French designer Mathieu Lehanneur and Harvard professor David Edwards have launched a filtration system which uses living plants to purify the air indoors. The air purifier, called ANDREA, was proposed as a concept two years ago (see our previous story) when it featured in MoMA’s exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind. After two years of development and testing, ANDREA goes on sale in October. Here's some more information from Mathieu Lehanneur & David Edwards: ANDREA, the air purifier that uses indoor plants, designed by Mathieu Lehanneur & David Edwards on sale by October 2009. Since its outline design two years ago ANDREA has gone thru stringent tests to ensure perfect efficiency, enabling the system to step into the real world. Its market début could not have come at a better time, with calls last month by consumer watchdog UFC-Que Choisir? that public authorities ban dangerous chemical used in common household products. The safe-goods whistle-blower pointed out - ahem, cough, splutter, wheeze - that the air we mortals breathe in the places where we live and work can be 5 to 10 times MORE NOXIOUS than what it is out on the street!

Heading the XXX death's head list of invisible poisons are glues and plastics that give off formaldehyde particles. ANDREA is the ideal response to counter domestic pollution, putting a green lung with enhanced capacities to work to filter air and capture toxic particles.hepa air purifier harvey norman How does it work? heaven fresh naturopure air purifier reviewIndoor air is cleaned in turn by both the leaves and the roots of the plant housed in the unit. whirlpool air purifier ap51030k manualThis innovation enables much better de-pollution of indoor air than the ground-breaking tests done by NASA in the 1980s - the starting point for experiments by Mathieu Lehanneur & David Edwards. Curiously, the best-performing plants are quite common.

They include Spathiphyllum (spath or peace lily), Dracaena marginata (red-edged dragon tree), Chlorophytum comosum (spider plant) and Aloe vera. ANDREA is ideal for spaces up to 40 m2 and upkeep is easy since it consists mainly in watering the plant. At a recommended retail price of 199 dollars, ANDREA is also accessible and looks like becoming a must-buy for autumn 2009. This is design that cleans up design. Andrea will be sold from october in the United States by Frontgate, Hammacher Schlemmer and Amazon. Daddy the Pooh Japan Ships from and sold by Daddy the Pooh Japan. ANDREA: Plant-based Air Purifier (White) 12.2 x 12.2 x 16.2 inches 2.8 out of 5 stars #121,473 in Home and Garden (See top 100) #871 in Home & Kitchen > Heating, Cooling & Air Quality > Air Purifiers > HEPA Air Purifiers 11.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) 5 star17%3 star8%2 star8%1 star67%See all 12 customer reviewsTop Customer ReviewsLasted less than a year(almost) silent wonderFantastic--while it lastedGo ahead, waste your money.

Totally worthless and expensive. as soon as i got ...loud and leaks waterFantasticTo noisy for me See and discover other items: spring boxmathieu lehanneur: andrea air purifier now available image courtesy of véronique huyghe designed by mathieu lehanneur and david edwards of harvard university, andrea is an air purifier which uses indoor plants to filter air. originally known as bel air, the design has gone through a number of tests in order to make it available to consumers with updated features. it is said that the air we breathe in the places where we live and work can often be 5 to 10 times more noxious than walking on the street, along with the dangerous chemicals found in commonly used household products. air is filtered through the leaves and roots of the plant housed inside ‘andrea’ is a response to counter our domestic pollution, by putting a green lung with enhanced capacities to filter the air and capture toxic particles into our homes. it enables the de-pollution of indoor air through the leaves and roots of the plant which is housed inside the unit.

the best performing plants are those which are actually quite common, including spath or peace lily, red-edged dragon tree, spider plant and aloe vera. ‘andrea’ will be on show as part of brussels design september from september 18th to october 2nd at designed in brussels. ‘andrea’ will be available in shops starting in october. common plants often give the best result aloe vera plant housed inside ‘andrea’ technical diagram of how ‘andrea’ works below are some images of the air purifying unit’s development brussels design september 09 'atmo' light by guillaume escallier of 'a ciel ouvert' olivier pitot and damian gernay 'unpolished' young design from poland mathieu lehanneur fossilizes liquid marble + aluminum in » designboom interviews mathieu lehanneur who discusses » mathieu lehanneur installs 4.5-meter high lamps at the » 'unpolished' - young design from poland mathieu lehanneur fossilizes liquid marble + aluminum in table collection

designboom interviews mathieu lehanneur who discusses working on each project as if it were his last mathieu lehanneur installs 4.5-meter high lamps at the louvre's café mollien in paris Acrylic and electronic components 12 5/8 x 17 11/16" (32 x 45 cm) Gift of the manufacturer There are 9,457 design works online. There are 2,470 product design works online. Lehanneur has used plants to conceive new domestic appliances that integrate nature into our daily routine. The Andrea Air Purifier (a product of Lehanneur’s collaboration with David Edwards, a professor of biomedical engineering at Harvard University and the founder of the experimental science and design space Le Laboratoire in Paris) stems from the designer’s interest in the aerospace industry and in astronauts’ living conditions, in particular. Astronauts spend long periods confined in an unhealthy, polymer-saturated environment, and in the mid-1980s, NASA identified several plants—gerbera, philodendron, spathiphyllum, pathos, and chlorophytum—with the ability to absorb toxic gases effectively.