R.2Garden Armchair
This piece’s catalogue page, from Kingsley Bate — Collection 2006, Australian edition. The page and its photography remain © Kingsley Bate. Open it in the reader.
Normandy by Kingsley Bate
Normandy 54" Bench
benches & lawn chairs · teak · SKU NDY45
Bill Lyon’s Normandy is country French in teak, carved by hand with a hummingbird and trumpet-vine motif, across a bench, deep seating and tables on Queen Anne legs. Left outdoors, the teak weathers to silver grey within nine months.
Materialteak
TeakAll-weather wickerStainless steelAluminium
Width137.2 cm
Depth53.3 cm
Height—
Seat height40.6 cm
Weight29.5 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.
Lead timeOn enquiry — ask us about this piece.
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
- 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
The Normandy collection
Teak. 8 pieces in this collection.
Most Kingsley Bate pieces are teak, so they are chosen by material rather than by colourway. The timber is specified by how it will be 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 cushion fabrics: 135 across grades A to D. The fabric you choose stays 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.
Cushion thickness follows the frame: each frame’s seat is built low or high for the cushion it is designed to carry. A dining pad is therefore thin and deep seating thick, and neither is an upgrade on the other.
- For a benche
- 4–6 cm at a dining table · 8–10 cm as lounge seating — a pad longer than about 1.4 m is split into sections, so no single pad bows or holds water.
- Core
- Cushions for exposed pieces have an open-cell, fast-draining (reticulated) foam core, so water runs straight through rather than pooling in the foam. A crowned top sheds standing water. Neither makes a cushion waterproof: outdoor cushions are built to drain.
- Fabric
- In outdoor fabric, what matters is the fibre. Solution-dyed yarn carries its colour all the way through, so it holds up to sun and scrubbing; surface-dyed cloth loses its colour as it wears. Performance fabrics resist water but are not waterproof. Mildew grows on dirt left on the cloth rather than in the fibre. The usual care advice is to wash and dry the cloth, and to stand a soaked cushion on its edge to drain.
- Patterns & your own fabric
- Plains, stripes and prints can all be specified. The brief records the repeat, the direction and any railroading, so the pattern lines up on every panel. Many pieces also accept customer’s own material (C.O.M.); the brief asks whether you will supply your own.
The maker’s cushion grammar
Commission custom cushionsA Kingsley Bate cushion is ordered in three steps: the piece, the fabric grade and the edge style. There are four edge styles and two fabric tiers, Standard and High-Performance. Each cushion is sized to its frame, and the maker’s care advice is to stand a soaked cushion on its edge to drain.
Made to order through our supplier workshops: sized to this frame, in your chosen fabric, from a thin dining pad to full deep-seating cushions.
Technical sheet issued on request, per piece.
Each sheet is issued against the maker’s current revision, so the drawing you receive matches the piece that will be built.
Request technical sheetThis piece appears in the Kingsley Bate catalogue.
Catalogue extracts are issued on request.
This piece’s catalogue page can be read on this site. 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 can also be used indoors; oil or wax it when it is.
- Protection
- A protector, applied once or twice a year, holds the golden brown; a clear stain guard is applied 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.
Care guidance from Kingsley Bate’s catalogues.
- Brand
- Kingsley Bate · United States
- Collection
- Normandy
- Designer
- Bill Lyon
- Category
- Benches & lawn chairs
- Status
- Archive piece
- Suited to
- Multi-Residential · Golf & Members' Clubs
- SKU
- NDY45
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