MOST WELCOME BENCHES IN THE WORLD?

They may not look like very much but these are the benches right by the official lodge at the foot of Kilimanjaro where you wait to get your certificate to show that you have successfully climbed the mountain! I was luckily not to find a collapsed walker on them as well.

Surrealist chair/bench

Doesn't it just look as if it's going to wrap those arms around you when you sit down?!

THE NOT-BENCH BENCH

I don't think this sculpture by Peter Randall-Page is supposed to be a bench, but you could see from where it has got shiny that many many people have been sitting on it. How could you resist it?

SIMPLE CAN BE ALL YOU NEED

FLOWER BENCH

Maine Benches

My friend Alice sends me these two lovely benches from Maine, America.

The first is from the Thuya Gardens...



And the second from Rockefeller Garden...

Found in the garden of The Old Fire Engine, Ely

Possibly the best bench inscription ever.

Pioneer Bench art

These two beauties are from The Museum of the West, Old Trapper's Lodge, Burbank, California. They are made by John Ehn who was born of Swedish pioneer parents in 1896. The life size statues on the benches are made from sand and cement over an iron core and wire mesh.


(Sweet Lorraine and Lovely Louise)


(Two Gun Rosie)

LEGAL BENCH

Taken in the Middle Temple, London (just before I got locked in!)

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