Grow mushrooms for home furniture

Designers in the UK have the idea of combining fungi and planks to create unique furniture for the home.

Furniture made from fungi with light, hard and toxic properties can change the way traditional large-scale furniture production today, Reuters 18/9 reported.

From the mushroom mixture, the two inventors created lampshades and chairs.

Designers Sebastian Cox and Ninela Ivanova in London, England, came up with the idea of mixing mycelium mycelium with wood chips to create a mushroomed material . "The material is then shredded into the mold for re-development into the desired shape , " Cox explains.

"By understanding the growth characteristics of the fungus, we can determine when to stop the process in order to preserve the shape and texture of the product before it is dried," Ivanova added.

From the mushroom mixture , the two inventors created lampshades and chairs. After several experiments, they found that the hyphae grows particularly well on two types of wood that are generally considered of no economic value in the UK.

Their immediate challenge is to persuade people to use products made from 100% organic material in environmentally friendly production processes.

Two London designers devised a way of using mushrooms to make furniture. (Video: Reuters).