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‘Furniture Orchard’ Grows Trees Into Chairs
The couple say each chair takes up to 9 years to grow and some pieces are valued at £75,000, galleries say.
- Alice and Gavin Munro have spent 20 years perfecting living tree chairs on their two-acre Derbyshire farm since 2006, with their creations now valued at £75,000 as artworks displayed in galleries worldwide.
- Gavin developed the concept while hospitalized with Klippel-Feil syndrome, a rare congenital condition, inspired by his parents' overgrown bonsai trees that resembled a throne.
- Creating each chair requires six to nine years of careful branch pruning over metal frames, with bark grafted from separate pieces so they fuse into one solid form before annual drying.
- Expecting only a dozen finished chairs from 20 years of labour, the Munros launched the Full Grown Academy to pass down skills, with Gavin noting their prototypes are "being seen as art."
- Gavin envisions a 50 to 100-year journey where knowledge transfer alone could take another two decades, positioning living furniture as functional art in museums and galleries worldwide.
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