A Polite Request

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A Private View: how the seed of an unfathomable idea took root in the grounds of a childhood garden

In a secret woodland location outside Wirksworth, a series of serpentine shapes emerge from the thick foliage. It’s here that Alice Munro and her husband Gavin patiently grow furniture from living willow branches. We join them in their otherworldly “chair orchard” to discuss the roots of their art form

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writer: Madeleine Silver
photography: Kim Lightbody
architectural photography: Carole Poirot

A Private View: how the seed of an unfathomable idea took root in the grounds of a childhood garden

Townend House, Hopton, Derbyshire

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