MushLume Lighting will be showcasing hanging lamps grown from mushroom mycelium as a participant in Isola’s Nothing Happens if Nothing Happens exhibit during this year’s Dutch Design Week.

In the Schellens Fabriek, a former factory space in Eindhoven’s city center, close to the well-known Van Abbemuseum, Isola takes over a 400 sqm space by showcasing innovative biomaterials, circular products, and collectible design pieces from its design communities designers. MushLume Lighting is delighted to be joining the many talented, eco-conscious designers, cultivating a collection of purchasable products and art that are real change-makers within their industries.

Dutch Design Week

In October of each year, Dutch Design Week (DDW) takes place in Eindhoven. One of the biggest design events in Europe presents work and ideas of more than 2600 designers to more than 350,000 visitors from home and abroad. In more than 110 locations across the city, DDW organizes and facilitates exhibitions, lectures, prize ceremonies, networking events, debates and festivities.

Although during the event every imaginable discipline and aspect of design is on offer, the emphasis is on experiment, innovation and cross-overs. Exceptional attention each year goes to work and development of young talent. DDW concentrates on the design of the future and the future of design. It is DDW’s objective to show how designers from around the world shape a positive future and to strengthen the position and meaning of Dutch designers.

Nothing Happens If Nothing Happens

Isola is gathering designers and design professionals with a joint mission: to go beyond mere sustainable design thinking and really make something happen. The founders call on all designers and studios to implement a concrete change in their modus operandi, bringing them closer to the concept of regeneration.

The collaboration continues between Isola’s creative director, Elif Resitoglu, design studio IAMMI, and Italian start-up ReMat, focused on mattress waste recycling, for the creation and design of the exhibition layout. The elements in recycled polyurethane, previously shaped for the Londonese set-up, will be reused and repurposed, raising the commitment to truly sustainable design. Different thematic areas will characterize the exhibition, from material research to collectible design and sustainable and circular products. Isola is pushing the level of sustainable exhibiting even further in its partnership with The Good Plastic Company, using their recycled plastic sheets for signage and in the setup where possible. Both collaborations make sure that less virgin and single-use materials are used.

MushLume Lighting, an award-winning, biofabricated lighting collection grown using mushroom mycelium is opening its doors during the 2023 NYCxDESIGN Festival! Join us for our open studio May 19-25 at the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn. We will be showcasing our newly launched color lighting line– an earthy palette of non-toxic, naturally pigmented, mineral-based treated lampshades that are grown, not manufactured!

The lampshades are grown utilizing sustainably-sourced hemp that is combined with mycelium, a rapidly renewable living organism. In just a few days, the mycelium grows, cultivating a thick network of hyphae that binds to the hemp substrate, solidifying into a solid structure to create a stable and all natural lampshade.

Staying true to our ethos of only using natural, non-toxic materials that can safely biodegrade at the end of their life, we searched for years for the best methods to bring color to the MushLume Lighting Collection. We explored natural dyes, paints, mineral stains and sealants and after much R&D, we bring to you an authentic color palette of lime wash treatments for the exterior of our lampshades. 

Come see them for yourself!

RSVP HERE

Dates & Times:

Friday, May 19th 10am - 6pm

Saturday, May 20th 10am - 6pm

(CLOSED Sun & Mon)

Tuesday, May 23rd 10am - 4:30pm

Wednesday, May 24th 10am - 4:30pm

Thursday, May 25th 10am - 4:30pm