What will you be buying your most loved one next Valentine’s Day? A lampshade made from ‘fungal wires’ that ‘grow mushrooms’? Or maybe a wine cooler that will keep your sparkling wine at the perfect temperature thanks to its fungi fabrication?
Maybe you should buy him or her nothing at all – but how sustainable can a relationship be without even occasional gifting at birthdays, Christmas, etc? That’s where the products alluded to above could come in handy.
Dutch designer Krown creates natural, safe, sustainable and beautiful household products from fungus and biomass.
It 3D-prints reusable moulds with a renewable biopolymer. These moulds are then filled with local agricultural waste, a little water, and mycelium binds it all together. These structures grow and gain strength within a week. Once full-grown and dried, they are turned into structural, stable and renewable products. They can be broken up for composting and used as fertiliser when no longer needed.
Krown Design is Cradle2Cradle Gold certified – a globally recognised measure of safer, more sustainable products made for the circular economy.
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What will you be buying your most loved one next Valentine’s Day? A lampshade made from ‘fungal wires’ that ‘grow mushrooms’? Or maybe a wine cooler that will keep your sparkling wine at the perfect temperature thanks to its fungi fabrication?
Maybe you should buy him or her nothing at all – but how sustainable can a relationship be without even occasional gifting at birthdays, Christmas, etc? That’s where the products alluded to above could come in handy.
Dutch designer Krown creates natural, safe, sustainable and beautiful household products from fungus and biomass.
It 3D-prints reusable moulds with a renewable biopolymer. These moulds are then filled with local agricultural waste, a little water, and mycelium binds it all together. These structures grow and gain strength within a week. Once full-grown and dried, they are turned into structural, stable and renewable products. They can be broken up for composting and used as fertiliser when no longer needed.
Krown Design is Cradle2Cradle Gold certified – a globally recognised measure of safer, more sustainable products made for the circular economy.