Felled Tree Furniture

The Ptacek Home Chunk Line collection combines traditional techniques with modern style and sustainable materials, namely trees that were downed by storms or felled for safety. The collection from the American studio makes the most of salvaged wood from local forests, which is often not suitable for commercial use and often ends up as firewood or at the landfill as a result.

Founder Thomas Ptacek described to Dezeen: "I use a small loader and a portable tree mill along with my woodshop to take the project from sawlog to a finished piece by myself." Celebrating the chunks of wood given up by the forest, this collection includes everything from benches made from Norwegian Spruce to planters planter made from storm-downed Black Locust.