Valentine Seaver Furniture

Art Deco Style Bench, a bold statement with a handsome tight back design featuring curved corners set upon a reeded carved frame and tapered legs. Dimensions: 55" W x 20" D x 24" H ...

French Art Deco Bench. This lovely period French Art Deco walnut bench dates to the 1930's with a U shaped design that has been newly upholstered in a beautiful cut velvet fabric tha...

Art Deco bench or coffee table, attributed to Donald Deskey, American, circa 1930s.

French Art Deco narrow solid wood bench, 1930s Bench with narrow and long seat with rounded corners, entirely in solid wood. The legs of the square section bench are positioned diago...

Large three or four seater tubular industrial bench. Circa 1930. Tubular legs, stretchers and arms. Possibly seating for a public area like a train station or hospital. Structurall...

This Art Deco bench, crafted circa 1930s, is a refined example of the movement’s ability to merge architectural strength with functional elegance. Emerging after the landmark 1925 Ex...

Small Art Deco cubist bench in stained and waxed beech wood. Spain, Barcelona, circa 1930.

Art Deco Gilded Bench, an Art Deco inspired wrought iron rectangular bench with an antique gilt finish and tufted cream leather boxed upholstery cushion. ...

Pommel horse from former Czechoslovakia from the 1930s with beautiful patina, shortened to bench height 52cm and very good vintage condition. Completely restored. The iron feet are p...

Small Art Deco coffer bench in solid black stained oak, satiny shellac finishing. Upholstery redone in vintage wool. France circa 1930

Magnificent and rare Art Deco Haagse School bench or sofa. Design by Willem Penaat for Metz & Co. Amsterdam Striking Dutch design from the 1930s. Solid oak frame with black lacquered...

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...