First look: ‘Ash Rise’ – 20 Scottish designers explore the versatility of the blighted native hardwood

Ash Rise exhibition view.

A handmade kayak, a hooded chair and a guitar in ash and concrete are among the innovative design objects created using Scottish ash wood for an exhibition that opens this weekend at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. The Scottish Furniture Makers Association (SFMA) invited 20 designers and makers to transform the native hardwood into innovative works of furniture, art and design to highlight the destructive impact of a fungal disease called ash dieback in Scotland.

‘Ash Rise’: 20 designers transform native hardwood into works of furniture, art and design