The Forest2Furniture collection is not a range of reproduction furniture.
They are individual works of functional art, each piece is unique in it's own way and because we limit the number of pieces made in any one year to 15, what you get is the only one of it's kind in the world.
All the pieces in these pages are for sale, when you purchase a piece it will be the one shown in the photo.
Because we have chosen to harvest and mill only storm damaged trees, the proceess used being slow and labour intensive we are therefore limited to the amount of timber produced in any one year.
For this reason we are limited with the amount of commission work we can undertake. Please email us with your requirements.
As we make only one piece a month please bookmark us to check on new pieces.
For sales, enquiries and details of shipping destinations & prices please email our sales administrator - Frances Leyshon.
Each piece of furniture has a makers label showing the date when that piece was finished and piece number
Each piece when sold is supplied with a certificate of provenance as proof of who made it and that it was part of the Forest 2 Furniture collection.
In addition to the certificate, a map of the woodland where the fallen tree came from and details where the tree was in the woodland.
Just How Rare?
LIMITED to a maximum yearly output of 15 pieces
INDIVIDUAL:
each piece is individually designed and handmade using traditional
techniques and tools
EXCLUSIVE: we don't make to order
UNIQUE:
natural variations in the timber ensure that no 2 pieces are the same
GENUINE:
every piece is numbered and comes with a Provenance Pack including a
map showing the location of the tree it’s made from
CARBON
FOOTPRINT: our drying areas and workshop are less than 10 miles from
King’s Wood
LOW IMPACT: we are proud of our low impact
harvesting methods
We don't cut down, clear fell or destroy woodland
to make our furniture
We only use trees that are storm damaged
We
are the only company extracting timber from King's Wood, Sherwood
Forest in this way.
Forest 2 Furniture makes the following contributions
to maintaining a low carbon economy:-
We only use storm damaged trees and the money we pay for these trees
goes towards supporting tree planting & woodland management for a
historically important tract of woodland within Sherwood
Forest.
We use a hand-held chainsaw & jig to plank trees in the woodland
thereby minimising the use of heavy machinery and the consequential disturbance
of the woodland floor.
We leave the sawdust on the ground thereby encouraging the natural
organisms that populate the forest floor to maintain a natural balance of flora
& fauna.
We air dry our timber and finish the drying process in a solar heated
kiln.
Our finishes are all natural.
Our drying areas & workshop are less than 10 miles from the
woodland and once the timber arrives there it doesn’t leave until it’s been
made into furniture, minimising our carbon footprint as a business.
We exhibit our furniture in public places that are already being heated
/ lit thereby minimising the energy resources used by our business.
Our furniture is built to last for several hundred years, reducing the
need for repeated manufacture & use of natural resources.
Using off-cuts from the harvesting of the timber and the making of the
furniture to fuel our wood-burning range has enabled us to reduce our domestic
energy consumption quite considerably.
Wherever possible we maintain and use existing resources; some of our
hand tools, for example, are well over 100 years old.
To summarise: we try to run
all aspects of our business in such a way as to minimise our impact on the
environment and the climate. We also
give back in exchange for what we use
For these reasons we were awarded a Highly Commended in the Environment section of the CHAD Enterprise Awards 2010.
By clicking on the word 'brochure' below you will be taken to an external site where you will be able to view our latest furniture brochure in book form.
