Black Wood and Vienna Straw Bench, Italy 1960

Beautiful floor lamp made of turned cherry wood and Vienna straw shade, Italian production 1950s.

Incredible mid-century teak wall mirror. The frame is made from several pieces of wood that have been woven together, creating a beautiful variety of colours and textures. In excelle...

Set of two wooden chairs, peach velvet seat and back, in the style of Ico Parisi, 1960s

Hexagonal mirror with teak frame, brass inserts and original leather strap, mirror is in perfect condition, patina. Italian manufacture 1960

Wooden servomuto designed by Ico Parisi in the 1960s for the firm F.lli Reguitti Italia, in good condition, with jacket rack, trouser rack, shoe rack, tie or scarf hanger, and small ...

Black marble salt and pepper spice containers with brass spoons.  

This bench features a wooden structure with straw seating, manufactured in the 1960s.

Bench; jacaranda veneer wood, brass foil, foam cushion, fabric cover.

Augusto Romano, bench, beech, braided straw, Italy, circa 1948 A rare side bench designed by Italian designer Augusto Romano around 1948. A well-execut...

We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Interesting and graceful oak bench; the legs, conical and elegantly fluted, are joined at the base by a well-designed and harmonious X-shaped element; the well-solid frame is carved with simple, linear, and refined motifs; the upper oval part serves as the seat is enriched with fine "Vienna straw" work. The bench was made between 1880 and 1885 in an artisan workshop near Paris certainly by a very skilled master cabinetmaker because this kind of workmanship requires a lot of experience and skill. The process of seat construction using equidistant holes and a woven plant material (drawn guinea cane) was known since Egyptian times (a stool was found in the tomb of the architect Kha dating from 1600° B.C.), but it was from the mid-19th century that it became popular worldwide. It was the Austro-Hungarian cabinetmaker Michael Thonet (father of bentwood) who in 1842 created chair No. 4 with this technique for the Daum café on Vienna's Kohlmarkt, but success came in 1859 when the Gebruder Thonet company of Michael's sons presented chair No. 14 made of curved solid wood with a straw seat...

Stunning Italian midcentury stool / bench / ottoman incorporating elements of the neoclassical and the neo-Baroque in a modern context. The stool is composed of a handmade gilt wrought iron frame with finials extending from the tops, a rattan / straw seat and painted decorative wood stretchers. A matching throne...

1960s Italian carved wood tufted bench upholstered in tan or beige leather.