Meg Fulton has an upholstery studio just outside Denver, Colorado where she offers services from reupholstery and window seats, to custom pillows and slip covers to more custom creative projects.
Meg Fulton
Artist Process
Drawing from Meg’s experience with the outdoors, she translates the same organic lines found in nature into the Mushroom Tapestry. Using a variety of stitching methods to create volume and mass, she offset seams to create dynamic shapes and textures from the flat sheets of mushroom fabric. This approach emphasizes the material’s natural characteristics but also showcases how 2D materials can be transformed into sculptural forms.
"We love the beauty and variety of designs from the past. Our goal is to bring vintage pieces into the 21st century, to give them another life so we can enjoy the hard work of our craftsmen and women of the past." Upholstery Chic
Our Collaboration
Meg’s experience with the outdoors and upholstery brought this piece to life through both the understanding of material and craft. The material used for the tapestry is Reishi Leather Material from Fine Mycelium by MyCo Works. Phil, the founder of MyCo, began cultivating mycelium as a material for art and design in the 1990s, inspired by the beauty and life cycles of mushrooms. A skilled chef and naturalist, Phil’s field work in mycology began in the woods of upstate New York, where he first learned to forage for wild mushrooms. Phil began working with reishi as a material for creating sculptures, bringing culinary precision and a naturalist’s keen eye to perfect his “biotechniques” for growing living works of art.
Envisioned as a natural sculptural element that grows and folds out of the core of the building, this textural fabric installation plays with the senses: it’s soft to the touch, dampens sound, and helps bring layers of soft light within the space. You can even smell the subtle scent of mushrooms. It’s playful, beautiful and dramatic, bringing in the natural elements of an actual forest floor into the ground floor of Populus.
Mushroom Tapestry
Level 1 | PasqueMushroom Leather
Reishi Leather (mushrooms) Material - Fine Mycelium by MyCo Works - Phil (founder) began cultivating mycelium as a material for art and design in the 1990s, inspired by the beauty and life cycles of mushrooms. A skilled chef and naturalist, Phil’s field work in mycology began in the woods of upstate New York, where he first learned to forage for wild mushrooms. His subsequent work as a hospice caregiver during the HIV crisis in San Francisco introduced him to the immune-supporting benefits of reishi mushrooms, which he began growing for medicinal use. He discovered a rich diversity in form, texture and color—expressions of reishi’s dynamic response to the everyday forces of light, air, gravity and temperature. Phil soon began working with reishi as a material for creating sculptures, bringing culinary precision and a naturalist’s keen eye to perfect his “biotechniques” for growing living works of art. Phil’s small team began advancing Phil’s bio techniques into technology that would become Fine Mycelium.
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