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About Lee Broom

Lee Broom founded his company four years ago, and has since gone on to become one of the UK’s leading interior and product designers. In his career to date, Broom has designed over 40 bar and restaurant interiors across the UK and has won over 17 awards, with his work featuring in most major broadsheet and interior design publications.

Having started out in theatre school - a beginning which has greatly influenced the sense of drama and narrative that his collections create - Broom’s career took a change of direction after winning a fashion design competition in association with The Clothes Show. This led him to meet and then go onto work with the legendary Vivienne Westwood, followed by studying fashion at Central St Martins.

To subsidise his degree, Lee Broom and fellow student Maki Aoki provided décor advice to a number of independent bars across London which cemented an organic move into interior design. Lee and Maki subsequently established their own interior design agency, Makilee Design in 2002. 

Maki left London to pursue opportunities in Japan, and in 2007 Lee launched his own label, Lee Broom. His first furniture collection ‘Neo Neon‘ received critical acclaim, and since then, has launched a new collection each year, selling globally to London, Paris, New York, Hong Kong and the Middle East. 

Broom’s meteoric rise has seen him dubbed “the pin up of British manufacturing” by The Times for his 2009 Heritage Boy collection. The importance of the manufacturing process is integral to Broom with his unique contemporary pieces produced in the United Kingdom, where Broom works closely with talented traditional manufacturers, from seed to creation.

Broom in Brief

  • Designed and curated the Topman Personal Shopping Suite which launched in May 2011
  • Collaborated with Deadgood to produce the ‘Lee Broom is Deadgood’, Parq Life Collection in May 2011
  • Launched and designed the first Lee Broom shop within The Shop at Bluebird in February 2011
  • Double winner of the Elle Decoration British Design Awards in November 2010 for ‘Best British Design’ - Carpetry Sideboard and ‘Best New Interior’ - Coquine Bar
  • Nominated for three awards in the 2011 ELLE Decoration British Design Awards, for Best Product Design, Best Interior Design and Designer of the Year, as voted for by the public, please click here to vote: www.thebritishdesignawards.com, winners will be announced in December 2011
  • Winner of the Studio East Award and Westfield Stratford lighting design commission, panelled by Tom Dixon, Tracey Emin and Mary Portas
  • Designed the six piece furniture collection, Architrave, exclusively for Heal’s Rediscovers 2010 range
  • Became the Art & Design Ambassador for the brand Courvoisier in 2010
  • Voted as the 13th most influential person in the bar industry in Theme Magazine’s Top 100 for 2009
  • Designed the interiors for corporate boxes at Wembley Stadium (including for Roman Abramovich) and at Emirates Stadium
  • Fans of Lee’s work include Kanye West and British fashion designer Mathew Williamson
  • Lee Broom products now sold at Heals, Liberty, Lane Crawford, Conran Contracts, Chaplins, Paul Smith and other retailers globally

AWARDS

  • The Independent Top 50 UK Best Bars, No. 9 Nightjar, 2011
  • Elle Decoration British Design Awards, Best British Design, Carpetry Sideboard 2010
  • Elle Decoration British Design Awards, Best Interior Design, Coquine Bar 2010
  • Studio East Award for Product Design in association with Westfield Stratford 2010
  • Brand Ambassador Award for Art and Design for Courvoisier 2010
  • 13th Most Influential person in bar industry, Theme Magazine 2009
  • Top 25 Most Influential in bar industry, Night magazine 2009
  • The Independent top 50 UK Best Bars, No. 11 Lost Society, 2009
  • The Independent top 50 UK Best Bars, No. 50 Arts Theatre Club, 2009
  • Courvoisier Future 500 Award in association with The Observer 2008
  • GQ magazine, 100 Best things in the world List, The Valmont club 2007
  • Theme Award, Best New Bar, Buffalo, 2007
  • Time Out Bar of the year Award, Lost Society, Clapham, 2006
  • My Chelsea, Best New Bar Award, Rumi Bar, 2005
  • Theme Award, Best New Bar, The Lansdowne, 2005
  • My Hampstead Best Restaurant Award, Mojama 2004
  • Theme Award, Best Chain Bar Award, Bedouin Bar, 2003

Nominations

  • Elle Decoration British Design Awards, Designer of the Year, 2011
  • Elle Decoration British Design Awards, Best Product Design, Parq Life Sideboard 2011
  • Elle Decoration British Design Awards, Best Interior Design, Topman Personal Shopping Suite 2011
  • (Winners of the Elle Decoration British Design Awards to be announced December 2011)
  • Homes and Gardens Design Awards, Best Product Designer, 2010
  • Time Out Bar of the Year Award, The Lost Angel, 2009
  • Theme Award, One to Watch in Design, 2009
  • Theme Award, Best Venue Design, 10 Feet Tall 2009
  • Class Bar Awards, Best Interior Design Lost Society, 2006
  • Theme Award, Best Interior Design, The Lansdowne, 2005
  • Class Bar Awards, Best Interior Design The Lansdowne, 2005
  • Evening Standard Bar of the Year Award, Nylon 2002

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