The Victoria and Albert Museum has taken the unusual step of siting a retail outlet off-site,combining a bookshop and bar to create a venue where customers can socialise before buying from its range of 1,000 tomes on fashion and design. The V&A Reading Rooms on Kensington’s Exhibition Road is small and intimate. Its rooms retain their original high ceilings, cornices and bay windows and yet its interior design by David Collins Studio also incorporates contemporary features from shelving to the specially designed lighting.
Project Name: V&A Reading Rooms
Location: London
Lighting Designer: Kate Beard Lighting
