XX Century, 1930s Art Deco Italian Benches

Saber legs shiny wood and woven leather stools. Other wood colors and upholstery are available. Italian artisanal production by Pescetta Home Decoration. Walnut wood stools or otto...

Bench mid '800 France - in ebonized walnut. Brass ferrules and castors in perfect working order. Replaced padding in first grain leather capitone. ...

Knoll International benches in green capitonné leather and steel feet. There are 2 benches and they have been completely restored both in the padding and reupholstered with new green...

Klismos walnut black woven leather Bench, Customizable Upholstery and Wood. Other colors and upholstery are available. Italian artisanal production by Pescetta Home Decoration. Blac...

Klismos walnut wood brown woven leather Bench, Customizable Upholstery and Wood. Other colors and upholstery are available. Italian artisanal production by Pescetta Home Decoration....

1960s Cherry Wood Legs and Green Velvet Benches, Set of 2 Set of 2 benches in cherry wood and green velvet. New paddings and Recently reupholstered...

Sculptural bench made of walnut briar attributed to the architect Gio Ponti. The bench dates back to about 30 years. Its elegance is also given by its ebonized and sculptural wood in...

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...

France / 1930s / bench / oak / Art Deco Rare Art Deco seat in solid oak made in France in the 1930s. Beautifully made in fine oak wood with subtile Art Deco carvings and panels. Thi...

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

A pair of French carved stools or benches in the Style of Louis XIV, Each in walnut and delicately carved and channeled into a perfect harmony of ...

A French steel bench from the mid-20th century, with out-scrolling arms, tapered legs and classical-themed toile upholstery. Born in France during...