Renaissance Chairs
RENAISSANCE STYLE
Spanning an era of cultural rebirth in Europe that harkened back to antiquity, the Renaissance was a time of change in design. From the late 1400s to the early 1600s, Rome, Venice and Florence emerged as artistic centers through the expansion of global trade and a humanist belief in the arts being central to society. Antique Renaissance furniture was ornately carved from sturdy woods like walnut, its details standing out against the tapestries and stained glass adorning the walls.
Renaissance chests, which were frequently commissioned for marriages, were often decorated with gilding or painted elements. Those that were known as cassoni were crafted in shapes based on classical sarcophagi. As opposed to the medieval era, when furniture was pared down to the necessities, a wide range of Renaissance chairs, tables and cabinets were created for the home, and the designs regularly referenced ancient Rome.
Large torchères of the Renaissance era that were used as floor lamps were inspired by classical candelabras, while marble surfaces evoked frescoes. The inlaid boxes being imported from the Middle East informed the intarsia technique, which involved varying hues of wood in mosaic-like patterns, such as those by architect Giuliano da Maiano in the Florence Cathedral.
Tapestry-woven cushion covers accented the variety of Renaissance seating — from conversation to study chairs — while bookcases for secular use reflected the migration of culture and knowledge from the church into the home. The aesthetics of the Italian Renaissance later spread to France through the publishing of work by renowned designers, including Hugues Sambin and Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. Centuries later, the 19th-century Renaissance Revival would see a return to this influential style.
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Style: Renaissance
Pair of 19th Century Antique Italian Savonarola Campaign Armchairs in Mahogany
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An incredible pair of Savonarola chairs from Italy circa 1890's. They feature heavy solid wood construction with great hand painted detailing. Upholstery was redone some years back, ...
Category
1890s Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Pair SET Antique French Arm Chair Barley Twist Oak Renaissance Lion Fleur De Lis
Located in Shreveport, LA
Pair SET Antique French Arm Chair Barley Twist Oak Renaissance Lion Fleur De Lis.
Direct from France, a fabulous pair of antique arm chairs with all the BARLEY TWIST. Barley twist a...
Category
Early 20th Century French Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Oak
Antique Italian Renaissance Figural Bird & Lion Carved Walnut Throne Chair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Italian Renaissance Figural Bird & Lion Carved Walnut Throne Arm Chair. Item features a high back, solid carved walnut frame with bird crest, pierce carved acanthus leaves th...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Renaissance "Chayère" Chair
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
This chayère chair of beautiful proportions stands on a rectangular box base enriched by vermiculure motifs executed in flat-plane. This base is topped by a moulding of strong gadroo...
Category
16th Century French Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Italian Renaissance Style Walnut Savonarola Folding Chair circa 1900
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian Renaissance style walnut Savonarola folding chair from circa 1900 with lion paw feet. This Italian Renaissance style Savonarola chair, dating back to circa 1900, is a sple...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Continental Renaissance Style Savonarola Chair
Located in Houston, TX
19th Century Continental Renaissance Style Savonarola chair.
Handsome antique Continental Renaissance style walnut Savroarola chair, side chair, armchair or throne chair. This beautifully carved Gothic style chair...
Category
Mid-19th Century European Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut, Suede
Antique Renaissance Carved Lion Heads Curule Savonarola Style Chairs - a Pair
Located in Clifton Forge, VA
This is a wonderful pair of antique Renaissance Curule or Savonarola Style Chairs with carved loins heads beneath carved scrolls on the arm posts and a carved crest between the posts...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Wood
17th Century Louis XIII Armchair
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
During the first half of the seventeenth century chairs evolve towards a new model today known as Louis XIII foreshadowing the armchair. Chairs adopt a widen and lower silhouette. Horizontal lines prevail. Cushions disappear supplanted by horse hair upholstery.
This chair stands on four feet linked by an H-shaped spacer and a frontal cross-bar. Legs, spacers, cross-bar and arm-rests are all turned as rosary beads...
Category
17th Century French Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Antique Henry II Carved Walnut Leather Nailhead Accent Chair w Heraldic Crest
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Henry II style dining side chair, circa 1880s. Made from walnut with an embossed leather back featuring a heraldic winged griffon / lion crest. The lower back of the chair sh...
Category
1880s Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Set of Four Italian Walnut Savonarola Armchairs
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Set of four Italian walnut Savonarola armchairs
ORIGIN : FLORENCE, ITALY
PERIOD : LATE 15TH CENTURY - EARLY 16TH CENTURY
Measures: height : 102 cm 40.15 inches, height : 93 cm 36.61 inches
length : 68 cm 26.77 inches, length : 68 cm 26.77 inches
depth : 55 cm 21.65 inches, depth : 50 cm 19.68 inches
Walnut
Very good condition
This movable Italian seat from the late 15th century descents from the roman curule seat. It took the name of sedia Savonarola...
Category
16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Italian Inlaid Folding Savonarola Chair
Located in North York, ON
Original folding chair with finely carved detailed patterns and mother of pearl inlay.
Price includes complimentary curb side delivery to the continental USA.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Regency Leather Arm Chair
Located in Annville, PA
The Niagara Furniture Regency Brown Leather Arm Chair with full grain leather upholstery combines a super simple design with sweeping lines and finely executed details to help make t...
Category
2010s Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Chair Stool Hall Sgabello Pair 16 Century Venetian Renaissance Carved Sculpture
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
The quality of these exhuberant backstools demonstrate why Italian Renaissance furniture was as highly prized as old-master paintings. Th...
Category
16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Style Carved Walnut Pair of Throne Chairs
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Impressive rare pair of throne chairs in perfect Italian Renaissance style, late 19th century. Made of solid walnut wood. The finely carved wooden backrest with very complex decorati...
Category
1880s Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Faux Leather, Walnut
Pair of 19th Century Provincial Italian Renaissance Revival Sgabello Hall Chairs
Located in Forney, TX
A pair of antique, circa 1830, Italian Renaissance style hand carved walnut sgabello hall chairs.
Hand-crafted in Provincial Italy, most likely ...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Pair of 19th Century Italian Renaissance Carved Walnut Sgabello Hall Chairs
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a hallway with this well carved pair of antique Sgabello chairs. Crafted of walnut in Italy circa 1860, each Renaissance chair stands on curv...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Set of 6 English Renaissance Ornately-Carved Hall Chairs, Turn of 19th & 20th C
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English set of six Renaissance style elaborately carved hall chairs from the turn of the 19th and 20th century. This set of antique board chairs from England each have been ornately hand-carved in a series of grotesque figures, embellished with swags, volutes, leaves. An arched crest further adorns the toprail. Center backs show a shied entwined with helmet and arrows. The seats, with their decoratively trim carved edges, are raised by a pair of shapely legs consisting of two carved boards, with front leg board continuing the mythological them of the back. These turn of the century chairs...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Wood
Regency Green Leather Arm Chair
Located in Annville, PA
The Niagara Furniture Regency Green Leather Arm Chair with full grain leather upholstery combines a super simple design with sweeping lines and finely executed details to help make t...
Category
2010s Unknown Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Antique Italian Renaissance Style Chair
Located in Houston, TX
Antique Italian Renaissance style chair.
Well carved 19th century Italian Renaissance style carved walnut chair. This antique Italian Savonarola armchair or side chair is upholstered in neutral linen. This versatile Italian Gothic style chair...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Walnut
Antique Vanleigh Carved Oak Italian Renaissance Style Throne Arm Chairs - a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Vanleigh Furniture New York Carved Oak Italian Renaissance Style Throne Arm Chairs - a Pair. Item features the original label, solid oak wood construction, beautiful woodgrai...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Oak
French Renaissance Carved Walnut Armchair
Located in Woodbury, CT
This regal seat dates to the 16th century. The square seat and back contrasted by the blocked barley twist turnings that comprise the arms legs and stretcher. Well-carved recumbent l...
Category
16th Century French Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Silk, Walnut
19th Century Italian Renaissance Figural Carved Walnut Sgabello Hall Side Chair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
19th century Italian Renaissance figural carved walnut sgabello hall side chair. Item features finely carved details including north wind face, maiden ...
Category
19th Century European Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
19 / 20th C. Antique Italian Renaissance, Wood, Savonarola, Chairs, Set of 2!
Located in Austin, TX
Charming Set of Chairs, Savonarola, Set of 2, Italian Renaissance, Wood, 19th / 20th Century, 1800's to 1900's!!
Add a touch of Italian Renaissance to your home decor with this set of 2 antique...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Armchair Throne Pair Italian Walnut Red Mohair Velvet Armorial Renaissance
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A rare pair of late-Renaissance, Italian, upholstered, walnut, throne, open, armchairs or coppia di seggioloni, retaining their original armorials
These throne armchairs are characteristic of those found in Palazzo's in the Renaissance. They are elegant and substantial, injecting gravitas into the period or contemporary interior. It is exceptionally rare feature that they retain the original armorials with Ducal coronets which are beautifully worked in gold threadwork. One bears three fleurs-de-lys above three swords and the other a lion rampant. They are sturdy and usable and have a wonderful, lustrous, rich patina.
The rectangular backs and seats re-upholstered in a c.1920 mohair...
Category
Early 1600s Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
17th Century Charles I English Oak Wainscot Armchair Primate Design Hand Carved
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this original early 17th century Charles I Wainscot armchair.
A good early original piece, hand carved, very naïve but at the time this would ha...
Category
Early 17th Century European Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Oak
17th Century Renaissance Sgabello Walnut Chair
Located in Boven Leeuwen, NL
Beautiful 17th century (1650-1680) Sgabello.
The countries where this could originate are located in and around the Alps. So Switzerland, Austria, Southern Germany, and Northern Ita...
Category
17th Century Swiss Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
3 High-Backed Chairs, Cordoba Leather Trim with Native American Decor, Spain
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
3 high-backed chairs, Cordoba leather trim with Native American decor and cupids framing a floral arrangement.
Ornamentation of copper cabochons on the...
Category
Mid-19th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Brass
Renaissance style Chairs Made In Oak With Green Fabric From 1930s
Located in Lejre, DK
The two oak chairs in Renaissance style, upholstered with green velour fabric from the 1930s, are exquisite examples of vintage furniture with timeless app...
Category
1930s Danish Vintage Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Velvet, Oak
Renaissance Style, Northern Italian Chairs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of richly hand-carved walnut armchairs with faces and foliate details.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut, Fabric
Pair of Wooden Chairs, Lombardy, 17th Century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Pair of beautifully carved wooden chairs
Lombardy, first half of 17th century
H 86 x L 48 x P 43 cm
Pair of “da balia” (nanny) chairs. The backrest is decorated with winged myt...
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Wood
Large Renaissance Style Figural Lion Carved Wood Paw Feet Throne Chair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large Renaissance Style Figural Lion Carved Wood Paw Feet Throne Chair. Item features a large impressive size, ornate lion heads and paw feet, nicely carved details, very nice item, ...
Category
Late 20th Century Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Wood
Chair with foldings slats, called "Savonarole"
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
CHAIR WITH FOLDING SLATS, CALLED «SAVONAROLE»
ORIGIN : FLORENCE, ITALY
PERIOD : LATE 15th CENTURY – EARLY 16th CENTURY
Height : 85 cm
Width : 65 cm
Depth : 55 cm
Walnut
Good state of preservation
This movable Italian seat from the late 15th century descents from the roman curule seat. It took the name of sedia Savonarola...
Category
16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Wood, Walnut
Large Carved Oak Renaissance Style Armchair from France, C. 1890
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand-carved in the Renaissance style in France, circa 1890, this imposing oak armchair features a verdant tapestry affixed with iron nailheads. The sc...
Category
1890s French Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Tapestry, Upholstery, Oak
Small Italian Chair with Marquetry Decor
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
SMALL ITALIAN CHAIR WITH MARQUETRY DÉCOR
ORIGIN : ITALY
PERIOD : EARLY 16th CENTURY
Height : 103 cm
Width : 45 cm
Depth : 38 cm
This chair r...
Category
16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Wood, Walnut
19th Century Renaissance Style Chair
Located in Houston, TX
19th century Renaissance style chair.
Handsome antique Continental Renaissance style or Gothic style walnut Savonarola chair, throne chair, si...
Category
19th Century European Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Suede, Fabric, Walnut
Pair of Italian 19th Century Renaissance St. Walnut Chairs
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome and most decorative pair of Italian 19th century Renaissance st. walnut chairs. Each chair is raised by richly carved paw feet below the elegantly scrolled supports decora...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Antique Italian Renaissance Revival Carved Walnut Throne Captains Red Arm Chair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Italian Renaissance Revival Carved Walnut Throne Captains Red Arm Chair. Item features red spiral sunset print upholstery, solid wood frame, beautiful wood grain, nicely carv...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
16th Century Spanish Walnut Chair
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
This walnut chair stands on four square-section feet linked by four crossbars. The front spacer is carved as an intertwined branch. The backrest’s jambs are adorned with leaves motif...
Category
16th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Walnut
Pair of 19th Century carolean inspired hall chairs
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Unusual pair of carolean inspired hall chairs circa 1880.
Made from earlier 18th century elements. Carved back rests with inlaid floral plaques.
Slight differences in carvings pleas...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Early 18th Century Hand Carved with Figures Italian Renaissance Armchair
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous hand carved armchair with Figures carved on each arm post. Detailed and all mortise and tenon construction with wood pegs locking it tightly together. Flat back panel with a...
Category
1750s Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Set Six Renaissance Chairs in Hand-Carved Walnut, Spring Seat
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Late 19th century set six Renaissance chairs in hand-carved walnut, spring seat upholstered in ocher-colored velvet. The chairs are still usable. Their res...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Velvet, Walnut
Set of 10 Inlaid Shield Back Chairs
Located in Annville, PA
This set of 10 Inlaid Shield Back Chairs by Niagara Furniture features 2 arm chairs and 8 side chairs. These shield back chairs are taller than many traditional shield back design ch...
Category
2010s Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Pair of Turned Chairs Renaissance Florentine in Walnut Wax Polished
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Very precious and hard to find pair of turned chairs Renaissance Florentine of the 18th century in dark walnut. Wax polished
Measures cm: D...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Brown Leather Arm Chair
Located in Annville, PA
A fine quality Brown Leather Arm Chair from Niagara furniture featuring a solid mahogany frame and full grain genuine leather. We had so many requests for our traditional fireside c...
Category
2010s Unknown Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Tuscany 19th Century Renaissance Table with Six Chairs, Hand-Carved Walnut
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Tuscany Renaissance table with six chairs by Cucchi & Sola -Ammobilgiamenti- Torino in hand-carved walnut in original conditions, polished to wax.
The upholstery of the chairs is st...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
Two Henri IV Armchairs
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Those armchairs made from a fine walnut wood are perfect example of the Henri IV model.
It’s low seat stands on four feet linked by an H-shaped spacer wit...
Category
17th Century French Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
IMPORTANT PAIR OF 18th Century PORTUGUESE STATE CHAIRS
Located in Madrid, ES
IMPORTANT PAIR OF 18TH CENTURY PORTUGUESE STATE CHAIRS
Portuguese, from 18th century
in rosewood and other woods, back with hollow tables.
Upholstered seats.
Small defects.
Dim...
Category
Early 18th Century Portuguese Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Wood
Pair of Italian Renaissance Pine Sgabello Side Chairs
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Italian Renaissance style Venetian (20th Cent) pine carnival viewing sgabello style side chairs with a Pair carved heads on back.
Category
20th Century Italian Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Pine
18th Century Italian Walnut Desk and Three Chairs
Located in Hixson, TN
A marvelous 18th century Italian writing table with the three chairs from Florence, Italy. This desk is an example of country Italian furniture. Simple but elegant. Strong but utilit...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
19th Century Spanish Armchair
Located in Miami, FL
Renaissance style armchair from the Catalan region of Spain. Constructed from richly stained oak and leather, accented with wonderful nailheads.
Category
Early 20th Century Spanish Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Leather, Oak
19th Century Stool in Renaissance Style
Located in Paris, FR
Renaissance style stool with a leather seat stretched across an X-shaped frame. The nails used to fasten the seat to the base are flower shaped and the sides of the frame are sculpte...
Category
19th Century French Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Leather, Wood
Italian Renaissance Chair
Located in New York, NY
Over the course of five centuries of use, this Italian Renaissance walnut chair has acquired a rich patina. Its austere form is relie...
Category
16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
High-Backed Chair Made In Solid Oak With The Style Of The Renaissance From 1910s
Located in Lejre, DK
The high-backed chair crafted from solid oak, echoing the Renaissance style from around the year 1910, is a remarkable piece of furniture that exudes timeless elegance and sophistica...
Category
1910s Danish Vintage Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Oak, Fabric
Pair of Italian Dante Chairs
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair of exquisite Italian wood "Dante" style chairs from the early 20th century. These feature x-base frames with carved accents and a crest back. Vintage cushions in good condition ...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Walnut
PAIR OF PORTUGUESE CHAIRS D. JOSÉ 19th Century ROSEWOOD
By Europa
Located in Madrid, ES
PAIR OF PORTUGUESE CHAIRS D. JOSÉ 19th Century
in rosewood, carved.
Backrests decorated with "rocaille" elements.
Upholstered seats.
Signs of use.
Dim.: 100 x 46 x 42 cm
good condit...
Category
19th Century Portuguese Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Wood, Rosewood
PORTUGUESE D. JOSÉ HIGH-BACKED ARMCHAIR 18th Century
By Europa
Located in Madrid, ES
D. JOSÉ HIGH-BACKED ARMCHAIR 18th Century
Portuguese in sucupira wood with carvings, backrest and seat in embossed leather.
Period defects
It was never restored.
Dim.: 139 x 55 x 50 cm
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18th Century Portuguese Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Wood
Twelve Set Chairs Armchairs Open Fruitwood Upholstered Dining Renaissance-Style
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A rare long set of 12, Antiquarian, Renaissance-style, Fruitwood, Upholstered, Open Armchairs
- Rare to find a set of 12 of a Renaissance-style armchair, in 35 years of dealing I ...
Category
1920s French Vintage Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Fruitwood
Renaissance chair with heraldic emblems of the Szontágh de Igló et Zabar family
Located in Banská Štiavnica, SK
Renaissance chair with heraldic emblems of the Szontágh de Igló et Zabar family in excellent original condition.
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18th Century Slovak Antique Renaissance Chairs
Materials
Wood
Renaissance chairs for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Renaissance chairs for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage chairs created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include seating, tables, folk art and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, walnut and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Renaissance chairs made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original chairs, popular names associated with this style include Europa Antiques, and Vanleigh Furniture. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for chairs differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $580 and tops out at $110,955 while the average work can sell for $3,980.