Award-winning product designer Lee Broom has always thought outside the box. Whether it’s presenting a collection from the back of his delivery van in Milan, filling an underground carpark with over 100 of his lights in Sydney, or making a movie featuring a full orchestra to launch his Maestro chairs at last year’s London Design Festival, his past shows are famous for their delightfully inventive touches.
That creativity has certainly come in handy recently, as pandemic restrictions found the British designer forced to complete the finishing touches to his new penthouse in New York from the other side of the Atlantic. “I thought it would be impossible to do,” recalls an immaculately turned-out Broom via Zoom from his converted fire station home in London. “Then you’re put in this kind of situation where you have no choice, you just have to work in a different way.”
Working with his visualiser, Broom rendered every single item
