Twig furniture is branching out. Ignored for 50 years, chairs, tables, stands and cupboards made of bent twigs, gnarled roots and twisted branches are now pictured in home furnishing magazines. Folk ...

Bill Perkins likes jazz. Bill Perkins also creates stunning furniture out of willow shoots he gathers from the side of the road and birch bark he collects from dead logs. Oddly enough, the two are ...

Long before there was vinyl fencing, there was wattle. What? Wattle is the ancient craft of interweaving flexible branches to make fences and other structures. Many people have lived in huts made of ...

Derek Muirden and Aubrey Bresett tour you through homes and handiwork of skilled designers and builders, as well as weekend crafters at the forefront of the Rustic Living movement. From twig rocking ...

Trees, whether covered with leaves or bare, are one of those wonders of nature that we appreciate but don’t necessarily celebrate the way we would a peach-colored sunset or prize-winning rose bush.

Marie Antoinette liked to milk cow sat the Hamlet, her private little corner of Versailles; Elizabeth I loved to hunt deer with a crossbow. Privileged people have always enjoyed aping the "simple life ...