User:Blackash/John Krubsack
John Krubsack | |
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Born | 1858 Wisconsin |
Died | 1941 |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Banker, Farmer |
Known for | The '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]
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ Title Turning young trees into living works of art Date 31 August 2014 Publisher Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka, India) HT Digital Streams Ltd.
- ^ a b "1940 U.S. census". archives.com. 7 September 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
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value (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ 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
- ^ "Only Natural Grown Chair". Shawano Leader Newspaper. Wisconsin Historical Society. 1922-10-19. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
- ^ Chair that Grew
- ^ 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.
- ^ David Quammen (1996-12-31), The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, Simon and Schuster, p. 272, ISBN 9781476776620
- ^ Happened to the First Chair Grown From Living Trees?
External links
- John Krubsack
- The Chair That Grew at Atlas Obscura
- A Nailless Chair Made by Good Soil, Fresh Air and Sunshine from Popular Science
Category:1858 births
Category:1941 deaths
Category:Outsider artists
Category:American bankers
Category:American horticulturists
Category:People from Waupaca County, Wisconsin