This bench has been here a very long time - long before electricity, long before indoor plumbing, long before furniture was ever meant to move houses easily. Made in Italy in the 17th century, it was originally used as a church bench, built to hold generations of parishioners through sermons, prayers, and daily ritual. The scalloped crest rail still bears its original maker’s mark - a quiet stamp of authorship from a time when everything was made by hand, slowly, and meant to last. Imagine the life it’s witnessed: candlelit interiors, stone floors worn smooth by centuries of footsteps, the same bench filled week after week by people whose entire worlds were bound to the church, the land, and each other. That this piece still exists - intact, standing, usable - is nothing short of remarkable. Found in Montpellier, this is a rare and deeply special survivor. Sylvie loves it placed along a wall or at the foot of a bed.
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