The Man Who Grows Chairs
Grafting living trees together over formers it can take between 4 and 8 years to grow a piece of furniture. But Gavin Munro is a furniture designer based in Derbyshire, England, is a patient man.
Grafting living trees together over formers it can take between 4 and 8 years to grow a piece of furniture. But Gavin Munro is a furniture designer based in Derbyshire, England, is a patient man.
Artist duo Dear Human noticed that the the cavities left in old Douglas fir stumps, which were made long ago by the lumberjacks who cut them down, resembled eye sockets. So they just went ahead and made some porcelain eyes to embed in those cavities, turing the ancient stumps into “sentinels of the forest.”