Oriental Screens & Asian Screen Dividers

Of all the items of oriental furniture design screens are the most basic and the most copied by western furniture designers. The earliest records of Asian screen dividers dates from A.D. 484 in a Chinese tomb, the screen in question being wood framed and handpainted with lacquer.

Oriental room dividers and screens continue to be important pieces in the jigsaw of asian decor in Asia itself, a place renowned for holding onto its home traditions. Delicately decorative, often painted with landscapes scenes, gold leaf motifs, plants and animals, dressed in silk, oriental folding screens make ideal privacy solutions for the western home.

The main subdivisions of oriental screen furniture are Japanese room dividers, Chinese screens, and Shoji screens.

Stacks and Stacks and Home Decorators have great ranges of oriental and asian style screens for the home, whether antique style or contemporary, at discount prices.