Botanical Manufacturing - Literally growing furniture.
“An ingenious British designer has come up with the ultimate environmentally-friendly way to create stunning household furniture – by letting Mother Nature do all the hard work. Gavin Munro grows young trees into specially-designed plastic moulds, pruning and guiding the branches into shape before grafting them together to form ultra-tough joints. Using this method he's already created several prototype pieces and has a field in Derbyshire where he's currently tending a crop of 400 tables, chairs and lampshades which he hopes to harvest next year.”
botanical manufacturing 4“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 this is like a kind of organic 3D printing that uses air, soil and sunshine as its source material. After it's grown into the shape we want, we continue to care and nurture the tree as it thickens and matures before harvesting it in the Winter and then letting it season and dry.”
“Each of the pieces have grown from one tree, planted specifically for that reason, its limbs guided in an exact shape and later grafted together to produce the unique pieces of furniture, which he hopes are the pioneers of a new method of sustainable, efficient and ecologically aware production.”
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That's pretty cool
But they probably cost a fortune.
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The art industry got their claws into him. Now he only auctions them off to galleries and collectors.
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as he should. this is art and it deserves to be treated as a luxury commodity (which most art is). if you want wood furniture you should expect that it be produced like most wood furniture; this is not produced like most wood furniture and is instead the craft of someone who dedicates years to create a single piece. if you dont get it, then you just dont get it.
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I would have liked an open auction on these instead of direct sale to galleries.
I want a chair too.
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Grow your own?
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look at this fool and his disdain for money
i get it though. theyre cool chairs.
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This is why we need communism asap Stalin knew how to deal with artsy cute twinks
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I mean, technically anyone can just grow their own, it just takes years and you will probably frick up along the way
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Only art galleries can get their hands on one apparently (and I suppose the upper echelons of the rich and famous)
I wonder whether you could do something similar with fast-growing plants like bamboo.
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You know what could make this idea even better, cutting the fast growing wood and then shaping it after processing it into workable planks
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Frick I'd cop one if I was as rich as everyone on rdrama pretends to be
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They look really uncomfortable. Years of research into ergonomics have been cat away because this is more "eco-friendly" (and more labor intensive).
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