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Screens and Room Dividers For Sale
A Large Brutalist Iron and Desert Glass Sculpture Screen Paul Evans Style
By Paul Evans
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A striking brutalist hand forged and welded wrought iron and dessert glass sculpture screen in the manner of Paul Evans. Good original condition, from...
Category
1970s American Brutalist Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
Modular Metal
Textile Room Divider from Salon of Art + Design by Costantini
By Costantini
Located in New York, NY
Modular Metal & Textile Room Divider from Salon of Art + Design by Costantini and Virginia Harper
Costantini collaborated with Virginia Harper for the 14th Edition of the Salon of A...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
Mid-Century Modern Four Panel Painted Room Divider, C 1950
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A Mid-Century Modern four panel painted and gilt wood fantasy room divider. C 1950
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Black Lacquer And Brass Room Divider Screen
Located in Houston, TX
Black Lacquer And Brass Room Divider Screen.
Offered is a dramatic high style black lacquer with inlaid brass wire 4 panel room divider screen with foliage and a leopard. Possibly ma...
Category
1980s Unknown Post-Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Osanna Visconti di Modrone, Bambù, Screen (Large), Bronze, Italy, 2023
Located in New York, NY
Nature is Visconti’s enduring source of inspiration: “In the quietude of a walk in the woods, my attention is captured by a leaf, a flower, a fallen branch. One out of hundreds. I se...
Category
2010s Italian Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bronze
Iron and Gilt Trellis/Screen
Located in Winnetka, IL
Custom iron and gilt paint trellis/screen. The whole unfolds into a screen, if desired. Designed to hold fabric as well. All in the regency taste. Can be used indoors or out.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Iron
$1,920 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Antique French Louis XVI Three-Panel Screen
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Louis XVI three-panel screen.
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Gold Leaf
Milo Baughman Style Mid Century Burl Wood Room Divider
Located in Franklin Park, IL
Milo Baughman style Mid Century burl wood room divider
Room divider with 3 sections; each measures: 34.5 wide x 3 deep x 87.5 high
All pieces of furniture can be had in what we cal...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Burl
Wonderful Pine Folding Screen Room Divider
Located in Munich, DE
Made from woven pine stripes in massive wooden frames connected with leather.
Category
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Pine
$1,188 Sale Price
34% Off
4 Panel Florentine Italian Dressing Screen
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This elegant Florentine four-panel dressing screen, dating to the 1940s era, is a striking example of Italian decorative artistry, combining Old World craftsmanship with timeless Eur...
Category
1940s Italian Neoclassical Revival Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Walnut
Wire Three-Panel Folding Screen
Located in Highland, IN
This delicate, airy design in iron with a curly scrollwork pattern, has three articulating panels which help delineate space while maintaining translucency.
72.5"h X 57"w
1st Dibs shipping...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Iron
Antique Moroccan Fire Screen
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Antique Moroccan screen crafted with mahogany in an architecturally interesting form featuring onion dome finials, geometric inlays of mother of pearl,...
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Ebony, Mahogany
English Renaissance Style Oak 3-Fold Screen with Inlaid Design
Located in Queens, NY
English Renaissance style (19th Century) oak 3 fold screen with diamond inlaid design.
Category
19th Century Renaissance Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Oak
Chinese Folding Floor Screen with Stone Insets
Located in Atlanta, GA
A six panel hinged folding floor screen from China circa end of the 19th- early 20th century. Each panel features three sections of black lacquere...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Stone
$16,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Sismology Screen by Atelier Demichelis
Located in Geneve, CH
Sismology Screen by Atelier Demichelis
Limited Edition, Numbered and Signed
Dimensions: W 150 x D 4 x H 185 cm
Materials: Patinated Brass and Copper...
Category
2010s French Post-Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass, Copper
$50,201 / item
Jules Wabbes Illuminated Library in Wood and Brass
By Jules Wabbes
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Jules Wabbes for Mobilier Universel, bookcase, in brass and wood, Belgium, 1960s
Rare wall unit designed by master furniture-maker Jules Wabbes. This exceptional piece could be use...
Category
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Restored Bamboo
Woven Wicker 4 Panel Folding Screen , 1920
Located in Van Nuys, CA
1920, Woven Wicker, Multi-Colored Diamond Pattern
Early bamboo and woven wicker folding room divider screen with 4 panels each 60" Tall by 19" wide. Each divider section features a ...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bamboo
$1,350 Sale Price
40% Off
Louis XV Style Walnut 3-Fold Screen with Upholstered Panels
Located in Queens, NY
French Louis XV style (19/20th Century) walnut 3 fold screen with carved floral top and pink upholstered panels.
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Walnut
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Stye Gilt Three Panel Screen Room Divider
Located in London, GB
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Stye Gilt Three Panel Screen Room Divider
A gilt-framed three-fold screen, c.1890, Continental, the shaped top with leaf and ribbon moulded cresting, shaped bevelled glass mirror panels, above fabric panels.
In very good condition commensurate with age. Minor signs of wear to gilt and one replacement mirrored...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Fabric, Giltwood, Mirror
Rare
Procuratie
Venetian Blind By Piero Fornasetti, c1960
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This rare Fornasetti blind will make any room. It's a real stunner in person and retains Christies and Sothebys auction stickers.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Aluminum, Enamel
Pair of French Parchment Leather and Wood Room Dividers, 1920s
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Each screen sheet measures 45 cm (17.71 inch).
Each screen has 3 sheets 135 long (53.13 inch)
Exhibited at Original antique show ( Miami beach ) and Palm beach "American Internationa...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Leather, Wood
Wonderful Pine Folding Screen Room Divider
Located in Munich, DE
Made from woven pine stripes in massive wooden frames connected with leather.
Category
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Pine
$1,561 Sale Price
27% Off
Green and gold velvet screen from the 40
s / 50
s French oak ceruse vintage
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Very nice French folding screen from the 40's / 50's, unidentified art work. It is composed of 3 wooden panels covered with velvet fabric and stu...
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Velvet, Oak
18th Century Hand Painted Venetian Style Bellini Decorative Panel
By Porte Italia
Located in Ronchi dei Legionari, IT
From our hand painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our Bellini Panel.
An exquisite decorative wooden panel inspired by the famous Venetian cocktail inven...
Category
2010s Italian Other Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Japanese Floor Screen Shoji Paper Natural Elements Elmwood Frame, 1950-1960
Located in Camden, ME
A Japanese three panel folding floor screen framed in Japanese Elmwood each panel encasing a large single Washi paper sheet with natural inclusions from Japan created in the 50's/60s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Elm, Paper
Antique Painted Wood Five-Panel Folding Screen in the Japonisme Style
Located in London, GB
The front side of this French Japonisme folding screen has a fine oil depiction on wood of kabuki (typical Japanese opera) performers, one on each of the five panels; the reverse of ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Japonisme Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Vintage Nautical Custom Viking Clipper Ship Fabric Room Divider Dressing Screen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Nautical Custom Viking Clipper Ship Tapestry Fabric Room Divider Dressing Screen. Circa Late 20th Century. Measurements: 64" H x 49" W (Open) x 1" D. Each panel approximately...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Other Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Antique Hand-Painted and Ebonized Pole Screens
Located in New York, NY
Pair of ebonized pole screens with fine floral painted finishes on tripod legs.
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Bog Wood
$4,000 / set
Hollywood Regency Art Deco Mirrored 3 Panel Folding Screen
Located in Hartville, OH
Extraordinary Vintage Mirrored Art Deco Screen/Divider.
Category
1980s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Mirror
Shade Low Divider in Pink Vip Upholstery with Matt Black Base by Marco Zito
By Marco Zito
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Shade, as in the Japanese meaning of “divider”, has been restyled in a contemporary way and found a place in the living area. Shade is a filter, a divider, a compact system created for constructing spaces: decorating, separating, reserving private and intimate corners. The two sizes and the different textiles for...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Upholstery
18th Century Painted Six Panelled Screen Depicting an European Landscape
Located in London, GB
A six panelled screen of the late Baroque period
Oil on canvas, depicting a panoramic view of a Capriccio north European landscape, perhaps Schlesweig-Holstein, with distant views of the sea, the ruined castles, peasants, and a lady of quality mounted, within a running arched canopy...
Category
18th Century German Baroque Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Donald Drumm Cast Aluminum Screen. 10 Panels Total. One 6 Panel, One 4 Panel.
By Donald Drumm
Located in Kansas City, MO
Donald Drumm Cast Aluminum Screens. Ten panels total making for a stunning room divider. One screen is six panels and the other is four panels. Excellent original condition with a...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Aluminum
Two Majestic Hollywood Regency Mirrored Screens/ Dividers, Sold Individually
Located in North Miami, FL
This perfectly preserved Hollywood Regency scalloped 4 panel mirrored screen - two available. The mirrored glass is cut in strips and mounted on angle which provides an amazing effec...
Category
20th Century French Hollywood Regency Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Finely Painted French Chinoiserie Three-Panel Screen
Located in New York, NY
Comprising three shaped oil on canvas panels, with shirred ivory silk to the reverse, within a conforming greige-painted surround exquisitely painted in lavender sepia tones with scenes of Court figures pursuing leisurely activities in outdoor architectural...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas, Silk, Wood, Paint
$5,000 Sale Price
30% Off
German Rococo Four Panel Painted Screen, Mid-18th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The 4 panels depicting fete galante scenes within cartouches. old cracquelure to paint, loss of paint to corners.
Category
Mid-18th Century German Rococo Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas
Roto Screen / Room Divider, Steel Frame, Brass and Copper Mesh by Mario Milana
By Mario Milana
Located in Milano, Lombardia
The rotO is a room divider composed of three circular elements that overlap and unfold by rolling. This rotational object creates a dynamic screen, or room divider, that plays with t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass, Copper, Steel
19th Century English Victorian Rosewood Fire Screen
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a fine and rare large Victorian rosewood screen, having an ornately carved top, above embroidery, depicting a dog jumping up at a parrot on a perch, with two other small birds on the perch beside it another dog lies on the base of the perch, on the left, holding a feather in its mouth, its paw on a sealed letter after Landseer. 1851. The parrots stand...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Rosewood
Paravent Ideal Upholstered Bed Headframe with Caning and Brick Colored Metal
Located in Istanbul, TR
“Paravent Ideal” is a handcrafted, screen headboard made by artisans in Turkey, preserving and sustaining traditional Turkish handcrafts. The central ...
Category
2010s Turkish Arts and Crafts Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Iron
Antique Irish George III Needlework Two- Leaf Fire Screen C.1770
Located in London, GB
ANTIQUE IRISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY TWO-LEAF FIRE SCREEN, CIRCA 1770, set with 19th century needlework panels, the frame raised on turned supports and stretchers.
115cm high x 52cm wid...
Category
1770s Northern Irish George III Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wool, Mahogany
$4,296 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century Italian Neoclassical Oil on Canvas Screen with Trompe L’œil
Located in IT
18th century, large Italian neoclassical oil on canvas four panels screen with Trompe L’œil
These large screen is composed of four panels in oil on canvas painted. Neoclassical, dating to the second half of the 18th century.
Each panel represents a trompe l'oeil, with a classical architecture with square section marble columns and large clogging. Inside the pink space of the first and third panels are painted, as inserted in a niche with bronze frame, ancient busts...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas
Amethyst Four-Panel Screen by Elisabeth Lemaigre-Voreaux, circa 1970, France
By Hermès, Élisabeth Lemaigre-Voreaux
Located in Girona, Spain
Amethyst, Mika and slate four-panel screen by Elisabeth Lemaigre-Voreaux
Very original design with her characteristic hole in the third panel
Design for Hermes.
Signed
circa 1970...
Category
Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Amethyst
Whimsical and Sculptural Figurative Woven Cane Folding Screen
Located in North Miami, FL
This whimsical screen depicting 4 life-size people in cubist style is framed by a dark wood and interior woven cane. This is not see through, finished on both sides (see detail images in this listing). This was used in a GUCCI retail...
Category
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Cane, Wood
Vintage Boho Lacquered Koi Screen
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Create a serene and artistic focal point with this exquisite vintage four-panel tabletop screen. The screen features a luminous, lacquered finish depicting a tranquil underwater worl...
Category
Late 20th Century American Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Jean Prouvé Architectural Mid-Century Cameroon Sliding PanelSun ShutterRoom Divi
Located in London, GB
An original sliding room panel/window shade cover by legendary designer Jean Prouvé.
Cameroon, c1960s.
Increasingly rare design.
Aluminium and wood, the wood has been replaced as ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cameroonian Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
Pair of American Art Moderne Faux Painted 3 Fold screens
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of American Art Moderne (1940s) rust painted faux woven rush 3 fold screens with diamond design (priced as a Pair)
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Rush
19th Century Chinese table screen
Located in Martlesham, GB
A highly decorative 19th Century Chinese hardwood table screen consisting of three shaped panels, each panel having pierced and carved floral fretwork and inlaid with mother of pearl...
Category
1890s Chinese Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Hardwood
Antique French Louis XV Green Painted Parrot 3 Panel Venetian Room Screen (B)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique French Louis XV Style Green Hand Painted "Parrot" 3 Panel Venetian Room Screen (B). Item features parrots, figures and ornate scrollwork on one side and trees, floral bouquets and fancy scrollwork on the other side with an overall weathered/distressed finish. Very impressive antique dressing...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Louis XV Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Paint
Joseph Galvan Signed Screen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Carved screen in clear acrylic. Signed by the American artist Joseph Galvan.
Please confirm location.
Category
20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Lucite
3 Panel Folding Screen, Stick Reed Rattan
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original 1930 reed rattan room divider folding screen. This stacked rattan folding room divider screen was 3 panels each 81" Tall by 18" wi...
Category
1930s American Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Rattan
$2,520 Sale Price
40% Off
Pyroengraved Screen – Medieval Mediterranean Townscape, Art Nouveau / Art Deco
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Pyroengraved Screen – Medieval Mediterranean Townscape, Art Nouveau / Art Deco, 1930
A rare and remarkable three-panel screen, entirely pyroengraved, depicting a landscape of a medi...
Category
1930s French Art Nouveau Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Plywood
Edwardian Satinwood Folding Screen
Located in Water Mill, NY
Edwardian veneered satinwood, beveled glass and oriental silk dressing screen.
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Fabric, Glass, Wood
Set of Four Chinese Painted Panels with Spring Flowers and Butterflies
Located in Yonkers, NY
This set of four vintage Chinese painted panels presents a continuous floral composition that evokes the freshness and vitality of spring. Each panel is beautifully hand-painted with...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
An Italian Pair of Early 19th C. Wood Doors Within Original Casing
Molding
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of early 19th century Italian doors within their original carved wood casing. This fabulous piece consists of two antique Italian doors wi...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Vintage Bohemian Rattan 3-Panel Folding Screen Room Divider
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Bohemian Rattan 3-Panel Folding Screen Room Divider
Offered for sale is a rattan three-panel folding room screen. The bentwood rattan sections are wrapped at the joings with...
Category
Late 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
French Hollywood Regency Three Panel giltwood Screen or Room Divider
Located in Miami, FL
French 3 fold giltwood screen with Empire eagle motifs and beveled mirrors. Antique gold style painted panels back this piece creating a finished look fro...
Category
20th Century Hollywood Regency Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Wrought Iron Fire Screen, 1930, Art Deco Period.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Wrought iron fire screen, 1930, Art Deco period.
Wrought iron fire screen, certainly Edgar Brandt, unsigned, very similar to the work on the Edgar Brandt door exhibited at the Musée...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
$13,210 / item
Salvador Corona Folding 4 Panel Floor Screen of Patzcuaro, Acapulco circa 1938
Located in Camden, ME
Salvador Corona painted four-panel wooden floor screen created in his studio in Mexico circa 1938.
This rare hand crafted multi medium room divider was the property of the daughter of one of Mexico's wealthiest families of the period, who married the head of an international railroad supply company in their Warren McArthur furnished apartment on Park Avenue.
The custom designed Warren McArthur furniture was a gift of the Pullman Company.
In the early 1950s she opened a shop in Boothbay, Maine and later on upper Lexington Avenue specializing in the crafts of Mexico.
This may have been a wedding present to her from the artist, her family or a close friend.
The screen shows a the harbor of 19th Century Acapulco with the major buildings with gold leaf tiled roofs, Spanish galleons in the bay, a whale spouting in the distance, birds, and silver leafed palm trees .
The harbor scene is bordered in gilt painted cord. Within which are appliquéd cutout medallions of various local fish and air bubbles covered in tinfoil ,a new material in the 30s. The tinfoil is finely etched in a variety of intricate patterns. Some of the appliqués are glazed in gold.
The reverse side of the screen is an ivory white back ground with vignettes from the Maximilian era of Mexico.
The screen is in good condition with wear consistent with its age.
Salvador Corona was born on his family's ranch Hacienda Mideras in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Corona’s family moved to Mexico City in 1903 when he was 8. He attended the New English College in Mexico and then crossed into a career in bull fighting entering the ring for the first time in 1913. In 1919 in Guadalajara he was gored and turned to painting.
He was given his first painting lessons by fellow bullfighter Jose Jimenez.
Corona’s painting career spanned many decades and diverse formats including murals, furniture and decorative household items.
In 1939, the Mexican government invited him to exhibit a set of painted furniture at it's booth at the World’s Fair in New York City. There, it was presented to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a gift. Corona’s work attracted many famous patrons, including the Duchess of Windsor, Gary Cooper and writer Clare Booth Luce.
Salvador Corona’s work featured many Spanish Colonial vignettes, and he became an authority on Spanish and French costumes of the 1800s, which are frequently depicted in his paintings. His favorite subjects often included Mexican Colonial criollos and Purepecha (Tarascan) Indians. Birds and other animals feature prominently in his work.
His traditional self-developed folk art style images depicted pastoral colorful scenes of Maximilian era Mexico painted on white backgrounds.
His work can be divided into three categories: a vice-regal era with European and Creole noblemen mixed with Indians; stylized landscapes of Patscuaro, Acapulco or the Canal of Santa Anita; and his iconographic Mexican Virgins...
Category
1930s Mexican Rancho Monterey Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Foil, Gold Leaf
$18,750 Sale Price
55% Off
Rare Water Hyacinths and Teak Screen Room Divider in the Manner of Audoux Minet
Located in Montreal, QC
Rare water hyacinths and teak screen /room divider in the manner of Audoux Minet decorated with 49 small teak windows.
Category
1970s French Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Teak
Shoe Screen by Allen Jones Paradisoterrestre Edition
Located in Ozzano Dell
emilia, IT
A brand new screen by Allen Jones exclusively for Paradisoterrestre in a limited edition of 30 signed and numbered pieces (+2AP).
The legendary British pop artist – part of whose ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
$17,719 / item
Boho Chic Faux Bamboo Herringbone and Cane Room Divider/Screen - 3 Panels
Located in Delray Beach, FL
This Boho Chic Faux Bamboo Room Divider features three foldable panels with a striking herringbone pattern and cane insets. Perfect for adding privacy or creating a cozy nook, its na...
Category
1980s Unknown Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Cane
Vintage Screens and Antique Room Dividers on 1stDibs: Japanese Screens, Chinese Screens and Art Deco Screens for Sale
Whether they are implemented as decorative accents or makeshift partitions to ensure privacy, antique and vintage folding screens and room dividers easily introduce sophistication and depth to any space in your home.
The earliest examples of folding screens are said to have originated in China and go back at least as far as the Han dynasty. Screens of the era were heavy structures made of wood and had hinges of cloth or leather. They were adorned with elaborate landscape paintings that were typically created on silk or paper canvases and applied directly to the screen’s panels afterward. Just as they had been in the 20th century and today, the folding screens then were recognized for both their practical and purely decorative properties.
Japanese room-divider screens were also decorated with paintings but constructed to be lightweight and mobile. They took on considerable event-based importance when the structures gained popularity in the East Asian country, as the folding screens were used in performing arts such as concerts, tea ceremonies and more. Later, artists elsewhere warmed to folding screens and sought to create their own.
In European countries such as France, where they were known as paravent, folding screens began to materialize in apartments in Paris, gaining favor with the likes of pioneering couturier Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who is said to have accrued more than 30 and used them as a precursor to what we now know as wallpaper.
On 1stDibs, find a wide range of antique and vintage folding screens and room dividers, which, given their history, may do a better job of bringing people and cultures together in your home than sectioning off a space. Search by material to find options in metal, fabric or wood, or browse by style for mid-century modern designs and examples from the Art Deco era.
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