When you think of benches, your mind probably goes to the simple wooden kind, perhaps painted green, that you typically see in big city parks. Perhaps you think of a swinging seat or picnic table, but this cluster of bizarre benches is about to change the way you think about public seating.
This cluster includes peculiar seating like biodegradable benches made with mushroom spores and DIY wheelbarrow benches. It also includes trends related to benches, such as the recent guerrilla benching craze in London where people plunked benches in public parks.
27 Bizarre Benches
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Bright Contrast Furniture
Sculptural Bookshelf with Bench and Matching Pieces
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Antisocial Seating
Unusual and Uncomfortable Chairs and Benches
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Modular Public Seating
The Campus Bench Encourages Socializing
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Guerrilla Benching
Green-Space Loving Activists Drill Down New Seats Around London
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DIY Wheelbarrow Benches
Mobile Outdoor Seating on a Wheel
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Sculptural Benches
'Hold The Line' is Customizable and Keeps You Connected in Style
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Bluetooth-Enabled Public Seating
The BoomBench
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Illuminated Benches
LightBench by Frellstedt
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The Bench Toilet
Troy Adams Luxury Loo
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Biodegradable Benches
Shinwei Rhoda Yen's Wooden Seat is Embedded With Mushroom Spores
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Intentionally Smashed Seating
Torn 'Fracture' Chairs by Itay Ohaly Are Made of Broken Benches
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Office Supplies as Art
Boex Hot Pink Pencil Bench
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Pro-Smoking Designs
The Smoker Bench
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Living Furniture
Bushy Bench by 5.5 Designers
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Seating From Recycled Newspapers
The '334' Bench
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Homeless Voting
Registering Park Benches as Addresses in Ohio
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Public Seat That's Always Dry
The Rolling Bench
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Water Drop-Inspired Bench
'Public Chair' by Pop Chang
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Sliding Public Seating
The Come a Little Bit Closer Bench
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Tree Benches
Bronze Tree Trunk Chairs
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Benchvertizing
Have a Break, Have a Seat on a Kitkat Bar
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Forced Interaction in Public Spaces
The 'Seesaw Bench'
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Cars With Tanning Benches
VW Caddy Topos Sail Concept
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Extendable Benches
Klabenkkk Expands to Seat 9
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Playground-Inspired Seating
The Swing Bench Lets Adults Play Like Children Again
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Woven Benches
Ta-Te-ti
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Portable Adverbenches
Perfect Perch
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