Engineers distinguished it as an “international engineering milestone”, and it´s now considered a World Heritage of Modern Architecture. At the time was common to hire foreign architects such as Le Corbusier, who visited Buenos Aires/Argentina in 1929 and in 1948 he drew up the blueprints for a house built in La Plata City (which was declared a World Heritage Site). In 1947, the Hungarian architect Marcelo Breuer designed “Parador Ariston” in the seaside city of Mar del Plata. After an Argentinean student at Harvard University convinced him to come to Argentina. He worked on an urban development project in the Casa Amarilla, area of La Boca. The Ukrainian architect, Vladimiro Acosta, arrives in Argentina in 1928 and worked as an architect until que moved to Brazil. Antonio Bonet, a Spanish architect who worked with Le Corbusier in Paris, arrives in Argentina in 1937, where he carried out several architectural works and in 1938 designs the well-known BFK chair. 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Natural Oak and Steel Buell Stool
Located in New York City, NY
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Primitive Milking Stool 1930s
Located in Čelinac, BA
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1930s Croatian Vintage Industrial Stools

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Primitive Milking Stool 1930s
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H 14.97 in Dm 16.93 in
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Pair of Industrial Stools and Wooden Seats, Italy, 1930
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1930s Italian Vintage Industrial Stools

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Rare Pair of French '1930s' Stools by Taubmann
By Taubmann
Located in New York, NY
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Small 1930s Stool by Otto Schulz with Great Patina
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Scandinavian Modern footstool by Otto Schulz for Boet with scrolled design in original vintage condition. beech, brown leather and brass nails, Measures: Length 25.5", width 13.5", h...
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1930s Swedish Vintage Industrial Stools

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Beech

Spanish Desk and Stool in Oak with Green Blue Patina, 1930s
Located in Barcelona, ES
Industrial Desk and Stool, Oak, Spain, 1930s A lovely set composed by an industrial desk with Art Deco accents patinated in Jade green-blue color with the top in oakwood. The small s...
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20th Century Spanish Industrial Stools

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Vintage Industrial Adjustable Tripod Stool, 1950s
Located in Praha, CZ
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Mid-20th Century Czech Industrial Stools

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Art Deco Step Stool for New York Central Railroad System C1938
By Morton Manufacturing Co.
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fantastic industrial step stool manufactured by Morton Manufacturing Chicago Illinois from the Art Deco period. Made for the New York Central Railroad ...
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1930s American Vintage Industrial Stools

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Original Bombenstabil Buffer Swivel Stool, Early 20th Century
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1930s German Vintage Industrial Stools

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Industrial Factory Stool by Rowac, circa 1930s
Located in Gloucester, GB
Industrial Factory Stool By Rowac, circa 1930s - Branded on all 3 legs - Original Ply seat - By Robert Wagner, Chemnitz - German ~ 1930s - 45cm tall x 35cm wide Rowac Ro...
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Industrial Factory Stool by Rowac, circa 1930s
Industrial Factory Stool by Rowac, circa 1930s
H 17.72 in W 13.78 in D 13.78 in
Vintage 1930s Industrial Rask Work Drafting Stool by Toledo Furniture Company
Located in New York, NY
Classic adjustable work stool by the Toledo Metal Furniture Company, Made in USA, circa 1930s. The stool features a swivel seat, and a back rest ...
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Industrial Swivel Stool or Telephone Operator's Chair, circa 1930
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An Industrial swivel stool or telephone operator's chair, circa 1930. Having a tall wood back with cane seat, resting on downswept legs with circular foot rest.
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Original Bombenstabil Buffer Swivel Stool, Early 20th Century
Located in Schwerin, MV
Brown, upholstered and spring-loaded swivel stool from the 1st half of the 20th century by Bombenstabil (Stoelcker KG Ettenheim). The suspension with the inscription: buffer rotation D.R.P. Bombproof. D.R.P. stands for German Reich...
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1930s German Vintage Industrial Stools

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Height Adjustable Industrial Stool in Oak, 1920s-1930s
Located in Uppsala, SE
Industrial and height adjustable barstool of oak and wrought iron from the early part of 1900s. It's taller than a normal dining chair so it would...
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1930s Swedish Vintage Industrial Stools

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Original 30s French industrial swivel stool made of heavy oak
Located in München, DE
Original 1930s industrial oak swivel stool. Heavy and solid design. Built to last. Made in France. Great design and function. Fantastic patina from the last 90 years. The rotating me...
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1930s French Vintage Industrial Stools

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Metal

Danish Swivel Chair, 1930s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Swivel stool in steel and faux leather. Denmark 1930s. Adjustable height. Measures: Height 45-60, diameter. 37 cm.
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1930s Danish Vintage Industrial Stools

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Steel

Danish Swivel Chair, 1930s
Danish Swivel Chair, 1930s
H 19.69 in Dm 14.57 in
Industrial Chairs by Singer circa 1930s
Located in Gloucester, GB
Industrial Chairs By Singer Circa 1930s - Price is per chair (6 available) - Height adjustable - Cast iron bases - Ply seats and back rests - Relief "Singer" branding on the b...
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1930s English Vintage Industrial Stools

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Iron

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H 33.86 in W 15.36 in D 17.72 in
1930s Toledo Industrial Adjustable Height Swivel Stool .Orig Oil Cloth Covers
Located in Buffalo, NY
1930s industrial adjustable height swivel stool with back by Toledo Metal Furniture Company, Retains extremely rare oil cloth covers, ...
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Located in Gloucester, GB
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Industrial stools for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Industrial 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, building and garden elements and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Industrial stools made in a specific country, there are Europe, North America, and United States pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original stools, popular names associated with this style include Zieta, Jover + Valls, Oskar Zieta, and Toledo Metal Furniture Co.. 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 $128 and tops out at $12,928 while the average work can sell for $796.

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