Brace Bench
The Brace Bench carries the bracing logic of the Brace Chair by Studio Goons along a horizontal span. A chair braces over a short distance. A bench has to do the same work across a much longer one, without the seat back and without thickening the seat until it reads as a slab. That problem is the reason this piece exists. The answer was to keep the side planes and a subtle stretcher to do the structural work and let the seat span between them as a single element. It was drawn for a specific position in a room. At a table, below a window, or against a wall, where a bench is seen in elevation more often than in plan and the silhouette has to hold from the side. The Brace family began with the Brace Chair, named for the shear wall bracing system in architecture. It now includes the Brace Chair A with armrests, the Brace Chair AC with cushions in pure Italian wool, this bench, and the Brace Stool. Testing one principle across five typologies is how we know whether the principle was any good. Studio Goons is a Paris-based collectible furniture and design atelier founded in 2020 by architect Paul Trussler and designer Mia Kim. Every work is made to order, hand-built by us, signed and numbered. Dimensions, finishes and materials can be resolved in conversation with the studio.
The Brace Bench was designed for Evolving Forms, our first solo exhibition, at St Vincents in Antwerp.
Hand-finished in our atelier in Paris.
The Brace family also includes the Brace Chair, the Brace Chair A, the Brace Chair AC and the Brace Stool.
Inquiries can be made through St. Vincents
- Material
- Scandinavian birch plywood
- Dimensions
- 120 × 48 × 43 cm
- Finish
- Wenge
- Lead Time
- 4 to 7 weeks
- Edition
- Evolving Forms Edition. Signed, numbered
- Made in
- France
Standard finishes shown. Custom finishes and materials available on request.
Each work, made to measure. Dimensions, finishes, and materials are resolved in conversation with the studio.
