Cologne designer Thomas Schnur has designed a wooden bench with logs instead of legs and which looks a bit like the Flintstones' car.
Simply called Holzbank (German for wooden bench) the piece is made of untreated larch and will turn silvery grey over time.
See Schnur's table with suction-cup legs in our earlier story.
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Here's some more information from distributors Outdoorz Gallery:
Holzbank by German Design Award nominee Thomas Schnur at Outdoorz Gallery
Inspired by the honesty and simplicity of the traditional wooden bench, Holzbank retains the appearence and shape of the material from which it is made.
The strength of the design is its purety and playfulness. Crafted from untreated larch tree trunks, each bench is handmade and unique.
Natural larch wood has been used for centuries when outdoor resistance is required, it is the traditional building material for Siberian log cabins.
The finish is perfectly smooth to the touch. Left outdoors the natural wood color will gradually become silver gray.
Holzbank retains the traditional qualities and workmanship of the traditional wooden bench, reinterpreted for the urban environment.
Everything about this seems a bit pointless to me.
For example: I don't get it why the cylindric legs are made of nine separate pieces of wood glued together (you can see this if you look very closely). It would be way cooler if there was only one big piece of wood.
"I don't get it why the cylindric legs are made of nine separate pieces of wood glued together"
Because thats the beauty of wood, you can join things together to make bigger things.
"It would be way cooler if there was only one big piece of wood."
Er, really? Way more ridiculous maybe.
How lame is that – there are already a few of them in my daughter’s kindergarten…