Is fungus the future of furniture across Asia?
How could a mere cluster of mushrooms support a 2kg piece of glass? That was the question on everyone’s lips when they saw an unusual coffee table at Singapore Design Week in September. Beneath the transparent top were golden-brown caps seemingly sprouting from a solid trunk. “There was a sense of disbelief that mushrooms, which are mostly made of water and very soft, could actually hold something of weight,” says Ng Sze Kiat, founder of Bewilder, a five-year-old Singapore-based design studio...
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