French 1870s Upholstered Fruitwood Settee with Carved Urns and Outscrolling Arms

An Italian walnut settee from the 19th century, with curving back, scrolling arms and tapered feet. Created in Italy during the 19th century, thi...

A French vintage steel settee from the mid 20th century, with horse heads, hoof feet and new upholstery. Created in France during the midcentury period, this steel settee captures our attention with its four dignified horse heads accentuating the arm supports, connected to an arching back. Newly reupholstered with a neutral toned linen fabric, the settee is raised on slender legs with horse feet...

An Italian painted wood settee from the late 19th century, with floral décor and new upholstery. Born in the Serenissima during the last quarter of the 19th century, this Venetian se...

A Moroccan metal settee from the mid 20th century, with enamel décor and rams' heads. Created in Morocco during the second quarter of the 20th century, ...

An Italian painted wood sofa from the 19th century, with two slanted sides, tapered carved legs and distressed patina. Created in Italy during the 19th century, this painted sofa fea...

A French Louis XVI style giltwood wingback settee from the 19th century, with carved foliage motifs and distressed patina. Created in France during the 19th century, this giltwood se...

A French Louis XV style sofa from the mid-19th century. This antique settee from France upholstered features a gently arched top rail at back, carved acanthus leaves decorated the sk...

An exceptionally executed antique, circa 1880s, French Renaissance Revival figural settee / sofa. Hand-crafted in Southern France in the late 19th century, featuring warm, rich, beautifully carved solid walnut frame, the arms terminating in finely detailed hand sculpted crouching atlas figure...

Collinson and lock, possibly designed by E. W. Godwin. A fine Anglo-Japanese mahogany settee, with subtle Japonesque detailing to the back uprights,...

Antique Swedish Biedermeier carved three-four-seat sofa in Classic darker honey French polish finish that brings out the figure in the top grade golden birch quilted veneers. It f...

Found in England, this circa 1920s settee or sofa has a newly ebonised frame and is covered in white muslin - ready to be upholstered in the fabric of your choice. Eight legged frame features turned and reeded details and curved arms. Unknown maker. Frame and seat back are very good antique condition with a new finish. Insides of bench portion do not appear to have been rebuilt or restored. We acquired this piece from our English dealer...

Incorporating 'Stones of Bath' into this settee is inspired the pipers use of one of the five designs commissioned for their centenary, ‘The Glyders’, as loose covers for the chairs at their home Fawley bottom which John Betjeman called ‘Fawley Bum’. 'Stones of Bath' is one of five John Piper (1903-1992) designs commissioned by Arthur Sanderson & Sons in 1959 for their 1960 centenary celebrations. In 1962 Sanderson's screen printed ‘Stones of Bath’ on their Sanderlin fabric, a satinised linen which gave the design a shimmering, restless texture. This was ideally suited to the play of light depicted on the stone in the architectural repeat of buildings in the city of Bath. A piece of this fabric which is in the collection of the V&A was exhibited at the John Piper retrospective held at the Tate Gallery, London, 1983. Reference: 'Artists’ Textiles in Britain 1945-1970', Cat. No. 74. From the late 1950s-early 1960s there was interest in painterly textiles that demonstrated the unique potential of screen printing, with its ability to capture the quality of brush-stroked color. 'The monumental grandeur of many artists' textiles in the early 1960s was necessary if they were to work in the large scale architectural interiors of the era which witnessed a rapid growth in new public buildings, all which required furnishing with suitably prestigious fabrics'. Artists' Textiles in Britain 1945-1970 by Geoffrey Rayner, Richard Chamberlain...