Designed by Julian Melchiorri,
a London based engineer who
specialises in biochemical technology.
The award winning designer has spent
years creating the world's first living
"man-made" leaf chandelier. Melchiorri
hopes to see Exhale become a regular
part of interior design in the future.
Made up of 70 glass petals of varying
sizes, each contain a solution of green
algae "sustained by sunlight, LEDS
and drip-feed nutrients". Exhale has
already won the '2017 Emerging Talent
Model' award at the London Design
Festival, and his work is currently
on display at the Victoria and Albert
Museum. The world's largest museum
of decorative arts and design.
Speaking on his work Melchiorri adds,
"This biological process performed by
the chandelier establishes and explores
a new symbiotic relationship between
object and people where life-giving
resources are constantly exchanged,
and where each other waste enables
respective metabolic processes."
"This exchange recalls how biospheric
systems work, where waste ultimately
doesn't exist but is a valuable resource
for other elements..."
ISSUE 104 / 2017
TECHNOLOGY
Introducing Exhale a gorgeous green tinted bionic
chandelier that uses algae to convert carbon dioxide
emissions into clean energy.
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THIS IS HOW A CHANDELIER
IS SAVING THE EARTH
