Walnut frame
Steam-bent. Hand-rubbed with seven coats of plant oil, sanded back between each. The grain is finished open.
Bench made · Kyambogo
— In the series · 4 in the family
Built on the same bench.
Close variants of the piece you're looking at — same construction language, scaled and re-cut for the way the room reads.
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A piece built to be used, not just looked at.
Two centuries of joinery technique, finished by hand in Kampala.
The frame is steam-bent Ugandan ash — slow grown in the central forests, milled at our yard in Mukono, and curved on jigs that were built in 2014 and haven't moved since.
Every piece is sat in for two hundred hours before it leaves the gate. We have a corner of the workshop where the team rotates through them — reading, eating lunch, on calls.
— Bench 03 · KyambogoMaker: Joshua K.
— What it's made of
Four materials,
traceable to source.
Everything we use has a name, a place, and a person at the other end. The supply chain for one piece fits on a postcard.
Ember boucle
100% wool boucle, looped on a slow loom in Jinja. Martindale 40,000. Re-stretches on the frame, doesn't pill.
Jute webbing
Hand-tied, three-bond knot at each crossing. Belgian jute, sized in our finish room, replaceable as a service.
Rubber sprung
Belt-grade rubber from a Kasese tyre re-purposer. Two-zone tension — soft under thigh, firm under spine.
— Measurements
To the millimetre.
Sized for someone five foot six to six foot two. The seat is 42 cm off the floor — high enough to stand from without pushing, low enough to tuck a leg under.
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- Width
- 78 cm
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- Depth
- 84 cm
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- Height
- 86 cm
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- Seat height
- 42 cm
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- Seat depth
- 54 cm
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- Arm height
- 62 cm
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- Weight
- 22 kg
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- Boxed
- 96 × 92 × 98 cm
— Owner voices · 3 reviews
Owners on this piece.
Reviews from named clients, with the configuration they bought and how long they've owned it.
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★★★★★Bought in 2017, still on its first cushion cover. I read in it every morning.
Naome A. Muyenga · Owned 9 yearsWalnutBone BoucleStandard -
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★★★★★Two chairs for the library. Three years and a thousand guests later, neither has needed a re-tension.
Aine N. Speke Group · Owned 3 years · pairEbon. AshCognac LeatherWide -
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★★★★★Asked for a custom moss linen and they had it on the bench in five weeks. Worth the wait.
Joel & Faridah K. Kololo · Owned 14 monthsOakMoss LinenCompact
— Full specification
All the
fine print.
Every line on the BOQ for this piece in its default configuration. Changes from the configurator are priced and re-issued before you confirm.
Frame
- Material
- Ugandan ash · steam-bent
- Finish
- Hand-rubbed oil
- Hands
- 07 coats · 120 hr cure
- Joinery
- Mortise & tenon · pegged
- Hardware
- Brass · brushed satin
Seat
- Webbing
- Hand-tied jute · 11-strand
- Suspension
- Rubber-belt · 2-zone
- Cushion
- Hi-resilience foam · 38 kg/m³
- Fill
- Foam core · feather wrap
- Cover
- Removable · zip · serviceable
Upholstery
- Fabric
- Ember boucle · 100% wool
- Mill
- Jinja Wool Co.
- Weight
- 620 gsm
- Martindale
- 40,000 rubs
- Stitching
- Coats Astra · matched tonal
Service
- Warranty
- 24 months · frame & cushion
- Re-upholster
- From UGX 1,200,000
- Lead time
- 4 weeks · bench-made
- Shipping
- Insured · worldwide
- Returns
- 14-day swap · uncustomised
— Pairs well with
All in Bathroom Fragrances↗
From the same bench.
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