Crease Bench

Crease Bench is a versatile seating solution designed for semi-public spaces like museum lounges, hotel lobbies, and educational environments, offering temporary resting areas for users. Its curvature design accommodates up to three people, and when arranged in multiples, it creates dynamic seating patterns such as circles and S shapes, allowing for flexible social interactions while maintaining social distancing.

The bench's top is finished with ash veneer, enhancing the materiality of the bent plywood, which maximizes its visual and physical minimalism. The absence of a central leg, made possible by the flexibility of the plywood, contributes to a clean, continuous form. The legs are composed of eight layers of bent plywood, jointed with a central plywood board and supported by a metal stretcher for added weight-bearing capacity. The differentiated orientation of the veneer grain, with straight grain on top and cross-grain on the bottom, further emphasizes its origami-inspired quality, making Crease Bench both functional and visually engaging in any space.