About
Made from home-grown ash, this collection of hand-crafted stools connects education, heritage and sustainable woodland management.
Resulting from a collaboration between the Sylva Foundation and the National Trust, these elegant limited-edition stools have been created using trees felled on the Ebworth Estate due to ash dieback disease.
The collection entails three different designs – each inspired by a stool in the National Trust’s collection – and has been produced in small batches by students at Sylva Foundation’s wood school. Supporting the educational aims of the school, each of the stools incorporate a specific set of making processes and techniques but are unified with a common design language. Creating beautiful, high-quality products from certified Grown in Britain ash, this project helps bridge the gap between education and practice while illustrating the importance of active forest management.
The ambition was to create sustainable products using wood grown on land cared for by the National Trust. The Sylva Foundation have collaborated to design, batch-produce and retail a limited-edition range of hand-crafted stools since 2022.
