I don't see how that is in any way more efficient than current methods. I'd go so far as to say it is vastly, massively inefficient. Still, the chairs and lamps are cool looking and I'd like to own one.

These actually support weight? They look far too flimsy.

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I noticed he didn't sit in his prototype chair.

That's what I came here to say. This is cool and all, but seems vastly impractical.

That chair wobbled all over as he held it and turned it around.

This. Chairs look really cool, but they are also terrifically expensive owing to being so incredibly inefficient in their construction method. If you just grew regular trees in the same plot of land for the same amount of time you could build way, way more traditional chairs. Additionally, birds, squirrels, bees and everything else would happily live in the trees in that space much more of the time because you would only have pesky humans tramping through the area once or twice a year.

This is definitely just art, and not at all efficient.

Grow bamboo and make furniture out of that stuff, which can grow large and strong enough in weeks, not years, with very little land required. Now that's efficient. Heck, you can even build a house with the stuff:

I've been thinking about growing tree-chairs when I finally get settled in my own house, except I don't want to grow them and then cut them off the stump; I want to plant 4 saplings in the exact location the chair will always exist, form them into a bench or chair using the same techniques seen here, and then unbind them and let them continue to grow there permanently.

They may need a little trimming to keep the surfaces smooth (or maybe not if they're sat-in enough), but I like this idea more than growing a chair and then chopping it off to stick it in the dining room.