Indonesian 4 Seat Bench

Four seats, four slabs of grain, and no two of them agree.

This 4 seat bench comes from Indonesia and is contemporary work in suar wood. Suar, also called monkey pod or rain tree, is favored in Indonesia for big furniture like this, made to seat several people in a hall or entry while showing off its swirling grain. Each seat here is a thick plank with a separate square back rising from it, all four set on a long beam between two solid slab legs. The grain runs from honey to dark brown, with knots gathered on the third back. Over six and a half feet long and 34.5 inches high.

Arguments over who gets the knotted one are inevitable.