A complex interplay of organic and straight lines pervades the interior of Edwards Lifesciences’ Innovation Center in Caesarea, Israel, a coastal area midway between Tel Aviv to the south and Haifa to the north.

Edwards Lifesciences, an American company whose HQ is in Irvine, California, specialises in artificial heart valves and haemodynamic monitoring (the study of how blood flows through the cardiovascular system).

Originally called Edwards Laboratories, it was founded in 1958 by engineer Miles ‘Lowell’ Edwards who, working with heart surgeon Albert Starr, invented an aortic valve prosthesis which would save the lives of thousands of patients around the world.