park furniture
Illustration — Park benches at Hryshko National Botanical Garden, Kyiv, Ukraine Park furniture is furniture in a park. It is often made out of iron or wood. Common examples of park furniture include bandstands, benches, chess tables, fountains, light fixtures, picnic tables, and statues.
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Illustration — Park benches at Hryshko National Botanical Garden, Kyiv, Ukraine Park furniture is furniture in a park. It is often made out of iron or wood. Common examples of park furniture include bandstands, benches, chess tables, fountains, light fixtures, picnic tables, and statues.
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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.
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Researchers in Hong Kong wrote that park furniture is "a type of artifact to support outdoor public recreational activities and green environment where users may act fairly as stated by British Standards Institute (2005)"; 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".
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- 1.Thamrin, Diana. Usability Evaluation of Adaptable Urban Park Furniture Product with Cellular Light-weight Concrete as Material. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 408. 1. 2018. 1757-899X.
- 2.Linda Franz, "Inmates have own brand", The Carlisle Sentinel (November 15, 2005), p. 7.
- 3.Reilly, Lucas. 11 products you might not realize were made by prisoners. The Week. January 10, 2015.
- 4.Lee, YHB. 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. July 2013.
- 5.British Standards Institute. Design management systems – Managing inclusive design – Guide. BS 7000-6:2005. February 2005. 0-580-44902-5.
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