Seven designers
one canvas, Reishi™

The Mycelium Muse exhibit is the vision of seven talented women artists and designers who have crafted Reishi™ to their own tastes, style and sensibility over the last year.

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Sophie Dries

THE ARTIST

Architect, designer and decorator Sophie Dries is a rising figure on the young international scene. Since launching her studio in 2014. Dries has delighted in a holistic approach to space, drawing on her passion for Arte Povera and the use of noble, natural materials to create objects of unmistakable aesthetic brutality.

I loved working with this unique material, surrounded by exceptional young craftsmen in Paris.

KHARA, mirror 2024

To Sophie Dries, Reishi™ is a material that has already lived many lives. Naturally mottled, streaked and marked with irregular edges, the Reishi™ inspired her to create a brutalist object. Reishi™ is stitched like a spidery delicacy from a sleek metal frame structured from Corten tubes—a self-patinated metal with a protective rust coating widely used in Land Art—rendering an object that is both radical and primitive. Price upon request

Joséphine Fossey

THE ARTIST

Artistic director Joséphine Fossey designs places, objects and brand identities. Her practice lies halfway between interior design and curation. She questions the history of places, immerses herself in their atmospheres, and considers their future uses in order to define global concepts.

Lampadaire Silencieux embodies material innovation and timeless elegance, fusing tradition and modernity.

In designing a lampshade, Joséphine Fossey highlights the opalescence and ability of Reishi™ to diffuse a soft, warm light. The piece is simple, minimal and uncluttered. The lampshade’s stem and feet are structured in quadrilaterals, a rigorous approach that is gracefully countered by the sensuality of Reishi™ ‘s texture. Price upon request

Pauline Guerrier

THE ARTIST

Her father a sculptor, and her mother a choreographer, Pauline Guerrier was introduced very young to the pleasures of creating with her own hands. Today, she expresses herself through drawings and sculptures, as well as installations, performances and videos.

While exploring the idea of the transition from the animal to the vegetal, I was reminded of the myth of Daphnée, who metamorphosed into a tree to escape Apollo's grasp.

In Greek mythology, the Hamadryades are wood nymphs, each bonded to a tree with whom they share a single destiny, from birth through old age.

In her bas relief, Pauline Guerrier pays tribute to the Hamadryades, carving an ode to Daphnée, the mythological figure who transforms herself into a tree: a forest of feminine curves, a base of Reishi™. Price upon request

Anna Le Corno

THE ARTIST

Trained as an architect, Anna Le Corno perfected her cabinet-making skills at the École Boulle. Le Corno has taken an innovative look at marquetry, constantly experimenting with new techniques, and freely mixing wood species and leather into her craft. She undersigns her designs with her trademark, Farouche–wild, rabid, fierce.

Undergrowth is an encounter between Reishi™ and myrtle burr: two materials whose beauty lies in the imperfections that arise from their natural growth.

The desk’s organic form evokes rough-hewn logs, ax-cut trunks and sharpened shingles. Built around taut lines, Farouche combined two natural materials whose beauty is derived from the imperfections and accidents inherent in their development: a Reishi™ sheathing and myrtle burr veneer. Price upon request

Fanny Perrier

THE ARTIST

After working for Patrick Jouin and Joseph Dirand, interior architect Fanny Perrier founded her own agency. From boutiques for shoemaker Repetto and jeweler Viltier to restaurants such as Le Perchoir, requests quickly followed. Her timeless, refined style makes the most of color, using touches of vintage furniture from the 1930s to the 1970s to render each space a story of its own.

I’d like to borrow 
a phrase from the famous Italian architect Gio Ponti: ‘I am an artist who has fallen in love with architecture.'

Inspired by the ornamental screens of 1930s designers such as Jean-Michel Frank, Fanny Perrier has designed a six-panel Reishi™-covered screen on a solid, recessed base with silent glides.

In its use as an ecological and virtuous covering, Reishi™ renews a typology of objects formerly made of parchment or leather. Price upon request

Marion Mailaender

THE ARTIST

Born in Marseille’s Cité Radieuse, Marion Mailaender works from her hometown, having founded her namesake agency in Paris in 2004. Daring to mix and match, she creates Dadaist objects that are as functional as they are narrative, inviting multiple interpretations.

I really enjoyed experimenting with an innovative material in a classic furniture format. I was able to mix ancestral sewing techniques and at the same time, use more modern techniques.

A nomadic object par excellence, the fisherman’s stool is familiar, solid and practical. And yet, as she does, Marion Mailaender turns the design on its head. In pairing traditional techniques of sewing and sheathing with the more contemporary practice of laser-cutting, Mailaender developed a western-inspired ornamental fringe, to create two mischievous stools that bridge timeless design and a classic western flair. Price upon request

Sarah Valente

THE ARTIST

Visual artist and photographer Sarah Valente’s subject is the richness of nature. She is fascinated by humanity’s connection with the forest, its spiritual implications and the role of plants in the evolution of our species. Her visuals capture the beauty of the jungle, birds, beehives and the Amazon.

It's inspiring to work with mycelium when you know that life on earth would be impossible without them.

Sarah Valente has created a monumental fresco using ten sheets of Reishi™ that have been painted, rubbed, soaked and folded. Valente’s non-figurative work is inspired by motifs borrowed from the forest’s flora and fauna. Ultraviolet light unearths a second layer to her work: in the darkness, one can find a luminescent and enchanting network of mycelium emerges. Price upon request

discover REishi

Soft, yet supple. Reishi™ is a natural material developed by MycoWorks, a modern muse for today’s generation of creatives. Woven from mycelium, the mysterious root-like fungal network typically buried deep underground.  Explore Reishi™

The Mycelium Muse Collection at Design Miami.Paris.

October 15 to 20, 2024.

THE CATALOGUE

35 USD. Coming Soon.

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