A century after Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past was translated into English, a couple of French creatives have updated his famous “madeleine scene” for the new millennium. Whereas Marcel’s memories of childhood were conjured up by dipping a dainty homemade cake into a steaming cup of linden blossom tea, Anne-Laure Pingreoun and Sébastien Servaire use the hypnotic motion of a sculptural metal metronome fitted with a scent diffuser to arrive at similar ends.

Unveiled as part of the London Design Biennale in June, the room-sized installation at historical Somerset House was enhanced by a soundtrack devised according to autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) principles.