French Antique Granite Stone Mill used as Bench

A French antique granite bench cut from an antique millstone, 93 inches across the curve, with the heavy, quiet presence of a piece that once did industrial work. The granite is layered gray with peppered black grain and warm rust tones, and the seat keeps faint radiating grooves from its milling days. The front edge is rugged and tooled, never smoothed.

It measures 93 inches wide, 18 1/2 inches deep and 29 inches high; the seat channel is 13 inches deep, and the height divides into a 15 inch mill section on 14 inch supports. The thick rounded back makes a solid stone boundary and a sheltered place to sit.

Set it against a brick wall, or facing a fountain so the curve frames the water, or along the edge of a courtyard where it seats four people and marks the line of the paving. It is a single piece of granite and travels on a pallet. This stone garden bench has sold. We usually have an antique millstone seat or two in the yard or on the water from France; ask and we will send what is current.