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BENCHmark
Ladies and Gentlemens... Take Your Seats, Please! LHR's 2004 arts and garden exhibit sets the BENCHmark (standard) for garden seating. Organized by Jack Larsen and Associate Curator Wendy Van Deusen, this inventive show features fifty superb solutions to garden seating -- benches, settees, and stools, primarily contemporary in style, suitable for outdoors or garden areas such as patios and conservatories, public or residential. The creators are designers and architects, artists and craftmakers, using wood, metals, stone and stoneware to produce pieces, both one-of-a-kind and made for production, from Hans Hokanson's redwood bench (1989) and Keizo Tsukada's mahogany bench, to Ron Rudnicki's granite slab (2000) and Young Sook Park's ceramic, iron glazed seating arrangement of square stools. A few pieces on exhibit are in LongHouse collections; most will be new additions, with many remaining on permanent exhibit. We would like to acknowledge all the lenders to the exhibition as well as the numerous donors who arranged for the benches to become permanent in our gardens. So take your seats, relax, and enjoy the quiet atmosphere of LongHouse Reserve from the million daffodils of spring to the serene green of late summer. Opening Saturday, May 1, 2-6pm. On view through September 12.