French Black Lacquer Ebonized Louis XVI Window Bench with Abalone Shell Inlay

Colorful caned oval bench or footstool featuring a crimson red lacquered finish. The bench was made in the French Louis XVI taste with a honeycomb caned seat. The seat has a reeded a...

A French Louis XVI-style mahogany bench with round fluted tapered legs supporting an apron with geouche pattern. The newly upholstered seat covered with black horsehair with subtle b...

Window seat bench, in Louis XV taste, having a painted finish showing natural wear; its padded, out-scrolled arms carved with acanthus, the stuff-over seat on an apron decorated by s...

With scrolled out arms and rectangular seat, raised on tapered square legs, Labelled on underside inside the seat rail. Livermere Hall. Livermere Hall was located in Suffolk England....

We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Interesting and graceful oak bench; the legs, conical and elegantly fluted, are joined at the base by a well-designed and harmonious X-shaped element; the well-solid frame is carved with simple, linear, and refined motifs; the upper oval part serves as the seat is enriched with fine "Vienna straw" work. The bench was made between 1880 and 1885 in an artisan workshop near Paris certainly by a very skilled master cabinetmaker because this kind of workmanship requires a lot of experience and skill. The process of seat construction using equidistant holes and a woven plant material (drawn guinea cane) was known since Egyptian times (a stool was found in the tomb of the architect Kha dating from 1600° B.C.), but it was from the mid-19th century that it became popular worldwide. It was the Austro-Hungarian cabinetmaker Michael Thonet (father of bentwood) who in 1842 created chair No. 4 with this technique for the Daum café on Vienna's Kohlmarkt, but success came in 1859 when the Gebruder Thonet company of Michael's sons presented chair No. 14 made of curved solid wood with a straw seat...

"French Louis XVI style (19th Century) walnut oval shaped bench with double stretcher and inSet cane seat. There is a split in the center of the stretcher."

Pair Of French Louis XVI Style Benches. Offered is a great pair of French Louis XVI style distressed painted benches or ottomans newly upholstered in a plush neutral cut velvet fabr...

Window seat bench, having a rectangular tufted seat and outscrolled sides flanked by scrolling stiles, the ivory painted finish showing natural wear, its channeled apron raised on ro...

A pair of antique Middle Eastern Moorish Moroccan settees inlaid with white mosaic marquetry. Mosaic inlaid Levantine Moorish Islamic benches great to use at the end of the bed or in an entryway. Elegant and stylish settees for your Moroccan Moorish decor...

Six foot six inch long neoclassical wood carved bench in original vintage condition with black leather tripartite upholstered top on eight wood car...