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Hemp and Pine Resin Stool
Natural Carbon
Hemp and Pine Resin Stool
A stool exploring how hemp, pine resin, and beeswax can be a material for the future.
Materials and Origin
330 x 260 x 420mm (W x D x H)
Hemp | North Yorkshire
Pine Resin | Portugal
Beeswax | Newcastle upon Tyne
Sweet Chestnut - Northumberland.
Finished with UK grown hemp oil.
Handmade in the North of England.
Hemp, a material for the future. One hectare is capable of sequestering a similar amount of carbon dioxide in just five months as a forest sequesters in a whole year. Pine resin is a natural, traceable material, able to be tapped from the same pine tree for over 20 years without the tree being cut down. Through experimentation, it was revealed that when pine resin and beeswax are combined, they are a strong natural binder for hemp. Rejecting conventional adhesives and composites, it instead offers a material suitable for our grandchildren’s world.
2.1 kg
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.
Care
Indoor use only. Avoid prolonged exposure to sunlight or heat sources, this may cause the top to distort. The stool surface may mark, and it is intended to wear the marks from the life it goes on to live.
