Full Grown is a UK company that grows trees into chairs, sculptures, lamps, mirror frames and tables. It was co-founded by Gavin Munro in 2005. History In 2005 with a £5,000 investment Gavin Munro started the process of experimentation with growing chairs. The original idea came from Gavin's childhood memory of an overgrown bonsai that looked like a small throne. The inspiration lead to growing trees into chairs, sculptures, lamps, mirror frames and tables. The idea of growing trees for 50 years then cut them into small pieces glue together in ways that can only ever fall apart didn't seem to make much sense. Better to grow the trees into one solid piece. For example, a chair or a light shade. Ideally the tree would have the ability to re-shoot and in this way yield furniture the way an apple tree in an orchard does. Working together with his wife Alice Munro. The concept is to train young trees to grow over plastic molds until maturity. Thereby creating no wood waste. This process can take up to eight years to mature. 2006 Full Grown started planting trees to grow furniture. On a 2.5 acre field around 3,000 trees have been planted with production getting underway in late 2011. Early in 2015 the first prototype chair was completed. This chair took five years to grow. Some lampshades 2012 batch were also recently completed in 2015. Gavin Munro Gavin Munro was born in Matlock England. He studied furniture design. He created driftwood furniture while in San Francisco. Munro's mother in-law allowed the first prototypes of chairs to be grown in her garden. He co-foundered Full Grown. Full Grown in 2017 In a two-acre field north of Derby Full Grown is currently tending 400 trees. They are only making 50 or so pieces a year. The first batch was to be harvested in 2015 The lamps and mirror frames should be ready by late spring 2016. By mid 2017 the first chairs should be available. Most of the chairs have been pre-sold. With the chairs selling for a per-order price £2,500 each, a finished chair the price is £5,000. Light shades priced between £1,000 and £1,500 and Hexagon mirror frames £450. Bulk of the pre-orders are from outside the UK most in France and the US with some orders from London, Hong Kong, Germany and Spain. Thou they will need to have patience