Painted Benches

Place this elegant antique bench at the foot of a king size bed or in your living room for extra seating. Crafted in France, circa 1880, the traditional banquette stands on six taper...

This rare and iconic 18th century Swedish Rococo Bench makes for quite the statement piece. Featuring light color of the painted wood along with t...

Large 19th C Austrian original painted pine bench with storage under the seat. 1880. Seat height is 22". Dimensions 117 inches (297 cms) Wide 17.5 inches (44 cms) Deep 4...

Beautiful antique English bench crafted from solid white oak in the late 1800’s. The patina is a bit of a fooler, for at a quick glance you wou...

A rare, petite, 18th century, venetian, painted armorial, Cassapanca (chest-bench), measures 44½’ high, 49½“ long. - Unusual small size, and characteristic of cassapanca’s found i...

French neoclassical cream painted bench the two backrests measure 22" H x 15.5" D, the seat cushion measures 27" W x 16" D.

Here is an extraordinarily rare piece with fantastic provenance– this oversize version of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona daybed is 16 feet in length and custom fabricated of fiberglass and steel. You would not know that it is fiberglass without touching it. The level of detail and realism is stunning. It’s like an artwork using the principal of transference of material– when an object appears to be made of one expected material, but is really crafted of something totally different, often incongruent with one's expectations. The reason fiberglass was used to make this daybed is that it was created for use in the lobby of Mies van der Rohe’s IBM building at 330 N. Wabash in Chicago. Mies often specified that the public spaces in the buildings he designed be furnished with tables and seating also of his design. In the 1990s the owner of the IBM building hired Chicago designer Judy Niedermaier to decorate the public spaces. Having seen ordinary Barcelona chairs and sofas suffer the abuse of high-traffic spaces see with hundreds of people using them on a daily basis, she opted to something different that would hold up under extreme wear. Interestingly, this was not the first time Niedermaier employed fiberglass in her design work, nor would it be her last. Her firm had used fiberglass for store displays, pots and mannequins in some of their prop and merchandise display work, and then in the early 2000s with the famous downtown Chicago outdoor art projects “Cows on Parade” and “Suite Home Chicago” (fiberglass outdoor furniture...

An 18th century Italian carved wood sofa bench. This antique Italian four-seat settee features a exquisitely carved pierced splat backs with a fluid top rail that rises and falls, giving definition to each seat. The sofa has a plain skirt, carved scrolled knuckles, and is raised nicely on squarely tapered legs and plain feet. The carcass is a bleached fruitwood...