Vintage Oak Butcher's Table / Farmtable, 1930s

This oak butcher's farm table was produced in hungary around the 1920s. With an oak top of 5 cm thick. The legs are shortened to the ideal height for a coffee table or bench. Treated...

Butcher’s table from the 1930s, made of oak. With a beautifully weathered top of 7 cm thick that consists of one piece of wood. The legs are shortened to coffee table height. Treated...

Butcher’s table from the 1930s, made of oak. With a beautifully weathered top of 10 cm thick that consists of one piece of wood. The legs are shortened to coffee table height. Treate...

Butcher’s table from the 1930s, made of oak. With a beautifully weathered top of 6 cm thick that consists of one piece of wood. The legs are shortened to coffee table height. Treated...

Three beautiful boards of elm, over two inches thick and very heavy, are joined together to make the top of this outstanding coffee table. The oak legs have been chamfered into octa...

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...

This rather elephantine Pig Bench has a number of interesting features. The top is a massive slab of oak almost 3” thick, which over the years has developed a hump and a twist. The l...

This handsome pig bench has a two board top, over five feet long and almost three inches thick. The boards are pulled together with bolts that pass all the way through both boards.....