GMO Tree Stump Chair Highlights Our Culture's Affection For Bio-Manufacturing

What's one of the most pleasurable things about communing with the great outdoors?

Some might say that parking yourself underneath a tree and inhaling deeply is about as good as it gets, but as more of modern man's developments encroach on land that was once wild and free, the parcels that remain are getting more precious by the minute.

The struggle between Mother Nature and urbanism is felt all over the globe and has compelled the international design duo Draw Me A Sheep -- consisting of  BoYoung Jung and Emmanuel Wolfs -- to create a line of practical, no-nonsense furniture that embodies the spirit of the natural environment. 

Considering the fact that we continue to genetically modify organisms so that they meet our specific needs, Jung and Wolfs wonder if we might soon face a world where we purposefully cultivate square trees...and if so, is this form of bio-manufacturing still legitimately from nature or really just from a lab? 

Their Nature V2.01 project explores this condundrum with the creation of the chunky wooden chair below, wrapped with an entire sheet of genuine tree bark.

What are your thoughts? If I didn't offer the explanation above regarding their motivation for creating this chair, would you be able to read between the lines? Are we tweaking so many things in a laboratory that we're losing our most fundamental connection with Mother Nature?