The Andrea Air Purifier is a brilliant partnership between man and plant that accelerates nature’s natural ability to clean air in order to detoxify the atmosphere inside your home. We had a chance to sit down with Tom Hadfield from Andrea to talk about how this amazing gadget is able to clean the air in your home 1000% better than a normal houseplant. Check out our video interview above!
Andrea was invented by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur and Harvard professor David Edwards as a part of a artistic science experiment in 2007. The purifier, which hit the shelves of stores in North America in January of 2010, is able to amplify the air cleaning ability of a plant with the help of a mechanical fan that moves air past the plant’s leaves, through the soil and roots and out through a water tray that collects toxins.
Andrea can work with many a species of house plants and combines stylish design with proven functionality to not only take away toxins from your home but to also add a sense of style. Andrea’s unique multi-stage, all-natural cleaning system ensures a safe and healthy home for your family. “Today people buy air purifiers and then they go out and they buy a vase,” Tom Hadfield told us. “We think the future of indoor air purification might be somewhere in between those two.”
11 Responses to “VIDEO: Andrea Air Purifier Uses a Plant to Clean the Air in Your Home”
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I’m obsessed with this air purifier and want one for my next apartment! There’s a list of the top 10 air purifying plants that was released by NASA… If you used one of those 10 plants in conjunction with this beautiful technology… it would be one clean room. I literally drool over this.
This would be an even more amazing product if it was made out of biodegradable & recyclable ENSO plastic.
This is a really interesting and unique air purifier. We’d be interested in becoming a distributor for this product. We currently distribute another air purification product that is based on NASA technology. I could see this Andrea air purifier as a great Natural Alternative way of purifying air on a room to room basis. How many SQ feet are these units capable of purifying?
Actually, he said 1000% more effective, which is 10x better than a plant without the fan, not 1000 times better. The real challenge is comparing Andrea to a conventional air purifier using carbon filters and perhaps electrostatic precipitation. Is it really a viable alternative?
Hi, Love the product.
How to order this product? We are from Malaysia.
What is the price?
I can’t imagine this thing has much value at all. For $200 you could buy your own planter and a dozen plants and still have enough left over for a smaller, quieter fan. I’m thinking the only thing ‘green’ about this product is the cash it will take out of your wallet.
For much less than $200, you can purchase a small HEPA filter which removes more types of particles at a higher rate.
There was an article from Consumer Reports, you need 4 in small room to do anything significant. The scientist that did the research the it was misrepresented. Open a window and that’s free.
> is a brilliant partnership between man and plant
I don’t understand how this is a partnership. Locking away a plant in a tiny container seems to me no different than locking up a chicken in a cage not much bigger than the chicken itself to harvest its eggs.
I’m not buying this. As born out by the Consumer Reports review and other comments in this thread, it’s a huge expenditure for relatively miniscule benefit. Seems to be torture for the plant as well. You’re better off purchasing as many areca palm seedlings or raphis palms as you have light and room for. They’re both pretty sturdy plants. Rhaphis palms are better for low light.
http://webecoist.com/2009/04/08/air-purifying-plants/
ِAwesome!
Well call me old-fashioned but I’d rather have ten normal plants, then 1 inside a piece of plastic.