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Pair of Arthur Umanoff Chairs
By Arthur Umanoff
Located in South Charleston, WV
Price is for the set of 2. Modernist chairs, Shaver Howard production. Set of 2 chairs. Beautiful lines of iron and wood slats with fiber rush woven backs. In exceptional condition s...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Iron
$1,799 / set
Single Swivel Chair by Arthur Umanoff
By Arthur Umanoff
Located in South Charleston, WV
Modernist chair, Shaver Howard production. Beautiful lines of iron and wood slats with fiber rush woven back. In exceptional condition still with original feet on each leg. Ideal of ...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Iron
Vintage Iron and Rush Modernist Armchair
Located in Round Rock, TX
A wonderful vintage modernist armchair. A solid iron frame with woven rush seat and backrest with solid wood armrests.
Completely untouched and has a wonderful patina.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Materials
Iron
Mediterranean Spanish Revival Pair Ceruse Chairs Rush Seats Blue Loose Cushions
By American of Martinsville
Located in Topeka, KS
Awesome and unusual pair of Mediterranean or Spanish Revival style chairs with rush seats and loose ice blue velvet cushions attributed to American of Martinsville. Beautiful conditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Other Chairs
Materials
Velvet, Rush, Wood
American Sheraton Period Pair of Painted Armchairs Rush Seated Bamboo Turned
Located in Wells, ME
American Sheraton period pair of painted armchairs. These quintessential American chairs have original ballooned rush seats, bamboo turnings, double box stretchers, turned and bowed ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century American Sheraton Armchairs
Materials
Rush, Hardwood
2 Reproduction French Louis XVI Style Bar Stool with Rush Seat and High Back
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Reproduction French Louis XVI style hand carved, hand painted bar stool with rush seat and high back.
Category
2010s American Louis XVI Stools
Materials
Rush, Wood
Reproduction French Louis XVI Style Bar Stool with Rush Seat and No Back
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Reproduction French Louis XVI style bar stool with rush seat and no back.
Category
2010s American Louis XVI Stools
Materials
Rush, Wood
Reproduction Louis XVI Dining-Chair with Large Rush Seat Made to Order
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Reproduction Louis XVI dining-chair with large rush seat made to order.
Category
2010s American Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Rush, Wood
Arthur Umanoff Wood and Rush Captain
s Chair
By Arthur Umanoff
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sculptural Arthur Umanoff chair with signature rush back, slatted wood seat, and iron legs. Metal frame in a vintage adobe finish. Rare design. Floating seat. Good vintage condition....
Category
Vintage 1950s American Chairs
Materials
Iron
Pair of Vintage Mid-Century Bar Stools
By Arthur Umanoff
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An excellent pair of Mid-Century Modern bar stools in the style of Arthur Umanoff that feature sturdy hand-crafted iron frames. This fabulous pair of barstools are in great condition...
Category
Vintage 1970s American Organic Modern Stools
Materials
Iron
Pair of American Rustic Rush Chairs
Located in New York, NY
Pair of American rustic rush chairs. American antique country rush chairs with ladder backs and ball hand rests. These chairs have a seat height of 16 inches at 23 wide and 19 deep o...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Rustic Chairs
Materials
Rush, Wood
Arthur Umanoff Iron and Rush Chair
By Arthur Umanoff
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sculptural chair by Arthur Umanoff. Iron frame with rush seat and back. Great lines and perfect standalone chair. Surprisingly comfortable. Good vintage condition.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Chairs
Materials
Iron
Pair of Early 19th Century Hitchcock Chairs
Located in Lambertville, NJ
An outstanding pair of hand painted early 19th century Hitchcock chairs, one armchair, one side chair. The pattern with the rare double cornucopia design. The chairs retain their ori...
Category
Antique 1820s North American Chairs
Materials
Rush, Hardwood
$2,800 / set
Pair of Teak and Rush Dining Chairs by Charles Webb
By Charles Webb
Located in Dorchester, MA
This pair of dining chairs by the Cambridge, Massachusetts, furniture maker Charles Webb features solid teak frames with angled backs and rush seats.
Category
1990s American Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Teak, Rush
Set of Eight Teak and Rush Dining Chairs by Charles Webb
By Charles Webb
Located in Dorchester, MA
This set of eight dining chairs by the Cambridge, Massachusetts, furniture maker Charles Webb features solid teak frames with angled backs and rush seats.
Category
1990s American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Teak, Rush
18th-19th Century American Ladder Back Chair
Located in San Francisco, CA
18th-19th century American ladder back chair
Classic ladder back chair with rush seat
Measures: 18" wide x 14" deep x 15" high at the seat x 42" high at the back.
Good antiq...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century American American Colonial Side Chairs
Materials
Rush, Wood, Paint
Arthur Umanoff Wood and Rush Sculptural Chairs
By Arthur Umanoff
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sculptural Arthur Umanoff chairs with signature rush back, slatted wood seat, and iron legs. Floating backrest. Look great from all angles. Great vintage condition. Two available. Pr...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Chairs
Materials
Iron
$1,450 / item
Early Folk Art Maple Slat Back Child
s Chair with Rush Seat, 18th Century
Located in Big Flats, NY
An early Folk Art child’s chair offers maple construction with slat back over rush seat, 18th century
Measures: 26.38" H x 15" W x 15.25" D.
Category
Antique 18th Century American Primitive Chairs
Materials
Rush, Maple
Antique Mahogany Rush Seat Dining Chairs, Set of 6
Located in Amherst, NH
Antique rustic set of 6 mahogany rush seat dining chairs. A great set of sturdy chairs with the seats in excellent condition. Handmade craftsmanship with great design. Well cared for...
Category
Late 20th Century American Rustic Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Rush, Mahogany
6 Midcentury Organic Modern Rush Dining Chairs 1960s Manner of Bert England
By Mel Smilow, Bert England
Located in Hudson, NY
A sculptural set of six Mid-Century Modern rush backed dining chairs in walnut with Naugahyde upholstery in the manner of Mel Smilow or Bert England . The set consists of two arm cha...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Walnut, Rush
Set of Eight Antique Handmade Ladder Back and Rush Seat Tiger Maple Chairs
Located in Big Flats, NY
A set of 8 antique dining chairs offers deeply striated tiger maple construction with scrolled and shaped ladder backs over rush seats, handmade with some variation in size as photog...
Category
Antique 19th Century American Primitive Chairs
Materials
Rush, Maple
Vintage Oakwood Bar Stool with Rush Seats, Pair
Located in Amherst, NH
Vintage pair if solid oak framed bar stools with rush seats. Stools are sturdy and unmarked. Excellent used condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Rush, Oak
18th Century American Queen Anne Rush Seated Armchair, Connecticut Circa 1750
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The pegged maple frame showing a yoke-shaped crest-rail over a vasi-form cherry splat, braced by turned rear stiles and turned finials. The elegant wavy shaped armrests terminating t...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century American American Colonial Armchairs
Materials
Rush, Maple
Edmond Spence Pair of Chairs
By Edmond J. Spence
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Edmond Spence pair of chairs.
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Rush, Mahogany
$6,000 / set
Antique Arts
Crafts Joseph McHugh Mission Oak Rush Seat Desk Chair, circa 1920
By Gustav Stickley
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Arts & Crafts mission oak desk chair by Joseph McHugh offers ladder back and rush seat and raised on straight and square legs terminating in slightly tapered feet, circa 1...
Category
Antique 19th Century American Arts and Crafts Chairs
Materials
Rush, Oak
Antique Hand Carved Old Hickory Adirondack Branch
Rush Side Chairs, circa 1900
By Old Hickory Furniture Company
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique hand carved Adirondack side chairs by Old Hickory features branch form frames with rush seats, signed, circa 1900.
Measures: 38.5" H x 20" W x 17" D, 18.5" Seat H.
Category
20th Century American Adirondack Chairs
Materials
Rush, Hickory
Pair of Antique New England Hitchcock School Gilt Stenciled Side Chairs
By Hitchcock
Located in Big Flats, NY
Pair of antique New England Hitchcock School slat back side chairs feature ebonized frame with gilt stenciled decoration throughout and to include central palmette within chair back ...
Category
Antique 19th Century American Sheraton Chairs
Materials
Rush, Wood
4 Colonial Style Dining Chairs with Rush Seats Stamped Hecho en Mexico
By Artes De Mexico Internacionales, SA
Located in Topeka, KS
Handsome Spanish Colonial or Spanish Revival style dining chairs with natural rush seats and large nailhead detail. Stamped with a black oval marking with Hecho en Mexico. They are i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Spanish Colonial Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Metal
Milo Baughman for Murray Furniture Iron and Rush Chair
By Milo Baughman, Murray Furniture
Located in San Diego, CA
Milo Baughman for Murray Furniture chair with iron frame; solid brass ball feet and finials; and rush seat and back. In the 1954 Murray Furniture catalog it is called the "Fibre Chair".
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Brass, Iron
Woven Rush Armchair by Mel Smilow, 1950s
By Mel Smilow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Walnut with woven rush chair designed by Mel Smilow in the 1950s. This chair is in excellent condition and has been completely restored in an ebonized finish and all new woven rush.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Rush, Walnut
Pair of Vintage Ladder Back Chairs with Low Rush Seat
Located in Tucson, AZ
Pair of ladder back chairs with high back and low rush seat. Would make great accent chairs.
The rush is in good vintage condition. Chairs are unique in design and low to the floor....
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Rush, Wood
Milo Baughman for Murray Furniture Iron and Rush Chair
By Murray Furniture, Milo Baughman
Located in San Diego, CA
Milo Baughman for Murray Furniture chair with iron frame; solid brass ball feet and finials; and rush seat and back. In the 1954 Murray Furniture catalog it is called the "Fibre Chair".
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Brass, Iron
Pair of Neoclassical Fancy Painted Klismos Chairs
Located in Essex, MA
A pair of Federal period neoclassical fancy painted Klismos chairs, retaining their original stenciled gilded decoration, depicting rosettes, anthemion, acanthus leaves, scrolled and...
Category
Antique 1820s American Neoclassical Side Chairs
Materials
Rush, Wood
Nakashima Studios Grass-Seated Chairs
By George Nakashima
Located in San Francisco, CA
A pair of custom grass seated chairs, both signed and dated. High
versions of original George Nakashima grass chairs by Mira
Nakashima. LOA and Provenance available, along with ori...
Category
20th Century American American Craftsman Chairs
Materials
Rush, Walnut
Lounge Chairs designed by Mel Smilow for Smilow-Thielle, circa 1955
By Mel Smilow, Smilow-Thielle
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Single chair in walnut has tapered arms and legs with a woven seat and back in original thick rush. The chair is in very good original condition. The thick rush is tightly woven with...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Rush
Set of Eight Edmund J. Spence Dining Chairs
By Edmond J. Spence, Industria Mueblera Mexico
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Sculptural set of dining chairs by Edmund J. Spence for Industrial Muebleras, circa 1954 for the Continental-American Collection. Mexican Mahogany with palm fiber woven seat and back...
Category
20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Mahogany, Rush
Michael Van Beuren Chair for Domus
By Michael van Beuren, Domus
Located in New York, NY
Modernist chair of pine with curved and painted wood slats and rush-wrapped back rails. Designed by Michael van Beuren for his company, Domus, and produced in Mexico, circa 1947. Bor...
Category
Vintage 1940s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Pine, Rush
Mid Century Rattan and Bamboo Beach Chairs
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Sensational pair of Mid Century woven rattan and bamboo beach chairs, c. 1950s. These adjustable garden / beach chairs can also be folded closed for easy portability.
Overall dime...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Patio and Garden Furniture
Materials
Metal
19th century Painted Maple Hitchcock Chair
Located in Savannah, GA
Early American chair from Connecticut decorated with gold stencil in a grape vine motif with red painted accents. In original condition with notched rush seat surrounded by steam ben...
Category
Antique 19th Century American Primitive Chairs
Materials
Rush, Maple
Set of Five Arthur Umanoff Bar Stools
By Arthur Umanoff
Located in Hamburg, PA
A modernist set of 1950's wrought iron bar stools with rush back and slatted seats by Arthur Umanoff.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Stools
Materials
Wrought Iron
Pair Red Painted and Decorated Side Chairs
Located in Houston, TX
Pair of antique red painted side chairs with rush seats and stenciled backs.They date from the first half of the 19th century.
Category
Antique 19th Century American Side Chairs
Materials
Wood, Rush
Arthur Umanoff Desk
By Arthur Umanoff
Located in Baltimore, MD
Arthur Umanoff for Raymor desk and chair. Deep amber wood slats with centered cream laminate top, two side shelves of wood and rush, and single drawer, all supported by black welded ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
$2,800
Hickory Side Chair
Located in Nantucket, MA
Five Hickory side chairs with caned back and seat, unsigned but in Old Hickory style.
Category
Vintage 1930s American Chairs
Materials
Hickory, Rush
$3,000
Pair of Studio Rush Seat Armchairs
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Studio made walnut frame armchairs with rush seats and backs.
Category
20th Century American Chairs
Materials
Walnut, Rush
CHAIR BY RICHARD ROTHBARD AMERICAN CIRCA 1960
S
Located in Jersey City, NJ
CHAIR BY RICHARD ROTHBARD IN ZEBRA WOOD AND RUSH
Category
Vintage 1960s American Chairs
Materials
Wood, Rush
COLLECTION OF 6 AMERICAN COUNTRY CHAIRS WITH
MAKE DO
SEATS
Located in Essex, MA
A collection of 5 country American chairs , from the South, of various shapes and sizes, all from the south, some African American made, the seats consisting of diverse "make-do" wov...
Category
Antique 19th Century American Chairs
Materials
Wood, Rush, Yarn, Leather, Fabric
Iron and rush chairs by Milo Baughman for Murray Furniture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iron frame chairs with rush seat and back with brass accents. Designed by Milo Baughman for Murray Furniture, would work great as dining chairs. (There are 3 available) Chairs priced...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Iron, Brass
Set of 4 Ladder Back Chairs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Set of 4 Oak Ladder Back Chairs with Waxed Rush Seat.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Oak, Rush
Set of American Decorated Chairs
Located in Summerland, CA
Set of Six Gilt Decorated Chairs
19th century
Rosewood graining with gilt decoration design on backs. Hand woven rush seats. Turned front stretchers, bamboo turned legs...
19th century
Rosewood graining with gilt decoration design on backs. Hand woven rush seats. Turned front stretchers, bamboo turned legs...
Category
Antique 19th Century American Chairs
Materials
Wood, Rush, Paint
Set of two Arthur Umanoff Chairs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Set of four bar stools by Arthur Umanoff for Raymor. Sturdy wrought iron frame, maple slat seats, and rush wrapped back. Very comfortable! Original seats, restored rush backs. 1300 f...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Chairs
Materials
Wrought Iron
Set of ten comfortable rush dining chairs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Modern copies of the chairs from the MGM hit "How to Marry a Millionaire" starring Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall, attributed to J.I. Gibbings. Sold as a set or in pairs.
Category
American Chairs
Materials
Oak, Rush
Black Banister Back Chair
Located in San Francisco, CA
An early 18th century banister back chair with old paint and rush. Typical small scale chair.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier American Chairs
Materials
Wood, Paint, Rush
Set Of Four Chippendale Chairs With Rush Seats
Located in US
Four Beautifully Crafted Chippendale Style Chairs With Rush Seats
Category
Early 20th Century American Chairs
Materials
Wood, Rush
Arthur Umanoff Lounge Chairs for Raymor
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iron, wood and rush lounge chairs.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Chairs
Materials
Iron
A Pair of Stained and Plaited Rush Fauteuils
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of Contemporary Stained and Plaited Rush Fauteuils after Francis Jourdain.
(Unique to Amy Perlin Antiques)
(Unique to Amy Perlin Antiques)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Armchairs
Materials
Wood, Rush
Four Bar Stools - Arthur Umanoff
Located in SouthPort, CT
Set of four bar stools in maple, rush and enameled iron by Arthur Umanoff, Raymor, c. 1955
Category
Vintage 1950s American Stools
Materials
Maple, Rush
Set of Physician and Patient Examination Chairs
By W.D. Allison Co.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
W.D. Allison Physician Stool and Tall Back Rotating Patient Chair. Turn of the 20th Century Design. Original Oil Cloth Seats and Original Caning.
Category
20th Century American Chairs
Materials
Wood, Rush
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North American Rush Chairs For Sale on 1stDibs
Find a variety of north american rush chairs available on 1stDibs. We have 34 antique and vintage north american rush chairs in-stock, while there are 7 modern editions to choose from as well. North american rush chairs have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. There are many kinds of north american rush chairs to choose from, but at 1stDibs, Mid-Century Modern, Louis XVI and Arts and Crafts north american rush chairs are of considerable interest. There have been many well-made north american rush chairs over the years, but those made by Mel Smilow, Edmond J. Spence and Arthur Umanoff are often thought to be among the most beautiful.
How Much are North American Rush Chairs?
The average selling price for at 1stDibs is $1,425, while they’re typically $440 on the low end and $6,000 highest priced.
Finding the Right Chairs for You
Chairs are an indispensable component of your home and office. Can you imagine your life without the vintage, new or antique chairs you love?
With the exception of rocking chairs, the majority of the seating in our homes today — Windsor chairs, chaise longues, wingback chairs — originated in either England or France. Art Nouveau chairs, the style of which also originated in those regions, embraced the inherent magnificence of the natural world with decorative flourishes and refined designs that blended both curved and geometric contour lines. While craftsmanship and styles have evolved in the past century, chairs have had a singular significance in our lives, no matter what your favorite chair looks like.
“The chair is the piece of furniture that is closest to human beings,” said Hans Wegner. The revered Danish cabinetmaker and furniture designer was prolific, having designed nearly 500 chairs over the course of his lifetime. His beloved designs include the Wishbone chair, the wingback Papa Bear chair and many more.
Other designers of Scandinavian modernist chairs introduced new dynamics to this staple with sculptural flowing lines, curvaceous shapes and efficient functionality. The Paimio armchair, Swan chair and Panton chair are vintage works of Finnish and Danish seating that left an indelible mark on the history of good furniture design.
“What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts,” said Ray Eames.
Visionary polymaths Ray and Charles Eames experimented with bent plywood and fiberglass with the goal of producing affordable furniture for a mass market. Like other celebrated mid-century modern furniture designers of elegant low-profile furnishings — among them Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Finn Juhl — the Eameses considered ergonomic support, durability and cost, all of which should be top of mind when shopping for the perfect chair. The mid-century years yielded many popular chairs.
The Eameses introduced numerous icons for manufacturer Herman Miller, such as the Eames lounge chair and ottoman, molded plywood dining chairs the DCM and DCW (which can be artfully mismatched around your dining table) and a wealth of other treasured pieces for the home and office.
A good chair anchors us to a place and can become an object of timeless appeal. Take a seat and browse the rich variety of vintage, new and antique chairs on 1stDibs today.
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