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.

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…

Visualizing the steps of degradation of a plastic chair, leading to its final burial as a mass of organic nutrients

Petr Krejci Photography Bulgarian designer and researcher Ninela Ivanova and British deigner Sebastian Cox have teamed to create something quite unusual - lightweight, compostable stools and lights made from green-wood waste bound together with mycelium fungus. Their project Mycelium + Timber can be seen at Somerset House as part of Design Frontiers exhibition during London Design Festival 2017. sitting on a Mycelium + Timber stool beneath mycelium light shades

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

Furniture Design, Product Design

To call it a mushroom footstool is technically accurate, but slightly misleading - it...

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