Hand-Crafted Benches

A Swedish pair of Louis XVI style benches made in the 1700’s. These classically styled benches have a neutral colored top cushion filled with horsehair, ready for a custom upholstery...

This massive Louis XVI style Swedish banquette is almost 8 feet long. All hand carved with laurel leaves at the crest continuing to an open frame wit...

A long Swedish Louis XVI style bench, perfect at the end of a king bed. This top of this antique bench is made of cane with a light white-washed wood frame. This sturdy bench has six...

Dimensions: Height: 17 3/4in Width: 31in Depth: 15in This is a beautiful pair of Louis XVI style distressed and upholstered benches. They were made with one thing in mind and that i...

19th Century French Louis XVI Painted Armbench with Cane & Mohair makes a perfect choice in front of a window, on a stairwell landing, in a hallway, or at the foot of the bed! Hand-...

Louis XVI style music or end of bed bench, 20th c., painted in a cream color with two high lyre ends flanking the padded upholstered seat, all rising on tapered ribbed legs. Dimensi...

Antique French Louis XVI Neoclassical Upholstered Painted Armbench ~ Vanity Bench possesses enough classical design and embellishment to be the epitome of the movement! The upholster...

Antique French Louis XVI Walnut Armbench ~ Vanity Bench is the perfect choice for completing your bath or dressing room. The frame features subtle classical contours that are carved...

Exquisite Louis XVI Bench Karges Furniture Co. hand carved hardwood blue motif fabric made in Indiana, USA. The apron, stretchers and legs on this graceful French style bench are all hand carved. It is standard with a boxed pullover seat. Makers Paper Lable is underneath, The Karges Furniture Co. Inc and made in the Mid-20th Century. In good vintage condition, Firm and sturdy, we recommend having it newly upholstered. About the Designer Edwin F. Karges Sr. Edwin F. Karges, Sr., born in 1896 in Evansville, Indiana, was the son of 2nd generation immigrant Albert F. Karges, founder of the Karges Furniture Co., Inc. Though his father wished him to become a businessman like himself, Edwin (or "Mr. K" to all who loved him), followed his own unique, artistic path. After graduating the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and a brief service in the post-WWI Navy, he returned to the company to help as he was able. With little inclination to the business end of things, Edwin found his joy and calling in the design of the furniture. Enamored of European design, Edwin began to guide the company toward more French, English and Italian influences in their products. Over the span of the next 65 years, this amazing talent came to fruition in the thousands of beautiful designs from the company. Influenced by his wife Evaline, one of the first women to open an interior design firm in the city and a Pioneer in her own right, and his daughter, Joan, who lived in Italy after WWII, his prolific body of work guided the company away from more American products...

19th century French Louis XVI Neoclassical Painted Armbench ~ Vanity Bench was originally designed for the vanity, but its versatility allows it anywhere a convenient seat is require...

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...

Exquisite Louis XVI Bench gilt hand carved hardwood, handwoven Cane Backrest and Taupe color Cotton Fabric Upholstery, made in USA. The tapered legs on th...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original circa 1880 Napoleon III Louis XVI style bergère window seat bench with original shabby chic paint This is a truly stunni...

This elegant bench would be ideal as a window seat, at the foot of a bed or at a dressing table or even a piano. The ends are double-caned with the caning in original condition and a...