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Briton Gavin Munroe – Founder of Full Grown by growing furniture – often called the original designer, naturalist artist, innovator. And although all this is true, however, according to he is just a gardener by nature.
It was working at one time as a gardener in San Francisco, and he the idea came up to grow furniture. At that time he was making hobbies all kinds of crafts, including furniture from old driftwood. how as a rule, in this case, any master is eyeing the created nature forms and, already starting from them, proceeds to own creativity.
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Once, recalling an old and clumsy bonsai tree in the form of a throne, what was growing in his mother’s garden, Gavin suddenly wondered why not to try to grow furniture artificially by creating her the necessary conditions? It will be strong, original and environmentally friendly. pure products that will create the sun, earth, water and air, then there is Mother Nature herself.
So the idea of creating unique furniture with the help of three-dimensional organic printing – that’s how the growing process Gavin Munroe calls furniture himself. First creating several prototypes and having worked out the technology of growing furniture, the former the gardener then organized Full Grown, seven years ago acquired a small plot in the county of Derbyshire and planted three thousand trees on the field of “plastic forms”.
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Since it takes up to eight years to grow furniture, the first a harvest of four hundred chairs, tables and lampshades is expected already at next year. Presumably grown chair will cost two and a half thousand pounds, lampshade – one and a half thousand, and here the table will pull on all five thousand. This, of course, is not furniture for consumer goods, so it will be sold in limited quantities and only by reservation.
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When growing furniture, Gavin Munroe mainly uses willow, but it is at first. Today he is already experimenting with a plane tree, red oak, wild apple, ash, hazel, maple. Naturally, he thinks about expanding the range of furniture, for example, in his plans to create another chest of drawers and a bookshelf. In short, a factory for growing furniture is growing and improving. Perhaps it an interesting undertaking will soon interest other enterprising gardeners. Maybe it’s furniture of the future …
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