1930s Benches

On offer on this occasion is one of the most stunning and rare, velvet bench you could hope to find. Outstanding design is exhibited throughout. The beautiful bench is statement piec...

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

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...

Small Art Deco coffer bench in solid black stained oak, satiny shellac finishing. Upholstery redone in vintage wool. France circa 1930

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

Art Deco Oak Monks Bench Coffee Table This useful piece is known as a Monks Bench, it is in fact a seat and the back of the seat can be pulled over, it then rests on the top of the a...

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

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

Elegant pair of Italian Mid-Century Modern traditional benches / stools in richly carved and turned wood.

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...

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...

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

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