Indonesian Reclaimed Hardwood Bench

A bench in the sense that a boulder is a chair.

This reclaimed hardwood bench comes from Bali, Indonesia, and is contemporary work in tamarind wood. Balinese workshops make solid-block seating like this for homes, gardens and hotels, giving salvaged timber a second life as furniture. The form is a single heavy rectangular block, squared off and left almost entirely alone. Pale honey surfaces show long cracks and dark pockets along the sides. The end grain reveals the rings of the tree, with a dark, irregular heart. Fifty-eight and a half inches long and nineteen high.

Assembly is not required. Neither is anything else.