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Our fascination with treehouses has deep roots

11 September 2021

9:00 AM

11 September 2021

9:00 AM

You can’t (and probably shouldn’t) design a treehouse. Treehouses should grow organically, in every sense: they must be made of wood, obviously — one definition of a treehouse is that it is a tree holding its dead friend — and the footings for the platform must be the knots or branches that are footholds when climbing the tree.

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