Piozzi Provini Entrance Storage Bench, Italy 1950s

Giuseppe Pagano (1896-1945) and Gino Levi Montalcini (1902-1974) designed this exquisite desk in the 1920s as part of a commissioned project for the Gualino offices in Turin. The project received much critical acclaim; it was regarded as one of the purist expressions of the rationalist movement, and of such historic architectural importance that it dominated an entire issue of Gio Ponti’s Domus...

A 1970s French chunky-wood bench (a part of a dining set consisting of a pair but sold inidvidually), with a blackened wood structure and a new upholstery in chocolate brown ‘ponyhai...

This striking sideboard is typical of the Swedish Grace movement, a lesser-known Scandinavian branch of Art Deco that beautified geometric silhouettes with simple decorative flourish...

This striking sideboard is typical of the Swedish Grace movement, a lesser-known Scandinavian branch of Art Deco that beautified geometric silhouettes with simple decorative flourish...

This Oak Officina Rivadossi bench is a breathtaking fusion of functionality and aesthetics that ceases attention in any setting. This bench goes beyond...

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...

Early 20th century, Art Nouveau period, chest or bench entrance furniture, in solid fir, restored and polished to wax Measures cm: H 50\201, W 12...

Box bench, France, around 1880. Neo-Renaissance chest, heavily decorated. Very good condition, after professional renovation in our workshop. Wood: oak Dimensions: width: 140 cm ...