Lest C8 スチームクリーナー by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award 銅賞 in 家庭用電化製品デザイン Competition Category.
銅家庭用電化製品· 2026
Lest C8 スチームクリーナー
by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque
Client: Lest
A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in 家庭用電化製品 Category
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The Design
About Lest C8 スチームクリーナー
Lest C8は、家庭用清掃向けに設計されたスチームクリーナーです。掃除機とスチームクリーナーの特長を融合し、コンパクトなボディに機動性と人間工学に基づいた操作性、そしてスチーム性能を両立させました。一体型のホイールと持ち上げ用ハンドルにより、移動と運搬が容易です。多段階のスチーム調整は静電容量式タッチインターフェースで設定でき、さまざまな表面に応じて噴出量を調節します。フレキシブルジョイントを備えたノズルにより、届く範囲と快適性が向上しています。取り外し可能な水タンクは上部の蓋から給水できます。洗剤を使用せずに清掃を行えます。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅賞
Lest C8 スチームクリーナーは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Lest C8 スチームクリーナーは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Lest C8 スチームクリーナーは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
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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