Stone Benches: Blending craft & whimsy

Stone Benches

Stone benches are a wonderful addition to a garden or patio, alongside a path or created as part of a lasting memorial. Hammerhead Stoneworks designs and builds natural stone benches that are beautiful, sturdy, unique, and that blend organically into their environments. Sound footings ensure the benches remain stable and flat and are not prone to settling.

While we’ve built dozens of freestanding benches, we also look for opportunities to incorporate seating into retaining walls and patio spaces, making them as rustic or as formal as desired. Our clients have added stone benches to their public spaces, in front of businesses, and along popular pedestrian routes. They are a visual invitation to rest and muse.

Garden bench cantilevered in the face of a drystone wall, North Asheville

Seating in a dry stone retaining wall, Leicester

Boulder bench atop rugged crib wall, North Asheville

This is my first ever bench. This was laid dry at home in Biltmore Park. I called the style castle block, for the big chunks holding up the sitting stone.

A long stone couch overlooking a mosaic patio, Marshall

Another castle block style bench installed in a neighborhood in Chapel Hill. Commissioned by the neighborhood association, this was a memorial for Grandpa Tony.

This Boulder bench accents a Japanese maple in Biltmore Forest.

Stone couch in a fieldstone wall, with stacked wall details embedded in the seatback, Asheville

Stone couch installed in an Asheville retaining wall

A Harmony Bench provides a meditative spot near a water feature at a home in Alexander.

This boulder bench rests in a dry stone patio at home in Arden.

An irregular slab of sandstone sets atop two large boulders to create this naturalistic stone bench in South Carolina.

This is a pair of matching benches commissioned by King Daddies restaurant in West Asheville. Marbles are inlaid into a large chunk of Pennsylvania bluestone, which supports a slab of gray sandstone.

The second of a pair of matching benches commissioned by King Daddies restaurant in West Asheville. Marbles are inlaid into a large chunk of Pennsylvania bluestone, which supports a slab of gray sandstone.

This little stool/table is part of a Faerie Garden in Fairview. Marbles are in laid into the outer edge of the table.

This boulder bench is located in Rosscraggon Woods in Arden. It is a memorial for Kimble Carter, a local son who helped preserve this natural space.

This rustic bench sits atop two salvage pieces of granite from Elberton Georgia. It is located in Arden.

This seating wall is made of native stone. It is a feature in a North Asheville backyard.

This stone couch overlooks a small pond in the North Asheville yard. The bench and the surrounding retaining wall are all made of sandstone from Tennessee.

This boulder bench is longer and taller than most. It was specifically designed to allow a couple with mobility issues in Flat Rock to enjoy their beautiful yard and gardens.

Another view of a boulder bench in Flat Rock used by the couple to enjoy their beautiful yard and gardens.

Sometimes a big stone is a bench, 2+ ton chunk of Tennessee sandstone, North Asheville

Pennsylvania blue stone caps this seating wall at a home in Arden.

Gray sandstone from Tennessee caps this retaining wall/seating wall at a home in Kenilworth.

This little boulder bench sits in a garden in Fairview.

Harmony Bench at First Baptist Church, Asheville, part of the Memorial Garden project

Harmony Bench at the First Baptist Church in downtown Asheville. A pair of these overlook a water feature in the Memorial Garden.

Harmony Bench at the First Baptist Church in downtown Asheville, overlooking a water feature in the Memorial Garden.

Four granite and bluestone benches provide seating in the columbarium at First Baptist Church in Asheville. Spacers made of salvaged granite countertops elevate the bluestone seating slab, giving it a hovering effect.

Floating Bench at First Baptist Church, Asheville, part of the Memorial Garden project

Floating boys, Floating Bench, First Baptist Church, Asheville

Boulder bench, overlooking the labyrinth at First Baptist Church, Asheville