Artist, creative director and designer Heron Preston created a limited-edition fruit bowl using MycoWorks' mycelium material Reishi. Reishi is described as "a unique, flexible, durable material that emulates the handfeel of animal leather but is made entirely from mycelium, the infinitely renewable root structure of mushrooms."
The fruit bowl is not only designed with Reishi but inspired by it too, and it represents a new horizon in breakthrough materials with virtually endless applications, and biotechnology of the future.
A Fruit Bowl by Heron Preston for MycoWorks will be available exclusively on a new digital platform by Heron Preston (L.E.D. or "Less Environmentally Destructive") that will launch early next year. This standout design is just the first of many pieces to come from Heron Preston and MycoWorks.
Mushroom-Based Fruit Bowls
Heron Preston and MycoWorks Created a Bowl with Reishi
Trend Themes
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Industry Implications
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