19th Century Office Chairs and Desk Chairs

This early nineteenth century French Restauration period mahogany armchair or bergere features a curved back with scrolled armrests and two turned front legs. The back legs sweep bac...

This is a very elegant Georgian period desk chair. The design is very refined yet the sizing is generous for seating of this period. The shaped arms have wonderful patina and on the ...

A Victorian Oak Fan Back Revolving Desk Chair With Racing Green Leather Seat & Bras Studs, Finished With Elegant Scroll Arms By James Phillips & Sons of Union Street Bristo...

A superb Anglo Indian teak planter's chair with extending arms, Circa 1890 in date. Handcrafted in teak with elegant form it has been reupholstered in dark brown leather with brass ...

An Aesthetic Movement Jacobean or Old English ebonized armchair. After a design by E. W. Godwin. Probably made by C J Plucknett & Co. See The Secular Furniture of E W Godwin by Susan...

This elegant French Louis Philippe desk armchair dates to approximately 1845, during the later years of the Louis Philippe period. Crafted in solid walnut with beautifully figured wa...

Victorian Mahogany & Red Leather Ecclesiastical Button Back Revolving Desk Chair With Stud Detailing & Iron Swivel Base Curved upholstered deep buttoned red leather backrest, with ...

Traditional antique mountain chair from southern Germany. This distinctive and primitive chair is entirely handmade and assembled with mortise and tenon joints. Crafted from oak, thi...

Fine pair of antique George III quality mahogany desk/carver chairs having a quality mahogany turned reeded top rail, unusual attractive shaped splat to the centre, shaped reeded ope...

English fauteuil, open armchairs side or desk chair in the Victorian style. Walnut and upholstery. The fabric can be change, or needs to be repared. The ornamentation of this armchai...

Charles Eastlake attributed., An Aesthetic Movement Walnut swivel desk armchair, with floral carving to the headrest and circular backrest, with tram ...

This Desk Chair is made of walnut and cane. It is in good condition and very comfortable.

A light-brown, antique Biedermeier German single armchair made of hand crafted shellac polished Mahogany, the fiber décor is made of Maplewood in good condition. The seat backrest of...

A fine antique Regency mahogany desk chair dating from around 1830, beautifully constructed with elegant proportions and the restrained design s...

Antique Edwardian Oak Slatted Back Revolving Desk Chair With Brown Leather Seat Finished With Brass Nailhead Stud Trim with Iron Bounce & Tilt Sprung Action Retailed by AH Park...

A Victorian Antique Bergeré Sapele Mahogany Clerks Desk Chair With Open Swan Arms. Wrought Iron Industrial Mechanism Base That Swivels & Tilts. Ideal for use in the library or at th...

This elegant 19th-century French Empire desk chair, carved circa 1870, features a sculptural mahogany frame with a rich, warm patina and classic neoclassical lines. The barrel-form b...

Early 19thC Mahogany Desk Chair - with Bergere Seat, Turned Stretchers, Spindle Back and Lignum Vitae Castors - 24"w x 24"d x 33"h (19" to the seat)

Chair 2025 3 TW Antique English Victorian Hand Crafted Mahogany Classic Clerks Revolving Desk Chair With Shaped Seat. Fixed seat height with iron base. Extra dimensions Height t...

French fauteuil, open armchairs side or desk chair Louis XVI revival, circa 1880 The upholstery and the fabric have been recently redone Good condition Walnut frame sound and so...

An ebonized upholstered armchair made by Oetzmann, after a design by E.W. Godwin.

A superb Anglo Indian teak planter's chair, Circa 1890 in date. Handcrafted in teak with elegant form it has been reupholstered in grey leather with brass studs. It is of pegged con...

Elegant single chair, of the early Austrian Biedermeier period. All veneered in walnut wood, with inlays in lighter woods. As you can see from the photos, the back legs and the back...

This is a beautiful antique French Empire Revival "fauteuil du bureau", desk chair, Circa 1880 in date.   The square back and seat has been upholstered in an elegant in black leather...

A fine French desk chair (fauteuil de bureau) from 19th century, featuring a frame crafted from walnut displaying the understated elegance and functional form typical of the Louis P...

Exceptional 19th century Danish revolving desk armchair in mahogany with marquetry and brass casters, from the Empire period. Ca 1850, Denmark.

A large Antique French chair set with a particularly fine form. With elegant shaped curved crest rails and open back supports in a high polish. With r...

A clean Victorian Walnut and Caned Seat and Back Rolling and swivelling Office Chair. Measures 23.85" in width, 26" in depth and 36" in height. Seat height is 18". Arm height is 26.7...

The mahogany barrel back with an outscrolled crestrail and a dark red leather bowed seat raised on back saber legs and lion's mask and cartouche-carved monopodia.

Of generous proportions and presence . The front mounted with well cast bronze mounts (of some size and weight ). The top with French interpretations of the Greek Caryatids (very att...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this museum quality, fully restored, hand dyed Cigar Brown leather Cornelius V Smith, Walnut & Satinwood captain's or directors armchair Please note the delivery fee listed is just a guide, it covers within the M25 only for the UK and local Europe only for international, if you would like an accurate quote, please send me your postcode and I’ll provide you with the exact price. This chair is a good looking and well made original Victorian example, circa 1885, the frame is Walnut with Satinwood and Boxwood inlay, the leather is period, the seat platform is webbed and coil sprung, the chair rotates, this is one of the first swivel armchair models ever made so its quite privative by todays standards but in the Victorian era this was quite a novelty Condition wise, as mentioned this chair has been restored from the ground up, the leather upholstery has been washed back, hand dyed six times, antiqued, sealed waxed down and polish, tall the wood work has been deep cleaned and lightly French polished The base is stamped four times on each leg CVS for CORNELIUS V SMITH, below is a brief history of the great man and some of his work Dimensions: Height:- 92cm Width:- 55cm Depth:- 60cm Seat height:- 47cm Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point, if you would like any additional or specific measurements please ask. Smith, Cornelius V. London; wholesale cabinet maker, upholsterer and frame maker (fl.1885-1891) Cornelius Smith was born in 1847 in Mile End, his father, George, a wine merchant. By 1885 is was recorded with showrooms and an upholstery workshop in Marshall’s Yard, Henry Street (sometimes Seaton Street), Hampstead Road and a frame making workshop in Charles Place, Drummond Street. He had the telegraphic address of ‘Cornelius, London’ [The Furniture Gazette, 1 December 1885]. When the lease on the Marshall Yard workshop expired in 1886 he moved to larger and more convenient premises at 64 Osnaburgh Street, with the entrance in Wybert Street, Munster Square, close to Portland Road Metropolitan Railway Station [The Furniture Gazette, 1 October 1886]. From 1887-9 his address was recorded as Vincent Works, 64 Osnaburgh Street and Wybert Street, Munster Square, London. Smith advertised in The Furniture Gazette from1 March 1886-1 March 1889, with some advertisements illustrated. One such article, published on 15 April 1891, described Smith as ‘the well known upholsterering manufacturer and art furniture maker, [who] in person is of middle height. He is a thorough man of business, and has a very pleasant manner. He has built up a reputation of which any man might be proud, and his business is one of the largest in the trade. His manager, Mr. T. E. Green, is equally well-known for his business tact and geniality of manner’. Smith’s specialised in stuffed-over chairs & couches, made with the use of every contemporary devise and of comfort, convenience and elegance. For example the 'Iddesleigh' settee, named after the Earl of Iddesleigh (late Sir Stafford Northcote), which was spring-stuffed, in saddle bags and covered in Utrecht or Genoa velvet. Another novelty was the 'Newlands' suite, the frames of mahogany or rosewood inlaid with suitable ornament, covered in fashionable silk velvet. Among the range of fancy chairs was the 'Minnie Palmer' with an elegant light frame inlaid with marquetry; the 'Irving' chair made in inlaid mahogany; the 'Mexican' lounge (settee) and the 'Randolph' corner chair. Smith’s workmanship and finish was highly praised [The Furniture Gazette, 1 August 1885; editorial and advertisement]. The Furniture Gazette, 1 February 1887, described the Osnaburgh premises, which had a depth of 250 ft. The front showroom displayed every type of cabinet made of walnut, rosewood or other choice woods, and inlaid with marquetry. Behind the showroom were the general counting office and the offices of Mr Smith and the manager. Then the individual workshops for cabinet makers, fitters, upholsterers, women sewers and French polishers. There were storerooms on the ground floor and upstairs more workshops. The main showroom displayed drawing and dining room suites, fancy chairs, stuffed-over goods, lounging and patent spring easy chairs, and fancy card and five o’clock tea tables. In adjoining buildings were the packing premises and time-keeper’s office. The 'Oscar' suite of armchairs and settee was illustrated in The Furniture Gazette, 1 February 1889, as was Smith’s patent ottoman box...

Handsome 19th century English Victorian period captains chair or smokers' bow chair crafted from mahogany. The chair features a round horseshoe shaped seat crest with a deep contoure...

An iconic and architecturally significant offering, this set of four EA331 Aluminum Group Chairs was designed by the visionary partnership of Charles and Ray Eames. Originally concei...

Bring elegance and comfort to a study, library, or writing desk with this handsome antique French desk chair. Crafted in France circa 1890, the chair is executed in walnut and reflec...

A very fine pair of palatial Venetian walnut carved mid-19th century Baroque figural throne armchairs, attributed to Valentino Panciera Besarel (Venice, 1829-1902) in the manner of Andrea Brustolon (1662-1732). The ornately carved thrones, each flanked with figures of standing males supporting a branch-carved armrests with vines. Raised on cabriolet scrolled legs. Provenance: The Castello di Giove in Umbria, Italy, circa 1870-1880. Height: 54 1/4 inches (137.8 cm.) Width: 37 1/4 inches (94.6 cm.) Depth: 32 inches (81.3 cm.) Andrea Brustolon (20 July 1662 – 25 October 1732) was an Italian sculptor in wood. He is known for his furnishings in the Baroque style and devotional sculptures. Biography He was trained in a vigorous local tradition of sculpture in his native Belluno, in the Venetian terraferma, and in the studio of the Genoese sculptor Filippo Parodi, who was carrying out commissions at Padua and at Venice (1677). He spent the years 1678-80 at Rome, where the High Baroque sculpture of Bernini and his contemporaries polished his style. Apart from that, the first phase of Brustolon's working career was spent in Venice, 1680–1685. Brustolon is documented at several Venetian churches where he executed decorative carving in such profusion that he must have quickly assembled a large studio of assistants. As with his contemporary in London, Grinling Gibbons almost all the high quality robust Baroque carving in Venice has been attributed to Brustolon at one time or another. In the Venetian Ghetto, at the Scola Levantina, Brustolon provided the woodwork for the synagogue on the piano nobile, where the carved, canopied bimah is supported on Solomonic columns, which Brustolon had seen in Bernini's baldacchino in the Basilica of St Peter's. His furniture included armchairs with figural sculptures that take the place of front legs and armrest supports, inspired by his experience of Bernini's Cathedra Petri. The gueridon, a tall stand for a candelabrum, offered Brustolon unhampered possibilities for variations of the idea of a caryatid or atlas: the familiar Baroque painted and ebonized figural gueridons, endlessly reproduced since the eighteenth century, found their models in Brustolon's work. His secular commissions from Pietro Venier, of the Venier di San Vio family (a suite of forty sculptural pieces that can be seen in the Sala di Brustolon of the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice), from the Pisani of Strà, and from the Correr di San Simeone families encourage the attribution to him of some extravagantly rich undocumented moveable furniture. Andrea Brustolon's elaborate carved furniture aspired towards the condition of sculpture, such as the Dutch bases for console tables which look like enlargements of the work of the two Van Vianens, Paulus and Adam, perhaps the greatest Dutch silversmiths of the period. These carved pieces display the baroque tendency to develop a form three-dimensionally in space. Brustolon's walnut, boxwood and ebony pieces transcend ordinary functional limitations of furniture; they are constructed of elaborately carved figures. The framework of Brustolon's chairs, side tables and gueridons were carved as gnarled tree branches, with further supports of putti and male figures carved in ebony. Backrests of the chairs, which were never touched in the rigidly upright posture that contemporary etiquette demanded, were carved with allegories of vanity, fire and music, etc. The most extravagant piece delivered for Pietro Venier was a large side table and vase-stand of box and ebony, designed as a single ensemble to display rare imported Japanese porcelain vases. The eclectic allegories include Hercules with the Hydra and Cerberus, males and reclining river-gods (see ref.). For the Correr, less extrovert chairs bear female nudes extended along the armrests. For the Pisani, he carved a suite of twelve chairs (now at the Palazzo Quirinale) with flowers, fruit, leaves and branches to symbolize the twelve months of the year. Work by Brustolon is at the Villa Pisani at Stra. In 1685 Brustolon returned to the house where he was born at Belluno, and from that time devoted himself mainly to tabernacles and devotional sculptures in walnut, boxwood or ivory. His polychromed ivory Corpus from a crucifix is in the Museo Civico di Belluno, which preserves some of Brustolon's preparatory drawings for frames to be carved with putti displaying emblems. A pair of boxwood sculptures, The Sacrifice of Abraham and Jacob Wrestling with the Angel...

A Regency mahogany library chair, of rectangular form, the arms with padded elbow rests and turned tapering legs with brass castors, originally caned but now with two re-upholstered ...

Regency period, circa 1815, Scottish desk or library chair attributed to Trotter of Edinburgh. Mahogany. In a design reminiscent of Thomas Hope. An arched rope twist top rail reflect...

A stylish pair of antique Victorian carved mahogany desk chairs with unusual circular spider web backs, shaped arms and newly upholstered seats. The backs are beautifully detailed wi...

An Empire Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Desk Chair, By Kahn, Paris. Incised ‘L. KAHN’ to the back of the mounts. The bow-shaped top rail applied with a gilt-bronze anthemion m...

English barber’s chair constructed of stained beech with adjustable headrest and reclining back mechanism. Upholstered seat and back with brass stud trim and exposed brass adjustment...

The early 19th century desk chair with ram's head arms and turned legs, is attributable to Jacob Desmalter and dates to circa 1805.

Elegant William IV Rosewood Caned Bergere Tub Chair With Rounded Horseshoe Back 1800´s Unattributed to Gillows of Lancaster & London. A highly de...

Beautiful traditional shipping era swivel Chippendale desk chair. The Captain's Chair, with the modern addition of a turn and tilt mechanism. The comfortable desk chair is in its ori...

A very original French empire desk chair, the leather seat original with perfect wear and slight losses revealing traditional upholstery methods below, nutty deep untouched colour to...

This elegant antique French Louis-Philippe desk armchair was crafted in walnut, circa 1860, and exemplifies the refined yet restrained aesthetic of mid-19th-century French furniture....

A mahogany reading chair After a design by Thomas Sheraton Of most striking design, the mahogany chair with its original leather upholstery ...

An elegant and rare, Early Victorian antique Bergere library, office, desk, swivel armchair with original maroon leather seat & stud details, on a claw base with Castors. The cha...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this rare and super collectable Antique Victorian Scottish Mahogany captains chair...

A nice 19th century walnut directory Gondola chair from Italy restored and re-upholstered Measure cm: H 76\40 W 53 D 51.

Stunning oak English "Captain Chair", fabricated around 1900. This swivel chair is made of solid oak wood and has a beautiful patina. Height adjustable and with a tilt function (see...

A late 19th century New York armchair in the early 18th century Dutch-Style in mahogany decorated with inlays in other woods of bows, birds, rinceau ...

A handsome antique swivel captain’s desk chair, dating to the late Victorian or Edwardian period, circa 1890–1910. The chair features a richly patinated dark stained hardwood frame w...

Charles Bevan for Marsh Jones and Cribb, attributed. A good quality set of six Gothic Revival oak dining chairs with geometric dot and...

Pair of antique George III quality mahogany desks chairs having a mahogany shaped reeded top rail and centre splat, shaped reeded open arms with turned supports, upholstered seats in...

Antique English Chesterfield Desk Chair/Captain's Chair, Mahogany & Leather, circa 1830 Solid mahogany wood upholstered in genuine dark leather, back and armrests upholstered in...

A British 1830's William IV polished antique brown leather chesterfield backed mahogany library armchair with brass stud detailing on brass castors. .

Italian or French in the Louis XVI style. Originally carved dark wood in later deep gray paint overall. The square backs with ribbon and beaded crest rails and wide carved lyres deco...

A Pair of Arts & Crafts Oak, back pierced hall chairs with re upholstered in Willow Bough Tomato Olive by Morris & Co from the Queen Square fabrics by Ben Pentreath...

Antique Victorian quality carved mahogany desk chair having a quality carved mahogany shaped back, carved mahogany open arms with shape supports, newly reupholstered seat in a qualit...

Pair of French fauteuils, open armchairs side or chairs Louis XV revival, This pair was made in the 19th century. The upholtery has been removed so can choose the one of your choise....