In conversation with Sebastian Cox

Welcome everybody to the fifth edition of our new series Planted Unearthed.

With the growing movement around rewilding brought into national focus recently with the news two wild white storks have successfully bred in the UK for the first time in 600 years, no designer is doing more to promote the cause than Sebastian Cox.

An award-winning bespoke furniture designer, Cox comes from a farming background and knows at first hand the pressure those producing our food can feel to move towards ever more ecologically damaging processes of industrialised production.

Along with his wife, Brogan, Cox recently published a 15,000 word booklet entitled Modern life from wilder land: a manifesto for nature-first land and resource use which has been lauded both inside and outside the design world.

Planted Unearthed caught up with Seb at his mum’s home in rural Lincolnshire, when he spoke to us from a bespoke bench he’d crafted during lockdown which enables him to sit in and among the wildflower and grass meadow at the foot of the garden.

“We need carrots and not sticks to change farming practices and encourage rewilding. We all need to buy into this together and stop being so obsessed with order and tidiness.”

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