Outstandingly Organic Furniture Whittled From Tree Boughs and Trunks

Trees provide us with so many valuable resources, from oxygen, shade and natural beauty to furniture and paper.

I think that now more than ever, people in the mainstream population -- not just greenies -- are really beginning to grasp just how integral trees are to our lives...Greenwala even plants a tree for every new member who joins.

It is unfortunate that we continue to cut them down to serve our needs considering that we have so much potential paper pulp floating around already in our recycling bins and landfills.

Still, when artists and designers take the time to create organic sculptures that really accent the inherant beauty of the material they are using, then it's hard not to be awe struck.

That is what I think that Bram Hendriks has achieved with his hand carved wooden furniture.

When I look at the pieces cluttering up my livingroom, machined into oblivion and barely recognizable as the trees that they once were, it is clear that they can't hold a candle Hendriks' creations.

Operating under the business name Sgaaf, his medium is branches, trunks and tree limbs -- some with bark and moss remaining -- all anchored together with nothing more than pins when absolutely necessary.

Minimalism at its finest -- these are truly works of art that should be handed down for generations to come.