Lee Broom

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Two years after launching his first furniture collection, interior and product designer Lee Broom is already garnering the kind of acclaim more seasoned designers can only hope for.

While studying at Central St Martin’s, Broom met Maki Aoki, and together they subsidised their degree with bar consultancy work. After graduating Broom was approached to come up with ideas for Nylon, the legendary London bar. Broom’s concepts became the subject of a three quarter million pound refurbishment. With a loan from the Princes Trust, Broom and Aoki set up a formal bar design consultancy, Makilee, which has created over 30 venues and won 10 industry awards.

In 2007 he launched his first furniture collection. Broom describes his furniture designs as a “desire to be more creative with furniture than is normally possible in the bar industry”, with limited edition designs that are very hand-crafted and expensive to produce. His work is all about fusing tradition with modernity. Using traditional manufacturing techniques, whilst exploring process and application, Broom experiments with British design history to create objects that are truly of our time.

Inspired by classic shapes of architrave, cornicing and mouldings, Architrave for Heal’s ReDiscovers is a distinctly unique collection. Making use of features found in period homes, Broom has taken design detail and applied it to furniture in unexpected ways.

His Decanter Pendant lights are made from lead crystal decanters sourced from antique markets and vintage shops. In 2 styles, the decanters are either left in their natural clear crystal or finished in polished gold.

View the Lee Broom Lighting and Furniture collection available at Heal's.

Read our Q&A with Lee Broom on our blog, Heal's Reveals.