1930's English Rope Bench

A Scottish Arts and Crafts period arts school bench of thick solid pale oak slabs for the ends, seat and back with substantial integrated bespoke brass hinges to allow conversion int...

A settle bench with solid arched back and shaped wings, having lift top bench seat revealing storage. Geometric chip carved decoration to back, sides and front. Good color and useful...

Good pair of Regency style benches, the cane seat over molded rails, the reeded legs with palmette carved corners, the whole of good design and proportion. Ready as is or with your c...

A long flat bench in attractively mottled pollard oak with a caned seat above a fluted apron with roundels over eight fluted legs ending in brass castors. Original cushion provided (...

Bench Oak Unusual shaped back Tapering legs France 1930s.

Our Bay Bench is a simple bench seat with a rope woven seat, perfect for an entryway, a dining table, or auxiliary seating. We utilize a polypropylene rope with a contemporary yacht ...

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...

An English 1840 bench. Raised chamfered panels to the back. Dowl peg construction. Turned legs and arm support with loose cushion. New upholstery.