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20th Century Teak Library Step Chair
Located in Raalte, NL
Teak wooden library step chair two in one after antique examples, it is in good condition and made late 20th century.
The measurements are:
Depth 36 cm/ 14.1 inch.
Width 42.5 cm...
Category
Late 20th Century Vintage Ladders
Materials
Teak
Library Step
Located in Pomona, CA
Library step that has a handle and folds. Wood carved with three steps. Measures: Folded 7" D, 15.50" W, 66" H.
Category
1970s American Vintage Ladders
Materials
Mahogany
$1,000
English Oak Library Steps or Stairs
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Early 20th century English oak library steps or library stairs with five steps. Crafted with a mortise and tenon old world joinery. Lovely profile with a slightly tapered form. Great...
Category
20th Century European Edwardian Vintage Ladders
Materials
Oak
Architectural Oak Library Ladder in the Style of Franco Albini
Located in North Miami, FL
In the manner of Franco Albini, this intricately designed, early made library wall ladder with all original pieces. It originally was held by bar (bar height would be at 78 inches wh...
Category
1940s French Industrial Vintage Ladders
Materials
Metal
Mid-20th Century Georgian Style Library Steps from England
Located in Toronto, ON
This Classic four step spiral Georgian style library ladder is made of mahogany with a removable( see photos) turned support. The steps are clad in black leather and green felt.
Category
1950s English Georgian Vintage Ladders
Materials
Mahogany
Levenger Wooden Library Steps
Located in Astoria, NY
Levenger wood library steps, made in the late 20th century. 3 steps to allow you to reach the top shelves of your private library. Can also function well in a kitchen or home office ...
Category
Late 20th Century Vintage Ladders
Materials
Wood
Library Ladder
Located in Pomona, CA
English brass library ladder. The steps are mahogany and rubber that folds.
Category
Mid-20th Century English Vintage Ladders
Materials
Brass
$900
English Regency Style Mahogany and Leather Rolling Library Steps
Located in Atlanta, GA
English Regency style mahogany and leather rolling library steps, fitted with two 17.5" w x 9" d steps and two nail headed leather 25" x 2" hand rails, raised on six castors.
Category
20th Century English Regency Vintage Ladders
Materials
Brass
Mid-20th Century English Carved Four-Stairs Library Spiral Step Ladder
Located in Dallas, TX
This tall Victorian fruit wood library stairs with turned legs and central post was created in England, circa 1950. The thin stairs come from a central, turned circular steps and spi...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Victorian Vintage Ladders
Materials
Walnut
Bell Textron Military Helicopter 212 And UH-1 Blades, Italy/U.S/ Canada, 1970s
Located in Sofia, BG
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. is an American aerospace manufacturer headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. A subsidiary of Textron, Bell manufactures military rotorcraft in and around Fo...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Ladders
Materials
Aluminum
Regency Style Mahogany Library Ladder or Steps
Located in Hudson, NY
Regency-style mahogany spiral design library steps of typical form, raised on brass casters, with brass finial on top of the hand pole support.
Category
1960s English Regency Vintage Ladders
Materials
Mahogany
Pair of English Mahogany Metamorphic Table Steps in Regency Style
Located in San Francisco, CA
A pair of English mahogany metamorphic table steps in the Regency style, circa 1960.
Each table opens up in the middle, back into itself, to form four steps. Each step covered in ed...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Regency Vintage Ladders
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Antique American Wood and Iron Architectonic Metamorphic Ladder
Located in Rochester, NY
Antique American patent metamorphic ladder with oak framework, maple steps, iron hinges, rods, straps and rivets. Measures for use as shown set up in pictures - 49 inches high x 36 i...
Category
20th Century American Industrial Vintage Ladders
Materials
Iron
Antique American Tall Tapered Wood Harvest Ladder
Located in Rochester, NY
Antique signed wood and metal pinned (at rungs) apple picking orchard ladder in old weathered worn gray painted surface and a beautifully tapered splayed very tall form measuring 12 ...
Category
20th Century American Rustic Vintage Ladders
Antique American Folding A-Frame Orchard Ladder
Located in Rochester, NY
Vintage American wood and metal riveted folding orchard harvest fruit picking ladder in nicely aged old pale surface to wood with some scattered areas of old paint. When in upright e...
Category
20th Century American Rustic Vintage Ladders
Antique Mahogany and Leather Library Steps
Located in London, GB
Antique spiral library steps in mahogany with tooled leather insets on all the steps. These steps are very well constructed, a decent size and quite useable. The top upright is well ...
Category
1950s English Victorian Vintage Ladders
Materials
Mahogany
English Bamboo Motif Library Step Ladder
Located in Los Angeles, CA
English bamboo motif carved wood library step ladder made from mahogany wood. Beautiful patina.
Category
1940s English Country Vintage Ladders
Materials
Mahogany
French Wooden Picking Ladder
Located in Chicago, IL
• Weathered wood ladder used for fruit picking
• France
• Measures 25" W x 5" D x 123" H.
Category
20th Century French Rustic Vintage Ladders
Materials
Wood
Carved Wooden Ladder, Dogon People, Mali, 20th Century or Earlier
Located in Austin, TX
A well carved an well used Dogon wooden ladder, Mali, 20th century or earlier.
The ladder carved from a single large tree trunk, with deep footholds showing nice wear and patina fro...
Category
20th Century Malian Tribal Vintage Ladders
Materials
Wood
English Oak Edwardian Library Steps
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
A large early 20th century English set of extremely sturdy and functional library steps handcrafted in English oak with handle and wheels to allow for easy movement.
Category
Mid-20th Century English Edwardian Vintage Ladders
Antique Industrial Wood and Steel Extension Ladders
Located in Rochester, NY
Two old American made wood and steel industrial extension ladders with riveted and mortised construction. Height to top rung when not extended is 66 inches - see picture 9 / height t...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Industrial Vintage Ladders
Materials
Steel
Ottakringer Ladder Chair Library Steps by Katharina Noever, Austria, 1970s
Located in Vienna, AT
A beautiful black wooden so called "Ottakringer" step ladder chair, to be used as a chair and as library steps. Designed in 1978 by Katharina Noever, executed in the 1980s in Austria...
Category
1980s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Ladders
Materials
Metal
English Mahogany Campaign Style Library Steps
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fine English mahogany library steps or ladder made in the Campaign style. Features four steps on each side with brass mounts and brass flush hardware. Beautifully crafted with a rich...
Category
20th Century English Campaign Vintage Ladders
Materials
Brass
1920s Train Step Stool
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Charming pop of color for a simple solution to everyone's need to get a step up.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Vintage Ladders
English Style Oak Library Ladder Staircase
By Los Angeles Ladder Co
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Early 20th century English style oak library ladder staircase manufactured by Los Angeles Ladder Company. This ladder is over 10' feet tall with eight wide steps and a top platform. ...
Category
20th Century American Industrial Vintage Ladders
Materials
Metal
Pair of Italian Turned Wood Metamorphic Library Steps, 20th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
The steps folding over to be concealed within the framework, turned legs and stretchers, the steps with molded edges. When folded the depth of the steps is 14 inches.
Category
20th Century Italian Louis XIII Vintage Ladders
Folk Art Steel Ladder
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large Folk Art steel ladder. Very heavy and sturdy. Usable ladder and great sculptural object. Perfect for hanging towels in the bathroom or by the pool. Great patina to metal. Excel...
Category
1950s American Vintage Ladders
Materials
Steel
English Regency Style Mahogany Library Steps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish piece will make for the perfect side table or as an accent piece in your library. With its polished dark mahogany wood frame accented with brass the piece is clean-lined...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Regency Revival Vintage Ladders
Materials
Brass
Biomorphic Library Chair Ladder
Located in Houston, TX
Measures: As chair: 15.25" W x 18" D x 36.5" H, seat height 18.5"
As ladder: 15.25" W x 24.5" D x 36.75" H.
Category
1940s Belgian Arts and Crafts Vintage Ladders
Materials
Wood
1900s French Vintage Artists Painting Ladder Library Steps / Shop Display
Located in Markington, GB
1900s French vintage fruit picking / painting ladder.
1900s French vintage artists painting ladder library steps / shop display.
This ladder will be great as an vintage library s...
Category
20th Century French French Provincial Vintage Ladders
Materials
Metal
Oak Library Ladder
Located in Stamford, CT
Mid-20th century oak six step library ladder on wheels.
Category
Late 20th Century Industrial Vintage Ladders
Materials
Wood
$1,200
Midcentury Handcrafted Danish Step Ladder in Teak and Brass
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a vintage 1940s handcrafted folding step ladder in excellent condition.
Category
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Ladders
Materials
Brass
Large Vintage French Wood and Iron Rustic Ladder from the 1930s
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French large vintage rustic wood and iron ladder from the first half of the 20th century. Everyone needs a ladder! Please don't use this vintage wood and iron rustic ladder to clea...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Rustic Vintage Ladders
Materials
Iron
Antique American Orchard Harvest Ladder
Located in Rochester, NY
Antique American 8 foot folding wood and metal riveted signed orchard harvest fruit picking ladder from the Lake Ontario Region of Western New York State. Beautifully aged original p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Vintage Ladders
Antique American Folding Fruit Picking Orchard Ladders
Located in Rochester, NY
Two antique American wood & metal riveted apple fruit picking ladders in great old original dry dark slate gray and lighter gray painted surface with beautiful naturally age weathere...
Category
20th Century American Vintage Ladders
Materials
Iron
1900s French Vintage Fruit Picking Painting Ladder Library Ladder /Shop Display
Located in Markington, GB
1900s French vintage fruit picking / painting ladder.
This ladder will be great as an vintage library ladder
It is sturdy and usable.
We currently have a couple of these ladder...
Category
20th Century French French Provincial Vintage Ladders
Materials
Metal
1900s French Vintage Fruit Picking Painting Ladder Library Ladder /Shop Display
Located in Markington, GB
1900s French vintage fruit picking / painting ladder.
This ladder will be great as an vintage library ladder
It is sturdy and usable.
We currently have a couple of these ladder...
Category
20th Century French French Provincial Vintage Ladders
Materials
Metal
Folding Library Ladder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Folding ladder with carpet remnant seat. Brass hardware.
Category
1940s Vintage Ladders
Gymnasium Ladder
Located in Chicago, IL
•Wood
•20th century
•American
Dimensions:
5D x 35.5W x 103.5H
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Ladders
Materials
Wood
$975
Stack-Laminated Wood Ladder
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A wonderful stack-laminated wood ladder. Towering at nearly 10' in height, a spectacularly sculptural piece with beautiful, exposed-dowel construction and elliptical cut-out handles ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Ladders
Materials
Wood
Vintage Leather Upholstered Elephant Ladder or Library Ladder, circa 1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
A handsome and scarce folding ladder perfect for getting on and off elephants or climbing (at your own peril) around your library. These where found in the stately homes of England a...
Category
1960s English Anglo-Indian Vintage Ladders
Materials
Brass
Wooden Step Ladder Vintage Antique Moveable Wood Factory Shop Ladder Stairs
Located in Oakville, CT
Vintage Wooden Primitive style step ladder. Step heights measure 9", 20 1/2" and 32 1/4" in height. Overall dimensions are 19" in width, 25" in depth and 33 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Primitive Vintage Ladders
Materials
Wood
Andrianna Shamaris Primitive Iron Wood Ladder
Located in New York, NY
Hand-carved Primitive iron wood ladder from Sumatra, carved from a single piece.
This ladder was sourced in the spirit of wabi-sabi, a Japanese philosophy that beauty can be found i...
Category
1950s Primitive Vintage Ladders
Materials
Wood, Reclaimed Wood
Tall Victorian Multi Use Shop Step Ladder
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Tall Victorian multi use shop step ladder
This is a very useful and attractive piece, the step ladder has 5, 4.5” treads, it folds flat for handy storage and would work well in a ki...
Category
Mid-20th Century Great Britain (UK) Industrial Vintage Ladders
Vintage Step Stool or Library Ladder
Located in Houston, TX
A multifunctional three rung step stool or library ladder from France. The open position is locked in place by inserting a metal pin into the side hinges and it has a handy notched h...
Category
20th Century French Vintage Ladders
Mid-20th Century French Beechwood and Iron Folding Library Ladder, Display Shelf
Located in Fayetteville, AR
A handsome addition to any space with hard to reach shelving, this artisan-made folding beechwood ladder was originally used in a French library. Although this piece serves beautiful...
Category
1950s French Vintage Ladders
Materials
Iron
1940 Wooden Orchard Ladder in Old Paint
Located in Surrey, BC
Very nice 7ft tall sturdy decorative ladder found in an orchard on the Niagara Peninsula.
Category
1940s Canadian Country Vintage Ladders
Materials
Hardwood
French Wood Ladder
Located in Chicago, IL
Measures: 26.5" W x 65" D x 93" H
patinaed painted finish as found
20th century,
France.
Category
20th Century French Vintage Ladders
Materials
Wood
Black Lacquered Book Case Ladder on Brass Rail
Located in Antwerp, BE
Eighties style Black lacquered ladder with brass details on brass 4.4 meter long rail.
Hollywood Regency style. Italian 1980s glam.
Measure: H 245 D 10 W 43 W 440 cm.
Category
1980s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Ladders
Materials
Brass
1900s French Vintage Fruit Picking / Painting Ladder Great as Shop Display
Located in Markington, GB
1900s French vintage fruit picking / painting ladder.
We currently have a couple of these ladders for sale.
Measures: Height 155cm, depth 75cm, width 55cm.
Category
20th Century French French Provincial Vintage Ladders
Materials
Metal
Vintage Surveyors Staff in Mahogany and Brass
Located in Heath, MA
Vintage surveyors staff or levelling rod, circa 1940, encased in mahogany with brass reinforcements. The staff is telescopic, with three sections measuring 16 feet when fully extende...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Industrial Vintage Ladders
Materials
Brass
Mid-Century Modern Lucite Towel Rack
Located in Miami, FL
Three-tier Mid-Century Modern Lucite rack for towels or bedspreads.
This item is as functional as stylish.
Category
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Ladders
Materials
Lucite
Regency Style Mahogany Library Steps
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Handsome solid mahogany library steps made in the Regency style with three steps supported by tapered legs and a reeded column back. Beautifully carved with decorative accents and a ...
Category
20th Century Hong Kong Regency Vintage Ladders
Materials
Mahogany
Gold Gilt Metal Venetian Rope Ladder
Located in Toronto, ON
This highly decorative burnished gold metal ladder with rope twist and tassel design is perfect as a display or Stand for magazines or put it in the bathroom and hang towels on it!
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Ladders
Materials
Metal
Old Orchard Ladder
Located in Rochester, NY
Old folding three legged tripod form fruit picking harvest ladder in original naturally aged worn weathered surface from years of outdoor use at a Western NY State orchard.
Category
20th Century North American Vintage Ladders
Materials
Metal
Leather and Mahogany Library Steps
Located in Stamford, CT
Mahogany library bench which opens up into a three step ladder, the leather top is very worn and stained.
Measures: Closed: W 31", H 18", D 16". Open: W 31", H 36", D 16".
Category
20th Century Vintage Ladders
American Spiral Library Steps and Floor Lamp
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Modern floor lamp with four spiral library steps.
Category
Late 20th Century American Vintage Ladders
Materials
Iron
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Vintage Ladders For Sale on 1stDibs
At 1stDibs, there are several options of vintage ladders available for sale. Frequently made of wood, metal and mahogany, all vintage ladders available were constructed with great care. Vintage ladders have been made for many years, and versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century. Vintage ladders are generally popular furniture pieces, but Industrial, Mid-Century Modern and Regency styles are often sought at 1stDibs. Vintage ladders have been a part of the life’s work for many furniture makers, but those produced by Abercrombie
Fitch, Arturo Pani and Dayton Safety Ladder Company are consistently popular.
Finding the Right Ladders for You
Vintage, new and antique ladders are not only a must-have structure designed to safely reach higher places in your kitchen and the rest of your space. A ladder can also be repurposed as a decorative home accent for use in nearly any room in your home.
While the exact date that ladders were invented is unclear, a painting of a crude ladder that is believed to be more than 10,000 years old was uncovered in a cave in Spain.
Ladders have taken on all forms over the years to meet certain needs. Rope ladders have come into use for emergency rescues by air and sea, extendable ladders are still pivotal to the dangerous work that firefighters do daily, and stepladders are a big part of getting you where you need to go at home.
Antique ladders can be found in a variety of styles and materials. You can occasionally find a modest-sized antique stepladder, perhaps designed in the neoclassical style, that may have been for library use and resembles a short staircase with small drawers built into the front and the sides of the steps. On 1stDibs, browse a collection of wood ladders and metal ladders that were crafted in the modern, Georgian, Victorian and other styles.
Decorating with an old farmhouse ladder can give it a new purpose and also breathe a bit of life into a dining room, living room or mudroom. For those drawn to the warmth and coziness that farmhouse-style furniture and decor can bring into a space — which usually refers to an amalgam of other rustically rooted styles, such as cottage, French country and industrial — an antique farmhouse ladder can serve a functional purpose as well as meet your needs to dress up a space with creative flourishes.
Lean your wood ladder up against a wall and use its rungs to display your treasured mid-century modern textiles, rare books or potted plants. Drape your patterned dish towels over the ladder steps for easy access as well as to make sure your towels are clean and dry for the next round of dishes. Get some help to properly suspend your farmhouse ladder from the ceiling above your rustic farm dining table and hang your antique lanterns from its rungs and sides for a welcome experience at mealtime.
On 1stDibs, find an extensive collection of antique, new and vintage ladders today.
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