Kingsley Bate
Teak, all-weather wicker and stainless outdoor furniture — 93 collections, 721 pieces indexed.
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NormandyKingsley Bate
Normandy 54" Bench
benches · teak · SKU NDY45
Country-French Normandy group by Bill Lyon with hand-carved hummingbird & trumpet-vine motif: 54" bench, armchair, deep-seating sofa/armchair/ottoman, Queen-Anne-leg coffee tables and end table. Weathers to silver grey within nine months.
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Materialteak
TeakAll-weather wickerStainless steelAluminium
As supplied54" x 16" x 8" x 10" x 27" x 21"
Width137.2 cm
Depth53.3 cm
Height—
Seat height 40.6 cm · Weight 29.5 kg
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
- Materials
- teak
- Material family
- teak
- Fabric
- —
- Cushion code
- —
- Customer's own material
- Not accepted on this piece
- Typology, as supplied
- carved bench
- Features
- hand-carved hummingbird & trumpet vine motif
- weathers to silver grey ~9 months
- Handling & storage
- Not stated on this piece’s record — which is not the same as ruled out. Ask us and we will confirm with the factory.
- Working height
- No bar or counter working height on this piece’s record.
- Record notes
- Hand-carved hummingbird & trumpet-vine motif, country French; width 54", seat height 16". Callouts unlabelled in source; recorded verbatim in source order. dims_cm labels inferred by cross-product consistency with viewed sibling pages (not individually image-verified); ambiguous values left null.
The Normandy collection
teak. 8 pieces indexed 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.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 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.
- 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 record was indexed from the Kingsley Bate catalogue, p. 89.
Catalogue extracts issued on request — we publish no self-serve PDF library.
Request catalogue extractPlan and elevation are generated from the verified 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 on file
- 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.
- 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
- Normandy
- Designer
- Bill Lyon
- Category
- Benches
- Status
- Archive piece
- Certifications
- None recorded
- Suited to
- Multi-Residential · Golf & Members' Clubs
- SKU
- NDY45
Bill Lyon
No portrait of this designer is held on file, so the panel carries the initials instead of a borrowed likeness.
The designers
From the same categoryNormandy — all 8 pieces
No official photography is held for the Normandy collection — its pieces are indexed as type. The rail shows photographed pieces from the same category.