(So, consider yourselves lucky!) Heading down the windy road past Playhouse in the Park from Mt. Adams, two no-frills benches rest demurely in a wooded cove on the side of the road, looking out over ...

Had you not thought very much about the bench as public furniture? I hadn't either until recently, when, on a visit to the park, I suddenly ... seeing that same view, breathing that same air.

The curved park bench touches the base with only a narrow ... and the pair of armrests on either side make it easy to get up.

A connection with the past inspires the contemporary emau park bench. The attentively designed, slimline side profile draws inspiration from the brutalist architecture of the 1960s, which is ...

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ONCE YOU PASS HERE, YOU’RE GETTING CLOSE BECAUSE JUST OVER THE RIDGE UNDER THIS TREE SITS MY FAVORITE PARK BENCH. THIS BENCH COMING WITH A SERENE, PICTURESQUE AND UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW OF THE ...