Orange Lounge Bench (2012 – by JLS, for ???). As Paul Harvey would say, this is the rest of the story for what was the headboard of the now dead and gone railroad bed. The orange panel came to me from Room & Board. It was offered, sans legs, at the outlet in 2009. It looks to be an early prototype for the top of the Ravella Studio Sofa ( http://www.roomandboard.com/rnb/product/detail.do?productGroup=19652) The price was right and we needed a headboard…done.
This was born to be a bench/sofa top. While things can be other things, some things seem to need to be certain things (beautiful sentence).
What you see here is the panel with new legs. The dimensions of the structure were borrowed from the classic Nelson Bench (http://www.dwr.com/product/nelson-platform-bench-48-in.do). The materials were reclaimed from other projects, and hand-distressed to project a vintage look. I love the visual juxtaposition – new slick orange leather versus what appears to be very aged, beat up, dark stained wood.
I think panels like this could also look great using a chunkier build – perhaps reclaimed cedar fence posts/similar. As with others, this one isn’t for sale, but I am open to discussing similar projects if you are interested.
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