Rococo Seating
ROCOCO STYLE
Rococo was an aesthetic movement in the fine and decorative arts in the 18th century that found its inspiration in nature and fostered an overall lightness and delicacy of form, construction and ornament in interior design. Rococo furniture, while greatly influenced by trends in Italy and Germany, is often called Louis XV style — the movement having reached its best expression during that sybaritic French king’s reign.
The term “rococo” is thought to be a portmanteau of the French words rocaille and coquilles — “rock” and “shells” — organic motifs frequently used in architecture and design of the style.
When it comes to authentic Rococo furniture's characteristics, it is above all sensuous and social. The furniture of earlier eras in Europe had been heavy in every sense; the Rococo period saw the appearance of light-framed upholstered armchairs, side chairs and occasional tables that could easily be moved to form conversational circles.
The signal detail of Rococo furniture design is the gently curved cabriole, or S-shaped chair-, table-, and cabinet-leg. It imitates the bend of a tree limb or a flower stem. In a further reference to nature, furnishings were often asymmetrical and painted white, or in soft, pastel shades. Rococo has become a timeless style, and as the furniture pieces presented on 1stDibs demonstrate, its playful, sculptural forms can provide visual excitement to contemporary, clean-lined spaces.
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Style: Rococo
Pair of Italian Rococo Walnut Salon Sofas
Located in Houston, TX
Pair of large-scale Italian Rococo salon sofas carved in walnut. Each sofa features a continuous serpentine crest rail with symmetrical rocaille carving centered by a shell motif. Sc...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Walnut
$28,000 / set
Victorian Armchair in Mahogany, Wheels & Colorful Fabric, England, Early 1900s
Located in Odense, DK
A charming late Victorian mahogany armchair featuring a high, button-tufted back and gracefully scrolled arms.
The fabric is in a tasteful yellow-and-red striped fabric, the chair is...
Category
Early 20th Century English Rococo Seating
Materials
Fabric, Mahogany
19th Century Rococo Style Wide Marquise Chair
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This exquisite antique chair is a French Louis XV style ‘Bergère Marquise’ in the Rococo tradition, dating from circa 1890-1900. The chair is meticulo...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Wood
19th-C. Italian / Venetian Celadon Floral Painted Side Chairs In Blue Velvet- 2
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is a pair of 19th century hand painted Venetian side chairs. The seats are in a blue velvet that is in very good condition. The frames are a celadon color with flowers and gilt ...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Velvet, Poplar, Giltwood
Italian Baroque Burgundy Tufted Settee
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Baroque style 20th c. settee with gilt wood filigree frame & burgundy & cream button-tufted upholstery with embroidered flowers (Matching settee: AGO054, arm chairs: AGO053, ...
Category
20th Century Italian Rococo Seating
Pair of Italian 19th Century Rococo Style Carved Walnut Upholstered Armchairs
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of Italian Rococo style walnut armchairs from the 19th century, with carved skirts, cabriole legs and upholstery. Born in Italy during the 19th century, each of this pair of R...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Upholstery, Walnut
Rococo Style 1890s Swedish Light Grey Painted and Carved Bergères Chair
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Swedish Rococo–style classic light grey painted bergère chair from circa 1890, featuring carved floral décor, cabriole legs, and upholstered seating. With delicate floral motifs gr...
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Late 19th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Upholstery, Wood
Rococo Style Late 19th Century Chair
Located in Vienna, AT
Gilt and bronzed hardwood frame. Nyrokoko, the second half of the 19th century. Repairs, marks, loss of gilt. I offer also on request a professional complete restoration and new upho...
Category
1880s French Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Upholstery, Walnut
$1,289 Sale Price
32% Off
Pair of Swedish Rococo Chairs with Traces of Original Paint, Circa 1770
Located in Atlanta, GA
A genuine pair of period Rococo chairs dating to circa 1770, retaining traces of their original painted surfaces. The frames have been carefully scraped back, revealing a softly worn...
Category
18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Wood
19th Century Set of Ten Swedish Gustavian Dining Chairs
Located in Round Top, TX
There is an understated elegance to this set of ten antique Swedish pine dining chairs including eight side chairs and two arm chairs in the Rococo style.
Pierced splat backs, carved...
Category
Late 19th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Linen, Pine, Paint
19th Century Swedish Chair in transition Rococo / Gustavian Hälsingland
Located in Boden, SE
A fantastic mid 19th Century very genuine & rustic Rococo / Gustavian Chair from Hälsingland ,Northern Sweden.
The chair is provincial and transition between Rococo & Gustavian.
Th...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Pine
Rococo Armchair from Drottningholm Castle
Located in New York, NY
Black painted chair from Drottningholm castle
Stamped KR DH under Royal Crown (Kronan Drottning Holm)
Provenance: Queen Louisa Ulrika's Private Property, Drottningholm Castle,...
Category
Late 18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Wood, Paint
Pair of Rococo Fauteuils / Armchairs in Walnut, Italy, circa 1750
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of Italian Rococo period fauteuils, with needle-point linen slip covers, serpentine back and scroll arms ending in cabriole legs.
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Upholstery, Walnut
Swedish Rococo Chair from Stockholm with Scraped Original Paint, Circa 1760
Located in Atlanta, GA
An authentic Swedish Rococo chair manufactured in Stockholm circa 1760. This period example retains its original painted surface, carefully scraped back to reveal the early finish wi...
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18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Wood
Venetian Rococo Armchairs Sofa set hand-carved walnut , leather upholstered
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Early 20th Century Venetian Rococò armchairs and sofa by Atelier Cadorin Venice in hand-carved walnut and leather upholstered, wax polished
Al...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Rococo Seating
Materials
Leather, Walnut
DIM/CON Antique Rococo Revival Rosewood Footstool with Floral Needlepoint C1890
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Rococo Revival Rosewood Footstool with Floral Needlepoint C1890
Measures - 14 h x 18 w x 18 w
A charming antique Rococo Revival footstool crafted from rosewood, dating to ci...
Category
19th Century Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Rosewood
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Ancient Italian Pair of Armchairs in “Petit Point” Embroidery, Turin Circa 1750
Located in Milano, IT
Pair of carved walnut armchairs covered in “petit point” embroidery
Turin, circa 1750
They measure 33.8 in (86 cm) in height; 17.32 in (44 cm) in height to the seat; 25.98 in (66 cm...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Wool, Walnut
Fine Early Regence Walnut Fauteuil, Italy ca. 1730
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine Regence Period walnut fauteuil with shaped back and scallop shell carving, scrolled arms, shaped apron with similar shell detail, all resting on cabriole feet. The fauteuil da...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Silk, Upholstery, Walnut
A petite Portugese carved walnut foot stool in the Rococo taste. Late 18th C.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The stool is distinguished by a shaped apron, cabriole legs with floral-carved knees ending in scrolled feet, and the dramatic leopard print upholstery.
Perfect for resting your fe...
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Late 18th Century Portuguese Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Upholstery, Walnut
Pair of Swedish Rococo Carved Armchairs with Original Patina
Located in Atlanta, GA
This graceful pair of Swedish Rococo armchairs embodies the refined curves and expressive craftsmanship of 18th-century Scandinavian design. Elegantly carved from wood and retaining ...
Category
18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Linen, Wood
Luxurious Antique Italian Lounge Chairs in Rococo / Baroque Style Brown Beige
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
A wonderful pair of luxurious antique Italian lounge chairs in Rococo / Baroque style. The chairs are recently re-upholstered and have a royal a...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Rococo Seating
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Pair of Early 20th-century Venetian Grotto Chairs
Located in San Francisco, CA
Odds are good that you haven't seen many of these, with their scallop shell backs and seats, dolphin-head arms, and particularly such strange, roughened, coral-textured legs suggesti...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Rococo Seating
Materials
Wood, Paint
Pair of armchairs. Wood, textile. 18th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Pair of armchairs. Wood, textile. 18th century.
Pair of high-backed armchairs with arms of the "queen's fateuil" type, with a carved wooden frame in its own color. It features curv...
Category
18th Century European Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Other
$3,867 / set
Antique Pair of Carved Walnut Rococo Throne Chairs
Located in Norwood, NJ
A fine quality pair of hand carved walnut Host and Hostess throne chairs. Upholstered in a coral tone velvet. Carving with a center cabochon form cartouche surrounded by floral scrol...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Upholstery, Wood, Walnut
$4,700 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pair of Late 18th Century Swedish Rococo Chairs
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
A pair of shapely late 18th Century Swedish Rococo side chairs.
With carved top rail and serpentine seat over a generous cabriole leg, terminating in ball and claw feet.
The whole re...
Category
Late 18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Pine, Paint
$4,860 / set
Antique Set of French Tapestry Gild Carved Gold Wood Arm Chairs Chairs & Sofa
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Amazing set of two chairs and a sofa original from the 19th Century. This sofa and chairs embodies the opulent Rococo style, known for its flowing curves, ornate carvings, and asymme...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Gold Leaf
Armchair French Giltwood Rococo Style, France
Located in New York, NY
Armchair French giltwood Rococo style France. An armchair made during the 19th century in France. Frame of giltwood with beautiful carvings. Contempora...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Giltwood
Antique Venetian Baroque Carved and Painted Bench
Located in Bridgeport, CT
With a tall scrolled back and scrolled lower frame. In the Classic Venetian sage green paint with white scrolls and a large polychrome painted crest on the back. The bench platform l...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Wood
18th Century Italian Grey Painted Rococo Sofa or Settee
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Italian late 18th century grey painted Rococo sofa
Complimentary delivery to most areas of London, UK.
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Wood
Exceptional Gilded Ornate Salon Armchair
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Large and impressive. An outstanding carved and gilt Italianate Baroque style armchair with carved shell crest, Griffin arm supports, carved Eagle knees ending in Lion’s Paw Foot. Custom upholstered in a tan dot on black fabric. Ornate wood carvings...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Rococo Seating
Materials
Wood
Italian Venetian Walnut Serpentine Desk
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian (18th Century) walnut serpentine shaped desk with 2 side doors and 2 narrow front doors above a drawer with a pull out front interior chair having a left arm.
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Walnut, Upholstery
Set of Eight Italian Rococo style Carved and Painted Dining Chairs, C. 1880.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Each side chair features a shaped backrest with an open figure-eight splat above an upholstered seat, set over a shell-carved apron and elegant cabriole legs. Retaining traces of the...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Wood, Paint
Pair of Roccoco swedish chairs with lion paws feet & balustrade shaped backrest
Located in PARIS, FR
This striking pair of Swedish baroque chairs, circa 1800, embodies the elegance and grandeur of 18th-century design. With their bold lion’s paw feet and finely sculpted baluster back...
Category
18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Wood
$2,094 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Small 1940s Louis XV style bench
Located in SAN PIETRO MOSEZZO, NO
Small 1940s bench in the Louis XV style.
The bench has a lacquered and gilded wooden frame.
Fabric seat still original to be reupholstered.
The lacquering bears obvious signs of ti...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Rococo Seating
Materials
Fabric, Wood
18th Century Swedish Rococo Pair of Chairs
Located in San Angelo, TX
A stunning pair of Swedish Rococo chairs that are sturdy with nice proportions with hand carved details. This pair has been dry scraped t...
Category
18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Wood, Paint
$5,200 / set
Gold Leaf Venetian Grotto Style Shell Back Chair
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique gold leaf Venetian grotto style shell back armchair. Seat has been newly reupholstered in champagne color velvety fabric.
Arm height is 26.5"
Category
1980s Spanish Vintage Rococo Seating
Materials
Wood
$2,950 / item
Venetian Blue Leather and Wood Chair
Located in Houston, TX
18th century blue-gray painted Venetian side chairs with leather seats. Chairs have a heraldic style cross maker's mark engraved on backs of chairs. Features hand carved stretchers a...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Wood
$1,750 / item
Italian Rococo Revival Style Settee or Sofa, Black and Beige Upholstery, a Pair
Located in Plainview, NY
19th-early 20th century settees / canapes or loveseats in Rococo style having a fine Fabric. This is simply the finest pair of wonderfully covered and carved oversized settees...
Category
Early 20th Century European Rococo Seating
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Pair of Italian Early 19th Century Rococo Style Gilt Pliants or Stools
Located in Troy, NY
Pair of Italian Early 19th Century Rococo Style Gilt Pliants or Stools. The folding benches with X-form carved and gilt wood bases, fabric tops and cushions.
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Walnut
Pair of Swedish Rococo Period 18th Century Side Chairs with Carved Splats
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of Swedish Rococo period painted wood chairs from the 18th century, with carved splats, cabriole legs, H-Form cross stretchers, floral upholstery and distressed patina. Create...
Category
18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Upholstery, Wood
Walnut Fauteuil or Armchair with Contemporary Upholstery, 18th Century and Later
Located in Madrid, ES
Armchair in carved walnut wood, gilded and in its color. 18th century, with current upholstery.
Armchair with light cabriolet legs secured with H-shaped chambras, curved arms decora...
Category
18th Century European Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Other
Pair of 18th Century Swedish Rococo Period Armchairs
Located in Charleston, SC
18th Century Swedish period Rococo pair of armchairs that have been scraped to the most its original finish with the natural wood showing through.
This pair features carved cabriole...
Category
18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Leather, Wood, Paint
Armchair Rococo Swedish White Light Green, Sweden
Located in New York, NY
Armchair Rococo Swedish white light green, Sweden. A single armchair with original paint made in Sweden during the Rococo period 1750-1775. A white washe...
Category
Mid-18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Italian, Lombardia, Rococo Period Carved Walnut & Upholstered Bench, mid 18thc.
Located in Atlanta, GA
constructed of solid patinated walnut and having a serpentine shape upholstered seat atop carved front legs joined to the slightly flared rear legs by a shaped h-form stretcher
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Walnut
Pair of Danish Art Nouveau Easy Chairs in Floral Embroidered Velour, 1920s
Located in Odense, DK
A pair of Danish lounge chairs from the 1920s, featuring a sculptural wood frame and generously upholstered in velour with a bold floral pattern. The upholstery combines beige and gr...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Rococo Seating
Materials
Velvet, Wood
Pair of Late 19th Century Venetian Armchairs, Restyled with Dedar Milano Bouclé
Located in Brescia, Brescia
A refined pair of late 19th-century Venetian armchairs, finely hand-carved in solid walnut, fully restored and reinterpreted with a contemporary sensibility. The seats have been reup...
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1890s Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Metal
Antique Painted Green Venetian Chair Circa 1820
Located in Hastings, GB
A beautiful and incredibly decorative Italian early 19th century Venetian hand painted polychrome chair, re-upholstered in a neutral cotton. The chair is raised upon elegant cabriole...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Cotton, Wood
18th century Venetian Rococo Armchair
Located in Troy, NY
18th Century Venetian Rococo Armchair. A delicate armchair of typical form, with beautiful lines and proportions and delicately carved details.
Ex Metropolitan Museum of Art.
For an ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Walnut
Set of Danish Antique 18th century Lounge Chair, style of Louis XV
Located in Store Heddinge, DK
This hand-carved and decorated wooden rococo Lounge Chair from the mid-18th century embodies timeless French elegance. It has inspiration from a classic French armchair, though this ...
Category
19th Century Danish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Velvet, Walnut
18th Century French Sofa
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exceptional 18th century French sofa exemplifies the artistry and elegance of the Rococo period. Its solid walnut frame is adorned with intricate hand-carved details along the ...
Category
18th Century French Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Upholstery, Walnut
$3,950
Antique Rocking Chair Hand Carved and Turned Walnut Wood Needlepoint Upholstery
Located in Miami, FL
Rocking chair from the late 19th century, hand carved with turned wood details on 2 casters.
Sturdy and comfortable crafted frame with decorative rocking base.
Nail head trim adorn t...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Metal
Italian Rococo Revival Style Settee or Sofa with Heraldic Motif in Black & Beige
Located in Plainview, NY
19th-early 20th century settee / canape or loveseat in Rococo style having a fine Fabric. This is simply the finest find of wonderfully covered and carved oversized settee...
Category
Early 20th Century European Rococo Seating
Materials
Fabric, Wood
$1,200 Sale Price
75% Off
Fine 19th Century Italian Venetian Carved Giltwood Armchair
Located in Benington, Herts
Finely carved mid 19th century Italian giltwood open armchair of wide proportions in the Rococo manner.
Italy, Venice Circa 1860.
The asymmetrical scroll and leaf-carved top rail, centred on a stylised shell within over scrolled uprights, above a newly upholstered grey silk padded and dished seat between scroll-ended arms, raised on a decorative foliate carved scrolling X-frame base with a conforming central stylised shell.
In excellent condition having a wonderful look to the gilt work this gondola style chair...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Silk, Giltwood
18th Century Swedish Rococo Period Settee or Sofa Bench in Original Paint
Located in Wichita, KS
A richly carved, 18th century Swedish sofa bench from the Rococo period, newly upholstered linen. This beautiful settee has been hand-scraped back to...
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18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Wood, Paint
Dutch 18th Century Marquetry Settee
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This Dutch Rococo style three-seat-back settee is a wonderful addition to any interior. Crafted during the 19th century with high quality, ornate marquetry work. The top of each seat...
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18th Century Dutch Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Hardwood
Italian 18th Century Rococo Carved Walnut Sofa or Canape
Located in Berlin, DE
Italian 18th century rococo carved walnut sofa or canape
Standing on four cabriole legs with stylized foliage a carved rocaille shaped apron with a padded seat. The padded back with a carved wooden frame decorated with acanthus leaf scrolls and a cresting centered by a large rocaille.
The carving presents elegance and movement in a vivid manner with powerful rocaille carving as is characteristic of Italian Rococo furniture...
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1760s Italian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Walnut
1960s Carved And Painted Italian Bench / Ottoman In Striped Floral Chintz
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is a sweet bench! It is an Italian piece with hand painted scrolling shells and vintage striped floral chintz cotton. It is in very good vintage con...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Rococo Seating
Materials
Upholstery, Poplar, Paint
1700s Norwegian Farmer Rococo Style Pine Chair
Located in Skien, NO
Primitive antique chair from ca. 1730-50s. Handcrafted from nature pine in Norway. Painted in black and rest of the gold decoration, beautiful patina. Perfect adding to farmhouse / c...
Category
Early 18th Century Norwegian Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Textile, Pine
$960 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Antique French Rococo Style Parcel Gilt Mahogany, Tapestry Bergere Chair C1920
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique French Rococo style bergere offers parcel gilt mahogany frame with carved gadroon crest over floral tapestry back and seat, raised on cabriole legs, c1920
Measures- 36.75'...
Category
Early 20th Century French Rococo Seating
Materials
Tapestry, Mahogany
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine 18th Century Swedish Rococo Chair
Located in Bozeman, MT
Fine and unusually large 18th century Swedish Rococo period chair in its original finish with fantastic shape and proportions, circa 1760 Sweden.
Category
18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Seating
Materials
Pine
Rococo seating for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Rococo seating 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 seating created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include seating, building and garden elements, folk art and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, fabric and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Rococo seating made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and Scandinavia pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original seating, popular names associated with this style include Modenese Gastone, Poltrona Frau, Renzo Frau, and Europa Antiques. 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 seating differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $396 and tops out at $75,000 while the average work can sell for $4,700.
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