Beautiful! What are the bench dimensions? Thanks!

micadoo

last year

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Completion Interior Design & Architecture
last year
This was a bespoke piece, built in-situ, so I'm afraid we don't have the dimensions. Sorry!
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Beautiful! What are the bench dimensions? Thanks!

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