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East London designer Lee Broom talks about making lamps from crystal decanters and how east London’s history and street culture make it an important creative hub in this movie we filmed for the Stepney Green Design Collection.

Speaking about working in east London, Broom says “it’s important for a designer or creative to be based in an area around other creative people”.

“It’s not just about people feeding on other people’s creativity,” he continues, “but from a business perspective it’s important that we’re all in a hub so if people in the industry want to visit you, they can also visit other creatives in the area as well.”

He also describes how east London has “that mix of history and street culture that gives British design its eclecticism”.

Broom contributed one of his Decanterlights to the collection, and in the movie he talks about buying the vessels used to make the lights “from antique markets, flea markets and even eBay”.

The lights were first created in 2010 for Coquine bar and restaurant in west London that he designed.

Broom’s studio and showroom are located on Rivington Street in Shoreditch, east London – see all our stories about Lee Broom here.

The Stepney Green Design Collection consists of 10 products selected by Marcus Fairs of Dezeen from creatives who live near to VIVO, a new housing development in the east London district. The project also includes objects chosen by east London bloggers Pete Stean of Londoneer and Kate Antoniou of Run Riot.

The collection is on show at the Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Road, Whitechapel, London E1 4UJ, from 10am to 10pm every day until January. After this, the objects will be given to VIVO residents.

See all the items in the Stepney Green Design Collection here and watch the movies we’ve featured so far here.

The music featured in the movies is by American designer and musician Glen Lib. You can listen to the full track on Dezeen Music Project.

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London Design Festival: Hackney designer Lee Broom has transformed his studio into an old-fashioned grocery store for the London Design Festival (+ interactive image). Broom spoke to Dezeen about the installation and we’ve annotated a photo of the space with his insights above.

“We’re just showing one product, the Crystal Bulb, so I felt like I needed to present it in lots of alternative ways,” Broom told Dezeen.

Two hundred of the bulbs are presented in crates, cabinets, weighing scales and jars, as well as hanging from the ceiling and reflected in mirrors.

The hand-blown, cut-glass bulbs were inspired by whisky decanters and are made by British firm Cumbria Crystal. Read more about them in our earlier story. The Crystal Bulbs are also available at our pop-up shop Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street until 30 September.

The panelling is recycled from his Public House installation styled like an English pub in Milan earlier this year, where the Crystal Bulb was unveiled for the first time.

This time last year, Broom used the same space to create his dark, moody Salon installation to showcase his furniture with studded detailing.

Crystal Bulb Shop is open until 23 September at 93 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3AY.

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The map above is taken from Dezeen’s guide to the London Design Festival, which lists all the events going on across the city this week. We’ll be updating it over the coming days with extra information on our highlights so keep checking back. Explore the larger version of this map here.

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Hackney designer Lee Broom has filled a room in a London mansion with studded furniture to host visting business leaders during the Olympic games.

The Gold Room is one of a series of newly furnished rooms at the nineteenth century Lancaster House, completed by a host of British designers that includes BarberOsgerby, Jasper Morrison and Sir Terrance Conran.

Broom’s room contains fourteen upholstered pieces from his 1930′s-inspired Salon collection, as well as oak and walnut tables featuring veneers and coloured stripes.

The rooms will remain in this guise throughout the Olympic and Paralympic games and will be used for a series of summits by government organisation the British Business Embassy.

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Here’s some information from Broom:

Lee Broom Takes Centre Stage at British Business Embassy During Olympic Games

This summer, acclaimed product and interior designer, Lee Broom curates a central room in the Lancaster House where the British Business Embassy will host global influential business leaders during the Olympic and Paralympic games.

Broom is one of an exclusive number of respected British designers, including Terrance Conran and Ross Lovegrove, invited to atmospherically enhance the British Business Embassy, which will take place at London’s historic Lancaster House. The magnificent 19th century house will be transformed to showcase modern art and design highlighting the talent of British or British-trained designers, photographers, furniture makers and sculptors.

The Gold Room by Lee Broom is the only room dedicated solely to one designer at Lancaster House. The historic room juxtaposed against Broom’s modern, contemporary pieces exemplifies the designer’s ethos of connecting the past and the future, the traditional and contemporary.

Included in the room are 14 pieces from Salon, an upholstered furniture collection in soft hues contrasted and accentuated with modern stud detailing. The room will feature several products from the range including armchairs, two-seater sofas, drum-seats, dining chairs and footstools. Further pieces included are: Parqlife, a side table and table in walnut veneer with complementing brass accents. Parquetry coffee table and lamp crafted from wenge, oak and walnut wood with blue accent stripe and panels. Carpetry console and pendant, which are from Broom’s first collection and feature pieces in satin lacquered blue with blue and beige carpet.

Demonstrating the designer’s commitment to his country’s heritage, all the pieces have been designed in Broom’s east-end studio and manufactured in the UK.

Broom says, “it is an honour to be invited to participate in this unique event, especially when the spotlight is on London during the Olympic and Paralympic games. Championing British design and manufacturing is something I feel passionate about and this centrepiece backs the best of UK creativity – it’s a hugely valuable opportunity.”

The British Business Embassy, developed by the UK trade & investment (UKTI) is the centrepiece of the government’s international business legacy programme. It will see over 3,000 UK and international business leaders come together for an ambitious series of global, sector and country summits. The embassy will stage a host of world-class speakers including Eric Schmidt, Sir Jonathan Ive and Howard Stringer.

Design leader and UKTI business ambassador, Sir John Sorrell, alongside Diana Yakeley, president of the British Institute of Interior Design have overseen the selection and creation of a total of 18 rooms at the British Business Embassy which will highlight British design talent. Other designers and contributors include Paul Smith for Conran and The Rug Company, BarberOsgerby, Jasper Morrison for Vitra, Sir Terrance Conran and Foster & Partners for Lumina.

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Designed in Hackney: Hackney designer Lee Broom will launch crystal light bulbs cut like whiskey decanters at Ventura Lambrate in Milan next week.

The hand-blown bulbs come with standard screw fittings and throw decorative patterns onto surrounding walls when illuminated.

Broom previously made a series of lights out of vintage decanters, which you can see here.

The designer will present Crystal Bulb at Lee Broom Public House, his solo exhibition that will be styled like a British pub.

The Ventura Lambrate design district is open from 17 to 22 April. Download the free map and guide here and see all our stories about Ventura Lambrate 2012 here.

Here’s some more information from Broom:

LAUNCH OF CRYSTAL BULB, LEE BROOM
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2012

This April, critically acclaimed British product and interior designer, Lee Broom, will launch Crystal Bulb as part of his first, solo exhibition in Milan during the Salone Del Mobile – Lee Broom Public House.

Taking inspiration from the delicate craftsmanship of crystal cutting, and following Broom’s hugely successful Decanterlight, Crystal Bulb combines industrial influences with decorative qualities, transforming the everyday light bulb into an ornamental light fitting.

Individually hand blown, each Crystal Bulb is cut with the decanter pattern and etched with a Lee Broom logo. Broom has collaborated with experts at Cumbria Crystal in the UK, keeping true to his signature design ethos of working with British craftsmen.

Crystal Bulb casts beautiful shadows across a room. It is designed to fit any standard ceiling, wall or lamp fitting, and can be hung solo or in clusters, as well as used with a light shade to create enchanting light effects.

On designing the Crystal Bulb Lee Broom says “I wanted to create a light bulb as a more accessible design product and incorporating cut crystal seemed the most logical design as this has become a familiar style within my product ranges.”

Crystal Bulb complements Broom’s Public House exhibition at the Salone Del Mobile. Inspired by the age-old institution of the British pub, with a multi-dimensional, surreal twist, Public House will bring a truly British experience to the Ventura Lambrate Design district. In collaboration with renowned international Scotch whisky, Ballantine’s 12 Year Old, Broom will also showcase an exclusive serving ritual, influenced by vintage crystal whisky decanters.

Lee Broom Public House
Via Ventura NR.5
20134, Milano

Lee’s London studio is on Rivington Street in Shoreditch, so we were neighbours during Dezeen Space last autumn.

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Designed in Hackney is a Dezeen initiative to showcase world-class architecture and design created in the borough, which is one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as being home to Dezeen’s offices. We’ll publish buildings, interiors and objects that have been designed in Hackney each day until the games this summer.

More information and details of how to get involved can be found at www.designedinhackney.com.

A personal shopping suite created by London designer Lee Broom has opened at fashion retailer Topman‘s flagship store in London.

Sections of the walls are clad in herringbone parquet while clothes are displayed against trompe l’oeil-printed panels.

The room is furnished with two semi-circular sofas in blue leather, another corner sofa in white and Broom’s hexagonal Parquetry coffee tables.

Gold lamps from his One Light Only collection (see our earlier story) hang in clusters from the ceiling.

See also: Twister by 42 Architects for Topshop

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The information below is from Lee Broom:

Critically acclaimed interior and product designer, Lee Broom has curated and designed a new Personal Shopping Suite for TOPMAN‟s Oxford Street flagship store. The state of the art suite launches on May 24th 2011 to meet with the growing demand for men‟s personal shopping appointments.

Having previously worked with the legendary fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, Lee Broom was able to apply his fashion know-how to create a new shopping experience, which echoes the mood of a contemporary gentleman’s club. The space features signature pieces from his own collection, such as The One Light Only collection which dresses the ceiling, and the Cathode Console which acts as the neon lined concierge desk.

Sumptuous half-moon booths wrap around Lee’s hexagonal parquetry coffee tables, with traditional herringbone patterns lining the walls.

The clothes are presented in non-conventional ways through the use of trompe l’oeil printed wall panels, which can be easily adapted for seasonal changes. Materials such as wenge, oak and walnut feature throughout, with a hint of retro in the colour palette through the use of rich teals and earthy browns, with decadent gold highlights adding an exclusive air.

“Coming from a fashion background, it’s been exciting to work with TOPMAN to create their personal shopping suite. The suite has a grand, yet youthful, feel to it as it was important to ensure that men felt comfortable within the space. This space was designed to engage, inspire and give men a personal chill-out zone as they step through their shopping choices.” Lee Broom

The welcoming space features a Microsoft innovation and XBOX gaming area as well as three bespoke consultation areas complete with an Asahi „honesty bar‟ and a changing exhibition space which will launch with artworks from Scream and Whisper Galleries, owned by Tyrone Wood.

The Personal Shoppers will offer a revolutionary new service giving slick sartorial advice within the TOPMAN environment. The service which will be based on the new second floor of the Oxford Circus Flagship, will aim to simplify the time spent shopping and provide maximum choice to the client through a simple appointment menu which includes a 30 minute Express service, a 1 hour Edit for key style updates and a 2 hour ultimate wardrobe over-haul with the Experience session.

“While the trend for Personal Shopping amongst men has almost exclusively been at designer boutique and department store level, the current growth in interest in men’s fashion – at a high street level – has proven the need to invest in the launch of a dedicated Personal Shopping service at TOPMAN. We will offer all types of guys access to the latest trends and styles to suit their particular needs – totally complimentary with no obligation to buy…” Giles Farnham, Personal Shopping Assistant Manager – TOPMAN Oxford Circus

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Twister by 42 Architects for Topshop	Hermès store by CuldeSac	Harrods Shoe Salon by Shed