Cascade: Lladró's Bold New Lighting Collaboration With Lee Broom
Unveiled at Eurolace 2025 during Salone del Mobile in Milan, Cascade is more than just a new lighting collection - it's a poetic intersection of heritage of innovation. This is Lladró's first collaboration with British designer Lee Broom, a creative known for his theatrical yet minimalist approach to design. In Cascade, Broom brings his distinct voice to porcelain, a material he had never previously explored, while Lladró opens its storied craftsmanship to a new vocabulary shaped by geometry, atmosphere and duality. The result is a collection that feels both rooted and forward-thinking, grounded in tradition yet designed for today's interiors.
A System of Light, Versatility, and Purpose
The Cascade collection includes three distinct formats: the Cascade Long hanging lamp, the Cascade Wireless lamp, and the Cascade Sphere hanging lamp. Each is designed to accomodate diverse spatial and lighting needs, from dramatic high-ceiling installations to ambient tabletop moments. The hanging lamps bring architectural clarity to a space, while the wireless table version is all about intimacy and adaptability. With up to 15 hours of autonomy, dimmable settings, and a discreet touch-control LED module, the table lamp offers both form and function - perfect for evening dinners, mood lighting, or even outdoor settings when paired with its minimalist design.
Materially, the lamps combine Lladró's fine matte porcelain with subtle structural elements in metal, methacrylate, and textile cable. These supporting materials are purposefully minimal, allowing the porcelain to be focal point. The warm 3000K integrated LED system has been configured to complement the natural tonality of the porcelain, creating a visual language of calmness and cohesion throughout the collection. Broom's ambition for a product that offers seamless design and refined utility is realised in every detail.
A Dialogue Between Porcelain, Light, and Form
At the heart of Cascade is a reinterpretation of one of the world's oldest lighting designs: the paper lantern. Broom drew inspiration from the subtle textures and translucency of illuminated porcelain, recalling the soft, flickering glow of candlelight through rice paper. This gentle reference to ancient forms is distilled into a modernist expression - clean lines, refined proportions, and an elegant tension between simplicity and intricacy. Each lamp is crafted from matte white porcelain in either a cylindrical or spherical silhouette, subtly indented with horizontal and vertical lines that echo the folding patterns of lanterns.
Yet Cascade is not merely aesthetic - it's performative. In its unlit state, the lamps appear as sculptural, monolithic forms. Once illuminated, however, the personality changes entirely. The porcelain glows with a warm amber hue, revealing internal gradations and casting a diffused, intimate light. This duality was central to Broom's concept: to design an object that transforms depending on how and when it is seen, giving spaces a sense of rhythm and quiet drama. Achieving this effect through porcelain - a material that is notoriously difficult to hold with precision - required extraordinary technical mastery, and highlights the craftsmanship that defines Lladró's legacy.
A Lighting Collection That Redefines Contemporary Porcelain
Cascade does not just represent a new design - it reflects Lladró's evolution as a brand willing to explore, collaborate, and innovate without losing the essence of what makes its work so resonant. This is lighting that tells a story: one of material exploration, cross-disciplinary design, and emotional atmosphere. In partnering with Lee Broom, Lladró has created something quietly radical - lighting feels timeless but not static, expressive yet understated, technically advanced yet deeply tactile.
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