1930s Benches

Settee version from Moreux's celebrated group of wrought iron furniture, with gold over boulle. Wonderful patina to surfaces. A fine example fro...

Rare mahogany bench-chest by Clément Goyeneche, known for his work as a french architect, painter, designer and decorator. His production of furnitu...

Beautiful three-seater bench in red lacquered wood, made in the 30s of fine Italian manufacture. The bench has a solid and durable structure in red lacquered wood that gives an elegant and lively touch to the seat. The seats are divided by armrests, also made of wood. The seat is composed of many tubular structures in red wood. The vintage Italian bench...

- the wood has been treated by oil - wood with signs of age.

Bench from factory built in 1920s in original condition with beautiful age patina. Sturdy and stabile. Very comfortable.  

French Art Deco gilt hand forged iron footstool/bench by Jean-Charles Moreux, circa 1936. Inspired by Louis XV, part of Moreux’s antidote to functionali...

Pair of Modernist white wooden painted detailed stools. Portugal, 1930s

Cardinal red lacquered Art Deco pouf with carved details covered in gold leaf. Generously thick jacquard fabric covering is a floral lampas with gold filaments depicting peonies or s...

MASTERPIECE Italy, 1930s Provided with certificate of authenticity of the Gio Ponti Archives Walnut frame, Dedar Tabularasa cotton satin upholst...

Elegant pair of French Mid-Century Modern stools or end tables from the 1930 era. The steel legs are finished with modified sabot and the steel frames support tops of mahogany that a...

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 wonderful pair of stools in the style of Jean Michelle Frank.

Regency style carved & ebonized bench with shaped seat, ca. 1930