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'''John Krubsack''' (1858–1941) conceived, planted and shaped a "living chair", a growing tree shaped like a chair. <ref name="Living Architecture">{{Cite journal |author= Thomas Vallas |others=peer reviewer Luc Courard |title=Using nature in architecture Building a living house with mycelium and trees |url=http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/frontiers-of-architectural-research/|journal=Frontiers of Architectural Research |date=25 May 2017 }}</ref> <ref name="living works">Title Turning young trees into living works of art Date 31 August 2014 Publisher Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka, India) HT Digital Streams Ltd.</ref> Krubsack was a banker and farmer from Embarrass, Wisconsin, United States,<ref name="Banker"/> who started growing the the tree in 1903, dubbing it "the chair that grew".<ref name=Rustic>{{Citation| author =Daniel Mack | publisher = Lark Books| date = 1996-12-31|title=Making Rustic Furniture: The Tradition, Spirit, and Technique with Dozens of Project Ideas| edition = illustrated| page =160| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xEvGAL95tSYC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=%22John+Krubsack%22&q=%22John%20Krubsack%22| isbn = 1-887374-12-4}}</ref> <ref name=WHS-Shawano>{{Cite web| title = Only Natural Grown Chair| work = Shawano Leader Newspaper| publisher = Wisconsin Historical Society| date = 1922-10-19| url = http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/articleView.asp?pg=1&id=14813| accessdate = 2019-02-15}}</ref>
'''John Krubsack''' (1858–1941) conceived, planted and shaped a "living chair", a growing tree shaped like a chair. <ref name="Living Architecture">{{Cite journal |author= Thomas Vallas |others=peer reviewer Luc Courard |title=Using nature in architecture Building a living house with mycelium and trees |url=http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/frontiers-of-architectural-research/|journal=Frontiers of Architectural Research |date=25 May 2017 }}</ref> <ref name="living works">Title Turning young trees into living works of art Date 31 August 2014 Publisher Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka, India) HT Digital Streams Ltd.</ref> Krubsack was a banker and farmer from Embarrass, Wisconsin, United States,<ref name="Banker"/> who started growing the tree in 1903, dubbing it "the chair that grew".<ref name=Rustic>{{Citation| author =Daniel Mack | publisher = Lark Books| date = 1996-12-31|title=Making Rustic Furniture: The Tradition, Spirit, and Technique with Dozens of Project Ideas| edition = illustrated| page =160| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xEvGAL95tSYC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=%22John+Krubsack%22&q=%22John%20Krubsack%22| isbn = 1-887374-12-4}}</ref> <ref name=WHS-Shawano>{{Cite web| title = Only Natural Grown Chair| work = Shawano Leader Newspaper| publisher = Wisconsin Historical Society| date = 1922-10-19| url = http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/articleView.asp?pg=1&id=14813| accessdate = 2019-02-15}}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==

Revision as of 16:12, 11 September 2021

John Krubsack
Born1858
Wisconsin
Died1941
NationalityUnited States American
Occupation(s)Banker, Farmer
Known forThe 'Chair that Grew'

John Krubsack (1858–1941) conceived, planted and shaped a "living chair", a growing tree shaped like a chair. [1] [2] Krubsack was a banker and farmer from Embarrass, Wisconsin, United States,[3] who started growing the tree in 1903, dubbing it "the chair that grew".[4] [5]

Biography

Krubsack, of Embarrass, Wisconsin,[3] was a man with many different talents. He made cheese, did farming and his property was landscaped. He enjoyed creating rustic furniture. [6] Which lead to his hobby of growing a chair. [7] His "living chair" was realized in 1914 along the way he pioneered shaping with living trees. [1]

Process of tree shaping

John Krubsack's chair was created by shaping trees while they were growing. [1] In 1903 he was the first to do tree shaping in the United States. [7]

John Krubsck's chair was harvested in 1914. A year later is displayed at the International Exposition Panama-pacific World's fair 1915. Robert Ripley featured the horticultural chair in his syndicated newspaper column titled believe it or not. John Krubsack was offered $5000 for his chair. He chose instead to keep the chair and put it on display at Noritage Furniture [8] The chair spent many years inside a display case of Noritage Furniture. Once the company was closed down, the chair was retained by Dennis Krubsack who prefers to not be contacted. [9]

Chair grown by John Krubsack in Wisconsin, United States in 1919

See also

  • Topiary – Horticulture practice to shape trees and shrubs
  • Espalier – Pruning/tying branches to flat structure
  • Pleaching – Interwoven branches to form a hedge, fence or lattice
  • Bonsai – Japanese art of training plants to mimic miniature versions of large trees
  • Arthur Wiechula – Tree shaping theorist
  • Axel Erlandson – Farmer and Tree shaping artist
  • Christopher Cattle – British furniture designer and Tree shaping artist
  • Richard Reames – American artist, arborsculptor, nurseryman, writer and public speaker
  • Fab Tree Hab – Hypothetical Concept of ecological home design
  • Gilroy Gardens – Family amusement and nature park
  • Full Grown – Company that grows trees into furniture and sculpture

References

  1. ^ a b c Thomas Vallas (25 May 2017). "Using nature in architecture Building a living house with mycelium and trees". Frontiers of Architectural Research. peer reviewer Luc Courard.
  2. ^ Title Turning young trees into living works of art Date 31 August 2014 Publisher Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka, India) HT Digital Streams Ltd.
  3. ^ a b "1940 U.S. census". archives.com. 7 September 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2021. {{cite web}}: Check |archive-url= value (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ Daniel Mack (1996-12-31), Making Rustic Furniture: The Tradition, Spirit, and Technique with Dozens of Project Ideas (illustrated ed.), Lark Books, p. 160, ISBN 1-887374-12-4
  5. ^ "Only Natural Grown Chair". Shawano Leader Newspaper. Wisconsin Historical Society. 1922-10-19. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  6. ^ Chair that Grew
  7. ^ a b Zoë Hendon; Anne Massey (2019). Design, History and Time: New Temporalities in a Digital Age (first ed.). Great Britain: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ISBN 978-1-3500-6066-1.
  8. ^ David Quammen (1996-12-31), The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, Simon and Schuster, p. 272, ISBN 9781476776620
  9. ^ Happened to the First Chair Grown From Living Trees?


Category:1858 births Category:1941 deaths Category:Outsider artists Category:American bankers Category:American horticulturists Category:People from Waupaca County, Wisconsin

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