GARDEN FURNITURE

Evening Star, Issue 23351, 22 August 1939, Page 3

GARDEN FURNITURE

SELECTING PROPER TIMBER SEASONED TEAK IDEAL Has a miscellaneous collection of chairs and tables been chosen for your garden, some of wood, some of canvas, some of iron, or is it uniform throughout and worthy of its setting? Strange as it may seem, too little thought is usually expended on furnishing the loveliest part of the home. Whereas expensive suites are bought for the house, often anything may be jumbled together in the garden, the lack of uniformity producing a discordant note where all should be harmony. A comprehensive display of what may rightly be described as perfect garden furniture was seen at tho British Industries Fair this year. It was made from seasoned Burmese teak taken from dismantled ships, and designed exclusively for garden use. The timber has already proved its weather-resist-ing qualities, and oven when left out of doors all the year round, it cannot suffer. In fact, exposure to the weather only increases the silvery-grey beauty of the wood. It requires no upkeep, beyond an occasional scrub

with soap and water—corresponding to tho “holy-stoning” method employed at sea. It proves itself an economic investment, since the quality of tho wood combined with the high standard of workmanship make it practically everlasting. UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES. The same scheme may run through the graceful entrance gate with its decorative iron handle and hinges, to the rubber-tyred tea wagon table. Garden tables are ingeniously designed to economise space and also to keep the chair seats dry. for a set of six and a round table lit snugly in the lower part of the tea. wagon when not in use. There is also a square table with set of four chairs to lit, and a small round set for occasional use with four little pointed stools. Tubs of teak, cither single or double size, with adequate space for draining, require no lining, since the wood will not rot. These are made in a design combining the charm and simplicity characteristic of all the pieces. Trellis fencing and trellis bowers and the garden door leading from the house may also all be of teak, the door having a small window fitted into the panels if desired. To bring home to the user the full romance of the wood, each, piece bears a plate indicating tho vessel from which the teak was taken. So that one may be sitting on a “ Thunderer ” chair, or taking one’s tea off a “ Powerful ” table, or reclining on a “ Leviathan ” seat, as the case may be.