Louis XVI Double Seat Piano Bench

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

This stylish and chic Italian bench with its florentine gold finish and custom seat cushion dates to the 1960s. Note: The custom fabricated cushion was created for this piece in th...

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 polished steel and leather bench could be used as a cocktail table or at the end of your bed. The leather is an off-white and egg shell colored faux alligator. ...

A Louis XVI style French mahogany piano bench with upholstered seat. Made of solid mahogany with marquetry inlay. Seat hinges open to reveal storage for sheet music. Original silk fa...

Elegant two-seater bench in light gray lacquered wood, richly carved with neoclassical-inspired motifs. Six sheathed fluted legs joined by a superb spacer with a sinuous path. Cover...

A beautiful and high quality French walnut Louis XVI bench raised by elegant fluted baluster shaped legs with exceptionally carved acanthus leaf designs and shaped foliate feet below...

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...

Elegant French Mid-Century piano bench or stool in the Modern neoclassical style with delicately fluted and tapered legs united by a stretcher. The bench opens for storage. Re-uphols...