Leicester, England
Making generational illumination.
Borrajo designs and builds bespoke light fittings from a workshop in Leicester — hand-built in small, numbered runs, made to be passed down rather than replaced.
The Peggy collection
One signature silhouette — a hand-cut rib cage around a hand-finished shade — carried across pendant, wall, and table forms.
From the workshop
Made by hand, not by the thousand.
Richard trained as an electrician before turning his workshop toward lighting design. Every Borrajo piece is still built the same way it started: by hand, in small numbered editions, using hand-antiqued glass and hand-finished metalwork rather than mass production.
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