European Wingback Chairs

Gio Ponti pair of high back armchairs or lounge chairs in white or ivory bouclé with polished walnut tapering legs. These chic armchairs have the classic shape of a wingback chair, ...

Wingback armchair, alcantara, metal, Italy, 1960s This Classic Italian post-war wingback lounge chair has an unusually high back and gracious wings that contain dramatized pointed c...

Frits Henningsen high back lounge chair.

Fabulous early 1960s pair of Italian Wingback Chairs with bentwood arms in new hand sewn champagne shearling. Whether you're an experience collector or a buyer with a keen eye for st...

Great looking wingback chair in patinated leather, designed and made in Denmark.

Exceptional Pair of late Empire Period Chairs, of Comfortable Size and Flowing Movement of Form. The accentuated wings beautifully complementing th...

A museum quality, late-17th century, walnut, upholstered sleeping armchair • Exceptionally rare model; one of the first models of upholstered armchair with the addition of the wings intended to conceal draughts. • Transitional form : many of the carved features are characteristic of Baroque furniture dating from 1680 and the incorporation of upholstery is influenced by the desire for comfort post restoration of Charles II introducing French fashions to the English court. • Striking, statement piece. The cresting, “H” stretcher and scrollwork carving which features throughout the chair inject gravitas. • Practical size and ergonomic comfortable design, suitable for regular use. The original, carved, walnut cresting supported by a pair of dragons with scrollwork either side of a central stylised leaf spray. The shaped rectangular back with wings. The sweeping arms with carved scroll ends supported by tapering turned uprights emerging from blocks. The rectangular seat supported by double scroll carved and column turned legs joined by an ‘H’stretcher which mirrors the shape of the back in the centre with finial, column turned side and back stretcher and back legs. Exceptional original colour and patina. c.1690. CONDITION : re-upholstered in a recreation of 17th century, Italian, bargello embroidery which is characteristic of the period. Tiny marks, wear and losses as expected throughout the armchair. The finial is a C19 or early C20 replacement. The stretcher has suffered from worm damage and there are replaced sections at either end of 1” and 1½ “ respectively, and an area to the left of the finial has been filled. This work was not done by me and has some age to it and the finial was probably replaced at the same time. The armchair is sturdy and suitable for regular use. PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Cheyne Walk, London RELATED : Few sleeping chairs...

1970s, Danish wingback chair. Original very good condition: no smells and no stains. Green furniture wool, oak wood. Springs in the seat cushion. Manufactured by Danish furniture man...

A stunning example of Danish modern design. Produced by Bovenkamp this wing back chair has unique free floating curved arms. The upholstery is original.

A pair of Louis XV style high back lounge or wing chairs. This pair of finely carved solid wooden Lounge Chairs would make a statement in any...

A Swedish Grace period high back chair with curved sides, suggesting a wing chair. The walnut saber-form back legs splayed and the front legs square and tapered with fluting. Support...

Frits Henningsen wingback chair reupholstered in new black leather.

A early 18th century walnut French wingback armchair. This Louis XIV model is also known as Os de Mouton or 'Sheepclaw feet'. The shape of the feet were a provincial take on the gild...

1950s, Danish design. Relax chair in woven "flowers" furniture fabric. Chair was reupholstered many years ago. Original brass springs in the seat and back. Very good condition: no sm...

From Denmark's variegated matrix of traditions, there emerged a multifaceted design philosophy that became a major international influence during the 20th century. The country was mo...

The high back lounge chair ‘Marcello’ was inspired by stylish Italian design from the 1950s and is now created by English craftsman for the 21st century. We developed a lounge chair ...

Giampiero Vitelli for Rossi di Albizzate, pair of 'Minore' easy chairs, leather, plywood, wood, Italy, 1961 A truly magnificent piece that scores highly on every design aspect: exe...

A pair of Sculptural Highback Wingchairs with frames of oak. Upholstered with lightblue and sandcoloured fabric. Made and designed circa 1940-42. Design and execution attributed to ...

Stunning and rare pair of wingback armchairs featuring bold lines. Upholstered in beige leather with an unusual, intrecciato design. The chairs have bulky, rounded armrests, and high...

Wingback armchair, wood frame with an original upholstery with a red fabric. New upholstery on request possible.

Pair of French Louis XV style cane occasional/armchairs, wingbacks, France, 1960s. This finely carved pair of double cane back and cane arm chairs are indicative of the period hav...

Whether you’re curled up with a good book, streaming the latest binge-worthy TV series, or even cozying up by the fireplace- this charming vintage wingback chair packs plenty of comf...

We are delighted to offer this very nice early Victorian footstool with Gillows of Lancaster & London style turned mahogany legs A good looking and well made piece. These types of...

This very unusual looking and handsome Georgian styled English leather wing armchair features a deep buttoned back and scrolled arm rests as well...

1960s, Danish design by Fritz Hansen. Relax lounge chair, original very good condition, no smells. Light green velour. Oak wood legs, brass spring...

Wingback lounge chair by Schubell, Denmark 1950s. Beautifully sculpted frame, newly upholstered in sophisticated off-white wool fabric.

We are delighted to offer for sale this very nice early Victorian circa 1840 footstool with nice hand carved Georgian style legs A good looking and well made piece. These types o...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this "His & Her's" pair of original circa 1880 English Mahogany framed wingback library armchairs with the o...

An antique Georgian winged armchair. It has been reupholstered in muslin. It has intricately carved claw feet made from solid mahogany.

An early-18th century walnut wing armchair. Queen Anne/ George I-period, ca 1714. This fine English walnut wingback chair is raised on well-drawn carved cabriole legs. With a lovely kick on the back legs. Remarkably, after some 310 years, it still retains its original gros-point needlework upholstery in vibrant colors. Of superb proportions, color, figuring and patination. Measures: H 106 cm (42'') D 68 cm (27''). W 87.5 cm (34 1/2''). Seat H: 42.5 cm. (16 3/4''). Literature: Herbert Cescinsky 'English Furniture Of The Eighteenth Century', George Routledge & Sons (1911) vol. I, p. 81, fig. 105. ''A walnut easy chair'' dated 1710. Nb. A slightly earlier antique walnut and beech wing armchair with contemporary needlework, circa 1710, sold in Christies, Lot 164, October 2015 @ £48,350 -The Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sothebys sold a George II needlework...

Found in England, this pair of wing chairs date from the 1940s. Newly upholstered in a gray/green subtle tweedy fabric with contrasting dark cream colored welting and nailhead trim a...

Mid Century Modern vintage armchair or wingback chair from stained rattan by Lio Carminati style Gio Ponti designed circa 1948 Italy and executed 1950s. While the freestanding armchair shows a high wingback for relaxing and reading, the seat has a renewed loose cushion in blue color from textile fabric. Wether your style is traditional, art deco or mid century modern the amazing rattan lounge chair could be the star in your living room. The Italian architect Gio Ponti used this model of armchair for some of the furnishings on the ocean liner Conte Biancamano from 1948-1949. Carlo Mollino photographed...

Pair of modern high back lounge chairs with designer cream velvet. Art deco inspired frames, made in Italy. Upholstered in a beige cream designer velvet and finished in a satin hand ...

Vintage Franco Albini & Franca Helg style handwoven bamboo, wicker Peacock wingback chair. Exemplary construction, woven ties are firmly linked. An iconic design Classic made in Ital...

Lovely pair of 19th century Louis XV style wingback armchairs with later brocade upholstery. Chair frames appear to have been repainted/touched up over the years but are structurall...

A truly stunning example of English leather craftsmanship, these leather wingback armchairs have an exceptionally rare studded seating and headrest, with brass studs on the armrest. ...

English Chinese Chippendale Mahogany upholstered arm chair with removable cushion, frontal carved fret work legs, and rear carved splaye...

Chair wingback Swedish 20th century brown tufted, Sweden. A larger wingback chair made during the 20th century in Sweden. Upholstered in a brown l...

Pair of Louis XVI Style Painted Bergère Arm/Lounge Chairs, Traditional, France Traditional Bergere, Wingback or Armchairs with a cream painted finish and pink upholstered fabric. ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of vintage, William Morris flat top arm Chesterfield Bordeaux leather fully restored wingback...

just beautiful SET of Sofa & 2 Wingback Armchairs by Prof. Karl Nothelfer - Designed in 1957 maker: Schörle & Gölz in Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt solid Cherry Wood new upholstery and fabrics in 1998 according to last owner ( since then just in use for 2 years so upholstery is perfect ! ) Seatrests can be removed - and fixed by clips on belts - high class - measurements: easy chair is 70cm wide ~ sofa is 178cm wide both: seating height 40cm ~ seating depth: 57cm condition - all firm and in very good condition - no damages furniture have fully been accurately cleaned :: - 3 steps: A: air pistol - B: industrial hoover - C: latest Kärcher "wash&hoover" technology - woods have been polished several times note: please ask for shipping quote by sending us your postcode/destination Prof. Karl Nothelfer * 14 June 1900 ~~ + 20 May 1980 Since the beginning of the 15th century, the Nothelfer family of carpenters has been continuously resident in the former town of Überlingen without interruption. Every carpenter at that time mastered all the possibilities of woodworking: so did the Nothelfer. They could carpenter, even carve altars and figures, and set them in gold, silver and paint. (churches in Owingen and Hödingen]. Some family members lived and worked and worked in Hedingen or Hödingen,like today the jubilarian Karl Nothelfer (this in 1975). His father, Karl Anton Nothelfer, as the eldest of seven siblings, was able to take over his father's carpentry business in Überlingen. Karl Anton Nothelfer, the eldest of seven siblings, was unable to take over his father's carpentry business in Überlingen. He instead moved to the industrial town of Singen with his young wife Rosalie, née Hanner, from the from Hohenzollern in 1896 and moved to the former Poststraße and founded his own carpenter's workshop. He had a highsense of quality and form and was already a member of the German Werkbund before 1914. Karl Nothelfer and his three siblings grew up in such air. After attending school and the secondary school in Singen, the young Karl learned the carpenter's trade in his father's workshop then moved on to the Badische Landes-Kunstschule in Karlsruhe, where he studied architecture. At that time the well-known furniture professor also worked there Fritz Spannagel, born in Freiburg in 1891, who settled in 1938 at Ittendorf Castle near Meers- burg (died 1957). In 1928, the gifted young architect received a teaching assignment at the at the Karlsruhe School of Art, but followed his teacher Spannagel to Berlin in the same year. Berlin. Here he worked from 1928-1945 as a teacher - appointed professor in 1931 - at the Berlin Tischler-Schule, the later Bauschule für Raumgestaltung. The furniture he created in Berlin became internationally known through many exhibitions and lectures. nationally known and influential. His furniture creations ushered in a new era in German and a new era in German and European furniture design. At the world exhibition in Paris 1937 Prof. Nothelfer was awarded the Golden Medal for his work in the furniture sector. for his work in the furniture sector. A first summary and balance of his work on furniture is given in his standard work 1942 published standard work "Das Sitzmöbel", the first compendium of its kind in the world. world. In 1950 he published his second work "Furniture". Both books and a series of brochures were published by Verlag Otto Maier, Ravensburg. Karl Nothelfer continued to work intensively on the design of seating furniture in the years after 1945. In 1950 he succeeded in the important invention of the two-legged skid-base chair, which has been orthopedically - anatomically tested thousands of times - has become accepted all over the world today. Even the most distinguished American furniture companies such as Miller or Knoll-International use the skid as the main theme for desks and chairs. At the same time, N. had a groundbreaking in the redesign of German school furniture and seating for industry. industry. He succeeded in adapting his furniture forms, which originated in wood and handicraft, to the modern technical modern technical possibilities of the industry. He thus became the great refor- of schoolroom furnishings. The architect Nothelfer thinks about himself, that he made his main contribution in the field of seating furniture, although this was not was not really his profession. After the war, Prof. Nothelfer, like so many others, had to start all over again. He settled settled in his home town of Lake Constance in Hödingen in 1945 as a freelance architect and was and was involved in all areas of construction in the years after the war. As early as 1935, he had given many the example of American prefabricated buildings and recommended serial house and recommended it at a time when no one in Germany was even thinking about mass production. Now he developed he developed several types of mass-produced houses, which were manufactured in Baiersbronn. of which more than 800 houses were built in France alone (types Paris, Provence, Normandie). were built. At that time [1946], as part of the reparations in Strasbourg, there was an exhibition of houses with Swedish, Danish, and French designs. with Swedish, Danish, Finnish, English and German houses, where the French occupation for which 6 different types were sent from the French occupation zone, the Nothelfer's house type was considered the top of this exhibition. Karl Nothelfer was also involved in the development of chipboard. In 1946, together with others in Munich, he founded the first magazine "Bauen und Wohnen" ("Building and Living") after the war and remained its co-editor for many years. co-editor of this magazine for many years. By presenting his own work, he has here interpreted what the essence of the magazine wanted to be: Building, in order to live in it, in order to live as a human being and humanly in the built. Karl Nothelfer planned his houses furniture ground plan, from the need for living. In 1948 he was appointed honorary senator of the State Building school in Holzminden. Karl Nothelfer did not build much in Singen. The first post-war house was Haus Fahr on the slope of the Hohentwiel (Domäne); the building material came from a demolished log house that a French officer had built for himself on the Schie- nerberg. nerberg. In 1952, he also built the administration building of the aluminum rolling mill in Singen. rolling mills in Singen, with relief and wall painting by C. G. Becker. In Überlingen he built In Überlingen he built, among others, the Buchinger Sanatorium, the Riese+ Hähnel radio house and various reconstructions in the old town: Haus Kitt with the Glockenspiel, the Haus mit dem Bacchus in the Überlingen village, the Dolphin Fountain in Hödingen (1975). Probably the most beautiful Haus Nothelfers, the Haus Himmelheber, stands in Baiersbronn-Tonbach. On the airfield Mengen, Nothhelfer built the casino building with the 30 square meter faience painting Ikarus by C. G. Becker. In 1954 he founded a second office with architect Hans Schwingen in Düsseldorf. Office, which primarily fertilized the housing construction, true to the motto:from the inside to planning from the outside. The Minister of Housing awarded a prize to the best social housing in North Rhine- Westphalia; it was from the Nothelfer+Schwingen studio in Düsseldorf. Also the idea of new idea of home ownership was also promoted by Nothelfer+Schwingen. promoted by Nothelfer+Schwingen. On the occasion of the red jubilee of the law about condominium ownership Nothelfer gave a lecture in Essen in 1961 on condominium ownership in Europe (published as a brochure). published as a brochure]. From Düsseldorf, among many others, in the silk city...

Wimbledon-Furniture Wimbledon-Furniture is delighted to offer for sale this stunning exceptionally rare original Victorian Howard & Son’s Berners street fully restored wingback...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning early 19th century English extra large, Wingback Windsor armchair in ash. I have seen thousands on Windsor armchairs in my time, t...

We are delighted to this stunning original Baker Furniture Oxblood leather porters barrel back armchair A very good looking decorative and comfortable armchair, the leather is sof...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of fully restored original edition 2007 Tom Dixon George Smith wingback armchairs RRP £16,000 Inspired by the traditional 17t...

A very fine Edwardian wingback armchair. This fabulous piece is of exceptional quality with a beautifully shaped wing back raised over outscrolling arms and is newly upholstered thr...

Large monumental midcentury wingback armchairs in re-upholstered bouclé fabric, France 1950s. These armchairs would be an eye-catching addition to any interior, such as a living room...

Create your own world in your safe space that is the Hana Armchair. Let the softness of the folds lure you in and when you step into that abundance of soft fabric, you’re stepping in...

Model 'Slotsholm' wing-back chair with matching stool in new lambswool with legs in beech. The chair was originally designed for the Danish Parlament, Christiansborg, in Copenhagen.

These mid-century modern Italian high-back chairs are exquisite examples of the timeless elegance that defines the era’s design in Italy. Crafted during the peak of the movement, the...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning, fully restored, hand dyed, very rare George II circa 1760 Wingback armchair Please note the ...

Beautiful pair of bergere chairs with Napoleonic bee upholstery and beautiful French carved frame with nailhead trim.

Wingback lounge chair designed by Ib Kofod-Larsen in 1954. The chair is reclinable and it can be adjusted in three positions, as seen in the pictures. The chairs have been reupholste...

1960s, Danish wingback armchair in original very good condition: no smells and no stains. Cherry-red furniture velour, oak wood legs. Springs in the seat. Manufactured by Danish furn...

Wingback chair by Theo Ruth for Artifort, 1950s Netherlands. Theo Ruth (1915- 1971) was one of the pioneer designers of Artifort. This classic model is reupholstered in a fine white ...

Throughout Scandinavia, there's a long history of pride in craftsmanship using natural materials like wood. This beautiful wingback chair is a great representation of the quality and...

Very nice and cosy lounge chair model 122 designed by Theo Ruth and manufactured by Artifort, Holland 1956. The chair has black painted cast iron legs and is newly upholstered with p...

This beautiful wingback armchair is made of sheepskin and has a warm appearance due to its lovely colors. It can be easily placed in both classic and modern interiors and is very com...