Lest C8 Steam Cleaner by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Bronze A' Design Award in Home Appliances Design Competition Category.
BronzeHome Appliance· 2026
Lest C8 Steam Cleaner
by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque
Client: Lest
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Home Appliance Category
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About Lest C8 Steam Cleaner
Lest C8 is a steam cleaner designed for domestic cleaning. The design combines features of vacuum cleaners and steam cleaners, joining mobility and ergonomic handling with steam performance in a compact body. Integrated wheels and a lifting handle support easy movement and transport. Multi-stage steam regulation is set through a capacitive touch interface, adapting output to different surfaces. A nozzle with a flexible joint improves reach and comfort. The removable water tank is filled from the top lid. Cleaning is carried out without chemicals.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Lest C8 Steam Cleaner is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Lest C8 Steam Cleaner is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Lest C8 Steam Cleaner splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Lest C8 is a steam cleaner designed to be simple and intuitive to use yet stylish. It features multi-stage steam regulation to adapt output to different surfaces and dirt levels by a capacitive UI. The nozzle with flexible joint ensures excellent ergonomics and perfect cleaning results thanks to lamella technology. Cleaning is performed without chemicals and removes up to 99.999% of viruses and 99.99% of common household bacteria from hard surfaces.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 220 x 295 x 115
- Tags
- steam, cleaner, floor
- Production Technology
- ABS injection molding
- Design Challenge
- This steam cleaner explores the convergence between vacuum cleaners and steam cleaners, redefining usability through a hybrid typology. The design research focused on mobility, ergonomics, and product perception, introducing integrated wheels and a lifting handle to enhance maneuverability and transport. Benchmark analysis highlighted gaps between bulky steam systems and agile vacuum cleaners, guiding a compact, balanced architecture. Prototyping and 3D validation refined proportions and user interaction, resulting in an intuitive, domestic-friendly steam cleaner that bridges two established product categories.
- Research
- The creative challenge was to achieve high ergonomic performance despite the product’s compact dimensions. Design research focused on simplifying the user interface to ensure immediate, intuitive interaction, reducing visual and functional complexity. At the same time, the project aimed to maintain a clean, essential design language while conveying a modern, refined, and well-equipped character. Careful proportioning, surface continuity, and functional integration allowed the steam cleaner to appear visually light yet technically complete, balancing clarity, usability, and contemporary aesthetic appeal within a reduced footprint.
- Inspiration
- The design inspiration comes from both vacuum cleaners and steam cleaners, combining the best qualities of each category. From vacuum cleaners, the project adopts mobility, compactness, and ergonomic handling; from steam cleaners, it integrates effective cleaning performance and functional robustness. The creative intent was to merge these strengths into a single, coherent product that is visually appealing, simple to understand, and highly functional.
- Project Duration
- June 2025 to december 2025 Italy and China
- Operation Flow
- refill the removable water tank on the bottom from the top lid, set temperature by the touch UI, clean with steam.
- Team Members
- Nicola Zanetti and Federico Gonzalez Bosque
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