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Bamboo grows very quickly. Assuming it grows at a uniform speed, it would be possible to cut out the shape of a chair out of living bamboo. This is likely to be cooler than your average chair because those babies are pumping water throughout themselves.
Your living bamboo shaped chair would then
be transplanted into your garden, complete with a living ladder which is propped up against it, growing at the same speed.
similar but not bamboo
https://www.gtgoodt...d-it-looks-amazing/
[xandram, Aug 31 2022]
Growing chairs
https://www.youtube...watch?v=q4GAUOW1_LQ
[a1, Aug 31 2022]
Fast growing, clumping
https://www.palmco....lumping-bamboo.html
Really sounds like some kind of determined zombie [4and20, Sep 03 2022]
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How would you create the sitting part of the chair when the bamboo is growing upwards? Do you weave the young shoots together? |
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See link - there’s a guy in England who makes furniture from living trees. |
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Edit - haha, I see [xandram] beat me with a link to same bloke. |
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Living and then killed? I don't see the benefit of that over the traditional type. 4&20 has a much better idea. |
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Furniture should stay the same size as long as you own it. Wood that's been properly killed works well for that. [4and20]'s approach of continuously growing furniture - to include a continuously growing ladder to let you climb into it - sounds very tiring. |
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I like it! I've seen the chairs that people grow and then kill, but I didn't like the killing part. This is much better. |
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// How would you create the sitting part of the chair // |
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If you weave the new shoots together, it seems like you risk its growing horizontally into some kind of couch. I was thinking you'd need a pillow, possibly made out of marijuana, which is cheaper than hemp. |
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Have some grass with your grass. |
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I like the idea, but bamboo won't work like you describe. It grows the bottom nodes to their full length before the top nodes grow much at all. Also as each shoot is growing, it is fairly weak and flexible. Each shoot grows to full height in a matter of weeks or months. The next year, an existing shoot won't grow any taller, but new shoots that grow that year might be taller. Shaping shoots as they grow is a definite possibility, since they are quite flexible, but if you have 4 shoots for legs, they will at best wrap around each other when you join them for the seat and back. They won't grow together like trees will over the years. |
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I just don't know. All the google images of bamboo appear to show mostly uniform height. There may be some gaps between trees, but nothing you can't sit in for an entirely straight-backed chair. You appear to hail from a family of weavers and probably shouldn't drive either. Fast growing clumping bamboo comes in many varieties, some of which do grow altogether too fast. The first job would be to locate a consultant who grew up with a bamboo pacifier which is now the house he inhabits. |
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