Full grown chair joins Plant Heritage Chelsea garden
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The Plant Heritage Missing Collector Garden featuring the Gatti Chair
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Bronze cast of the Gatti Chair
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Full Grown Orchard
A bronze cast of the celebrated Gatti Chair by Full Grown will feature in the Plant Heritage Missing Collector Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026.
Founded by Gavin Munro and Alice Munro, Full Grown has spent two decades developing techniques that train living trees into functional furniture and sculptural forms.
The featured chair is a bronze cast of the original Gatti Chair, Full Grown’s first fully functional prototype. The original piece was grown from willow over nearly a decade before being harvested in 2018.
Named after Italian agronomist Laura Gatti, the chair was shaped using carefully trained and grafted willow branches, demonstrating the long-term craft and experimentation behind the project.
The bronze version has been loaned to the Chelsea garden by Sarah Myerscough Gallery and will return to the gallery following the show.
Full Grown describes its process as working collaboratively with trees through minimal intervention, guiding growth naturally through shaping, angling and grafting techniques.
The project continues to evolve, with experiments extending beyond chairs into lampshades, benches, tables and chandeliers, alongside plans for a future Full Grown Academy.
The designers hope the chair’s presence within the Plant Heritage garden will encourage visitors to think about stewardship, long-term cultivation and the idea of becoming future “plant collectors”.
Plant Heritage CEO Gwen Hines described the installation as an exciting addition to the garden, while Sarah Myerscough highlighted the chair as a vision for environmentally responsible furniture production.
The Plant Heritage Missing Collector Garden is designed by Planting Design Collective and supported by Project Giving Back and the Shanly Foundation.