Michel Bussien's The Growing Tree Chair

Last month we fell in love with the Pooktree Tree Shapers Living Furniture over on Apartment Therapy San Francisco. We've always loved the idea of a tree grown in the shape of a chair and wondered if it was something that we could do ourselves. The Growing Tree chair may be the answer we've been looking for...

Designed by Michele Bussien, it's essentially a clear plastic frame you place over a growing tree (here fast growing Willow trees and Russian vines) to train it into a chair shape. Remove the chair and the tree from the rolling planter once the tree has grown and replant it in the garden. We'd love a circle of these chairs planted in a grove of trees. Although this is primarily a concept, we wonder if Starck's iconic Louis Ghost chair could work in our own garden. We're certainly tempted to try. For more information click here