French 1930s Wrought Iron Bench

Pair of late 17th century French beechwood long benches. Provenance: Frederick Cleveland Estate Morgan le Sabot Senneville. Bought at le Bon Marché Paris, 1929.

Great quality Art Deco style steel and bronze bench, perfect for an entrance or a bedroom.

Mahogany Regency period canned bench resting on casters. Provenance: estate of Barbara Allen de Kwiatkowski. This was purchased recently and will be pol...

A Charles II oak long bench resting on four splayed block & turned supports braced by bar stretchers.

Whimsical pair of painted and gilt, Chinese carved wood elephant benches fitted with glass eyes.

18th century Welsh oak hight back bench/settle, beautiful patina and condition.

Brown-burgundy leatherette top with a decorative wrought iron and brass frame.

Bench Oak Unusual shaped back Tapering legs France 1930s.

Bench from factory built in 1920s in original condition with beautiful age patina. Sturdy and stabile. Very comfortable.  

Three-seat, wrought iron bench with brass finials to the top and brass disc to the seat backs. Has an X-stretcher base.

1950s French painted wrought iron bench with brass balls to the top. Style of Maison Jansen. Measures: 20.5" H (to top of ball finials) x 28.25" W x 28.25" D. Seat cushion not incl...

This 1930s Italian bench is so over-scaled, and monumental in appearance, that it seems to have been made for the large room it was destined, rather than the comfort of a typical sitter. As such, it would function equally well as a low side table or a high cocktail table. We’ll allow the buyer to determine its use. The designer was Pierluigi Colli, and the fabricator Martinotti, the Turin furniture and interior decorating firm that was established in 1831, and exhibited at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition and the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair. Colli’s family owned a textile company that supplied Martinotti with upholstery fabrics, suggesting nepotism had something to do with his being hired as the firm's director in 1926. Nevertheless, he proved himself worthy as a designer and a businessman. Having studied in Paris at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, he befriended leading French designers, and arranged for Martinotti to retail Lalique glass and Jean Perzel lighting. In addition, the quality of their work, and Colli’s dedication to the modern design movement, prompted Carlo Mollino, Gio Ponti, and Gino Levi-Montalcini, among others, to have Martinotti fabricate some of their furniture. Colli’s claim to fame, however, is his own work as a designer, and his ability to master the vocabularies of every trend from Art Deco to midcentury modern. During the Great Depression, when nearly every nation floundered economically, fascist Italy...