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Arisa Bench

Pedro Fernández Cortina Bench Street Furniture

Arisa

Arisa is a modular bench designed for public spaces. The bench is made of lightweight recycled concrete with added stone material, which provides strength while keeping the weight low. Proportions follow the golden ratio, and varied heights allow children to climb, teenagers to gather and adults to rest. The curved form encourages conversation between people of different ages. Several units can be arranged in different configurations, and the bench suits both outdoor and indoor settings. Each unit measures 600 by 600 by 1800 mm.

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Desafinado Bench

Cassiano Saldanha Bench Furniture

Desafinado

Desafinado is a bench designed as a study in balance and restraint. The form follows Scandinavian clarity, with straight lines and simple geometry, combined with the weight and directness of Brazilian brutalist modernism. Low proportions invite a relaxed posture, and the split between seat and back creates visual tension. A deliberate overhang balances the seat and the back in opposite directions. The bench is made almost entirely of European oak with a black stain, and a thin hand-stitched cushion in Brazilian saddle leather completes the seat.

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Cenear Bench

Christine Xiang Bench Furniture

Cenear

The Cenear Bench draws inspiration from the graceful curves and rich heritage of tea gardens, seamlessly merging contemporary Chinese furniture elements with an homage to historical culture. Crafted to encourage open communication, it boasts a soft cushion seat affixed to a wooden frame, accompanied by two differently colored shaped cushions for adaptable comfort. The bench caters to the modern user's penchant for personalized seating configurations, featuring curved sections and supportive backrests that encourage relaxed and engaging conversations.

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Lewis Bench

Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd Bench Furniture

Lewis

Lewis is a modular bench designed for compact modern homes. The bench measures 1200 mm in width, 400 mm in depth and 400 mm in height. A knock-down structure allows flat packaging, which lowers transport costs. The cushion is filled with 28D styling cotton for high resilience, and the metal parts are finished with environmentally friendly paint. The cushion has two sides. One side is upholstered for seating, and the reverse side forms a flat top for storage use. Simple lines and current colors follow contemporary geometric abstraction art.

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4x4 Bench

Shayan Ramesht Bench Furniture

4x4

The 4x4 bench has been designed and constructed with a reuse approach, utilizing recycled materials. The bench is made using 16 recycled paper tubes, each measuring 160 centimeters in length. The challenge in designing this bench was placing the tubes on the smallest possible contact surface of the circle, as the tubes tend to slide on top of each other, requiring a larger contact surface for stability. To solve this challenge, recycled plastic pieces were designed and produced to prevent lateral movement of the tubes on each other.

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Chopstikbench Bench

ChungSheng Chen Bench Furniture

Chopstikbench

Made from 37.800 pairs of recycled disposable chopsticks, which equivalent to the chopsticks used in three night-markets per day in Taiwan. Every single piece of chopstick was placed intertwine and glue with non-toxic adhesive, and CNC cutting take into shape with a weight load capacity up to 300kg. Smooth line of an arc progressively hollow out designed that spread from inside out corresponded the outline rounded in shape, organic styling that visually elegant. Suitable for street furniture or lobby reception furniture making the disposable chopsticks to be reshaped and create new values.

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Greenery Bench

Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd Bench Furniture

Greenery

Greenery is a bench designed to be combined with living or artificial plants. The structure is made of environment-friendly wood board with a wood veneer outer surface. A planter of stainless steel is fitted at one side, and the seat cushions are covered in leather with polyurethane foam inside. The bench measures 1600 mm in width, 440 mm in depth and 430 mm in height. Seating is offered for two or three people, with extra space for small items. The form recalls an ancient Chinese garden pavilion, and the intent is to bring a calm natural element into residential and public spaces.

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Flexion Bench

Elif Günes Bench Street Furniture

Flexion

Flexion is an outdoor bench designed for public spaces. The bench has a sculptural form in which legs, seat and backrest flow into one continuous surface without visible joining details. The upper and lower surfaces are shaped with a metal structure and covered with Corian, a durable material suited to hygienic use. The Corian surfaces can be painted in different colors with a mirror-like finish. The bench is 300 centimeters long, 90 centimeters deep and 45 centimeters high, and seats at least two people at a comfortable distance.

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Fold Bench

Chris Tsui Bench Street Furniture

Fold

Fold is a public bench that also serves as a table. The design is formed from a piece of plywood folded back on itself at an angle. The fold creates a second surface that can be used as a table, without added extensions or appendages. The form remains simple and sturdy for use in public spaces. The plywood is steamed and shaped in a custom built mold, and bronze is used with it. The overall dimensions are 1480 mm in length, 1010 mm in width and 730 mm in height.

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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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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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GanDan Bench

ChungSheng Chen Bench Furniture

GanDan

This is a handcrafted bench inspired by the nature of silkworm spinning and cocooning, and with reference to the traditional craftsmanship of Aomori Prefecture Japan, with which take shaped by enlacing the golden teak wood veneer through continuous wrapped in circles and layers, showing the beauty of veneer gradation, to form a perfect streamlining shape of bench. Looks hard as if wooden bench but is soft sitting feel instead. Without any waste or scrap when it was made which is relatively environmentally friendly.

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