Category: Design

  • Profile bench

    This female head is a half- profile sculpture. Another piece of bench-art from South Africa. On the back there is a bench with a great view on the beach.

  • MAMAC in Nice

    These benches can be found in Nice – in the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain(MAMAC): They are part of the piece of art by Tania Muraud. It is named “Melancholia-P-T1” and is realized specifically for the MAMAC. The idea is that the visitor sits down and realizes that the graphics on the wall are…

  • Korora Lookout bench by John van der Kolk

    I have to admit I have not seen this bench in real (yet) as it is pretty far away. The bench is placed in NSW Australia close to Coffs Harbour on the way to Korora lookout. A master piece of Art. Designed and created by the sculptor and artist John van der Kolk, who is by the…

  • Palais Royal – not just A bench from Paris

    Walking from the Palais Royal, built by and formerly home of Cardinal Richelieu, to the Louvre, today home of the most well-known paintings and sculptures, you cannot miss this one: Just around the corner and about 100m North of the Louvre on the Place Collette at Rue Saint Honoré you can find the prettiest underground…

  • Maibaum-Bankerl in Gauting 1st of May 2017

    Maibaum-Bankerl in Gauting 1st of May 2017

    In Bavaria there is a tradition to setup a tree trunk on 1st of May in each community. The trunk is nicely decorated and colored in blue-white stripes (the colors of Bavaria, representing the blue sky and white clouds, but the true story is that the colors origin from Greece. But that is a different story…) According to German…

  • Stonehenge

    Stonehenge

    It is early morning in Cosmopolis in Singapore. The cafe’s are not open yet. I am surrounded by buildings with names like Fusionopolis and Synthesis and other futuristic names.  I had to wait till 7 am to get my regular coffee infusion this morning. To my pleasure there was a henge of benches. Stone benches,…

  • Simple but Elegant

    Shopping is dead. I am not sure if the timing was not right, it was around 3 pm in the afternoon, but there was no shopper in this elegant shopping center. And of course nobody was sitting on this sleak and elegant bench. Even I treated it more as a piece of an exhibition than…

  • Art for the National Park Berchtesgaden

    It is the “Day of Pokemon Go” and being (still) very fond of Poke hunting we go for a stroll after dinner to increase our levels. All of sudden I found it – still in front of the craft shop: The ultimate bench: * Hand crafted by one of the local artists (in Berchtesgaden there…

  • Heimatkultur

    If you are looking for solid, nice, handcrafted outdoor bench (or nice wooden boxes from the Black Forest) for your garden or terrace you can find it at Heimatkultur. http://www.heimatkultur.com/index.html

  • Why is drawing a bench so easy?

    Why is drawing a bench so easy?

    Drawing a bench is quite easy, if you understand the concept of perspective drawing. Basically all benches can be drawn in a lengthy box. That means you have to draw the box first and then it will be easy to draw the bench in the box. The only thing you have to consider is, from…

  • “Schwabinger Bänke” – Benches in Schwabing

    Get on a bike and explore Schwabing. You will be surprised. You will not find the Schwabing of the 70s anymore. In case you do not know Schwabing. Schwabing is a famous if not the most famous suburb of Munich. Some Schwabinger might be angry now, as I call Schwabing a suburb and not the…

  • Designer Bench

    After not having contributed for a while and seeing the bench community growing by the month, I felt obliged to add a bench from a different genre. A bench, which might never provide a view towards mountains or anything nature. I didn’t find it while hiking or jogging. I found it while surfing. Do not…