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Ipanema by Kingsley Bate
Settee
sofas · teak · CUS56 · SKU IP55
The confluence of two mid-century design movements: Danish modern and California contemporary. A sophisticated style with timeless appeal. Constructed from solid teak; some items incorporate marine-grade stainless steel braces that are both beautiful and functional.
Materialteak
TeakAll-weather wickerStainless steelAluminium
Width149.9 cm
Depth89 cm
Height84 cm
Seat height43 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.
Full specification
- Material family
- teak
- Fabric
- Batyline (french produced outdoor mesh fabric) sling panels under seat cushions allow good drainage for cushions.
- Cushion code
- CUS56
- Typology, as supplied
- SOFA
The Ipanema collection
14 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.
In the maker’s words
- Batyline (french produced outdoor mesh fabric) sling panels under seat cushions allow good drainage for cushions.
- Cushion: CUS57
- Furniture Cover: FC130
Kingsley Bate’s own wording for this piece, as published on our Kingsley Bate site — original spelling kept. Cushion and cover references are the supplier’s accessory codes, confirmed at quote.
- Teak
- All-weather wicker
- Stainless steel
- Aluminium
Batyline (french produced outdoor mesh fabric) sling panels under seat cushions allow good drainage for cushions.
Cushion fabric
135 · kingsleybate.com/fabrics + kingsleybate.com.auThe 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.
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 sofas or settee
- 10–15 cm seat · 12–15 cm back — always separate cushions rather than one slab, so each panel drains and turns on its own.
- Pad reference
- CUS56
- 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
Commission custom cushionsKingsley 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.
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.
Technical sheet issued on request, per piece.
Sheets are issued per piece against the current supplier revision, so the drawing you receive matches what will be built, not an older press.
Request technical sheetThis piece is printed in the Kingsley Bate catalogue, p. 41.
Catalogue extracts issued on request — we publish no self-serve PDF library.
The page this piece is printed on is on the site — open it in the reader. The page and every photograph on it remain © Kingsley Bate.
Open the page in the readerPlan and elevation are generated from the dimensions on this page.
- Weathering
- Teak is impervious to sun, rain and snow and is suited to salt-air positions. Left untreated it moves through honey to a silver grey over roughly a year. Treated, it holds its golden brown.
- Cleaning
- To bring the original colour back, use a teak cleaner — about thirty minutes for a bench. To clean without lifting the grey, soap and water is enough. Apply protector after cleaning to hold the golden brown, and reapply seasonally. A new piece needs no cleaner.
- Indoors
- Solid teak reads well indoors; oil or wax it when it is used inside.
- Care products
- Teak Cleaner (TC01B, TC01CS) · Teak Protector (TC02B, TC02CS, TC02A, TC02CL) · Teak Shield (TC04B, TC04CS). Protector is applied once or twice a year; shield two to three times a year.
- Assembly
- Most pieces ship knocked down in cartons and assemble in about fifteen minutes.
- Sling surfaces
- Sling seats and backs are a vinyl-coated polyester textile — durable, fade-resistant and easy to keep. Specify the sling colour when ordering.
- Covers
- Fitted covers are made in solution-dyed polyester, colourfast to 1,000 hours of sunlight, with a water-resistant backing and buckles that stop water pooling.
Kingsley Bate catalogues — teak construction and weathering (front section, p.2); weathering and cleaning (p.117); indoor use (p.6); care products (p.202).
- Brand
- Kingsley Bate · United States
- Collection
- Ipanema
- Designer
- Glyn Peter Machin
- Category
- Sofas
- Status
- Current range
- Suited to
- Hotels & Resorts · Workplace
- SKU
- IP55
More from Ipanema — and similar piecesIpanema — all 12 pieces
R.3Side Table
R.4Sectional Armless Chair
R.5Sectional Corner Chair
R.1 Ottoman
- House
- Kingsley Bate
- SKU
- IP10
- Range
- Ipanema
- Dimensions
- W 64 cm, D 58 cm, H 43 cm
R.6Lounge Chair
R.7Coffee Table
R.8Sectional Chaise
R.9Sectional Armless Settee
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Fabric
The canopy fabric as specified.
Batyline (french produced outdoor mesh fabric) sling panels under seat cushions allow good drainage for cushions.
Kingsley Bate
Teak, all-weather wicker and stainless outdoor furniture.
The houseGlyn Peter Machin
No portrait of this designer appears here, so the panel carries the initials instead of a borrowed likeness.
The designers
