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Bench

Explore 18 award-winning designs tagged Bench on DesignAmid Magazine.

Kawadoko Bench

Shih An Ko Bench Furniture

Kawadoko

Kawadoko is a wooden bench designed to offer relief from summer heat. The name refers to platforms built over rivers in Japan during summer, where people cool down beside running water. The bench is made of white oak, using mortise and tenon joints and woodturning, and follows the structure of traditional wooden architecture. Long gaps between the seat rods allow air to pass through for a cool sitting experience. The seat is wider than average, so users can sit cross-legged or lie down to rest. The rounded rod edges serve as handles when the bench is moved.

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Note Bench

Bulent Unal Bench Street Furniture

Note

It is a bench designed for open public spaces. The covers on it can rotate on their own axis. In this way, two different colors are used and the top surface of the bench becomes suitable for the use of a text or pattern. The top surface of the bench is a surface consisting of 7x27 circles. This surface provides a writing or drawing area for people to leave notes, draw figures and express their feelings, even if temporarily.

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Petit Duc Bench

Julien Hac Bench Furniture

Petit Duc

Petit Duc is a bench designed for both outdoor and indoor use. The seat is a tablet of shale sandstone, a local stone quarried near Malmedy in Belgium. The stone blocks are cut, machined and polished, and the chamfers are shaped by hand. The tablet rests on slender legs of metallized steel with a powder coating that resists corrosion and ultraviolet light. The bench measures 2000 mm in length and weighs 80 kg. Four finishes are offered: raw, honed light, honed dark and sanded. The aim was to give new value to a local material.

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Optique Bench

Albert Potgieter Bench Furniture

Optique

The Optique bench was designed to be a functional art piece. The focus of this design lies in its visual aspect, hence the name, Optique. Being designed in Africa, it carries some of the properties of nature and wildness. It captures the attention as it gives the impression of movement and being alive. The Optique Bench is made out of many separate pieces of solid wood which gets cut, sanded, prepared, oiled and then glued together and like a puzzle gets built up into a solid furniture piece.

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Forrest Bench

Giuliano Ricciardi Bench Outdoor Furniture

Forrest

Forrest is a monolithic bench which bases its elegance to the minimal and clean shape and to its projecting structure covered with porcelain stoneware that embellishes the surfaces. Thanks to these elements, it's possible to perfectly emulate any stone, wood or metal while maintaining the technical advantages (durability, lightness, resistance, etc.) that such materials usually do not provide. The structure is completed by the lightened corten support made almost evanescent by plasma cutted textures and by the led light placed under the projection that offers pleasant plays of shadows.

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Carbon Activated Timber Bench

Michael Budig Bench Sustainable Product

Carbon Activated Timber

Carbon Activated Timber Bench is designed for public areas and is made from reclaimed wood planks. It challenges the notions of weight and stability. While the volume of the wood planks appears as seemingly massive blocks, they are only loosely connected and in an unstable state. Tiny threads of carbon fibres tie the massive blocks together to give them their stability. They also reinforce the blocks to even add strength to the wood planks.

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