Designers Delve into Fungal Furniture

Designers are on a mushroom mission to convert the clever little collections of organisms from a food source to a material fit for furniture.

Mushrooms have already been used as insulation for houses and transformed into bricks as an alternative building material.

The latest mushroom project has seen Philadelphia University students Merjan Tara Sisman and Brian McClellan create a prototype chair and pendant lights from the mycelium roots of mushrooms.