1930s Belgian Gym Bench

Fantastic railroad bench with 2 sided seat and curved back. Wonderful wood patina. France, circa 1940s.

Beautiful bench in the style of Augusto Romano, Italy, 1940s Bent plywood with braided rope with wonderful patina and curved shape.

Art Deco bench in oak with caned seat and back, France circa 1940's Great curved shaped arms Wonderful patina.

William Emmerson "Ab Ovo' bench with solid bent walnut wood legs, woven leather cording and antiqued bronze stretcher. Elegant undulating shape and exquisite...

This gymnastics bench comes from a gym in Prague and was designed in the 1930s. The iron feet have been preserved with original cow leather lining. The thick cowhide has been cleaned...

This Czech gym stool or turn bock was produced in the 1930s. It has been shortened to a height of 54 cm. The iron feet are preserved. The thick cowhide has b...

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...

Bench Oak Unusual shaped back Tapering legs France 1930s.