Fallen & Felled

Another beautiful piece of work from the Fallen & Felled bespoke furniture team. They handmade this fluted vanity unit front using timber from a Brighton elm tree which died from dutch elm disease. By carefully selecting rustic boards with knots and character they were able to create this richly-textured effect. It's a brilliant example of what can be achieved using repurposed English street trees.

Last month the Fallen & Felled team were at Brixton Windmill. They were installing workbenches in the 207-year-old windmill made from a Black Poplar tree that had grown just 4 miles away on London's Southwark Park Road. It's a lovely example of what we do - milling trees felled in London into quality timber and using them to make furniture. Without us most trees felled in the city end up as firewood or fuel for biomass power stations. So if you ever buy some of their locally-milled flour in Brixton, you'll know it was packaged on a table made from a locally-milled tree. Nice and circular! The tree was donated by Southwark Council with support from Trees for Bermondsey felled because it was suffering from root rot and had become unsafe.

Beautiful tables make business meetings a bit better don't you think? Here's a handmade solid elm table we made for a London finance company with timber from a tree felled in Brighton due to Dutch elm disease. The company got in touch after sitting around an elm boardroom table we'd made for another company last year. It's nice when our tables sell themselves! Making the legs was a trigonometry test all in itself...

The sun popped its head out last week and the team got down to some serious timber milling. London plane from Old Kent Road and elm from Brighton. All ex-street trees now sticked and stacked to air dry. They're on their way to become becoming furniture - not fuel for biomass power stations which is where most urban trees end their days.

We're busy creating and building our next exhibition which opens at the beginning of February in our London Gallery Space and will be accompanied by a programme of events, talks, tours, workshops and symposiums. We've partnered with Fallen & Felled to create a bespoke immersive timber frame to transform the space, made from repurposed felled urban trees from in and around London. A mix of beautiful species which tell a wonderful circular economy story. More info on the exhibition coming soon.