Lest C8 蒸汽清洁机 by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 家用电器设计 Competition Category.
铜家用电器· 2026
Lest C8 蒸汽清洁机
by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque
Client: Lest
A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 家用电器 Category
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About Lest C8 蒸汽清洁机
Lest C8 是一款为家庭清洁而设计的蒸汽清洁机。该设计将吸尘器与蒸汽清洁机的特点融为一体，在紧凑的机身中兼顾了移动便利性、符合人体工学的操作手感与出色的蒸汽性能。一体式滚轮与提拉把手让移动与搬运更加轻松。多档蒸汽调节通过电容式触控界面完成，可根据不同表面调整蒸汽输出量。配备柔性关节的喷头提升了清洁的可达性与舒适度。可拆卸水箱从顶盖处加水。整个清洁过程无需使用任何化学制剂。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 铜奖
Lest C8 蒸汽清洁机是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Lest C8 蒸汽清洁机将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Lest C8 蒸汽清洁机出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。
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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