The Gatti Chair (Bronze)

Full Grown

2024
Bronze
105 x 70 x 85 cm | 41.3 x 27.5 x 33.4 in.

45kg | 99.2lbs

Edition of 12

Gavin Munro founded the first Full Grown orchard in 2006 and now runs the project with his partner, Alice Munro. His invaluable experience over the past 12 years has made him a leading expert in the expanding field of bio-design, developing new techniques and experimental approaches. Full Grown’s harvested chairs have been acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA; National Museum of Scotland, UK; Rotterdam Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Netherlands; and Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Exhibition highlights include the UK Pavilion at the Beijing Horticultural Expo, China; St Etienne Design Biennale, France; the display of the Edwardes Chair in Milan with the Milano Dutch Pavilion and partnering with Louis Vuitton for their Chelsea in Bloom presentation in New York. Their work has been covered by The Guardian, Vice, Design Week, Aeon, Architectural Digest, International Business Times and MIT Technology Review.

Perhaps best described as botanical craftsmen, Full Grown employ ancient techniques to grow their tree chairs, manipulating the direction of a bough’s growth through custom frames and grafting together new furniture forms in the live tree. They integrate the artistic and romantic into the scientific, urging us to reconsider how we produce everyday objects. These carbon sink-grown pieces are spellbinding sculptures that embody a vision of hope for the future; on rare occasions, they harvest ‘sittable’ chairs that represent the pinnacle of their project. After cultivating their Willow chairs for nearly 20 years, they have had their Gatti Chair cast in Bronze for the first time.