Garden Furniture
Garden furniture of the sort offered by Smith Industries can bring a unique look and feel to your backyard and garden landscape. The furniture is created from wood that has been salvaged from naturally felled trees or otherwise found or "rediscovered" in existing pieces. The point of the design is to smooth out as little as necessary what Mother Nature has done. The component parts are featured in their natural roughness.
With garden furniture like this, you're not just getting something to sit on, you're getting a work of art. In essence, these pieces are sculptures taken from nature. The furniture is made of all organic materials and is 100% biodegradable. It's environmentally friendly as well, since no trees are felled to produce the furniture.
Garden furniture from Smith Industries doesn't conform to a preset design. Rather, the attempt is made to find the design that makes the most sense with the size and shape of the wood that is being used. The result is a very natural looking piece of furniture. It's as though the trees decided to grow a chair or a bench or a swing. This makes the furniture particularly suitable for an outdoor location. Other furniture may appear to be an intrusion on nature. It may seem out of place or unnatural, even if it was specifically manufactured to be used in an outdoor location. But Smith Industries produces pieces that go perfectly with the outdoor setting and appear to be a part of it.
It might seem strange to think of having a rocking chair outdoors, unless perhaps it's placed on the porch. But a natural looking rocking chair made from naturally rough, unmodified wood can seem quite in place under a tree or on the lawn.
Park benches as well can be had in this style. They look perfect in their natural surroundings. The smoothest pieces of wood are selected to provide the bench portion and are lined up as evenly as possible to provide a comfortable sitting area. The backs rise up in a frame of larger sticks or small logs and are braced with smaller sticks that form a naturally curved and interesting ornamentation that still supports your back.
Simpler picnic benches with no back at all are constructed from half logs supported by sturdy logs forming the legs underneath.
The seating on the chairs and benches can be smoothed out just enough to make them comfortable. They can be curved to provide contoured seating. The dowels receive a handmade wedge so that no screws or other metal or machined parts are necessary. The arms make use of wedged mortise and tendon joinery to hold them to the rest of the chair or bench.
The only place where you might see metal in this furniture is in the chain that holds the rustic tree swings up. Even here, the chain is tarnished and rustic looking in keeping with the overall theme of rough simplicity.
Rather than seeking to make things perfect through painstaking alteration, consider finding nature's perfection set on display in garden furniture from Smith Industries.
For additional information on these unique products, you can go to the company's web site located at http://www.smithindustries.com
