

Harbouring a deep-seated desire to question the interactions between human beings and their environment, the revolutionary Andrea air purifier that’s a living filter absorbing toxic compounds from the air. Science, whether astrophysical, biological or medical, is the greatest source of knowledge and a permanent inspiration for my work.”ĭon’t miss: 12 award-winning Singapore design firms to shortlist for your next home renovation I love how our body alters our psychological states and how our mind affects our physical states. “I like the way science aims to understand human beings in their great complexity. “It was a new way of conceiving and designing medicines,” he recalls. It went on to enter MoMA New York’s permanent collection five years later. For his graduation project at ENSCI - Les Ateliers (French National Institute for Advanced Studies in Industrial Design), he created a set of 10 playful devices for delivering the exact dose and involving patients in their treatment so that they become actors in their own healing.


This experience aligned with Lehanneur’s curious spirit and his interest in creating hybrid products inspired by science and technology. To put himself through university, French designer Mathieu Lehanneur was briefly a medical guinea pig for pharmaceutical labs, testing drugs before they went to market.
