As a rule, there are not many opportunities for a city-dweller to sit on a real tree trunk.  Even someone living near a forest would not necessarily be able to do so without cutting down a treee.  However, things might be about to change, with three different designers recently making furniture incorporating tree trunks.

Wood Drop 14 (below) by Jacob Marks, owner of Skram, a design company based in  North Carolina, US, is a stool made from a chunk of timber, still with its original cracks and flaws (www.fordandching.com).

posted on February 23rd, 2010