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Grown materials, objects
& architecture
Studio Cartier / Field notes

Thoughts from
the workbench

Material experiments rarely end at a polished object. Andy shares what grew, what failed and what is still being worked out.

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Object / Kinoko

How Kinoko was made

Andy details the oak frame, brass fixings and mycelium panels grown on local elephant grass, and credits Peter Oei and Twan D.

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Furniture / research

Growing a chair

A chair experiment made with hemp and mycelium during Andy’s C-Biotech work; the post shows the object and its development context.

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Art / process

Fungal Art Series #13

A short update on a new painting and the evolving balance between biological variation and control.

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Art / material

Mycelium grown into textiles

A soft-goods experiment connects earlier Fungal Art textile work with a new pouch prototype made with Deena Khayyat.

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Practice / writing

Mycelium: grown, not made

Andy introduces a published reflection on material growth and the work across Studio Cartier and NUMU.

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Materials / development

What is real, what is still growing

An unusually candid update distinguishing physical prototypes from interior visualisation studies for FOLD, Mushroomiya and Fungal Art.

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Teaching / consultation

The Mycelium Hotline

A practical note on moulds, scale-up, product choice and the mistakes that can derail material development.

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