Mogu
Mogu is an Italian design brand for bio-based interior architecture products — founded in 2015 by Maurizio Montalti (founder of the design research studio Officina Corpuscoli), headquartered in Amsterdam with an Italian heart. The company grew from Montalti's early research into co-growing everyday objects with living mycelium — the vegetative network of fungi — and his realisation that mycelium is not just a material but a co-creator: a partner in the creation of entirely new matter, shaped by biology and guided by design. Mogu is part of a new generation of companies reimagining material innovation through nature. Support: EU Horizon 2020 (Mogu Floor). World's first commercially available mycelium acoustic panels.
Core technology: selected mycelium strains are cultivated on pre-engineered substrates of agro-industrial residues (hemp shives, cotton waste, rice straw, corn husks, coffee grounds, seaweed). The mycelium acts as reinforcement of the matrix structure → 100%-plastic-free, coherent bio-composite material → after a final heat treatment: stable, safe, durable and biodegradable product. Collaborative products: FORESTA System (with ARUP and designer Serena Camere, 2021 — biodegradable mycelium acoustic panels on a beech wood structure). Product categories: acoustic panels (FORESTA SYSTEM, WAVE, KITE, FIELDS, PLAIN — velvety surface, 3D form, maximum sound absorption), wall coverings (PLUMA — slim, circular, sound-absorbing, 100%-circular, printable pattern), flooring (Mogu Floor — resilient tiles and rolls; natural pigments from biomasses).
For architects and interior designers seeking for corporate office, premium hospitality, education, healthcare and demanding sustainable contract projects a design brand for bio-based interior architecture products founded in 2015 by Maurizio Montalti and working with EU Horizon 2020 support that with mycelium fermentation on agro-industrial residues, the world's first commercially available mycelium acoustic panels (FORESTA SYSTEM, developed with ARUP), 100%-plastic-free biodegradable bio-composite materials and a complete programme of acoustic panels, PLUMA wall coverings and Mogu Floor flooring — Mogu discovered mycelium as a design co-creator in 2015: the world's first commercially available mycelium acoustic panels, developed with ARUP, from hemp shives, coffee grounds and seaweed — 100% plastic-free, biodegradable, EU Horizon 2020-funded.
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Mogu
Mogu is an Italian design brand for bio-based interior architecture products — founded in 2015 by Maurizio Montalti (founder of the design research studio Officina Corpuscoli), headquartered in Amsterdam with an Italian heart. The company grew from Montalti's early research into co-growing everyday objects with living mycelium — the vegetative network of fungi — and his realisation that mycelium is not just a material but a co-creator: a partner in the creation of entirely new matter, shaped by biology and guided by design. Mogu is part of a new generation of companies reimagining material innovation through nature. Support: EU Horizon 2020 (Mogu Floor). World's first commercially available mycelium acoustic panels.
Core technology: selected mycelium strains are cultivated on pre-engineered substrates of agro-industrial residues (hemp shives, cotton waste, rice straw, corn husks, coffee grounds, seaweed). The mycelium acts as reinforcement of the matrix structure → 100%-plastic-free, coherent bio-composite material → after a final heat treatment: stable, safe, durable and biodegradable product. Collaborative products: FORESTA System (with ARUP and designer Serena Camere, 2021 — biodegradable mycelium acoustic panels on a beech wood structure). Product categories: acoustic panels (FORESTA SYSTEM, WAVE, KITE, FIELDS, PLAIN — velvety surface, 3D form, maximum sound absorption), wall coverings (PLUMA — slim, circular, sound-absorbing, 100%-circular, printable pattern), flooring (Mogu Floor — resilient tiles and rolls; natural pigments from biomasses).
For architects and interior designers seeking for corporate office, premium hospitality, education, healthcare and demanding sustainable contract projects a design brand for bio-based interior architecture products founded in 2015 by Maurizio Montalti and working with EU Horizon 2020 support that with mycelium fermentation on agro-industrial residues, the world's first commercially available mycelium acoustic panels (FORESTA SYSTEM, developed with ARUP), 100%-plastic-free biodegradable bio-composite materials and a complete programme of acoustic panels, PLUMA wall coverings and Mogu Floor flooring — Mogu discovered mycelium as a design co-creator in 2015: the world's first commercially available mycelium acoustic panels, developed with ARUP, from hemp shives, coffee grounds and seaweed — 100% plastic-free, biodegradable, EU Horizon 2020-funded.