Every object in your home was extracted.
The wood in your chair was a tree. Someone cut it down. Someone transported it. Someone dried it, milled it, cut it again, joined it to other pieces of wood that came from other trees that were also cut down. The chair is the end of a process that began with removal.
We do not start with removal.
We start with a specification. We encode the form into the organism before it grows. The chair is not a tree that was processed into a chair. It is an organism that grew into one.
The distinction sounds technical. It is not. It is the difference between manufacturing and cultivation. Between extraction and patience. Between imposing form on material and waiting for the material to become the form.
The furniture industry has been in the business of extraction since there was a furniture industry. It has optimised that extraction remarkably well. The supply chain is impressive: the logistics, the processing, the finishing, the distribution. Genuinely impressive. And completely unnecessary.
We planted a chair four years ago. It will be ready in approximately fourteen months.
The question I get asked most often about Form is: why would anyone wait four years for a chair? It is the wrong question. The chair does not wait four years. The chair grows for four years. The wait is the growing. The growing is the manufacturing. By the time it is harvested, it has been a chair for most of its life.
What we are selling is not patience. We are selling the elimination of extraction.
The object that arrives in your home will have a growth record. You will know what month it began. You will know what the environmental conditions were at each stage. You will know when each structural element reached specification. You will know more about the history of that object than you know about almost anything else you own.
Objects have always been grown or extracted. We have been so far on the extraction side for so long that we have forgotten the alternative exists.
It does.