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Spanish Birthing Chair

Hand-Crafted Brutalist Tripod Spanish Birthing Chair
Located in Germantown, MD
A Handcrafted Brutalist Tripod Spanish / Birthing Chair. Measures: 20" in width, 16" in depth and
Category

20th Century American Brutalist Chairs

Materials

Fruitwood

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Mid Century Spanish Brutalist Carved Walnut Tripod Birthing Chair Stool 29"
Located in Dayton, OH
Mid century circa 1950s Spanish birthing stool or chair. Made of walnut featuring carved brutalist
Category

Vintage 1950s Brutalist Chairs

Materials

Walnut

19th Century Spaniard Tripod Birthing Chair
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Spaniard Midwife Birthing Tripod Chair/Stool. It is made of solid wood. Its back is
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Spanish Other Chairs

Materials

Wood

1900s Hand-Crafted Spanish Primitive Birthing Chair
Located in Germantown, MD
1900s Spanish wooden birthing stool -- before it became common practice for women to give birth in
Category

Early 20th Century American Primitive Stools

Materials

Elm

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Spanish Birthing Chair For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the Spanish birthing chair you’re looking for. Frequently made of metal, bronze and bamboo, every Spanish birthing chair was constructed with great care. If you’re shopping for a Spanish birthing chair, we have 7 options in-stock, while there are 1 modern editions to choose from as well. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer Spanish birthing chair, there are earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 21st Century. When you’re browsing for the right Spanish birthing chair, those designed in Hollywood Regency, Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles are of considerable interest. A well-made Spanish birthing chair has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by William Russell Flint and Joshua Goode are consistently popular.

How Much is a Spanish Birthing Chair?

A Spanish birthing chair can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $9,280, while the lowest priced sells for $900 and the highest can go for as much as $320,000.

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. 

Questions About Spanish Birthing Chair
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    An African birthing chair is a wooden seat with a sloped back and angled seat. Its original purpose was to help women maintain the proper position to deliver a baby, however many people use them for seating or decoration. On 1stDibs, shop a range of birthing chairs.