Benjamin Graindorge really wants to design a fireplace. But here's the problem: When he tries to draw fire, it tends to end up looking like water. You can tell it's fire because it's yellow or orange, he thinks, but once he makes the flames brown or green or black, well, not so much. "When I find a way to represent it with another color, I think then I'll be able to move on to the real object," he muses. Clearly, drawing is an instrumental part of the young Parisian designer's process. In fact, most of his objects don't even start off as ideas, they start as swirls of color and form: "The first stage of my work is only a nebula, without humans or objects."