Design Confidently, Live Comfortably



Issue #4, May/June 2004

Handmade: Harmonious Garden Benches
Douglas Thayer creates seating from disparate materials
by Jonathen Binzen

Douglas Thayer’s simple, monolithic garden benches, made from concrete and wood, are rooted in nature but modernistic in form. The benches are expressly suited to the outdoors, and include such surprising touches as copper accents from salvaged antique rain gutters. Thayer’s background in the painstaking art of traditional furniture making is reflected in his careful aesthetic choices and mastery of his medium.


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