TIMELESS
ESTABLISHED 1993 1
VOLUME I
TIMELESS
NEW YOR K • GA R R ISON • LOS A NGEL ES 2
A CLASSIC IS FOR EVER Everything classic once was new—a frontrunner on the edge of style. Not all trends or fads endure, only designs that possess a certain clarity and strength of character. The diagonal patterning of the Almodington bench, America’s oldest known piece of garden furniture, travels in time across two and a half centuries without losing freshness. Painted white, our historic benches lend crisp elegance to traditional gardens. Painted red, our furniture skews contemporary, injecting dynamic geometry into a space. The form meets function purity of Amish furniture is timelessness defined. And the sleek lines of garden furniture designed for midcentury Palm Springs fashionistas are just as stylish today as they were then. Bold, brave and beautiful, the finest designs defy time.
Lithgo2Chairs + Kelso Table
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Almodington Bench Cantor Lounge Chair + Lyford Table Kim 4 Hoyt Architecture
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Fashions fade, style is eternal. — Yves Saint Laurent
Swan Chair + Ottoman
Kelso Bed
Christine6 Markatos Design
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Foreground: Watson Chair Chippendale Back + Amish Table Background: Montgomery Bench + Chairs 8
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Zarf Dining Chairs + Table
In style . . . the supreme excellence is simplicity. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Gunn Lounge Chairs, Sofa + Ottoman The Wiseman Group 10
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American Fruit Tree Boxes Patricia 12 Benner Landscape Design
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Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.— Penelope Hobhouse
Custom Kelso Curved Bench + Fenlake Lounges The Wiseman Group 14
PHOTO: MATTHEW MILLMAN
Potters Bench
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Wharton Benches Dumbarton 16 Oaks
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Almodington Bench G.P. Schafer Architect
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Watson19Chairs
When in doubt, wear red.
PHOTO: NEIL LANDINO JR
—Bill Blass
Xylo Bench Xylo Bench
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Photo courtesy Janice Parker Landscape Architects, Janice Photo Parker by Neil Landscape LandinoArchitects Jr 21
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. —Gary Snyder
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PHOTO: MATTHEW MILLMAN
Bruges Chairs + Zarf Table
Kelso Lounge Chairs
The Wiseman 23 Group
MUNDER- SK ILES GA R DEN FUR NITUR E Simplicity, practicality, ingenuity, integrity—these are the qualities that make a design stand out and stay forever fresh. Munder-Skiles Garden Furniture was born out of a passion for pieces that possess these traits and the desire to translate them for modern living. Drawing inspiration from historic, iconic, and modern designs, we ask, what is classic and what makes it so? Our aspiration is to create furniture that stays in context, complementing nature without overpowering it and enhancing the surrounding architecture. With customizable styles ranging from traditional to modern, handcrafted in wood and metal, our pieces create a visual vocabulary that can be introduced into any setting. Immensely strong, inherently comfortable, perennially stylish, these pieces will withstand the test of time to last a generation [or more].
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