Bench "The Lovers" Philippe Delzers / Elitis, France, 1998

Philippe Delzers for Elitis, pair of chairs L'Ange Bleu, France, 1998. Structure in bleached oak and sandblasted, seat in green linen. Signed under the seat. Provenance: Personal c...

Philippe Delzers, coffee table with rim in blackened oak tray and heightened covered with red leather scratched / pique, Elitis 1998. Very nice condition, provenance personal collec...

Mirror Seraglio, prototype of Phillipe Delzers, France, 2006 This mirror blackened oak, worn, is trimmed saddle quilted leather with its center beveled mirror. Unique piece, certific...

Philippe Delzers (1964) for Delzers Studio, collection "Classical Confessions" Tea table "Je suis avec toi', 2005, blackened oak, sheathed in blue lacquered leather, saddle pique. ...

Set of French pine wood benches in very good condition. Made of solid pine wood slats which are connected with typical joints. The style reminds of Scandinavian modernism, like Swe...

French style large tufted bench/coffee table. Painted white wooden cabriole legs.

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...

Table in natural varnished oak, top in marquetry, Clogs in tinted resin.