Bench, Vol. I.

The volume contains 378 screenshots of benches found in real estate listings – from summer houses, homesteads, barns, garden houses, timber sheds to wash houses and saunas – in provinces and towns of Lithuania.

Monika Januleviciute is a Lithuanian designer and artist. For her, the frankness of bench-making binds design, craft and art practices together. In this volume, the bench takes a centre place to the extreme. A multifaceted quotidian subject swivelling around its vertical axis, showing the elastic attachments to life
and functionality.