Louis XVI Style Gilded Bench with Tufted Seat Design, Italy

Exotic African springbok bench in hues of burnt orange. Mid-Century Modern design with streamline base in black chrome metal. Hand-dyed and comprised of several hides featuring multi...

Mexican rustic carved wood bench with spool-turned crossbars. Newly upholstered in La Maison Pierre Frey's most luxurious boucle, Louison Crem...

Mid-Century Modern lucite vanity stool with curved waterfall frame. Newly upholstered in La Maison Pierre Frey's luxurious Teddy Mohair, color celadon whi...

Mid-Century Modern style stool with streamlined waterfall base design in polished black nickel. The bench is upholstered in luxurious rabbit fur in variant hues of grey. Great accent...

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Window seat bench, in Louis XV taste, having a painted finish showing natural wear; its padded, out-scrolled arms carved with acanthus, the stuff-over seat on an apron decorated by s...

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...

Window seat, upholstered in coral twill fabric with nailheads, having exaggerated scrolling arms, its painted frame inset into the front-facing arms, bowed front crown seat set upon ...

A French Louis XVI style carved-wood bench with its original finish and floral upholstered seat. This vintage bench from France has been nicely carved on all sides, with a circular linked chain and beaded trim about the apron, and presented upon six fluted and spaded legs with acanthus wraps about the knees. The seat is covered in a lovely vintage floral fabric...

Louis XVI double seat piano bench from a Palm Beach Estate.