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Derby by Kingsley Bate

4.5' Bench

Name: 4.5' Bench
Brand: Kingsley Bate
SKU: DR45

benches & lawn chairs · teak · CUS45, · SKU DR45

Derby benches (54" arch peaks at 38"; 6' arch peaks at 36") with a simple, elegant fluid curved line; matching armchair.

Materialteak

TeakAll-weather wickerStainless steelAluminium

Width137.2 cm

Depth50.8 cm

Height96.5 cm

Seat height40.6 cm

Arm height61 cm

Weight27.2 kg

Plan, to scale. The bar is 45 cm — about the width of a pair of shoulders.

Custom cushionsMade to order for this frame, in your chosen fabric — commission cushions, or read Cushions & comfort below.

No finish chosen yet. Pick one above and it is kept with the piece — through the shortlist, the workspace schedule and the export.

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Full specification8 sections

Materials

teak

Material family

teak

Cushion code

CUS45,

Customer's own material

Not accepted on this piece

Typology, as supplied

garden bench

Features

fluid curved line
graceful arch (38" peak)

The Derby collection

teak. 5 pieces in this collection.

Kingsley Bate is teak-first, so the browse unit is the material rather than a colourway: the timber is specified by how it is allowed to weather, not by a paint code.

Teak
All-weather wicker
Stainless steel
Aluminium

Cushion fabric

135 · kingsleybate.com/fabrics + kingsleybate.com.au

The maker's named cushion library — 135 fabrics across grades A to D. Choose one and it is kept with the piece, through the shortlist, the workspace schedule and the export.

Cushion fabric135

Grade A61

Grade B42

Grade C20

Grade D12

Fabric images are not to scale and colour reads differently on every screen — order a physical sample before specifying. Swatches and grades are the maker’s own, read from Kingsley Bate (manufacturer) (2026-07-31) and Kingsley Bate Australia (Casualife microsite) (2026-07-25).

Cushion thickness is deck arithmetic, not a style choice: the maker builds the bare frame deck low or high knowing what will sit on it, and the cushion is the remainder to a comfortable finished seat. That is why a dining pad runs thin and deep seating runs thick — neither is an upgrade on the other.

For a benche: 4–6 cm at a dining table · 8–10 cm as lounge seating — long runs split into sections over about 1.4 m so no single pad bows or holds water.
Pad reference: CUS45,
Core: Exposed pieces take an open-cell, fast-draining (reticulated) core: water passes straight through instead of pooling in the foam. A crowned profile sheds standing water by geometry. Neither makes a cushion waterproof — outdoor builds drain, they do not seal.
Fabric: Outdoor cloth earns its keep in the fibre. Solution-dyed yarn carries its pigment all the way through the fibre, so colour survives sun and scrubbing; surface-dyed cloth wears its colour off. Performance fabrics are water-resistant rather than waterproof, and mildew grows on dirt sitting on the cloth, not in the fibre itself — which is why the published care is washing, drying and standing a soaked cushion on edge to drain.
Patterns & your own fabric: Fabrics and patterns are fully specifiable — plains, stripes and prints, with repeat, direction and railroading captured in the brief so a pattern lands straight on every panel. Many pieces also accept customer’s own material (C.O.M.) — the brief asks rather than assumes.

The maker’s cushion grammar

Kingsley Bate specifies a cushion in three published steps — the piece, the fabric grade, the edge style — across four edge styles and two fabric tiers (Standard and High-Performance). Cushions are sized to the frame, and the maker’s own care page says it plainly: stand a soaked cushion on edge and let it drain.

Commission custom cushions

Made to order through our supplier workshops — sized to this frame, in your chosen fabric, from a thin dining pad to a full deep-seating build.