Harvest Moon: A Table Sourced Within 64 Kilometres

Harvest Moon sets one rule and follows it: every material comes from within a 40-mile, or 64-kilometre, radius of Canterbury. Chalk, chestnut and apple wood were sourced inside that circle. The table can be taken apart and moved, and assembly is deliberately designed as a group task rather than a solo one. The material list doubles as a geography of the region, tying the object to local chalk geology and to a farming and forestry history.

What separates this from most modular furniture is the refusal of convenience. Flat-pack promises speed and one pair of hands; Harvest Moon asks for several people and a shared afternoon. The social function of the object arrives before its use. Its argument about sustainability is equally plain: instead of an abstract carbon figure, it draws a line on a map and stays inside it. A radius is easier to verify than a footprint.