Using ancient techniques combined with modern technology we grow, graft, nurture then harvest living trees into Chairs, Tables, Sculpture – anything you can imagine.
Each piece is unique, epitomising elegant cooperation between nature and craftsmen that could last for hundreds of years.
A Statement, an Heirloom and a Legacy.
We are extremely pleased to announce that our prototype willow chair has been invited in to the permanent exhibit of one of the nation’s most prestigious museums, the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Image © Neil Hanna
Here in the Furniture Orchard there are Limited Editions of Chairs, Tables, Lamps and Sculptures growing into shape and maturing. We have orders taken in 10 countries over 4 continents. With a waiting list up to 2023 for chairs.
Pre-order an 2017 Edition or get in touch and Commission a Piece
Full Grown is headed by Designer and Artist Gavin Munro. Inspired by the beauty of nature, geometry and the desire to work with wood, he has spent the last 10 years studying and developing the techniques and craft of Tree Shaping and Botanical Craftsmanship.
We at Full Grown are thrilled to be working with Dutch designer Maarten Baas, helping him to grow a Tree Trunk Chair that will be harvested in 200 Years!
Check him out here.
Very excited by our upcoming collaboration with this stylish and competent team, we’re hoping for a new series of lamp designs to start next Spring…
Check them out here.
We patiently and carefully graft shoots together. bending them into the shapes required, and eliminating the need for most of the machinery and processes expected in traditional furniture making
We are developing an elegant, simple art form that emits oxygen, absorbs CO2 and whose byproducts sustain the birds, the bees and other wildlife.
Each piece is an expression of patience and collaboration with nature.
Our proposition starts with pleasing, unique and eminently touchable products with a similar appeal to those vintage wines and whiskies that are crafted by hand over years of growth and ends with the potential for change in the way we think about the objects with which we surround ourselves.
Prune & graft as the tree grows…
…then harvest and season until dry.
Our first Prototype – 5 years’ growth.
Summer 2014 – The Lamp has grown around its frame for two years and is now maturing.
Creative symbiosis is the ultimate goal.
Each tree is well nurtured and tended.
All we ask of the tree is that it grows along certain pathways.
Even when we cut the tree down, new branches grow back more vigorously.
This means a constant rotation of harvests similar to a vineyard.
Late Autumn 2014 – The first Prototype Pendant Lamps are harvested!
Spring 2015 – The first complete Lamp – 3 years old.
Furniture has been a part of civilised life for thousands of years. Whilst the production process has undergone several significant changes over the millennia, these have largely been processes of refinement, mechanisation and modernisation.
Whilst effective in some ways, this process is highly wasteful, considerably damaging to our environment, and, when the complete process is taken into account, very slow.
We decided than in a time of change, when our future objects will be printed, by growing the trees directly into shape we can make objects that are more personal, elegant and durable.
It’s a very exciting growing season coming up this year – the first pieces will be ready to harvest, sign up for our newsletter and follow the story as the season progresses. We’ll be introducing new pieces and designs as well as showing more details of life in the first woodland workshop and of Gavin’s talk at Kew Gardens this Autumn…
In the meantime here’s last year’s TEDx talk…
The early 8 year old Table harvested January 2015 – see it being worked on over the Summer.
Still growing is the first Ash Chair planted in 2007 – This will be ready for harvest after the leaves drop at the end of the year.
Meet some of the great people who’ve made this possible over the last ten years of hard work…
Plant trees and water well.
Train and graft chosen shoots around the frame.
Once the chair has formed, leave to thicken for a few years.
HARVEST! Season well, plane and polish to your chosen finish.
