1930s Exceptionally Long Original French Monastery Bench, Four Metre 'Bench 2'

1950’s Original Mullca Long Bench With Back – 2.5 Metre – Large Quantity Available 1950’s Original Mullca Long Bench With Back – 2.5 Metre – Large...

1950’s original French Mullca long slatted bench (745.1) 1950’s original French Mullca long slatted bench (Model 745.1). One of our most favourite m...

1940’s Original French Mullca long slatted bench(Model 683) 1940’s Original French Mullca long slatted bench (Model 681). One of our most favourite makers, in 1947 Robert Muller and...

1940’s Original French Mullca Long Slatted bench (Model 682) 1940’s Original French Mullca Long Slatted bench (Model 682). One of our most favourite makers, in 1947 Robert Muller ...

1950’s Original French Mullca Long Slatted Bench (Model 1818) 1950’s Original French Mullca Long Slatted Brown Bench (Model 1818). One of our most favourit...

1960’s Long Green French Station Bench With Cast Legs 1960’s Long Green French Station Bench With Cast Legs. Sourced in France this bench would have origi...

Bench Oak Unusual shaped back Tapering legs France 1930s.

Pommel horse from former Czechoslovakia from the 1930s with beautiful patina, shortened to bench height 53cm and very good vintage condition. Completely restored. The iron feet are p...

French mid-century Wooden bench with narrow and long seat, 1930s Bench with narrow and long seat with rounded corners, entirely in solid wood. The legs with a square section facing o...

French mid-century Wooden benches with narrow and long seat, 1930s Pair of benches with narrow and long seat with rounded corners, entirely in solid wood. The legs with a square sect...

Pair of French painted Louis XV style benches standing on four cabriole legs with rams head feet. The benches are newly upholstered in a washed Belgium linen with nailhead trim detail.

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...