British Capsule: Breaking Convention
Thursday 19 January —
15:00
- 15:45
The Talks — Hall 7
Description
Featured in our British Capsule exhibition are two of Britain’s leading designers with apparently contrasting styles. Bethan Laura Wood, who majors in colour with her eclectic, experiential style, and Lee Broom, who has perfected the art of reinterpreting classics with a restrained hand. Both have collaborated with major brands (Wood - Perrier–Jouët, Hermes and Dior; Broom - Christian Louboutin, Mulberry, Bergdorf Goodman) which are just part of a wide ranging melange of objects, art pieces and site specific installations created for their global audiences. Hear them discuss their different paths, influences, creative genesis and where they sit in British design scene today.
Nos partenaires : Material Bank
Participants
Bethan Laura WoodDesigner & Founder - Studio Wood London
Lee BroomProduct Designer & Founder - Lee Broom Studio
Guy DittrichJournalist
Bethan Laura Wood
Designer & Founder - Studio Wood London
Bethan Laura Wood has run a multidisciplinary studio since 2009 characterised by materials investigation, artisan collaboration and a passion for colour and detail. Residencies and location-based projects have become an important factor in her design process, often working in response to her location, in collaboration with local manufacturers, or reflecting back into her work the visual and material culture particular to that area. Fascinated by the connections we make with everyday objects that surround us, Bethan investigates what drives people to hold onto one particular object and explores these relationships, questioning how they might become cultural conduits.
Lee Broom
Product Designer & Founder - Lee Broom Studio
Lee Broom is one of the UK’s leading product designers. With his highly original brand of luxury furniture and lighting designs, his work is recognised and retailed across the globe. Since he founded the company in 2007 Broom has created over 100 furniture, accessory and lighting pieces, all of which are designed,manufactured and retailed under the Lee Broom brand. Winning over 30 awards to date, including ELLE Deco International Design Award for the second consecutive year in 2019, British Designer of the Year, and The Queen’s Award for Enterprise presented by Her Majesty The Queen in 2015, the past 12 years have seen the brand grow at an unprecedented rate. Broom has made design a successful global business with products retailed in over 250 stores in 50 countries around the world alongside his own flagship showrooms in London and New York.
Guy Dittrich
Journalist
An accomplished writer (Wallpaper*, Condé Nast Traveller, Forbes, Business Traveller, National Geographic, Sleeper) Guy’s reach encompasses the curation of content for events and the related hosting of live, on-stage interviews, awards ceremonies and discussion moderations. Utilising his vast experience and contacts Guy is able to curate speaker line-ups for of all sizes and formats of events (Sleep (now HIX), Maison et Objet, 100% Design, HDE Expo, Stockholm Furniture Fair) and trade partners (CitizenM, Design Hotels, Pure, LE Miami, Pandox, PKF, TECE, Bang & Olufsen, Villeroy & Boch, Philips, Hansgrohe and Kohler). Putting speakers at ease, he teases out their narratives and back-stories to entertain and inform his audiences.