Gerardo Osio weaves chair into weeping willow tree on the Dommel river
Designer Gerardo Osio has woven the living branches of a weeping willow tree together to form a living seat along the Dommel river in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Osio developed the project, called Weeping Seat, as a student on the GEO-Design Master s course at Design Academy Eindhoven.
Weeping Seat is a swing woven into a willow tree
Weeping Seat explores ideas of how design can be improved and used in order to form a closer and more responsible relationship with nature.
Osio embarked on the project under the guidance of design duo Formafantasma and Lenneke Langenhuijsen, co-founder of Dutch studio Buro Belén.