Long Black Regency Style Cane Bench, circa 1930s

Fabulous caned scroll arm window bench by Baker Furniture featuring Directoire styling to the walnut frame with new custom seat upholstered in Brunschwig & Fils floral velvet. The gr...

English Regency Style mahogany caned window bench / hall bench ca. 1900 Elegant Regency style mahogany caned window bench in neoclassical taste. ...

Pommel horse from former Czechoslovakia from the 1930s with beautiful patina, shortened to bench height 53cm and very good vintage condition. Completely restored. The iron feet are p...

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...

A Regency style carved mahogany and parcel-gilt hall bench, the reeded solid seat with lapette carved and scroll end supports, loose button upholstered seat cushion, on turned fluted...

A great form with a seat that needs new upholstery. Very sturdy and fine quality. Finished on both sides. In the Regency style.