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Carbon. Bud Vase
Carbon
Bud Vase
A story of what happens when you stop treating left over material as waste.
Materials and Origin
Sweet Chestnut | Northumberland,
Pine Resin | Portugal
Beeswax from North Yorkshire
Handmade in the North of England.
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Saved offcuts of locally sourced sweet chestnut which otherwise would’ve gone on the fire. Combining it with pine resin, leftover from material testing and casting. These small vases demonstrate that designing low impact objects isn’t just about selecting better materials, it’s about
challenging how we treat each part of them. Changing the perception that low impact design has be expensive, these are priced to make considered design more accessible
Care
Suitable for use with live flowers and water or dried flowers. The surface may mark and it is intended to wear the marks from the life it goes on to live.
About Henry
What do we owe the generations that follow us? For designer Henry Chantler, this question sits at the centre of a practice concerned with material, responsibility and the lasting consequences of making.
A graduate of Three Dimensional Design at Northumbria University, Henry challenges established ideas of production and consumption, exploring how objects might be made differently — and with greater consideration for the world they will inhabit.
His work begins with material. Its origins, its transformation, its environmental cost. Through research and hands-on experimentation, Henry investigates local resources, alternative processes and low-carbon methods, allowing the character and limitations of each material to inform the objects that emerge.
There is a quiet radicalism to his approach. Sustainability is neither an aesthetic nor an added virtue, but an inherent part of good design. Objects should be useful, repairable, considered and made to endure.
Underpinning his practice is a proposition: Our Grandchildren’s World. A call to look beyond the immediate, to reconsider what we produce and why, and to recognise that the things we make today belong, ultimately, to tomorrow.
