Lee Jofa

Arthur H. Lee founded the house in England in 1823, building its name on florals and archive-driven textiles rich enough to outlast several owners and several centuries of taste. Kravet, itself a fifth-generation family business dating to 1918, acquired Lee Jofa in 1995 and kept its instinct intact: an archive deep enough that almost nothing a designer wants to reference isn't already somewhere in the vault. Lee Jofa Modern is where that archive meets the present: a line built specifically to house collaborations with designers like Kelly Wearstler willing to push the house somewhere its own history wouldn't have gone alone.


Lee Jofa operates on a different scale than most of what Wearstler works with: a 200-year archive, real manufacturing capacity, and showrooms across the U.S. and internationally that put a collection directly into rooms rather than leaving it to be admired from a distance. The appeal is friction, not fit: her graphic, urban instincts set against a house whose archive has always leaned floral and traditional. Lee Jofa Modern is built specifically to hold that friction, giving her the run of two centuries of craft and manufacturing without asking her to inherit the floral instinct that usually comes with it.