Evoking rusticity and relaxation through simple and elegant designs, vintage Adirondack furniture originated in the Adirondack Mountains of northeastern New York. The most famous piece is the Adirondack chair, which dates to 1903.
With its ample armrests and sturdy but comfortable slanted seat, the reclined Adirondack chair was designed by Thomas Lee for his own country home. The postwar golden age of modern patio and garden furniture production — led by the likes of Brown Jordan, Knoll, Salterini and Woodard — was decades away at the time, and there were few pieces of furniture specifically created for outdoor use.
Lee, a Massachusetts-born Harvard graduate raised in a wealthy family, was no furniture designer. He merely needed a durable, rugged chair for afternoons in the sun while he was vacationing on Lake Champlain in Westport, New York, in the summer. The amateur woodworker used just one wooden plank cut into 11 segments that were jointed together for his now-legendary seat, which is said to have been made of hemlock, hickory or basswood.
The story of the Adirondack chair continues with Lee’s friend, carpenter Harry Bunnell, covertly patenting the chair and going on to produce it as the Westport Plank chair for a growing audience over the next two decades. Over a century later, the Adirondack chair has gone through several design evolutions while maintaining its popularity and basic form with slats of wood such as pine offering comfort both indoors and out.
The widespread demand for rustic Adirondack outdoor furniture was bolstered by the turn-of-the-century establishment of rural escapes to treat diseases such as tuberculosis. The low-slung Adirondack chair became common in these places of convalescence, allowing patients to recline and breathe in the country air. It also complemented the camp-style architecture that was prevalent in the Adirondacks for recreation as well as restoration, where rugged furniture with exposed wood and minimal carving filled interiors and wide porches.
Today, Adirondack chairs are made in a range of materials and can be found around the world, from ski resorts to lakeside piers, their durability and classic form making them an enduring favorite for spending time in nature.
Find vintage Adirondack chairs, benches, lounge chairs, decorative objects, folk art and other furniture on 1stDibs.
9 Botanical Prints, Lowe's Ferns: British & Exotic, Priced per engraving.
Located in Buchanan, MI
This lot contains nine botanical prints, originally from various volumes of Edward Joseph Lowe's Ferns: British and Exotic. Paperwork/Provenance: N/A Condition: Four show signs of mi...
Birdseye Maple
$1,820Sale Price|20% Off
Melrose Collection Guy Chaddock & Co. Plate Rack
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This amazing pine plate shelf / rack from Melrose Pine Antique store label on top of shelf. It is a repro of a 18thc hanging wall plate rack. It is in amazing condition and very str...
Wood
$6,800Sale Price|20% Off
Monumental Texas Longhorn Mounted Bull
By Bud Jones Taxidermy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This was found on a Ranch in Texas and is signed Bud Jones Taxidermy from Texas and dated 1969. The condition is very good.
Cowhide
Early 20th Century Handmade Folky Carved Menu Board Adirondack
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fantastic hand carved and painted folk art menu board from the forties. Classic in all senses, the style and colors, condition is very good with little to no wear. From an upstate Ne...
Hardwood, Paint
$695 / set
Swedish Waterfowl Prints, circa 1929
Located in Hollywood, FL
This is a set of four framed Swedish waterfowl prints, there dated 1929. Printed by Finpappersbrukens Forsalfnings AB. in Stockholm, Sweden.
Paper
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Early 20th C Oil Painting Of Chrysanthemums
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful Early 20th C oil painting of Chrysanthemums. Nicely Framed in an Arts & Crafts Lemon gold wood frame.
Canvas, Paint, Wood
$1,516Sale Price|20% Off
19th C Early Still Life Oil Painting in Original Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This Fine 19th c still life painting is in the original gilded frame. This Folk Art painting is in great as found condition.
Velvet, Wood, Paint
$1,516Sale Price|20% Off
Folky Pig Painting on Board
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fun folky pig painting is painted on a plywood panel. The back is unpainted and ready for hanging in a house or restaurant. This amazing folk art pai...
Wood
John Neale (British, B. 20th Century) Signed Oil On Board, Summer Landscape
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Oil on board depicting a summer landscape with a leafy tree in the center, a figure fishing in the lower right, blue rolling hills in the distance and set against a cornflower blue c...
Wood
$695 / set
Swedish Waterfowl Prints, circa 1929
Located in Hollywood, FL
This is a set of four framed Swedish waterfowl prints, there dated 1929. Printed by Finpappersbrukens Forsalfnings AB. in Stockholm, Sweden.
Paper
$396Sale Price|20% Off
20Thc Amazing Shaker Style Spice Wall Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This hanging wall spice box is made so well with small wood pulls and old pin nailed construction.This fine American made spice box has such great cut outs & someone made plastic lin...
Wood
$716Sale Price|20% Off
19th C Signed Framed Horse Litho
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th C signed Framed Horse Litho By Olso.
Paper
Zabihi Collection Scenic Pictorial Turkish Kilim
Located in New York, NY
A 20th-century Turkish Kilim with a scenery kilim Details rug no. j3692 size 3' 3" x 4' 5" (99 x 135 cm)
Wool
Adirondack Deer Hoof Hat/Coat Wall Rack Cabin Rustic Man Cave
Located in Clifton Forge, VA
This is a great double wall hook with three inlaid diamond as inconspicuous adornment for a man cave, a cabin or other rustic, country or simply decorated environment. It would be gr...
Wood
$1,320Sale Price|20% Off
Signed C. Macourlard Watercolor of Southern California
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This wonderful watercolor is a scene of people riding horses by the water. It is signed C. Macourlard and marked Southern California. The condition is pristine and they are newly fra...
Glass, Wood
Saffron Yellow Mid 20th Century Turkish Rug
Located in New York, NY
A mid-20th century Turkish rug with an all-over repetitive floral motif in green and brown on saffron field Measures: 4'3'' x 7'5''.
Wool
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Mother and Colt Horse Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mother and Colt Horse painting. Signed and dated 1971.
Canvas, Paint
$2,640Sale Price|20% Off
Large American Micromosaic Alaskan Landscape, Features Moose
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Large American Micromosaic Alaskan landscape, Features Moose This large scale micromosaic panel is executed with impressive precision. It features a moose in a typical Alaskan lands...
Marble
Large Trophy Quality Mounted Moose Antlers 'Nova Scotia'
Located in Bellport, NY
Pair of large Trophy quality Moose Antlers mounted on premium tanned buck hide and custom wood plaque. Origin, Nova Scotia (Private Collection 1/6)...
Antler
Zabihi Collection Pictorial Turkish Kilim
Located in New York, NY
a late 20th-century mini square Turkish kilim Details rug no. j3830 size 2' 5" x 2' 6" (74 x 76 cm)
Wool
Impressionist American School Oil on Canvas Landscape Barn Painting Signed
Located in Sarasota, FL
Original oil painting, signed in tiny script that has not been deciphered. Oil on canvas of what appears to be a crab shack or barn.
Paint
William Alexander Drake (Am., 1891-1979) Oil On Masonite, Church Bells At Dawn
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Unsigned, from the estate of the artist. A luminous view of a church steeple with bells against a golden and rose tone sky as dawn breaks. The gray sky is gradually iightening with b...
Wood, Masonite
Sepia Photography of a C1930 New Jersey Hunt Scene wearing Flight Caps
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Early thirties photo op of a pair of successful New Jersey Hunters. Sepia style and the only photo that exists of this particular shot. Framed under glass.
Glass, Hardwood, Paper
$30,000 / item
The Triumphant by Connie K. Bellet and Emilie Touraine
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Oil on board; 48" x 96". Used in the Entry Pavillion of 1974 World's Fair in Spokane, Washington. Depicts a herd of buffalo and buffalo clouds. Wood and rope frame. Subjects for Emilie's work include horses, burros, owls, old farm buildings, ranch gates...
Canvas, Paint
19th Century Oil on Board of Railroad Locamotive of Large Scale, Great Old Color
Located in Buchanan, MI
19th Century oil on board of railroad locamotive of large scale. Great old color and patina. Would make a great addition to any boat collection.
Oak
19th Century English Mahogany Schooner Ship Model, Great Attention To Detail
Located in Buchanan, MI
19th Century English Mahogany Schooner Ship Model, Great Attention To Detail. This came out of a very important collection.
Mahogany
$1,470Sale Price|34% Off
Poster from Atelier Fornasetti, 1990s
Located in Montelabbate, PU
Fornasetti panel, printed silk enclosed between 2 Plexiglas panels, Compagnia del Tabacco 1990. Below left the Fornasetti brand and Tobacco Company.
Silk, Acrylic
Edward Mack Hawkins, "The Widow's Mite" Oil on Canvas, WWI
Located in Newfoundland, PA
The painting is quaint, as written on the back Edward Mack Hawkins the artist was motoring from NYC to Upstate during the World War, Near Windset on a country road he saw this meager...
Canvas
$288Sale Price|36% Off
H 28 in W 22 in D 1 in
Original Vintage Custom Botanical Fern Prints with Makers Stamp
Located in Essex, MA
Filix Mas Filix Foemina " Athyrium filix-femina, the lady fern or common lady-fern, is a large, feathery species of fern native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphe...
Paper
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted Botanical Print "Iris"
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant hand-watercoloured print representing "Iris". This botanical style print is available in 6 different natural representations to create a bright and joyful composition. In se...
Paper
$229 / item
H 22.05 in W 14.97 in D 0.12 in
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted Botanical Print "Magnolia"
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant hand-watercoloured print representing "Magnolia". This botanical style print is available in 6 different natural representations to create a bright and joyful composition. I...
Paper
$3,800
H 29.14 in W 31.89 in D 7.21 in
Gustavian, 18th Century Plate Rack with Original Rosemåling Painting
Located in New York, NY
Gustavian Swedish 18th century plate rack with original gorgeous rosemåling painting, circa 1800, origin: Northern Sweden.
Wood
$880Sale Price|20% Off
H 7 in W 24.75 in D 2 in
Primitive Rustic Handmade Wood Spice Rack with Glass Bottles, Wall Mount
Located in Chicago, IL
Charming handmade pine spice rack with 12 excellent tall, thin glass jars. Excellent proportions with hardware affixed to hang on the wall. Fabulous for its intended use as as storage for hardware, beads or other craft supplies...
Glass, Cork, Pine
Original Vintage Custom Botanical Fern Prints with Makers Stamp
Located in Essex, MA
Andr. Matthioli Comm. Trichomanes Fern print Trichomanes is a genus of ferns in the family Hymenophyllaceae, termed bristle ferns. Gold frame with iv...
Paper
Early 19th Century Oil Portrait of a Handsome Young Man
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 19th century oil portrait of a handsome young man An original painting of a young man wearing his best suit of clothes. Original oil on ...
Canvas
Original Vintage Custom Botanical Fern Prints with Makers Stamp
Located in Essex, MA
Andr. Matthioli Comm. Polypodium Alterum Fern print In gold frame with ivory mat Measures 22 W x 28 H x 1 D.
Paper
$2,300
H 37.5 in W 33.5 in D 11 in
Antique English Plate Rack Wall Shelf Hanging Wall Decor Carved Oak 19th C
Located in Tyler, TX
CHARMING Antique English Oak Hanging Wall Shelf Plate Rack~~19th Century The perfect decorative accent piece for displaying your favorite Imari, Majolica, Staffordshire or other an...
Oak
Black and White Speckled Longhorn Cowhide
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Black and white speckled longhorn cowhide. Great for floor, bed, couch, or wall accent in a southwestern style home or cabin. Overall white and cream color with central black speckli...
Cowhide
$2,765
H 21.26 in W 67.72 in D 9.85 in
Antique , Italian , Kitchen Shelf Plate and Pot Rack, Walnut, dresser 3 Drawers
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Early 20th century Art Nouveau Italian big particular shelf with three drawers. plate and pot racks in dark walnut. Restored and wax finished. Decorative and useful element for your ...
Walnut
$563 / set
H 9.85 in W 6.11 in D 0.01 in
Antique Botanical Fern Prints, Polypodium Studies Decorative Set Lowe 1856
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique Victorian Fern Botanical Prints Set, Polypodium Decorative Wall Art 1856 A refined and highly decorative set of eight Victorian botanical fern prints depicting species withi...
Paper
19thc Victorian Oil Painting of Girl With Gold Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19thc Victorian Oil Painting of Girl With Gold Frame, glass front gold frame. Wonderful life like looking painting of a beautiful Girl. Wonderful shadowing and color.
Canvas, Wood
Melrose Collection Guy Chaddock & Co. Plate Rack
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This amazing pine plate shelf / rack from Melrose Pine Antique store label on top of shelf.It is a repo of a 18thc hanging wall plate rack.It is in amazing condition and very strong...
Wood
Sold
H 30.5 in W 38.5 in D 2 in
Early 20th Century Cowboy Roping Wild Horses Scene Janos Viski Hungarian Artist
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fantastic illustration of an Argentine cowboy roping a wild horse. Janos Viski, Hungarian who painted these illustrations using oils on canvas. Was prolifi...
Canvas, Hardwood, Paint
Pair of Fish Prints by S.F. Denton
By Sherman Foote Denton
Located in Doylestown, PA
A pair of original lithographs of lake fish by Sherman Foote Denton, circa 1895-1900. Matted and framed under glass. Each is signed Denton in the pl...
Paper
Set of 4 Fish Prints by S.F. Denton
By Sherman Foote Denton
Located in Doylestown, PA
A set of 4 original lithographs of lake fish by Sherman Foote Denton, circa 1895-1900. Matted and framed under glass. Each is signed Denton in the p...
Paper
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H 32 in W 35.75 in D 2 in
William Alexander Drake (Am., 1891-1979) Oil Mt. Loki, Baffin Island In Snow
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Signed lower right. Painted from a photograph by the mountaineer- part of the Mt. Loki ridge with rough rust tone peaks, partially covered with snow. The sun illuminates them from the right, with the backs in the shade. Other ice capped peaks are in the distance. William Alexander Drake (Am., 1891-1979) Oil On Canvas On Masonite, Mt. Loki, Baffin Island...
Canvas, Masonite
Sold
H 41.75 in W 33.5 in D 2 in
William Alexander Drake (Am., 1891-1979) Oil On Masonite, Magnolia Tree In Bloom
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Unsigned, from the estate of the artist. A large painting of a magnolia tree blooming in the spring with its gorgeous pink and white cupped flow...
Wood, Masonite
Sold
H 45 in W 53.25 in D 0.75 in
“Bear Heaven” By Shawn-Lewis Halperin (American Contemporary, 21st Century)
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A large, whimsical and dynamic mixed media artwork by Lake Placid, New York Multidisciplinary Artist Shawn Lewis-Halpern depicting three dancing bears beneath two flanking birch tree...
Other
"The Mountain Valley" by Wesley Webber
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Oil on canvas, signed in the lower left. Presented in a magnificent period and most likely original frame depicting a mountain valley. Could be New Hampshire or the Hudson Valley. ...
Paint
19th Century Original Pine Wall Spice Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century Hanging wall spice box with handmade drawers and tiny drawer pulls and in fine condition.This spice box has a nice mello patina.
Wood
19thc Original Oil Painting in Original Gilded Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 19thc oil painting on art board is signed & dated 1878 in the original lemon gold wood frame. The condition is very good as seen in the photos. It is s...
Canvas, Wood
Pastel Water Color of Horse Heads Signed Elliston
By Elliston & Cavell
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This signed Elliston water color or pastel horse heads in original hand crafted frame.This is a listed artist from California.
Wood