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head and shoulder photo of dr chris cattle tree shaping england 200px british english horticulture dr chris cattle.jpg christopher cattle
 christopher cattle professor and teacher of furniture design , tree trainer , artist
christopher cattle

christopher cattle is a british furniture designer who has developed a process of growing furniture by shaping living trees .
cattle calls his work grownup furniture but it is also known as grown furniture .
cattle wanted to grow stools rather than create them from existing cut wood because with grown furniture , very little energy is required to convert a living tree into the finished piece of furniture , and very little pollution is created in the process .
cattle comments : `` growing furniture is n't going to save the planet , but it can show that it 's possible to create genuinely useful things without adding to the pollution that industry inevitably seems to produce .
trees are self-generating , and the only energy needed is that which the sun provides worldwide .
it 's free and it 's non-polluting .
my aim though is to encourage as many people as possible to try it for themselves . ''
