German Vaulting Bench

Wood, leather, and iron vaulting horse bench. With nice leather covered legs.

Leather and wood vaulting horse bench or seat.

A wood and leather vaulting bench with wonderfully worn leather top and slightly tapered leather wrapped square legs from a gymnasium in the Cze...

A wood and leather extra long vaulting bench with wonderfully worn leather top and slightly tapered leather wrapped square legs from a gymnasium in the ...

Small wood and leather vaulting horse with leather wrapped legs and iron feet.

Vaulting horse bench/table. Great condition. Very rare and fun.

The furniture by the German furniture designer Eckehard Weimann seems to be alive. Here as a bench: a hollow body made of solid wood serves as a seat object, it is organically delicately worked out - by hand, of course! The object appears soft in shape, but has developed folds - a masterpiece of craftsmanship. the 4 legs are fastened with wooden threads in the hollow body. The whole seating object looks very filigree but is extremely stable. I make the furniture to order...

1960s organic bench. Solid walnut bench with dovetails. Can also be used as a coffee table.

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...

This striking bench was created in 1967 by an architect for a home he designed. The unique piece has a mahogany top with an edge of hammered copper that is supported by black iron legs.

This hardwood slat bench features with tapered legs. Standing at a height of 16 inches, this vintage modern slat bench makes the perfect piece for occasional seating or even as a tal...

In the largest piece in the Strike/Slip series by Taylor Donsker, a massive block of solid Black Walnut is sawn and then rejoined into a single, shifted beam. Marbled grain and natur...