A more relaxed park bench – by New Designer Minsung Lee

This made us smile when we saw it at the New Designers show in London. We hope it makes you smile too. To-gather by Minsung Lee from London Met University, is a park bench with a difference.  For a start, it is double sided, inviting you to lean over and converse with your fellow bench sitters. But even more striking is the angled seat which ,we first assumed, was intended to slide sitters into each others laps but which Minsung intends to be comfortable for those who prefer to be horizontal. Having worked with a number of public authorities who go to great lengths to dissuade people from using their furniture as a  place to spend the night we cant really see this appearing in your local park. But as we said, it made us smile and that always seems like a good enough reason to share.