BENCH, VOL. 1
Published by Flat I, Rotterdam & TLTRPreß, Berlin, 2024, 384 pp. (b/w ill.), 14.8 × 21 cm, English
Price: €17
The volume contains 378 screenshots of benches found in real estate listings—from summer houses, homesteads, barns, garden houses, timber sheds to wash houses and saunas—in provinces and towns of Lithuania.
Monika Janulevičiūtė is a Lithuanian designer and artist. For her, the frankness of bench-making binds design, craft and art practices together. The bench takes centre stage to the extreme. A multifaceted quotidian subject swivelling around its vertical axis, showing the elastic attachments to life and functionality.