Landscape gardening furniture (Part 1)
The landscape gardening furniture has occurred together with landscape science. The designed park has been made for constant movement, for unexpectedly changing landscapes, that the spectator will admire its beauty. The architect conceived a garden in which “casual charm” waited for the visitor behind each turn of a twisting footpath. The garden was made in such a way that admiring of each new, suddenly opened, kind was as much as possible convenient. That is why special furniture for a garden has been thought up. First of all it was portable armchairs which “followed” owners, completely justifying the name. (In fact the term “furniture” occurs from a Latin word “mobilis” - “mobile”.) In due course the spectrum of landscape gardening furniture extended. Regular parks, for example, have been equipped by benches and pergolas, which, sometimes, formed freakish labyrinths. Today garden furniture is represented by various tables, chairs, armchairs-rocking chairs, chaise lounges, sofas-swing, and benches. They can be of the most different style and a kind, mobile, made manually and bought under the catalogue. But a garden without garden furniture is not a garden.
First of all let????????s talk about portable garden furniture. It is necessary to carry ease to its advantages: if the rain has suddenly begun it is possible to hide to hide tables and the chairs stood open-air in reliable shelter. If you don????????t have a place paved by a tile or a stone, or you have chosen any special corner of a garden, it is possible to take care of that there were furniture on “legs” and there were the devices giving to stability at it for the installation on a soft surface, - and then the favorite chair will turn “after the sun”. But the solid stationary garden furniture is pertinent, for example, in family, which has a tradition to have breakfast, dinner and supper outdoors. Then it is necessary to put a thorough table with chairs or benches around of it, to think over the device of a special canopy, additional shelves for utensils in order to not to run all time in the house behind subjects of lying. It is even possible to make a small bar. If there are children in the family, they for certain will like to draw and play on air, so, it is useful to have a reliable wooden table with a bench somewhere on a verandah or a terrace. Benches also concern to stationary furniture along garden paths in picturesque corners of a garden.