Full Grown
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Full Grown
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Full Grown’s work is held in major international museum collections, including The Storm Chair acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2024); a Prototype Chair and early grown works acquired by the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh (2023–2024); The Boijmans Chair acquired by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2024); The Paris Chair acquired by Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (2024); The Goodall Chair acquired by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (2024); The Enkidu Hanging Chair acquired by the Dresden Museum of Decorative Arts (2023); and a grown Willow Chair acquired by Manchester Metropolitan University (2023). Full Grown have also collaborated with Louis Vuitton for their RHS Gold Medal-winning Chelsea in Bloom presentation in London (2022), plus featuring in further presentations for Chelsea in Bloom, New York (2024), and the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, London (2026).
Perhaps best described as botanical craftsmen, Full Grown employ ancient techniques to grow their tree-chairs, manipulating a bough’s directions of growth through custom frames and grafting together new furniture forms in the live tree. They integrate the artistic and romantic into the scientific, and urge us to reconsider the way we produce our everyday objects. These carbon sink grown sculptures are functional, beautiful objets d’art.
"Sometimes you see a collection which makes you feel like there is hope for the world. Full Grown has that collection. Made with so much love and knowledge about nature. An asset to the world.”- Nicole Uniquole, Curator Dutch Pavilion, Salone del Mobile, Milano 2018The first seed of Full Grown was sown when as a young boy playing in the garden, Gavin noticed an overgrown bonsai tree had the distinct appearance of a chair. It was an image that stayed in his mind for 25 years. After studying Art at Chesterfield, Furniture Design at Leeds Becket University and a stint with a London Design Studio, Gavin worked as an apprentice to a traditional cabinet-maker before travelling to Scotland to build a replica Saxon Barn and after this, to California to build eco-houses and furniture using sustainable materials. Gavin founded Full Grown in 2006 and now runs the studio alongside Alice Munro. His experience has made him a leading expert in the expanding field of bio-design, where he develops new techniques and experimental approaches. -
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Full Grown at Garden Futures: Designing with Nature, Nieuwe Instituut
Nieuwe Instituut Nov 15, 2024The Beatrix Chair, now part of the Nieuwe Instituut 's Garden Future s exhibition, is a one-of-a-kind piece grown from ash—our first and most promising...Read more -
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