Living Architecture: Growing your house, one chair at a time

Living Architecture: Growing your house, one chair at a time

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Plants are amazing: they provide food, air, medicine, and material for buildings, furniture, and art. But through an ancient yet obscure craft, still-living plants can themselves be shaped into bridges, tables, ladders, chairs, sculptures - even buildings. Known variously as botanical architecture, tree sculpture, tree-shaping, tree-grafting, pooktre, arborsculpture, and arbortecture, the craft is, essentially, construction with living plants.

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These pics are really great and add another dimension to nature and her ability to adjust to and enhance the beautify our lives in more ways than we can imagine.

I don't know how to imbed images so if someone wants to do it for me I would be much appreciated. Hope you Enjoy them as much as I did.

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Awesome! Thanks for sharing! I want a tree chair so bad now
It's crazy that that first tree chair grew that way and was apparently cut out of the original tree. Seriously cool stuff!

S&F

I have created a few woven house plants...

BUT THOSE IMAGES ARE JUST WILD!

Sri Oracle