You can grow a chair too - he spent more than 10 years on it
This art form,
in fact,
may take more than a person's
lifetime to complete.
This chair is already 12 years old
He spent 10 years
growing the stool
Peter relaxes on his masterpiece
This tree chair must go through long-term grafting,
bonsai shaping and pruning
to create this imaginative art.
Many artists around the world
have practiced for decades for this.
He grew a table out of the ground
Plant a tree in the ground in spring,
and by autumn,
can it bear furniture?
Gavin Munro says: Yes.
Designer Gavin Munro has a large piece of farmland
in Derbyshire in the English Midlands,
lush and green.
As far as the eye can see,
it is all chairs and lampshades.
Word has it that by this autumn,
he will welcome his first harvest season,
with a total of 400 tables,
chairs and lampshades
waiting in the ground for him to harvest.
39-year-old British designer Gavin Munro says:
I think doing this is a lot of fun,
just like 3D printing,
except the materials are air, soil and sunlight.
Besides growing furniture directly,
he also needs to polish it,
and the production process is roughly as shown in the video.
Word has it that by this autumn,
he will welcome his first harvest season,
with a total of 400 tables, chairs and lampshades.
And every chair has already been reserved,
at a transaction price of 25,000 yuan ^^
Gavin also revealed some of the production process:
When the young tree has grown into the shape we want,
we still need to continue caring for it,
to make it grow stronger.
When winter comes,
we will harvest this tree,
and then let it air-dry naturally in the cold weather.
As a maker,
this idea first began with Gavin
doing a small experiment in his own garden:
He remembers there was a tree in his mother's backyard that looked like a throne,
and he wanted to try whether he could deliberately change the direction of tree growth,
so a year later he grew a chair.
In Gavin Munro's farmland
he grows willow, oak, ash and fig trees.
With several plastic molds he designed
to guide them,
pruning the branches and leaves,
and given time,
they obediently grow into furniture.
Don't judge them by their plain appearance,
"girls" change greatly as they grow up,
becoming more and more beautiful:
Chair
Mirror
Every truly outstanding creative mind has once been hit by an apple.
Gavin Munro was very lucky - he was hit three times.
This first "apple" was a potted plant in his childhood that was overly eager to show off.
Because it looked like a chair, it successfully stayed in Gavin's mind for a full 25 years.
Lampshade
A few years later, Gavin was hit by another apple. That was when he was receiving spinal correction.
Years later, recalling this period as if he were cosplaying Frankenstein, Gavin said: "I learned patience during this time. I had to stay still for long periods, and I had plenty of time to observe and think. After I had been growing furniture for several years, a friend told me that I was the only one who truly understood what it feels like to be shaped all along."
The third apple kept
not falling onto Gavin's head until 20 years later.
He received a degree in furniture design from an art college, apprenticed at a cabinet factory, and then made furniture with native materials in Scotland and California for a long time, until he began working as a horticulturist in California and in his spare time collected driftwood by the seaside in San Francisco to make furniture. Only then did the third apple finally arrive.
Watching the tide deliver piece after piece of driftwood,
and each piece being "stitched together" in Gavin's hands
before transforming into tables and chairs,
Gavin felt heartfelt joy and a sense of achievement.
At this moment he finally realized:
why not just let trees grow into the desired shapes?
At that time he was already 30 years old.
The God who had been throwing apples finally woke Gavin up,
and after that 1% flash of inspiration,
what came next
depended on 99% perspiration.
Together with his wife Alice, he used specially made molds to cultivate and prune young branches and leaves, and when the time was right, grafted different branches together.
Next,
comes drying,
polishing,
until the grain of the wood can be seen.
"Just like bones, which become much stronger after a fracture heals, grafted wood is especially sturdy," said Alice.
In addition, no nails are needed,
and no excessive decoration is needed either.
These pieces of furniture grown from the ground
last much longer and are more durable than ordinary furniture.
For furniture like this,
what is it like to use it?
"What you are sitting on is not a chair,
what you are sitting on is four years of someone's time,
four years of growth."
Gavin said.
A tree takes 4 to 8 years from planting to maturity.
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