This series was born of a commission for a piece of functional art furniture. A hallway bench to be exact. The piece was the second bench that I had made and became the first in my ongoing numbered series of one-of-a-kind benches. Since then I have expanded my approach from thinking in terms of entry benches to thinking of benches for public spaces. As always, the beauty of handmade wooden furniture is that any moment in any bench can serve as the starting point for a commission. Commissions are great because they become a collaboration that results in the perfect…