Wood Jiali Bench

Plain as a farmhouse table, and about as hard to argue with.

This Jiali bench is a contemporary piece from the Primitive Collection, made of sand blasted elm wood. Elm has long been a workhorse timber of Chinese country furniture, valued for its strength and its bold, open grain. A single long seat board rests on four splayed legs, two at each end, braced beneath by small aprons. The sandblasted finish lifts the grain into soft ridges, and the brown wood shows gray in its open pores. It is 60 inches long, 14 deep and 17.5 high.

It does one job and does not complain about it.