Art. Deco Leather Tub Chair by Gunlocke c. 1940's
By Gunlocke
Located in New York, NY
Voguish Art Deco tub chair, made by Gunlocke, circa 1940's. The chair features a chic distressed green leather surface, it is structurally sound and sturdy, and in clean and ready to...
Leather, Walnut
Petite Tub Chairs Reupholstered in Your Fabric Refinished Mid Century Modern
Located in Atlanta, GA
Petite Pair of Tub Lounge Chairs, American, circa 1940s. These chairs are currently being refinished and reupholstered and can be completed in your choice of wood finish color and re...
Upholstery, Wood
Fabulous 1940s Billy Haines Style Channel Back Occasional Tub Chair - Restored
By Edward Wormley, William Billy Haines, Dunbar Furniture
Located in St. Louis, MO
1940s Billy Haines style channel back occasional tub chair, reupholstered in a mocha beige linen fabric with refinished dark mahogany legs.
Upholstery, Wood
Pair of Art Deco Tub Chairs
Located in Toronto, ON
Pair of painted black chairs. Upholstered in grey color silk fabric. The central part of the back is tufted.
THE HEPBURN OPEN BACK TUB CHAIR
By Derapage Design
Located in San Francisco, CA
Description
The tailored upholstered roll wraps the occupant and provides comfortable rests for the arms. Two well-placed self-welts add detail without getting in the way. T...
THE HEPBURN TUFTED OPEN BACK TUB CHAIR
By Derapage Design
Located in San Francisco, CA
The tailored upholstered roll wraps the occupant and provides comfortable rests for the arms. Miniature tufting with small covered buttons cushions the upper back. The outside back...
Fluted Tub Chair c. 1940
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This beautifully preserved 1940s vintage tub chair features a fluted mahogany veneer back and sturdy, solid wood turned legs. Upholstered in luxurious silk damask with intricate lace...
Mahogany
Pair of Curvaceous 1940's Tub Chairs
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of Curvaceous 1940's Tub Chairs, American, circa 1940's. They have been completely restored.
Bouclé, Ivory, Upholstery
Pair of 1940's Hollywood Tub Chairs
Located in New York, NY
Stylized Form in Metallic Sharkskin with Button Back Detail and Ebonized Walnut Legs. newly upholtered.
Pair of 1940's Tub Chairs with Brass Lattice Backs
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of Elegant Tub Chairs with Brass Lattice Backs, American, circa 1940's.
Bouclé, Ivory, Upholstery
Pair, Vintage Brown Leather Tub Club Chairs, France circa 1940
Located in Round Top, TX
Pair, brown leather tub club chairs with hard wood legs. Upholstered in vintage brown leather with rich patina, slender rolled arms with nail head trim. Sold in original vintage cond...
Leather, Wood
Pair of 20th Century French Tub Chairs
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
A pair of French late 20th Century tub chairs. Reupholstered in a black linen mix fabric.
Linen, Oak
Elegant Horseshoe Back Tub Chair
Located in Atlanta, GA
Elegant horseshoe back tub chair, American, circa 1940s. This chair looks great from every angle and is very comfortable. It is currently being reupholstered and refinished and can b...
Great Sea Foam Leather Barrel Back Tub Chairs
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Beautiful tailored lines on this pair of vintage barrel back tub chairs covered in soothing sea foam bluish green leather, finished with bronze colored nailheads, sitting on tapered ...
Pair of 1940s Hollywood Tub Chair
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Pair of 1940s Hollywood Regency tub chairs. Very chic. These chairs need reupholstering.
Upholstery
Pair of Mid Century Modern Tub Chairs on Castors
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Very versatile size, small and tailored sophisticated occasional chairs, newly recovered in heavy gauge white duck. On brass casters.
Upholstery, Wood
Pair of Art Deco Tub Chairs in the Style of Dunbar
By Dunbar Furniture
Located in Pompano Beach, FL
Pair of Art Deco Tub Chairs in the style of Dunbar with a great design with a wood trim base.
Pair of Curvaceous 1940's Slipper Chairs
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of Curvaceous 1940's Slipper or Tub Chairs, American, circa 1940's.
Bouclé, Ivory, Upholstery
Sold
H 32 in W 22.75 in L 32 in
Great Pair of French Regency Walnut Tub Style Lounge Club Chairs, circa 1940s
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
The chairs measure 32 tall x 22.75 wide x 26.5 deep seat height is 18 These chairs are elegant and simple. They are in good condition and have minor signs of wear and date to the ...
Walnut
Danish 1940s Boesen Banana Style Curved Tub Club Chair with Channel Back
By Slagelse Mobelvaerk, Viggo Boesen
Located in Bridgeport, CT
This supercool 1940s Danish curved club chair is actually a match to the Danish curved or banana form sofas made in the 1930s-1940s. The sofas and chairs were very popular coming out...
Velvet, Beech
Sold
H 26 in W 28.25 in D 29 in
Danish 1940s Tub-Shaped Lounge or Slipper Chair Attributed to Fritz Hansen
By Flemming Lassen, Fritz Hansen
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Exuberant and comfortable lounge chair made by Fritz Hansen circa mid-1930s-early 1940s in between the Art Deco and the Mid-Century Modern periods and somehow perfectly capturing the...
Wool, Beech
Pair of Curvaceous 1940's Tub Chairs
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of Curvaceous Tub Chairs, probably American, circa 1940's. These comfortable chairs have been completely restored in an ultra-deep brown lacquer and reupholstered in an ivory co...
Sold
H 26 in W 33.5 in D 31 in
Danish 1940s Banana Style Curved Tub Club Chair with Channel Back in Red Mohair
By Slagelse Mobelvaerk
Located in Bridgeport, CT
This supercool 1940s Danish curved club chair is actually a match to the Danish curved or banana form sofas made in the 1930s-1940s. The sofas and chairs were very popular coming out...
Mohair, Beech
1940’s French Tub Chair
By Franco Albini
Located in London, Lambeth
Reupholstered compacted armchair with marble frame and lovely detail superb baby blue colour with tapered legs.Cc1940’s French.
Maple
Pair of Art Deco Rosewood Barrel Back Tub Chairs, France, 1940
Located in Austin, TX
Art Deco rosewood armchairs having barrel backs and supported on straight legs with brass inlay, circa 1940.
Brass
Pair, Vintage Brown Leather Tub Arm Chairs, France Circa 1940-60
Located in Round Top, TX
Pair, brown leather tub club chairs with hard wood legs. Upholstered in vintage brown sheep leather with rich patina, slender rolled arms with nail head trim. Sold in original vintag...
Leather, Wood
Sold
H 29.25 in W 34.5 in D 27.25 in
Gilbert Rohde Slipper Tub Lounge Chair, 1940's in Shearling and Leather
By Gilbert Rohde
Located in Culver City, CA
Step into the world of mid-century magic with this fabulous slipper chair designed by the legendary Gilbert Rohde. With its round body and a rounded, curved, cognac leather button-tu...
Leather, Maple
Pair of Tailored Chic Vintage Tub Chairs
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Wonderfully elegant, simple lines and newly recovered in off white duck. Matte brass nailheads. Pretty mahogany legs with brass capped feet.
Fabric, Wood
Pair of 1940s Danish Sheepskin Vintage Tub Chairs
Located in London, England
Danish Cabinetmaker - Pair of Sheepskin Tub Chairs, c1940s A pair of classic tub chairs produced in Denmark in the 1940s. The low, wide legs are made from dark stained beechwood and...
Sheepskin, Beech
Danish 1940s Boesen Banana Style Curved Tub Chair with Channeled Back
By Viggo Boesen
Located in Bridgeport, CT
This supercool 1940s Danish curved club chair is actually a match to the Danish curved or banana form sofas made in the 1930s-1940s. The sofas and chairs were very popular coming out...
Wool, Beech
Danish 1940s Boesen Banana Style Curved Tub Club Chair
By Slagelse Mobelvaerk, Viggo Boesen
Located in Bridgeport, CT
This supercool 1940s Danish curved club chair is actually a match to the Danish curved or banana form sofas made in the 1930s-1940s. The sofas and chairs were very popular coming out...
Velvet, Beech
Danish Pair of 1940s Low Lounge Tub Chairs in Red Mohair
By Flemming Lassen, Viggo Boesen
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Comfortable, exuberant, and ultracool pair of Danish lounge chairs from the 1940's. We love the curved backrests and low slung organic proportions and taller less chunky mahogany leg...
Mohair, Beech
Pair of 1940s Tub Chairs
Located in Buchanan, NY
The pair of 1940s American tub chairs with tufted backs and wooden trim and legs. These chairs are in great condition; structure is tight and upholstery is clean, albeit dated. Light...
Pair of 1940s Tub Chairs
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of Curvaceous Tub Chairs, American, circa 1940's. They have been completely restored.
Bouclé, Wood
Pair of Ritts Tropitan Bamboo Tub Chairs Possibly Frankl Design
By Ritts Tropitan, Paul Frankl
Located in New York, NY
Chic and sexy pair of bamboo chairs by "Ritts Tropitan" Art Deco chairs, possibly designed by Paul Frankl. Very good original condition, showing only expected light signs of age and ...
Bamboo
Tub Chairs by James Mont
Located in New York, NY
A pair of beautifully upholstered James Mont 1940's tub chairs on artfully distressed silver/gold gilt wood bases each reupholstered in silver-beige silk velvet matching exactly the ...
Wood, Textile, Velvet
Oval Back Tub Chair
Located in Atlanta, GA
Morrocan carved wood detail.
Vintage.
Newly upholstered in brown velvet mohair.
Wood
Gothenburg Tub Chairs
Located in San Francisco, CA
Horseshoe-shaped zebra print hair on hide upholstered back joined to rectangular seat by down swept supports with bronze ormolu mounts, raised on circular section foliate carved and...
Pair 1940s Lattice Tub Chairs
Located in New York, NY
Finely detailed interpretation of a neoclassical form. Slightly sabred front legs, recurving arms, primarily ornamented by cut trellis, each junction centered with a small round boss...
Upholstery
Beautiful Vintage Tub Chairs
Located in New York, NY
Pair of 1940's French blue velvet tub chairs.
Pair of Gilbert Rohde Tub Chairs
Located in New York, NY
Pair of 1940's tub chairs by Gilbert Rohde for Herman Miller.
Wood, Fabric
Pair of Tub Back Chairs
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a pair of tub back chairs. The wood frame is in original condition and the original handle is on the back top. The chairs and loose cushion are newly upholstered in chocola...
Pair of 1940's Hollywood Tub Chairs Attributed to Dorothy Draper
By Dorothy Draper
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Pair of superb Hollywood style tub chairs or club chairs with curved back design and with button back details. The chairs have a sinuous arm and profile design and have ebonized waln...
Set of 4 Tub Back Iron Chairs
Located in Wainscott, NY
Set 0f 4 Unique Styled Iron Chairs, Freshly Painted in White
Leather Upholstered Tub Bergere
Located in Long Island City, NY
1940'S Mahogany Frame Tub Bergere with Tufted Leather Upholstery.
Mahogany, Leather, Upholstery
1960's Tub Chair by Ward Bennett for Brikell Associates
Located in Long Island City, NY
Linen Upholstered 1960's Bergere with French Polished Wooden Frame by Ward Bennett for Brikell Associates
Linen
1940's English Channel Back Barrel Chairs with Nail Head Detail
Located in Stamford, CT
1940's Channel back tub chairs upholstered in Deep Pink fabric with nail head detail.
Pair of French Art Deco Tub Chairs
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of French Art Deco tub chairs. This is a very handsome pair of chairs, black painted wood with newly upholstered fabric of taupe linen. 21.5 depth 21" wide 28" high Ple...
Upholstery, Wood
Pair of Danish 1940s Tub Chairs Upholstered in Mohair
Located in Hudson, NY
Pair of 1940s tub chairs upholstered in large close-nailed mohair. The frames of stained beech.
Pair of Danish Modern Tub Chairs
Located in Hudson, NY
Pair of Danish modern club chairs with channelled backs, 1940s era, in original green fabric with beech legs. Fabric is clean and usable but could be recovered. There is a matching...
Danish 1940s Mohair Upholstered Three-Seat Sofa and Pair of Tub Chairs
Located in Hudson, NY
Danish 1940s sofa set consisting of a three-seat sofa and a pair of tub chairs. The chairs upholstered in mohair and raised on front legs ending in spade feet. The set's style influe...
Pair of Modern Walnut Side Tables
By Theodore Alexander
Located in Westwood, NJ
A Pacific walnut side table, the square top with rounded corners and a reeded edge above a similar under tier, on bobbin turned legs. Dimensions: 26" W x 26" D x 28.5" H.
Wood
Classic Empire Center Table, Oatmeal
Located in Westwood, NJ
A Classic Empire style grey cerused oak oatmeal stained center table with a carved ogee edge, raised on an octagonal pedestal base. Dimensions: 42" W x 42" D x 30" H. Clearance: 27"
Wood
$2,527 / item
H 15.75 in Dm 21.66 in
Mustard Mohair Velvet Round Ottoman with Oak Feet, Modern UK Design
Located in London, England
Dagmar Design - Round Ottoman Custom-made ottoman developed & produced at our workshops in London using the highest quality materials. These examples are upholstered in a mustar...
Oak, Mohair, Velvet
$5,420 / item
H 42.01 in W 25.99 in D 1.19 in
Mid century style Ceiling Suspended Mirror with Bronze Patina Frame, Vintage N.4
By Alguacil & Perkoff Ltd.
Located in London, London
Mid-century style Vintage N.4 ceiling suspended mirror with a high quality pure brass full frame with a bronze patina finish. This piece is part of our original and fully customisabl...
Brass, Bronze
Alma Upholstered Accent Chair in Faux Mohair Velvet
By Bloom Home Inc
Located in Old Town Orange, CA
Introducing the Alma Accent Chair – a timeless piece crafted for comfort and style. Upholstered in a faux mohair style velvet, the color is our french havane, a warm honey, caramel t...
Metal
$13,672
H 31.3 in W 30.71 in D 32.68 in
Pair of Lounge Chairs, Denmark, 1950s, Newly Upholstered in Sheepskin
By Viggo Boesen, Flemming Lassen
Located in Lewes, East Sussex
A super pair of lounge chairs, newly upholstered in grey / brown sheepskin, Denmark, 1950s. Fast shipping worldwide. .
Wood, Sheepskin
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