Couple of Australians have been doing this since the 90's - I think they coined the term 'pooktre' to describe the form - https://www.pooktre.com/

Searching `Peter Cook Becky Northey tree furniture` gets you some nice pictures of their work, as they don't just 'do chair' -- though I suspect plenty of people have been doing this in various forms for centuries.

This field is called Tree Shaping[1] and while it has been tried throughout history, I think there's still a lot of cool stuff that has never been tried.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_shaping

I've seen this couple discussed on HN before, although my searching abilities are failing me, I just found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21051965 which is the same couple, but with 3 points and 1 comment, isn't likely to be the discussion I remember.

There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9344837 4 points 11 years ago, although the link is dead.

An issue of WET magazine (from the 1980s) profiled a similar operation. Always beautiful to see.

So elves in dwarf fortress.

I think these are very beautiful.

Carpentry is dead