Lovely French Louis XVI Style Caned Seat Bench Hollywood Regency

Lovely Hollywood Regency Dorothy Draper style carved wood bench. Well crafted carved fruitwood base with custom upholstered top, this piece mea...

Lovely Dorothy Draper style cabriole leg bench. We love the distressed creamy finish with the gold details-very chic!

Lovely Dorothy Draper biscuit tufted bench in the Hollywood Regency style. We love the biscuit tufted upholstery but the fabric is worn and foam w...

Lovely Hollywood Regency scrolled arm carved wood bench. Gorgeous cabriolet legs with one tall tufted scrolled arm. The blue satin fabric has seen b...

Lovely large-scale pair of chinoiserie style arm chairs with caned backs. We love the over-size wide seats and black lacquered finish. Great as is but you may like to give them a fre...

Lovely Mid-Century Modern two-seat bench. Black painted wood frame with black upholstered seats by John Stuart. We do have a two of these if you need a pair.

French Louis XVI style (19th Century) walnut oval shaped bench with double stretcher and inset cane seat.

An extraordinary little carved oak bench from 19th century France. This wonderful petite bench was made in the Louis XVI style and has a sinuously shaped top with a cane seat that is...

Colorful caned oval bench or footstool featuring a crimson red lacquered finish. The bench was made in the French Louis XVI taste with a honeycomb caned seat. The seat has a reeded a...

Carved wood frame with a floral pattern. Has a black faux ostrich print upholstered 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 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...