article_snippet.sent: An ingenious British  designer has come up with the ultimate environmentally-friendly way to create stunning household furniture - by letting Mother Nature do all the hard work.
article_snippet.sent: Finished articles: Prototype versions of a table and chair created by growing trees directly into plastic moulds .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Munro, 39, a keen environmentalist, believes the technique - which has been dubbed botanical manufacturing - could one day be used to create sustainable and ecologically-sound furniture on a much larger scale.
article_snippet.sent: I’m interested in the way this is like a kind of organic 3D printing that uses air, soil and sunshine as its source material. '
article_snippet.sent: Botanical manufacturing: A light shade being grown, left, and as a finished article, right .