This Wooden Bench Bends to Your Weight

Beauty and comfort via simple but effective design.

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Wood has many admirable qualities as a craft material: its sturdiness and durability, the patina it gains over time, ease of cleaning, and the beauty and luster of a well-developed grain. However, comfort is oftentimes not one of these qualities given the unbending structure of wood. Sitskie Furniture has succeeded in solving just this in its Block Bench design, where the seating surface is not one piece of wood, but many pieces that dovetail together that can move individually to accommodate the curves of your body. Handcrafted in Los Angeles out of FSC-certified solid domestic hardwood, the Block Bench is available in different size configurations beginning from $3,600 USD, and an armed configuration from $4,000 USD.

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