Wow!house 25: Pirajean Lees x Iberian Lighting

WOW!house 2025 was an immersive, full-scale show house featuring various rooms and styles at Design Centre Chelsea Harbour. Each interior designer and sponsor was assigned a traditional room to interpret, and this year, Pirajean Lees designed the Dedar Library in collaboration with Dedar Milano.

They took a traditionally quiet space and re-imagined it as a music library, a room designed to reverberate with musical soul rather than sit shuttered in silence. The concept resonated with us. Soul is not a material or a mood board reference. It is a quality that lingers in a space or an object that has been shaped with intention. That is why we valued the opportunity to collaborate on this project.

Photo by James McDonald

The room concept is fabulous, from the Chladni pattern inspired rug to the record player seat, every element in the room feels in tune, no competing for attention, but everything contributes to an atmosphere. For the feature pendant light, made by Iberian Lighting, the finish had to reflect that soulful attention to the feeling of the room. It is most certainly not a finish we picked from a chart, as it revealed itself with the creation of the piece. We let the objects guide us, adjusting tones, softening surfaces, and stopping when it felt right.

These days, that kind of sensitivity is hard to hold on to in commercial projects, but the line between designing and manufacturing should not be about homogeneity. It should reflect intent. Designing, to us, begins with mood and meaning. Modern manufacturing, increasingly, begins with efficiency as a way of mitigating costs. It is not inherently a problem, but it can become one when the production process begins to dilute that thing that made the design compelling in the first place. To read our reflection on craft, care, and resonance while collaborating on this project, click HERE and be inspired.