MushLume


MushLume’s award-winning biofabricated lighting collection is grown from mycelium, the roots of mushrooms, now becoming widely used as a material including in furniture making.


Te lampshades are grown using a sustainable crop – hemp – that is combined with mycelium, a rapidly renewable living organism. In just a few days, the mycelium grows, cultivating a thick network of hyphae (the branching filaments that make up the mycelium) binding to the hemp substrate (a byproduct of the hemp industry) and solidifying into a solid structure within the custom lampshade moulds. After the mycelium has fully matured, the lampshades are demoulded, dried and heated, creating a stable, inert and 100% biodegradable product.


Production processes require very little energy or water and at the end of its lifecycle, it can be composted, adding nutrients back to the soil rather than lasting for hundreds of years or releasing toxins.


Te range includes pendants and wall fittings, one of the most popular being the Hemi Pendant which has the largest diameter dome structure, measuring 58.5x58.5x30.5cm, and featuring a 6W LED source. Mycelium is naturally white and over time may take on more golden tones as it ages. mushlumelighting.uk


Studio Arp


Alkesh Parmar has pioneered the use of local waste material for more than a decade using materials such as orange peel. A new body of work uses two very different materials made from waste orange peels. One is formed through the method of meticulously hand- cutting, sewing, and shaping, during the drying process, to create a fabric-like material (exemplified in his globe diffuser for his pendant light). Te second material, with its paper-like quality, is made from orange peel pulp through an intricate immersion relating to drying processes. instagram.com/studio_arp


Material Matters, which was at the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, from 18-21 September, as part of the London Design Festival (14-22 September), featured lighting by Rootfull,


Mushlume, Studio Arp and others.


materialmatters.design


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