Grey Cement and Grey Rock Salt Bench

A layering of cement and crushed aggregates, the made-to-order drum consists of a hand-dyed white cement top and a packed white rock salt center and grey roc...

Inspired by sojourns in Patagonia and the Grand Canyon, the Drift collection is comprised of sculptural objects that border on functional and non-functional, and marks the artist’s f...

Composed from crushed clear and grey glass , the made-to-order drum has a hollow cavity and maintains an organic texture and sophisticated composition. The piece has a hollow cavity ...

A layering of cement and crushed aggregates, the made-to-order drum consists of an hand-dyed hunter green cement top and a packed white rock salt bottom. Pou...

A Minimalist vintage bench or coffee table. Solid steel and rosewood, heavy and well made, circa 1960s. Rosewood top has a nice patina and bookmatched graining.

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...