Early 20th Century Seating

American craftsman armchair in the style of Sam Maloof A tall interpretation of the Low Back chair in Walnut featuring an ergonomically sculpted seat and Maloof's signature joinery...

Antique English Barley Twist Stool Bench Oak Cane Jacobean Ottoman c1920. Direct from England, a long and lovely antique English oak bench with beautiful features that include barle...

Three legged tribal stool from Southern Ethiopia. Light reddish wood the legs are partly covered with brass. Early 1900s / first half of 20th century. Provenance: P. Strand Carl ...

Magnificent and ultra rare Art Deco Amsterdamse School armchair. Design by Willem Penaat for Metz Co. Amsterdam. Striking Dutch design from the 1920s. Solid oak frame with stun...

Pair of Catalan Modernist Wooden Chairs – Designed for the Palace of Justice, Barcelona, Circa 1920 Step into the world of Catalan modernism with this exceptional pair of wooden cha...

Condition: Original Vintage Condition, New Upholstery Recommended Materials: Walnut, Original Distressed Fabric This exquisite Italian bench showcases the opulence of Baroque Revi...

Early 20th Century Maison Jansen daybed features a squared headboard and footboard on a scrolling base veneered in figured wood. The piece is adorned wit...

Elegant French Louis XVI wingback bergere carved with flowers, lotus-leaf, acanthus and ribbon moulded frames, on lovely fluted tapering legs. Wonderful pale yellow upholstery in gre...

Stunning and rare Art Nouveau Kerfschnitt stool or side table. Striking Dutch design from the 1900s. Solid fruitwood base and top with original hand-carved Kerfschnitt decorative ele...

A handsome and comfortable early 20th century salon sofa with West Indies (Cuban) mahogany frame and upholstery. Frame is fabricated in a dense mahogany with a dark-umber, French pol...

Very comfortable armchair from the 1960s. Produced probably in France. A beautiful representative of Art Deco. Furniture with a massive construction, have a comfortable seat on sprin...

Wonderful set of 4 dining chairs from the 1920s in the style of Axel Einar Hjort.

Set of four Painted French Louis XV style armchairs. The armchairs are upholstered in a washed Belgium linen with nailhead trim detail. The wooden frame is ornately carved with flo...

This French Victorian era wrought iron bench is a striking example of 19th-century craftsmanship, combining elegance, durability, and timeless style. The hand-forged iron frame featu...

A dark-stained oak and floral embroidery fabric lounge chair designed and produced in Sweden, c. 1900s. Seat height: 18" All upholstered furniture can be reupholstered upon request...

A lovely set of six 1930s French Art Deco dining chairs sourced in Provence, France. Each chair features the iconic for the style sculpted moustache-back design veneered in beautiful...

This chair is so incredibly smart and chic that you will wish you had another,. The chair has a "second skin," in a tweed upholstery that someone was reluctant to remove. The cherub...

A set of four Arts and Crafts oak dining chair's with comfortable shaped backs. These have all been totally restored, all gently knocked apart, joints cleaned, glued, re-assembled an...

Iconic vintage Bauhaus black painted bentwood & cane Josef Hoffman Prague 811 armchairs imported by Stendig for Thonet, a set of 4. Beautiful condition, keeping in mind that these are vintage and not new so will have signs of use and wear even if it has been refinished or restored. Specifically, there have been a few small repairs in the caning of all chairs and one chair seat has been replaced completely. It has been replaced with sheet cane and not individually woven. Please see photos, zoom in for details, and see long description as they are part of the condition report. We attempt to portray any imperfections. Circa, Early to Mid-20th Century. Much like a fine wine or the Mona Lisa, some things just get better with age… That’s just a fact! Including these iconic vintage black painted bentwood & cane Josef Hoffman Prague 811 armchairs by Stendig for Thonet! Talk about the ability to withstand the hands of time!! This Josef Hoffman 811 chair was originally designed in 1925 but remains a current and fabulous design that is highly sought after today. This set of 4 is comprised of beautiful black painted bentwood frames bearing slender rounded arms, slightly flared legs, and marvelous natural cane seats AND backs!! SPECTACULAR!!! Can’t you just SEE these beauties surrounding your kitchen table, breakfast nook, game table, or simply used as extra seating in the family room? We certainly can! Just the right touch of Bauhaus magnificence to any room and they’re sure to complement your home with their classic, historical excellence, whatever your style whether its Bauhaus, Art Deco, Mid-Century Modern, or Modern!! Josef Hoffman was one of Austria's most important architects and designers and was central to the development of art and design in Vienna. He grew up with three sisters and was nicknamed Pepo. His father was the town mayor and a successful businessman. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, a radical anti-historicist movement, and together with Koloman Moser created the Wiener Werkstatte cooperative workshop. A highly individualistic architect and designer, Hoffmann's work combined the simplicity of craft production with a refined aesthetic ornament. Between 1901 and 1905, he designed four villas in Vienna and a sanatorium in Brussels that was called “Stoclet House”, for which he developed a “cubistic” language of form, with an emphasis on straight, unadorned lines. In 1905, he established the Kunstschau with painter Gustav Klimt and, two years later, founded the Deutscher Werkbund. Hoffmann worked well into his 80s, continuing to use the geometric motifs that influenced the art deco style of the 1920s. In 1928 his work appeared in the Art in Industry exhibition held at Macy’s in New York City, where it exerted a strong influence on American designer Donald Deskey. Hoffmann is one of the seminal figures in the modern decorative arts movement of the first half of the 20th century. Stendig was totally the brainchild and passion of Charles W. Stendig. You cannot write or talk about Stendig without explaining Charles. He was a pioneer of import goods in the mid-century. After serving in WWII as a paratrooper, he studied business with emphasis on international trade at NYU and City College of New York. Afterward first working for Raymor, another pioneering distribution company, for about two years, departing to start his own business: Stendig. He opened his first showroom in 1956 in midtown Manhattan. He is credited for sparking America’s interest in furniture from Finland, Switzerland, Italy, and Czechoslovakia. He imported from the likes of Thonet, Asko, and De Sede; and from iconic designers including Le Corbusier, Josef Hoffmann, Eero Aarnio, Tapio Wirkkala, Marcel Breuer, Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Carlo Mollino, Carlo Scarpa, and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni to name just a few. By the late 1960’s, Stendig had showrooms in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco with a large headquarters in NYC. They were exciting and good times but short lived. The business was a challenge and when an offer was made by Burlington Industries to purchase, Charles agreed. He stayed on till 1976 to oversee and then retired. I have searched the internet to no avail to find out if a Stendig division is still in operation. But I can only find the Stendig Calendar, the only calendar in MoMA’s collection, which was designed for Stendig by Mossimo Vignelli, still offered. But I am having a hard time deciding who is creating and offering it. I do know Burlington Industries was bankrupt by 2001, purchased in 2003, merged with Cone Mills in 2004 and subsequently into ITG or International Textile Group. But the Stendig name reins as an icon of high style mid-century offerings. Thonet was founded by Michael Thonet. Michael was born in 1796 and was apprenticed by his father to a cabinetmaker. Shortly after he married, Michael opened his one-man cabinetmaking shop creating furniture and cabinetry in the traditional manner by carving the needed parts and then joining them together. In 1830 he began experimenting with bending wood into curved shapes and thus began a successful furniture company that has remained continually in operation for nearly 200 years. Thonet’s early work was very Biedermeier in style and not made for the common man. Gradually his designs became more Art Nouveau. In 1951 his chairs for the Crystal Palace at the London World’s Fair won a prize medal and by the late 1950s he began to make his first “consumer” chair. In 1875, a year before Michael’s death, Thonet’s five factories made 620,000 chairs. Then in 1876 after his death the company became Gebruder Thonet. But all was not roses. In 1869 the Thonet patents lapsed and by 1893 there were 52 bentwood companies in Europe. However, Thonet persevered. They branched out. They merged. They added designs by Le Corbusier and Breuer and alternative materials such as tubular chrome in place of bentwood to their offerings. Business boomed and waned through the years and there was even a Thonet revival, so to speak, beginning in the 1940s on into the mid-20th century. Till today, in the 21st century, Thonet is still a furniture company to be reckoned with almost 200 years later. We are in love with this iconic set of 4 Prague 811 chairs...

An early 20th c. diminutive Chippendale style Mahogany settee with plush goose down filled cushion and hand carved frame; newly upholstered in striking Canary Yellow Damask. Seat: 2...

Magnificent and rare Art Deco Modernist stool. Striking Dutch design from the 1920s. Solid oak and original oak veneer frame with original solid macassar ebony lining. Original black...

This fine large set of 10 English Chippendale dining chairs exemplifies the enduring elegance of 18th-century design. Crafted from richly grained dark mahogany, each chair features a...

A vintage French Industrial workshop chair made of hand crafted brushed, waxed metal designed by Paul-Henry Nicolle for NICOLLE, in good condition. The Ch...

An exceptionally rare and important sofa designed by Johan Rohde (1856–1935), circa 1910. This elegant piece showcases Rohde’s unique interpretation of neoclassical design, merging c...

An Art Deco corner sofa, 't Binnenhuis, Amsterdam An Art Deco corner sofa designed by Jac. van den Bosch for the firm Het Binnenhuis Amsterdam with a high backrest and in the corner...

Wonderful antique bench with curved seat and solid mahogany curule frame on ball feet.

This elegant French Louis XVI giltwood bench showcases the refined craftsmanship and timeless beauty of neoclassical design. The bench features a hand-carved giltwood frame with exqu...

A beautiful pair of antique Danish chairs made around 1900, inspired by the classic English Hepplewhite style. Each chair has a shield-shaped back with a fine inlay of an urn, slim t...

Stylish child’s bentwood rocking chair attached to Thonet. This example is in very good original condition showing only light wear normal and consistent with age. Measures: Total H ...

Striking 3 piece salon suite circa 1900. Suite comprises of a sofa and 2 matching chairs.  Each with fan shell backs, piping and button back detail.  Richly upholstered in later cre...

Armchair and ottoman. From the early Art Deco period of Northern Italy, in walnut and ivory velvet upholstery, the chair's back is gracefully curved and extends to accentuate the cur...

This unique armchair was designed in 1928 by Camillo Cerri specifically for the interior of Haus Reinbach in Stuttgart Germany. The chair was produced in...

This Pair of Antique Italian Neoclassical Style Curule Stools is just lovely. If you can appreciate the character or decades and decades of untouched wear and patina, pieces with st...

A very rare undocumented chair by Josef Hoffmann and J&J Kohn. An identical chair with leather upholstery is available as well.

Mid-century modern, a design movement devoted to timeless functionalism, established itself in the post-war period with furniture that appealed to the senses. Design of the era was g...

An undeniably beautiful and coveted antique 19th Century Duncan Phyfe sofa upholstered in a feline Onyx Merramec Barrow fabric. One of the brilliant...

46 ice cream style cafe chairs, originally from the landmark Adelphi Hotel in Saratoga NY. Hand-wrought iron frame with upholstered pad seat, seats show some wear, normal and consist...

This old authentic rocking chair was designed Michael Thonet and manufactured by Thonet. It was in the catalogue of 1904. It is a design classic. This dark brown rocking chair is in very good vintage condition with normal signs of age and use. The chair is stamped. Take your chance to get this Thonet collector’s item. Michael Thonet (1796-1871) was a German-Austrian cabinet maker, known for the invention of bentwood furniture, which ment the beginning of Modern Design. Le Corbusier used Thonet chairs...

For your consideration is this beautiful, refinished pair of early 20th century regency style solid mahogany armchairs by Estay Manufacturing Co. Estay was founded in 1879 and specia...

Art Deco ottoman , sofa bed, 1920s, in walnut, with futurism original upholstery in good condition. Solid wood of walnut restored and polished with shellac and wax The original sprin...

A gorgeous Mission or Arts & Crafts rocker By Stickley Brothers USA, Circa 1900 Solid quarter sawn oak, with newly reupholstered brown leather seat cus...

PAIR Antique French Dining Arm Chair Louis XV Carved Oak Blue Persian textile . Direct from France, a striking pair of finely carved antique armchairs with the elegance of French Lo...

Pair of Art Deco Armchairs in Solid Wood and Tapisserie, 1930s. This is an incredible museum worthy pair of art deco armchairs in solid wood and tapisserie, made in the 1930s. Most ...

This spectacular set of 12 carved mahogany English Chippendale dining chairs represents the height of refined 18th-century style and craftsmanship. Fashioned from rich, hand-carved m...

A charming late Victorian mahogany armchair featuring a high, button-tufted back and gracefully scrolled arms. The fabric is in a tasteful yellow-and-red striped fabric, the chair is...

A rare Viennese Secessionist bench by Austrian and Czechoslovak architect and influential European theorist Adolf Loos (1870-1933).  Produced by Thonet, Austria, circa 1915.  Stain...

BEAUTIFUL Antique French Oak GOTHIC REVIVAL Bench, Settee or Church Pew with Lift-Top Seat for Storage~~HIGHLY CARVED ~~c. 1900 Spectacular design elements featuring lin...

Pair of Louis XVI style fauteuils Medaillon, French open armchairs, made circa 1900. The beechwood is finely scupted with plant motifs typical of the Louis 16 style. The upholstery i...

Egyptian Revival Adolf Loos attributed Theban Beechwood Tripod stool, circa 19l5. Featuring a handcrafted splined, tri legged framework, sculpted crescent se...

Precious period French walnut bench hand carved on the back and on the skirt. Its measurements are for 4 people. It is ideal to place it in the hall of your house and thus give it a ...

Windsor stool in dark Wood with rich Patina, England 1920's Measures: Height 52cm, Width 34, Depth 34, Diameter seat 31 cm.

An exceptional set of six of Mission or Arts & Crafts dining chairs By Gustav Stickley USA, Early 20th Century Solid quarter sawn oak, with rush seats. Measures: 17"W x 18"D x 36...

A rare rustic dining / office chair in stained pine. Made in the style of Carl Malmsten "Skedblad" in the early 1900s. It has an incredibly strong character, with its rounded shape...

Set of Ten Louis Majorelle Art Nouveau Mohair Covered Mahogany Dining Chairs, circa 1900, comprising: two armchairs and eight side chairs, unsigned. Armchairs: 46" H x 24" W x 22" D;...

An Early 20th Century Victorian Ladderback and Bobbin Walnut & Rush Seat Side Chair. Measures 17.5" in width, 17.5" in depth and and 41" in height. Seat height is 18".

This antique oak church pew has a timeless, rustic European charm. Big on size and style, the pew measures in a just over 7ft. It is crafted fr...

These chairs are a classic square-back form with elegant neoclassical lines, typical of Louis XVI style. Updated with new fabric for a fresh yet timeless look.

An important, very spectacular and charming free-form rocking-chair, Art-Nouveau, Art-Deco, Neo-Classical, Shabby-Chic, Free-Form, bamboo structures and cane seat, by Thonet, France ...

Possibly manufactured by Thonet in Austria between 1910 and 1915 and used by phone operators at Bell System. Constructed of solid maple, oak, and enameled steel, with hard rubber foo...

This pair of leather vintage French Louis XV carved oak armchairs from circa 1920 combines classic French style with luxurious craftsmanship, offering both comfort and sophistication...