The Possibility Wall

The Possibility Wall is not a finished product, but a wall panel installation designed to show how far CELMURE, our mycelium-based biomaterial, can be applied and realized.

Each panel takes on a different mode of expression, allowing techniques such as perforating, folding, stitching, and joining, treating CELMURE the way one would treat leather, to be compared side by side. Rather than focusing on surface decoration alone, the wall also reveals structural possibilities: the ability to embed functional elements and to combine the material with others.

"Exhibiting Possibility, Not Product"

Q. Why did you choose a wall panel format?

A wall panel is the most intuitive way to present a collection of expressions. Laying out different applications in one space lets designers compare them at a glance and understand them quickly. At a show like ICFF, most visitors scan past anything that doesn't immediately catch their interest, but a wall-based structure naturally encourages people to stop and stand in front of it. More importantly, a wall is a format that assumes application. It introduces who we are as a platform company, and the panels themselves demonstrate how our material can actually be used, an application surface in the truest sense.

Demonstrating What the Material Can Become

Q. How is this different from a typical exhibition wall panel?

ICFF already has countless materials, furniture pieces, and panels on display. But most of them exist to showcase a finished product for sale. As a result, visitors tend to judge them simply on whether the panel looks good or not. We weren't interested in exhibiting a product. We wanted to exhibit the possibility of a material. So instead of building a single object, we built a structure that shows how far this material can extend.

From Sensory to Functional

Q. What did this particular ICFF exhibition aim to express?

This exhibition focused on the functional extensibility of the material, its processing, structure, and detail. It marks a next step, moving from sensory impression toward functional possibility. Each block on the wall isn't simply a pattern; each one carries its own piece of that expressive range.

Two Things This Wall Proves

Q. What exactly does this wall demonstrate?

First, that this material can be handled like leather. It can be perforated, folded, stitched, and joined. Second, that it can form structure, not just surface. Functional elements can be embedded into it, and it can be combined with other materials. In the end, this wall stands as proof that CELMURE can be both a surface and a structure at once.

Featured Detail: Woven Disc Panel by Justin

One panel on the wall, created by leather craft specialist Justin, takes the form of a woven surface built entirely from small circular discs of CELMURE. Cut by hand and interlocked one by one into a continuous textured grid, the panel shows how the material can be broken down into a single repeatable unit and rebuilt into an entirely new surface logic, treating CELMURE not as a sheet to be covered, but as a component to be assembled.

Project Information

Year: 2026
Material: Mycelium-based biomaterial (CELMURE)
Courtesy of: MYCEL Inc., Korea