Explore PatinaHall
Find your way around PatinaHall.
Browse the catalogue, independent stores, practical guides, research library and every piece published on PatinaHall from one clear index.
Shop
Start with the complete catalogue or choose a broad route into the collection.
Start here
The main ways to browse PatinaHall.
Browse by object
Focused guides and current pieces for the objects people search for most.
Collections
Useful groups for comparing related forms, proportions, and everyday uses.
Curated ways in
Each collection combines current pieces with practical guidance.
Stores
Meet the independent shops behind the pieces and revisit their recorded finds.
Guides & Journal
Practical help for choosing older furniture, plus dated notes from PatinaHall.
Practical guides
Measure, compare, inspect, and choose with confidence.
- Practical guides
- How to buy vintage furniture well
- How to assess vintage and antique furniture condition
- How to measure furniture for delivery: measure the route, not only the room
- How to choose vintage dining chairs that work as a set
- How to measure a dining table: length, width and height
- How to inspect vintage lighting before buying
- Chest, cabinet or sideboard: what is the difference?
- What photographs should you ask for before buying vintage furniture online?
- Solid wood, veneer or laminate: what can photographs tell you?
- How to measure a sofa or armchair for your room
- How to care for vintage wood furniture without harming the finish
- What do furniture marks and labels actually prove?
- How to assess vintage upholstery before buying
- How to choose a vintage desk you can actually work at
- How to check vintage drawers, doors and locks before buying
- How to inspect cane, rush and paper-cord seats
- How to inspect marble and stone furniture tops
- How to buy a vintage wall-mounted shelving system
- How to measure a vintage bed frame for a modern mattress
PatinaHall
Learn about the marketplace and read the policies that govern its public and seller services.
About & policies
PatinaHall information in one place.
Furniture Library
Source-backed notes connecting furniture, designers, makers, designs, materials and documented objects.
Research by subject
Begin at the global Library, follow the Danish research route or move directly into a released subject.
- PatinaHall Furniture Library
- The Danish Furniture Library
- The records behind Danish furniture
- Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild Exhibitions: how collectors use the records
- Danish Modern: more than a look
- Furnituremakers Danish Control: what the mark actually means
- People who shaped Danish furniture
- Finn Juhl: designing the chair and the room together
- Hans J. Wegner: a lifetime spent asking about the chair
- Kaare Klint: design by measurement and precedent
- Workshops and manufacturers
- Niels Vodder: where Finn Juhl's drawings met the bench
- Documented furniture designs
- Ant Chair: the chair that cleared the floor
- CH24 Wishbone Chair: how the design is put together
- Chieftain Chair: a chair too large to ignore
- Egg Chair: a private room in a public lobby
- Faaborg Chair: the furniture that knew when to disappear
- Safari Chair: a finished chair that expects to come apart
- Valet Chair: a place for everything you take off
- How Danish furniture was made
- Paper cord: how paper becomes a chair seat
- Berlin Secretary Cabinet: the desk that performs
- Cabinet 59.108: where luxury follows the eye
- Charlotte Perriand: collective interiors and collaborative production
- E-1027 Adjustable Table: the gap is the point
- État cabinet: design date, exhibition and evidence
- Hatnefer's Chair: construction you can still read
- Hunzinger’s Woven-Wire Furniture: steel dressed as textile
- Jean Prouvé: reading furniture through structure
- Leleu Cylinder-top Desk: the desk that opens itself
- Marquetry: how wood becomes a picture
- Mechanical Table 33.12: the crank behind the marquetry
- Panton Chair: one curve, several material lives
- Petronella Oortman's Dolls' House: a cabinet, not a toy
- Pompei Armchair: a classical posture rebuilt in steel and leather
- Red Blue Chair: the colour arrived later
- Schastey Patent Model: a ten-inch chair with a full-size job
- Shaker Sewing Table: six woods, no showing off
- The bookcase designed for 77 student rooms
- Thonet Chair No. 14: the chair that learned to travel
- Vanderbilt Library Table: the table with a birthday sky
- Wooton’s Patent Secretary: the desk that swallowed an office