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Teak Garden Bench

A 150 cm solid teak bench that lives happily outdoors — built for garden mornings and mountain views.

A simple, honest bench for the garden, the porch, or the trailhead: one and a half meters of seat, low and steady, with a slight ease to the front edge so it stays comfortable long after the coffee is gone. It is designed to be left outside — teak is one of the few woods that genuinely improves with weather.

The seat slats are through-tenoned into the legs and pinned, so the joinery only tightens as the wood moves with the seasons. Left unfinished it silvers gracefully in the highland sun; a yearly coat of oil keeps the warm golden tone instead. Either way, it will outlast the garden around it.

About this piece

Built in the wood shop beside the café, between bike repairs and espresso pulls, from Panamanian-grown teak.

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