Mycelium furniture

With its oddly rustic design aesthetic, Sebastian Cox's Mycelium pendant lamps aren't made... they're grown. Mycelium, or the vegetative part of a mushroom, has found itself in the limelight for being a cheap, sustainable, and vegan alternative to suede and leather. If treated correctly, it looks and feels just like leather, offering a cruelty-free and

mushroom furniture by merjan tara sisman + brian mcclellan is an exploration into manufacturing objects from living materials.

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Studio Eric Klarenbeek's myceliumchair, a chair in which 3D printing and growing material are combined. Klarenbeek is exploring ways of making 3D prints of living organisms, such as mycelium, the…

WHY GROW A SURFACE? These prototypes for a mycoform surface system occupy the intersection of parametric CAD design and synthetic biology. Their multi-curved shapes are designed and cut digitally, but the segments are grown from strains of fungi into the specific 3D geometries of the piece. Mycoform is a product grown from ordinary biological matter and added to precise compacted forms of inert waste. We use polypore fungal species (in this case the fungus Ganoderma lucidum) that possess…

Mushroom chair by Aléa (Miriam Josi & Stella Lee Prowse) As part of process development of 'Back to Dirt - a bio-inclusive process with mycelium' a research project supported by FAIRE Paris

Sebastian Cox has teamed up with researcher Ninela Ivanova to investigate how mushroom mycelium can be used in commercial furniture design

Mycelium Chair, Studio Klarenbeek & Dros, 2018-2019, Mimèsis un design vivant au Centre Pompidou Metz.

Blast Studio has developed a method for 3D printing with living mycelium and used it to form a two-metre-high column that could be harvested for mushrooms.