stockholm design week 09: ‘mushrooms ate my furniture’ by designer shinwei rhoda yen is of garden furniture that is made with natural wood, embedded with mushrooms’ spawn. after a time of exposure to the weather, mushrooms will grow our and live with the furniture for a few more years. as the nutritional material from the wood is eaten by the mushrooms, the furniture will start to break down, eventually dying while giving its life to the mushrooms.
'there is no real, defined space, there’s just the reflection’ – designboom speaks with Hermès artistic directors charlotte macaux perelman and alexis fabry.