Salvaged Oak Bench

Old and new materials combined to new life

Returning to a long-standing client, Manifest were asked to take an old, very substantial piece of oak which had acted as a shelf, but was now redundant – and to form it into a new bench for the house extension.

We lined out the borders of the piece in new oak to mask the scars of its long service (it had been supported, curiously, with iron re-bar that could not be removed), then took more material salvaged from previous building projects, just the right length for the legs and braces of the new piece.