While Victor Massip’s ideal is to pursue the adventure he and his partner have embarked on, whilst trying to teach consumers to become socially aware, Laurent Lebot sees himself as an experimental designer, working on hitherto untried experiments, such as "object embryos" or "scissor seeds”.

Discover their answers to Rowenta Chinese Portrait (Laurent / Victor):

Landscape, your ideal: Kern Point / A snowflake seen through a magnifying glass

Interior, your inspirational room: Doctor Krank’s castle / The international space station

Furniture, the essential: A worm composter / A worm composter

Object, the indispensable: MacBook/ My biro

Material, the one which invokes the greatest sensations: Clay/ Expanded polypropylene

Painting & Sculpture, favourite work: Nicolas de Crécy / Magritte

Architecture, favourite creation: Casa Milà / The Guggenheim in Bilbao by Gehry

Literature, your bedtime reading: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick / Viktor Papanek - Design For the Real World

Music, the piece that has most inspired you: YBBB / Steve Reich - Vermont counterpoint

Hero, your real-life idol: Batman/ Nabaztag-tag

Bad taste, the best example: SUW (Sports Utility Wagon) / Bodybuilding magazine

Utopia, your basis for a better world: cultivating a digital vegetable garden / human-powered vehicles

Passion, a reason for living: Keeping hens/ Our family

Motto, your watchword: “Let us cultivate our garden.” Voltaire