Two years ago, duo designer Mathieu Lehanneur and David Edwards have presented the Bel-Air conceptual design as the green lung air purifier. Now, the design have been built by Laboshop, tested and ready for the world.
Dubbed Andrea, the air purifier is the ideal answer to cope with domestic pollution, putting a green lung with enhanced capacities to work to filter air and capture toxic particles. Its indoor air cleaning works in turn by both the leaves and the roots of the plant housed in the unit. This 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.
