Cassina Benches

Le Corbusier LC9 Stool Leather was designed in the year 1927 by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand for Cassina. This one is constru...

A Cassina Refolo slat wood bench. A lovely bench featuring an all wood construction, a slat wood design, and rounded wood legs. This piece is in very go...

A pair of lattice back benches in the Secessionist manner originally designed in 1904 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for the Willow Tea Rooms of Glasgow, Scotland These authorized repr...

A throne-like armchair designed by acclaimed architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1904, for the “Willow Tea Rooms” in Glasgow. The tall semi-circular back served to separate the entrance area from the tea-room behind it. The back encompasses the seat, illustrating to perfection Mackintosh’s geometric and Art Nouveau style. Asian Style and emerging modernist ideas also influenced Mackintosh's designs. When the Japanese isolationist regime softened, they opened themselves to globalisation resulting in notable Japanese influence around the world. Glasgow's link with the eastern country became particularly close with shipyards at the River Clyde being exposed to Japanese navy...

The minimalist LC9 stool is a classic and timeless design by Charlotte Perriand in 1927 and is now being produced by Cassina. Relaunched by Cassina in 1973/2014. Manufactured by Cass...

1960s "Carimate 892" bench designed by Vico Magistretti for Cassina. Black lacquered beech frame and original straw seat.

For your consideration is a fantastic, curved, high backed bench seat called the Willow chair, with a compartment in the seat, signed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for Cassina in exce...

Mid-century stool by Gianfranco Frattini for the Cassina manufactory. The stools were designed for the furnishings of the Hotel Parco dei Principi Roma in 1958. The stool has a walnu...

Ebony stained oak 514 Refolo coffee table or bench originally designed by Charlotte Perriand in 1953 and produced by Cassina in 2004. The surface consists of nineteen short slats arr...

Fantastic wood and rush seat bench by Vico Magistretti for Cassina. Part of the "Carimate" series, bench has dark ebony wood frame and newly woven rush...

The Willow Chair is a curved lattice back chair with an ebonized ashwood frame. The seat opens to reveal a hidden storage space and Cassina mark and serial number. It was designed by Charles R. Mackintosh in 1903 for the "Willow Tea Room" at 217 Sauchiehall St., Glasgow. Having already worked on the interiors for Catherine Cranston's tea rooms at Argyle Street, Buchanan Street and Ingram Street, in 1903 Mackintosh was asked to oversee every aspect of the design for a new premises on Sauchiehall Street. Unlike previous projects for Cranston, this time the architect was able to address both the exterior and interior of the building – a terraced house that was largely gutted to allow for its transformation into the tea rooms. I've included an exterior photo of the building from 1903 as image 6, courtesy of the Willow Tea Rooms Trust and Annan photographs, as well as street photos (images 7-9) that show how distinct Mackintosh's design truly was (and remains). In turn of the century Glasgow, the temperance movement was in full effect and Catherine Cranston (widely known as Miss Cranston, image 10) was a businesswoman, daughter of a successful tea merchant and a strong supporter of temperance. The temperance movement was a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages and in favor or teetotalism (complete abstinence). One of the main goals of the Births Temperance movement was to reduce drinking by closing and replacing as many pubs as possible. Miss Cranston conceived the idea of a series of "art tearooms" throughout Glasgow, where people could meet to relax and enjoy non-alcoholic refreshments in a variety of different "rooms." Between 1896 and 1917, Mackintosh designed and restyled interiors (and exteriors, in the case of the Willow property) in all four of Cranston's tearooms. After working on murals for her 1896 tearoom, furniture and interiors for her 1898 property and a dining room in her 1900 Ingram Street property, Mackintosh was commissioned to design every aspect of the tearooms in Sauchiehall Street in 1903, the internal layout, exterior architecture, furniture (images 11-14), glasswork (image 15-16), menus, waitress uniforms, cutlery (image 17), tablecloths, carpets, timber work, etc. The interior plan (image 18) saw a ladies' tea room situated at the front of the ground floor, with a lunch room to the rear. A vaulted room on the first floor was transformed into the grand Salon de Luxe (Image 13), while further rooms upstairs became the men's billiards (image 19) and smoking rooms. Mackintosh also designed another of his best-known pieces of furniture for the Willow Tea Rooms – a large, sculptural chair...

The willow chair was designed by Charles R. Mackintosh for willow tea rooms in 1903 in glasgow. There Mackintosh was responsible for the exterior for the first time, as well as for t...