French Antique Granite Stone Mill used as Bench

A French antique granite bench cut from an antique millstone, 96 inches wide, with a high curved back and a seat scored with diagonal grooves. The granite is salt-and-pepper, gray and charcoal with honey and rust tones brought up by years outdoors. Pitting and irregular edges run around the outside; the grooves across the seat are the marks of its first life grinding grain.

It measures 96 inches wide, 17 1/2 inches deep and 30 inches high; the seat channel is 12 1/2 inches deep, and the height divides into a 16 inch mill section on 14 inch supports. The high back gives a real feeling of enclosure when you sit in it, and the piece is heavy enough to be set once and never moved.

A stone garden bench of this length belongs along a garden wall, beside a fire pit, or at the far end of a lawn where the curve can be seen from the house. It also pairs well with aged brick, wrought iron and old timber. This antique millstone bench is in our yard in Marina Del Rey; come and sit in it, or ask us for more photographs and a delivered price.