Lee Broom at the London Design Festival
Two weeks ago while I was in London for the London Design Festival as part of Blog Tour 2011 , I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Lee Broom. All of us on the Blog Tour were treated to a personal tour of his workshop. He'd converted his Shoreditch work space into a salon for the Festival, all to showcase his new collection, the aptly named Salon .
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Lee's a awesome young designer with an eye that may not stop. The glamorous drama of the gathering become highlighted perfectly by using the lights and partitions draped in black. That the person who designed the entirety became describing his pieces to us was nearly an excessive amount of to soak up. Here's how Salon looked at his studio.
From Lee's website:
As a part of the London Design Festival, Broom is drawing on his interior skills and has converted his Shoreditch-based studio/showroom into an different, current, layout salon. Recreating the distance in a dramatic, surreal and intimate putting.It's a spectacular collection but what impressed me almost as much as the pieces themselves is Lee's commitment to producing his furniture in the UK. Talk about keeping it local! Someone so committed to his home country deserves every accolade he gets.
Downstairs from the Salon collection were greater of Lee's collections and what stopped me useless in my tracks became a collection from the 20098 Festival known as Heritage Boy.
Again, from Lee's website:
The Heritage Boy series become proven at The Future Gallery (formally The Photographers Gallery), 5 Great Newport Street, London WC2, in the course of London Design Week, 2009. Heritage Boy draws on conventional British production strategies to create a modern-day furnishings series that is divided into three wonderful ranges: Carpetry, Parquetry and Tiles. Broom has implemented the same philosophy, traditional shapes and daring applications to each exceptionally specific variety. All the pieces are made inside the UK and involving those industries in his design technique is something that Broom feels in particular obsessed on.
What I'm nevertheless reeling over is that he used carpet as a end on furnishings, real carpet.
The tile lamps and espresso table; and the parquet tables are splendid too. But that carpet sideboard is one of the most particular and delightful portions of fixtures I've ever seen.
That he's a genuinely kind and generous man makes his creations all the more appealing. Earlier this week, the editor of Elle Decor asked me to respond to a feature on their website called Design Insiders' Weekly Finds. Without missing a beat I started gushing about Lee's Heritage Boy collection. This link will take you to my response on Elle Decor .
So keep your eye on this guy. Clearly, he's going places and it's great to see a good man succeed. Here's the link to Lee's website . Look over all his collections and projects, it's inspiring, innovative work.