French Carved Cain Seat Louis XVI Style Bench

Hollywood Regency Two-Seater Ebony Window Bench, Dorothy Draper Style, Boucle A stunning Draper Style window bench or tete a tete seat. The ebony fram...

Pair of Hand Carved Georgian Style benches / footstools / ottomans, Boucle Hand carved newly upholstered benches or footstools each having boucle...

Swedish painted bench with double seats. Louis XVI in style.

Carved bench with shell decorated base gilt and paint decorated. This finely painted and gilt decorated X-form bench has a recently done over base supporting an overstuffed fabric si...

Maison Jansen Hollywood Regency Swan Bench / Daybed, Hand Carved, Distressed Very unique French bench or daybed attributed to Maison Jansen ha...

A fine pair of French custom Louis XVI style carved bergere or armchairs each in a nice fabric with carved lines and open side arms.

Lovely French Louis XVI style carved and painted bench. Pretty carving and upholstered in a pink velvet fabric. Great for a ladies dressing room!

Stylish French Louis XVI style carved and bleached benches. Upholstered in a creme colored linen like fabric. A great choice for a variety of decors! No...

French Louis XVI style (19th Century) walnut oval shaped bench with double stretcher and inset cane seat.

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...

19th century Louis XVI style painted bench. The bench has two seats that face in opposing direction. This unique bench stands on six straight fluted legs. The back and sides have ...

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...