The idea grew when Gavin was in and out of hospital with Klippel-Feil syndrome - a rare congenital condition characterised by the abnormal fusion of two or more neck vertebrae.
'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg0yy3gp71o
15 Comments
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 80d
Our budget is $2.9M. Next on HGTV!
urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe · 10 pts · 80d
“Bret is a part time carpenter and Donna sells dog collar charms on Etsy.”
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 80d
Gavn
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 80d
Our budget is $2.9M and 20 years. We hope to send Kaiylleigh and Brngn to college with their own custom grown chairs.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 80d
Where does Brngn end and the chair begin?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 80d
This is actually a thing. The chairs don’t grow fast enough to supply demand.
bigbangdangler@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 79d
Or you could make stools from stumps of a cut up log. This seems more efficient and you get multiples per tree.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 80d
Maybe they can mass-produce with bamboo.
Drusas@fedia.io · 6 pts · 80d
The rapid growth might actually make bamboo harder to train than trees are.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 79d
Good point!
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 5 pts · 80d
Those are actually beautiful. Would sell like hotcakes during the Art Nouveau period I bet.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 80d
I love the concept but I’m wary of the actual results. And if LV is using it for store displays, probably beyond my means.
I’d go for a dining set if I could.
There’s irony in that.
Drusas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 80d
What do you mean "wary of the results"? Why?
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 80d
Maybe wary isn’t the word. The concept is nice but the execution looks like it needs work.
snowydroopz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 80d
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