A large, plywood box filled with mushrooms and other low plants sits in the middle of the Olderbrother clothing store in California, designed by the brand's founders.
Olderbrother is a unisex clothing company that makes pieces with natural materials and dyes. Based in Portland, Oregon, the brand recently launched a collection dyed with chaga tea, a herbal drink made from steeped chaga mushrooms.

To relate to this dying technique, co-founders Bobby Bonaparte & Max Kingery decided to build a mushroom garden inside Olderbrother's first shop.
The store is based a 1940s bungalow in Venice Beach, a coastal neighbourhood of Los Angeles, which is painted white inside and out. Large sash windows bring ample natural light inside.
At the centre of the room is a large, above-ground rectangular planter that measures three feet high, three feet long and six feet wide (one by one by two metres) and rests on the concrete floor. "It's made of plywood à la Donald Judd," said Bonaparte and Kingery, referring to the American artist who frequently used the material for his sculptures.

Inside this volume are dozens of various mushrooms and plants, which add colour and texture to the minimally decorated shop. "We have a sustainably harvested chaga from the Adirondacks, reishi, lions mane, yellow oyster and white button," the duo said.

"We created a mushroom terrarium, used insulating tiles that were grown with mushrooms and stocked the ...