Seating furniture
We offer a wide selection of farmhouse chairs, from classic armchairs with rungs to lavishly carved board chairs. Farmhouse chairs are popular as sets, but mixing different farmhouse chairs around a table also has a special charm. Antique armchairs and fauteuils are unbeatable in terms of comfort. Stools are in high demand as archaic seating furniture. Our antiques are farmhouse chairs from Austria.
The origins of the farmer's chair
This single seat piece of furniture evolved from three- and four-legged stools. Before 1800, single seats were rare in farmhouses. Only in Tyrol and Vorarlberg did farmer’s chairs exist earlier, dating back to the 16th century.
The post chair
The most prominent post chair in the house was the armchair of the master of the house, which was listed in singular form in inventories. This post chair with armrests was made of hardwood, often decorated with carvings, had a woven seat or was upholstered in the seat and backrest, or had a wooden seat board. Another post chair is the spinning chair, which has only one armrest so that the hand pulling the thread while spinning has room to move.
The board chair
The board chair is the classic farmer’s chair. The four slanted legs are mortised into the seat board. The backrest can be either a semicircular beam backrest with rungs or a board backrest. The backrest is inserted or mortised into the seat board of the farmer’s chair from above, has a round, oval, or heart-shaped grip hole, and is cut out in a contoured shape. It serves as a decorative surface for the farmer’s chair and can become a sculptural work of art in Tyrol or Vorarlberg. Eagle chair with double eagle motif, snake chair carved naturalistically or as an abstract figure-eight ornament. The influence of Italian Renaissance masks is evident in the grimace chair, where the grip hole is the mouth of a mask and the backrest is decorated with lavish, imaginative carvings. Farmhouse chairs from before 1800 are made entirely of bare, hard wood. Farmhouse chairs from the 19th century are often made of soft wood and sometimes painted if they are part of wedding furniture.
