Pearl Lee is an emerging designer-maker with an unorthodox sense of beauty – found in moments of destruction, which she considers the most genuine moments of all. Her signature style can be described as the ‘art of malformed equilibrium’, destroying the form of an object, and, in the process, forcing it into a new, beautiful shape.  

In her ‘illness’ collection, the combination of clear metal outlines and organic forms create a strange harmony, with the wire frame surrounding the organic pieces representing the shackles of external order on the individual. The overall theme is of a struggle to break free.