The Ladderback three seater garden bench looks good in an 18th century gardens.
Originally garden furniture was a piece of furniture taken from the house for temporary
use in the garden, and later replaced in the house. Furniture gradually developed from
interior furniture and was left outside, perhaps just for the summer, for garden use. The
Ladderback design looks as if it has been taken out of the house for use in the garden
and will be returned to the house latter. Many paintings of early gardens and plantations
of estates show the owner seated in the house with the garden behind or seated in the
garden with the house visible in the background, this would later devolve to paintings
purely of the garden with no house visible as pride in the garden grew and grew. While
the origins of garden furniture developed from household furniture, it is equally
appropriate to return todays examples of garden furniture to the house as a hall or
kitchen seat or to the garden room or conservatory. The result provides a pleasant
transition from garden to house which is as rewarding as the movement of household
furniture to the garden was centuries earlier.
Made in England