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St Catherine bench, teak

Sika-Design

AU$5,284.00 AU$6,605.00
10% GST is included

Sika-Design
St Catherine bench AU$5,284.00 AU$6,605.00

Description

Sika-Design's St Catherine bench is an elegant teak bench designed by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen in 1935. Originally designed for wholesaler Helge Wandel's villa, the bench was named St Catherine in the 1950s after St Catherine's College in Oxford, where Jacobsen designed his first major foreign project – the teak bench was included in the plan of the college park.

The St Catherine bench features a graceful yet sturdy design, making it perfect as a dining bench by a patio table or placed next to a summer house wall or under a shady tree. Made of Indonesian plantation-grown teak, the bench is an excellent and durable choice for any outdoor space and will acquire a beautiful patina over the years.

Colour
Teak
Width
180 cm
Depth
67 cm
Height
84 cm
Seat depth
52 cm
Seat height
40 cm
Material
Teak
Weight
38.8 kg
Care instructions
Please note that untreated teak furniture will develop a patina over time, eventually turning a pale grey colour. If you wish to retain the original golden colour, it is recommended to treat teak furniture with a suitable teak sealant.
Product ID
SSAJ-180U

Arne Jacobsen

Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971) is the most celebrated post-war Danish designer and architect. He graduated from the School of Applied Arts in 1924 and from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied architecture, in 1927. Arne Jacobsen worked actively both as an architect and as a designer and received many prestigious awards for his designs, including C. F. Hansen Medal and the Grand Prix of Milan XI Triennale.

Jacobsen’s most famous project was the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen (1956-1960), for which he designed every detail from textiles and lamps to cutlery and furniture. The AJ lamps, designed for the Royal Hotel and manufactured by Louis Poulsen, are a fine example of his streamlined and elegant style. The cutlery designed for the Royal Hotel and produced by Georg Jensen, represents a stylish design that is still today much praised. Also, the famous Egg and Swan chairs were designed for the Royal Hotel. As often happened with Arne Jacobsen’s designs, they were initially realized for a certain project and only later put into serial production – the same happened for the AJ lamps, the cutlery and the furniture he designed for the hotel. Royal Hotel was an extremely important project for Jacobsen because he could finally put his theories of integrated design and architecture into practice.

Jacobsen is well-known also for the Cylinda Line range, designed for Stelton in 1967. Since the very beginning, Cylinda Line has been an undisputed icon of Scandinavian design and today the range is part of numerous permanent collections in design museums all over the world.

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