Give Yourself a Green Light

If you're a fan of biomorphic chandeliers, have we got one for you: Green Light, as seen in this month's Design Issue of  Good Magazine, is a self-contained pendant lamp that uses an LED to feed a lovely hanging terrarium of plants that cleanse the air inside your house.

And as you can see, it would make an attractive focal point above any dining table. According to the Xdesign wiki, "Planting strategies can be specified to address particular indoor air quality issues including VOC, benzene and formaldehyde removal." The Green Light is also a prime example of a carbon-neutral system, in that it makes its own energy via its own solar panel. And, it's a work of art, made of hand-blown glass.

The Green Light is available by "perscription" from the Experimental Design Lab (xDesign) at NYU, which is "modeled after a health clinic in which community members can make one-on-one appointments to discuss 'health' as it relates to their local environment. The essential difference is that prescriptions are given for design interventions rather than prescription drugs."

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