How are these Grown Furniture pieces made?
In essence its an incredibly simple art. You start by training and pruning young tree branches as they grow over specially made formers. At certain points we then graft them together so that the object grows in to one solid piece – I’m interested in the way that this is like an organic 3D printing that uses air, soil and sunshine as its source materials. After it’s grown into the shape we want, we continue to care for and nurture the tree, while it thickens and matures, before harvesting it in the Winter and then letting it season and dry. It’s then a matter of planing and finishing to show off the wood and grain inside.
The whole process takes place over seasons and years – between 4 and 8 years to grow a chair – but when you look at how long and how much effort it takes us now to go from having no tree to the final wooden object, then you realise that the craft we’re a part of developing is not just more cooperative with the natural world; it has an elegant efficiency all of it own.
Tree torture?
“If you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.”
-Buddha
pas torturé mais utile bravo pour l initiative !!!!!
Chris Chadwick you may find this interesting
Wow!
I wonder if other plants could be used too? Like hemp, bamboo, and some woodlike ivys… for the lighter people.
I was thinking the same thing Rouen d’Arc. Bamboo would be neat!
So a hammock is in the canopy!