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Pair of 19th C. Italian Grotto Carved Giltwood Putti Shell Wall Brackets
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of 19th Century Italian Grotto Carved Giltwood Putti & Shell Wall Brackets Italy, Circa 1850s
Category

Antique 19th Century Wall Brackets

Materials

Giltwood

Abalone Shell Grotto Style Specimen Multi Color Coffee Table Decor
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Abalone shell in great condition. Great for use in the following ways: - Vessel to display salt in the kitchen - On a bar cart filled with cocktail accessories such as lemons, lime...
Category

Vintage 1950s American American Classical Decorative Bowls

Materials

Shell

Late 19th c. Venetian Polychrome and Gilded Shell Top Grotto Chair
By Pauly et Cie
Located in San Francisco, CA
Naturalistically carved, the back decorated with a shell, lifting to reveal a tufted cushion back and seat. The pedestal base is shaped into rock formations, polychrome decorated. T...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Side Chairs

Materials

Gold Leaf

Sublime Set of 6 Vintage Italian Walnut Grotto Shell Back Dining Chairs
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Sublime newly restored rich carved walnut shell back Grotto chairs newly upholstered in an elegant
Category

Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Upholstery, Walnut

Vintage Hollywood Regency Venetian Grotto Shell Back Dining Chairs - Set of 4
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Hollywood Regency Venetian Grotto Shell Back Dining Chairs - Set of 4. Set includes (4
Category

Late 20th Century Hollywood Regency Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Wood

Vintage Italian Carved Wood Grotto Chair Clam Sea Shell and Full Dolphin Arms
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Italian carved wood grotto chair clam sea shell and full dolphin arms. Item features hand
Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Regency Armchairs

Materials

Wood

Six Tropitone Fan Shell Back Grotto Chairs Patio Sunroom Cast Aluminium Set
By Tropitone
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Set of six vintage fan or shell back Grotto style dining chairs by Tropitone. Item features fan or
Category

Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Aluminum

18th Century Italian Carved and Painted Grotto Settee with Silk Cushion Pillow
Located in Dallas, TX
The heavily carved antique bench was crafted in Northern Italy, circa 1780. Standing on six tree-form legs, the bench features rich carving throughout, including cherub head figures ...
Category

Antique Late 18th Century Italian Rococo Chairs

Materials

Silk, Wood, Paint

Regency Style Italian Mirrored and Gilt Cast Shell Grotto Form Console Table
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is a Hollywood Regency Era mirrored console table. The top is intentionally distressed mirror. The gilt shell is plaster. The back of the shell is painted to look more like a na...
Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Console Tables

Materials

Mirror, Plaster, Poplar

Six Dining Chairs 1910 Art Nouveau Art Deco Rare Find Hollywood Grotto
Located in Labrit, Landes
Six dining chairs, circa 1910 Art Nouveau Art Deco Italian inspiration from antique grotto chairs
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Wood, Leather

Venetian Grotto Hollywood Regency Scalloped Shell Back Dining Chairs - Set of 6
Located in Franklin Park, IL
Venetian Grotto Hollywood Regency Style Scalloped Shell Back Dining Chairs - Set of 6 Each armless
Category

Early 20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Upholstery, Wood

Italian Carved Wood Cherub Grotto Figural Bird Bath/Planter Garden Sculpture
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Beautiful large Italian carved wooden bird bath or garden planter of a cherub/child holding a sea shell with a shell base. Nice patina on the copper plate insert on the top holding s...
Category

Vintage 1920s Italian Garden Ornaments

Materials

Copper

Dining Table circa 1910 Art Nouveau Art Deco, Rare Find Hollywood Italian Grotto
Located in Labrit, Landes
edge Carved dark walnut legs Extending dining table Italian inspiration from antique grotto shell
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Dining Room Tables

Materials

Walnut

Vintage Brown Jorden Grotto Shell Back Palm Beach Regency Patio Chairs Set of 8
By Brown Jordan
Located in Bradenton, FL
A set of 8 amazing vintage shell back grotto style patio chairs by Brown Jorden. The chairs have
Category

Mid-20th Century Hollywood Regency Chairs

Materials

Aluminum

Six Brown Jordan Grotto Side Dining Outdoor Patio Chairs Shell Back Palm Beach
By Brown Jordan
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Just in time for those summer parties! Set of six Vintage Hollywood Regency brown Jordan Grotto
Category

20th Century American Hollywood Regency Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Aluminum

Set of 4 Black Venetian Grotto Style Scalloped Wood Shell Back Dining Chairs 70s
By Andre Groult
Located in St. Louis, MO
Set of 4 Grotto style scalloped wood shell back dining side chairs in lacquered in black. Each
Category

Vintage 1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Upholstery, Foam, Walnut

Set of 10 Hollywood Regency Aluminum Shell Back Grotto Patio Chairs by Tropitone
By Brown Jordan, Tropitone
Located in St. Louis, MO
1970s Hollywood Regency set of 10 Grotto style cast aluminum side chairs with shell form backs
Category

Vintage 1970s American Hollywood Regency Patio and Garden Furniture

Materials

Aluminum

19th C. Decorative Continental Grotto Style Gilt Bronze 3 Arm Candelabra, Pair
Located in Morristown, NJ
Late 19th c., a distinctly decorative pair of gilded bronze three-arm candelabras in the Art Nouveau style. A columnar base with classical nautical themed relief and dolphin support ...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Candelabras

Materials

Bronze

Italian Grotto Style Shield Scallop Shell Back Cerused Wood Chairs, Set of 4
Located in Jensen Beach, FL
Charming set of 4 chairs handmade in Italy.
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Leather, Wood

Maitland-Smith Large Grotto Style Mirrored and Brass Shell Form Sconces, a Pair
By Maitland Smith
Located in Kennesaw, GA
These are Maitland -Smith large scale mirrored and brass shell form sconces with Regency Era styling. They are marked and in very good condition.
Category

Late 20th Century Philippine Regency Wall Lights and Sconces

Materials

Brass

Vitrine Cabinet Art Nouveau Art Deco Sideboard Rare Find Hollywood Italian
Located in Labrit, Landes
door Figured burr walnut Scalloped edges With key Italian inspiration from antique grotto shell
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Vitrines

Materials

Walnut

Credenza Sideboard Art Nouveau Art Deco Buffet Rare Find Hollywood Italian
Located in Labrit, Landes
. Figured burr walnut. Scalloped edges. Carved dark walnut With key Italian inspiration from antique grotto
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Sideboards

Materials

Walnut

Venetian Grotto Chair
By Pauly Co.
Located in New York, NY
The so-called grotto chair, made from clusters of shell-form elements, was introduced in the 1880s
Category

Early 20th Century Italian Arts and Crafts Armchairs

Materials

Wood

Rustic Bird Grotto
Located in Katonah, NY
bois tree branches, embellished with rocks and shells to resemble a grotto, beneath a round pitched
Category

Vintage 1930s French Garden Ornaments

"Blue Grotto" A Modernist Tapestry
Located in New York, NY
Hand-loomed West German tapestry on stretcher, titled "Bl. Grotte" (Blue Grotto). Produced by
Category

Vintage 1950s German Tapestries

Venician Grotto Furniture Suite
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Quite a rare and wonderful find! This fantastic pair of armchairs and center table make a strong statement of glamorous opulence. All pieces are hand carved and leafed, and are stron...
Category

Early 20th Century Italian Armchairs

Handcarved Cypress Grotto Table
Located in Southfield, MI
Beautifully hand carved three tiered handcarved cypress wood table made to resemble rustic/grotto
Category

Vintage 1930s American End Tables

Carved "Grotto" Style Stand
Located in Woodbury, CT
A Fantastic Piece of Italian Grotto Furniture, Elaborately Carved with a Shell Top, Seahorse
Category

Antique 19th Century Italian Side Tables

Materials

Wood

19th Century Italian "Fantasy" Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
of iconic "grotto" furniture. Measures: Top 16" x 16".
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Italian End Tables

Materials

Wood

19th Century Venetian Grotto Shell Chair, Silver Gilt, Pauly et Cie, Italian
By Pauly et Cie
Located in Totnes, GB
custodian and we ask that it is cared for and cherished. ‘Grotto’ furniture was popular with European
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Chairs

Materials

Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf

Pair of Shell Consoles
By Grosfeld House
Located in San Francisco, CA
Grotto furniture that has been used by aristocrats for at least 500 years. This table dates to about
Category

Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Console Tables

Antique Venetian Italian Grotto Piano Stool Carved Gold Gilt Shell Rocaille Seat
Located in Atlanta, GA
. You may be asking "Where did the name Grotto Furniture' originate?". Funny thing is, I was asking
Category

Early 20th Century Italian Rococo Stools

Materials

Wood, Giltwood

Carved Walnut Bird Chair
Located in New York, NY
tradition of Venetian grotto furniture. Finely detailed including a fern and a snail on the rockwork base
Category

Antique 19th Century Italian Chairs

Faux Stone Console
Located in San Francisco, CA
. The design finds in origin in grotto furniture of the 17th and 18th century. Serge Roche and his
Category

Vintage 1970s American Console Tables

Materials

Cast Stone

Beautiful Cast Iron Console
Located in Los Angeles, CA
excellent condition as is the iron work. The design of the console echos grotto furniture, with acanthus
Category

20th Century Console Tables

German "Fantasy Furniture" Grotto Table
Located in Natchez, MS
German "Fantasy Furniture" Grotto Table with shell top and sea monster climbing up the coral trunk
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier German Tables

Pair of Vintage Monumental Archimede Seguso Murano Gilt Glass Shell Wall Sconces
By Archimede Seguso
Located in Atlanta, GA
as they are hand made. The shell form is reminiscent of the designs of Grotto furniture. There is a
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Wall Lights and Sconces

Materials

Metal

Grotto Mirror
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very charming and decorative continential carved and painted wooden Grotto mirror.
Category

Vintage 1940s Wall Mirrors

Materials

Wood, Paint

Grotto Table
Located in New York, NY
A silver leaf carved grotto table, round with a drapery form apron, round pedestal base,Continental
Category

Antique 19th Century Pedestals

Materials

Wood

Grotto Chair
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Wonderful grotto chair in the form of a shell- made of fiberglass. Made to look like stone --the
Category

Late 20th Century Unknown Chairs

Materials

Fiberglass

Grotto Chair
Located in High Point, NC
Venetian Carved Wooden Chair in Form of Seashell and Sea Creators
Category

Antique 19th Century Italian Chairs

Grotto Armchair
Located in Long Island City, NY
The scallop shell seat and back with stylized dolpin arms and stylized seahorse legs.
Category

Antique 19th Century Italian Armchairs

Materials

Walnut

Grotto Chairs
Located in Llandudno, Conwy
A pair of composition stone garden chairs in the rustic manner. Steel armature covered in rusticated concrete, well weathered, minor damage. French 1950s. Price is for th...
Category

Mid-20th Century French Chairs

Venician Grotto Table
Located in North Hollywood, CA
my grotto chairs shown on our website.
Category

Early 20th Century Italian Tables

Materials

Wood

Silvered Grotto Stool
Located in San Francisco, CA
A compelling Italian grotto stool in silver.
Category

20th Century Italian Rococo Stools

Materials

Wood

Seahorse Grotto Chair
Located in High Point, NC
Carved wood Grotto Chair with silver leafed Scallop Shell seat and back with Seahorse and Sea
Category

Antique 19th Century Italian Armchairs

Materials

Paint

Italian Grotto Table
Located in Natchez, MS
Early 19th c Italian Walnut "grotto" table with rocaille decoration of shells and a sea monster
Category

Antique 19th Century Italian End Tables

Materials

Walnut

Venetian Grotto Mirror
Located in Tacoma, WA
A large oval 18th century Venetian giltwood grotto mirror surrounded with figures of Pan. The base
Category

Antique 19th Century Italian Wall Mirrors

Materials

Giltwood, Paint

Venetian Grotto Chair
Located in San Francisco, CA
Venetian hand carved seashell seat and back, with arms in the form of grotto dolphins raised on
Category

Antique 19th Century Chairs

Grotto Console Table
Located in High Point, NC
Grotto Style Realistic Carved and Painted Wooden Console Table Depicting Windsweep Cypress Trees in
Category

Vintage 1970s Italian Console Tables

Materials

Marble, Metal

Italian Grotto Stool
Located in Montecito, CA
This painted and gilt wood grotto stool rests on three paw feet. The uprights and apron beneath the
Category

Early 20th Century Italian Stools

Materials

Wood

Venetian Grotto Table
Located in Cologne, DE
Venetian Grotto table, 19 century, wood, carved, silver and gold in very beautiful condition
Category

Antique 19th Century Italian Dining Room Tables

Materials

Wood

Rustic Grotto Stand
Located in London, GB
1920's Burr Elm Grotto display stand with weathered hardwood trunk.
Category

Early 20th Century British Sculptures

Materials

Hardwood

Chinioserie "Grotto" Table
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very elegant carved and painted wooden table done in the Chinese style as a bundle of Lotus leaves and blossoms. An old label on the base identifies this piece as German.
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier German Tables

Materials

Wood, Paint

Grotto Giltwood Stand
Located in San Francisco, CA
The giltwood shell-form dish held aloft by a branch-form tripod base mounted with oak branches and seated putto holding a dove.
Category

Antique 19th Century Italian Decorative Objects

Materials

Wood, Paint, Gesso

Venician Grotto Suite
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Quite a rare and wonderful find! This lovely set is a strong statement of glamorous opulence, and in very fine condition. All pieces are hand carved and silver leafed, with various t...
Category

Early 20th Century Italian Armchairs

SALE: Grotto Mirror
Located in Atlanta, GA
SALE $1,450 (50%) / ORIGINAL $2,900 + A modern rococo fantasy mirror + Three dimensional relief depicts a Greco-Roman mythological scene + Poseidon / Neptune sits atop the circula...
Category

Vintage 1960s American Sunburst Mirrors

Materials

Resin, Mirror

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Grotto Furniture For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the piece of grotto furniture you’re looking for. Was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, metal and fabric. There are 254 variations of the antique or vintage item from our selection of grotto furniture you’re looking for, while we also have 6 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. There are many kinds of the choice in our collection of grotto furniture you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. An object in our assortment of grotto furniture made by Hollywood Regency designers — as well as those associated with Rococo — is very popular. Many designers have produced at least one well-made option in this array of grotto furniture over the years, but those crafted by Brown Jordan, Pauly et Cie and Tropitone are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a Grotto Furniture?

Prices for a piece of grotto furniture start at $100 and top out at $68,000 with the average selling for $4,255.