Park furniture
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Park furniture is furniture in a park. It is often made out of iron or wood.[1]
Common examples of park furniture include bandstands, benches, chess tables, fountains, light fixtures, picnic tables, and statues.
Description
Researchers in
British Standards Institute (2005)";[2] this means that the furniture should be inclusive – "accessible to, and usable by, as many people as reasonably possible ... without the need for special adaptation or specialised design".[3]
Construction
Around 1840, Janes, Beebe & Co. produced one of the earliest products of mass-produced cast-iron seating in America, an example of which is held by the Smithsonian Institution as inv. no. 1980.006. The seat is an example of furniture that appeared in public parks in the mid 19th century.
In some jurisdictions, furniture used in public parks is made by prison inmates as part of prison work programs.[4][5]
See also
References
- S2CID 117679795.
Many park furniture are made of conventional materials such as iron or wood that cannot tolerate the intense sunlight radiation, snow and heavy rainfall.
- ^ Lee, YHB; Chan, LHD; Tang, MX (July 2013), Park seating furniture design in Hong Kong, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Hong Kong Design Centre and the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, archived from the original on 2021-08-01, retrieved 2021-08-01
- ISBN 0580449025, archivedfrom the original on 2021-08-01, retrieved 2021-08-01
- ^ Linda Franz, "Inmates have own brand", The Carlisle Sentinel (November 15, 2005), p. 7.
- ^ Reilly, Lucas (January 10, 2015). "11 products you might not realize were made by prisoners". The Week. Archived from the original on August 8, 2021. Retrieved August 8, 2021.