Lee Broom’s immersive lighting illuminates a Mexican villa

British designer Lee Broom has stuffed a grand villa in Mexico Metropolis with greater than 50 lighting works, creating an immersive expertise of sculptural, theatrical illumination.

Opening to coincide with Mexico Metropolis Artwork Week, and lasting till 10 April 2026, ‘The Resident’ sees Broom’s designs put in all through the rooms of a historic dwelling belonging to Diez Firm, a number one Mexican lighting design agency. Located within the upscale neighbourhood of Polanco, the Twenties, three-storey villa has been remodeled by Diez Firm into an ethereal but characterful showroom for the model, in addition to particular design occasions like these.

The corporate, which has represented Broom’s model in Mexico for a few years, advised the designer do a takeover of the villa. ‘I believed it could be a extremely wonderful alternative to showcase my work,’ says Broom, who fastidiously studied the setting in anticipation. ‘I bought a way of the structure of the constructing and what items I believed would resonate in what rooms. The thought was to create a reasonably traditional gallery presentation with a slight residential really feel.’

The curated number of works options works from the final 12 years, together with the Hail chandelier, the Chant Moveable Lamp, and items from the Requiem, Overture and Cascade sequence.

The Hail chandelier, newly crafted for the set up, cascades down the villa’s central atrium, a chic array of glowing vertical strains in opposition to a grand, curved staircase.

Close by, works from Broom’s Requiem sequence are hand-sculpted in plaster to resemble draped material. Poetic and intriguing, they gently trick the attention whereas inviting nearer inspection. ‘I really like surrealist artwork and surrealism typically,’ says Broom. He developed the approach behind the works when finding out vogue at Central St Martins in London. ‘I used to make corsetry and bodices out of plasterwork with material, and I needed to revisit that with lighting fixtures,’ he explains.

The artwork of trompe l’oeil and the motif of material is discovered additionally within the Overture assortment, Broom’s first-ever wallpaper collaboration with Calico Wallpaper. Put in in a top-floor room overlooking town, the work transforms the partitions into theatrical but restrained illusions, its visible cues mixing surrealism with classical sculpture. As Broom explains, he was impressed by his background in theatre as a toddler actor. ‘A few of my earliest recollections are the scenography of the stage and the material – and the surroundings that’s painted to offer that depth of subject.“

Set in opposition to the atmospheric wallpaper are works from Cascade, Broom’s porcelain lighting sequence for Lladró, bringing a contact of Japanese modernism.

The not too long ago launched Chant Moveable Lamp – Broom’s first moveable design – is present in a dramatic golden set up within the tiled rest room, that Broom describes as ‘nightclubbish’. A dice of hand-blown glass surrounds a glowing spherical lamp, all sitting on a base completed both in brushed gold, silver or bronze. The design, which pulls inspiration from Nineteen Seventies-era architectural glass blocks, offers a modernist counterpoint to the classically impressed particulars of the home.

In celebration of Mexico Metropolis Artwork Week, and the nation’s wealthy artistic tradition, ‘The Resident’ additionally contains artworks by Mexican artists and designers, curated by Lee Broom to have ‘resonance’ along with his personal items. Within the central atrium lies the geometric Amazones chair in travertine marble by native studio Ayres, its sculpted strains in dialogue with these of Broom’s wall-mounted sq. Pantheum gentle positioned above.

A room with Broom’s giant round Aurora Ring chandelier is complemented by a dangling sculpture of celestially impressed concentric rings with marble fragments, by sculptor Karian Amaya. In one other room, a geometrical assemblage of Broom’s Orion lights performs off a stable wooden and brass room divider by Simón Hamui.