Italian Florentine Bench

Stunning Italian Renaissance style curule bench all original carved wood, including the original curved wood seat. The rim of the seat is 14 1/2" from floor, but the curved wood seat...

This stylish, chic and cleanlined bench by Mastercraft will make the perfect perch for your entry hall, dressing room or bath. The piece has been upholstered in a printed cotton fabric.

This stylish, chic and Neo Classical form bronze bench dates to the 1980s, and was created for Maitland Smith. Note: The dove gray leather cushion was custom created in January o...

This stylish and chic bench was acquired from a model home in Palm Beach and will make the perfect perch at the end of your bed or perhaps in an entry. The frame is a classic Louis X...

This stylish and chic folding bench dates to the 1960s and was created by Maison Jansen. The piece has been professionaly polished, and upholstered in an Italian, faux alligator p...

This stylish bench is a combination of the Classic Louis XVI style frame in an black finish with modern cowhide upholstery.  

Italian Hollywood Regency giltwood bench. This versatile midcentury gilt wood bench, stool or ottoman has beautiful gilding and a lattice wo...

Italian bench with carved legs and stretcher, recently reupholstered.

A great example of Italian Hollywood Regency bench. Gilt metal, twisted rope and tassel feet. Reupholstered in blue silk velvet-the color changes depending on light and angle. This b...

Pair of Italian iron rope benches with upholstered tops. Bases in good condition, with newly upholstered 16" diameter tops each with one button. Iron bases are 17.5" tall without up...

Hollywood Regency, Italian gilt metal tassel and rope style bench with rich patina of the red undercoat beneath the gilt finish. A unique piece.   

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...