Mark Lilly, Banksia Chair (FURNITURE 2025)

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Mark Lilly

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Australia

In light of the recent WA native logging ban and global sustainability concerns, could we look to utilise a trees waste products as a furniture making material, instead of chopping down the tree itself? A chair was chosen to give form to this proposition taking the beautifully intricate discarded seed pods of Banksia Grandis (a species endemic to WA) and using traditional joinery methods to create a new vernacular material language. The chair as a typology in itself was a declaration that not only is this a visually intriguing material, it is also capable of meeting the demands of functional design.

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