Source
Every brief begins with a timber budget — species, cubic feet, project. Logged the moment a sketch is signed.
— Our quietest collaborator
Every brief
begins in
a forest.
The French beech in a Westminster armchair, the Burmese teak across a fluted wall, the walnut on a sideboard — each began as a sapling, raised, harvested, and given to us. The woods are our oldest, quietest collaborator.
For two decades we've made furniture from timber. For most of those years, we've thought of trees as a material. The Sustainer Circle is how we mean to think of them as a partnership.
“We don't take from the woods. We borrow.”
— What we pledge
We replant
what we use.
A sapling for every cubic foot
Each project's timber budget is logged at design hand-off and matched to a planting commitment before fabrication begins.
Tracked by species, site, season
We don't plant generic 'trees'. Native species, region-matched, in plots run by trusted forest-department and NGO partners.
Reported every quarter, openly
The Circle receives a quarterly field log — what went in, where, and how the monsoon (or the dry season) has treated it.
— How it works
From a sketch
to a sapling.
Four quiet steps. Run for every project — turnkey or single-piece — and reported back to the Sustainer Circle.
Match
Each cubic foot is matched, project by project, to a sapling commitment in the Sustainer Circle ledger.
Plant
Saplings are planted in partnership with India's state forest departments and a trusted set of reforestation NGOs.
Update
Every quarter we send the Circle a field log — what went into the ground, where, and how the season has treated it.
— Our partnership in numbers
Numbers we count slowly.
0+
Trees planted to date
0
Projects offset
0
Reforestation partners
0
Native species in our ledger
Programme launched 2026. Numbers update each quarter as the field log lands.
— Join the Sustainer Circle
Plant with us.
The work is ours; the cost is shared. Make a one-time gift or stand a sapling beside us each year. Whatever you give, the field log comes back to you — quarterly, by email, with photos.
One Sapling
₹ 500
Stand a single sapling beside our next project. We'll send a thank-you and the species + site of your tree.
- 1 tree planted
- Species + GPS site report
- Acknowledged in the next field log
A Grove
₹ 5,000
Ten trees, planted together. The most common Sustainer Circle pledge — and the most useful for plot-based reforestation.
- 10 trees planted as a grove
- Quarterly field-log updates
- Annual photo set from the site
- Named in the Circle ledger
Steward
₹ 25,000
Fifty trees across two seasons. For practices, brands, or families who want to sponsor a small woodland in their name.
- 50 trees planted, multi-season
- Site walk with a Flamingo lead each year
- Field log + studio newsletter
- Custom plaque at the planting site
All pledges go directly to plot acquisition, sapling sourcing and our partner organisations' field crews. Flamingo absorbs the programme's overhead.
— Our partners
Where the
trees go.
We don't run our own nurseries. We work with the people who do — state forest departments and a small set of trusted, accountable reforestation organisations.
Karnataka Forest Department
Bengaluru · Statewide
Honne · Jamun · Indian Rosewood
Western Ghats Reforestation Trust
Coorg & Sakleshpur
Native canopy · Bamboo · Wild Mango
Sapling Society of India
Pan-India NGO partnership
Mixed native species, region-matched
— Recent field log
From the
most recent seasons.
The Sustainer Circle receives a longer note each quarter. A short version, here, for everyone.
Q1 · 2026
Bannerghatta buffer, Karnataka
120 saplings · 4 species
Q4 · 2025
Sakleshpur ridge, Western Ghats
240 saplings · 7 species
Q3 · 2025
Anaikatti foothills, Coimbatore
180 saplings · 5 species
Plant
with us.
Pledge a sapling, a grove, or a stand of fifty. We'll write back within two working days with where it'll go, when, and what species.