V&A Members’ Reception 

A flexible space to greet members, provide storage and for temporary display

This project, our second for the Victoria & Albert Museum, provides a new reception for the museum’s members, providing information and cloakroom space.  The space sits directly above the tunnel entrance which we refurbished a few months earlier.

Taking its lead from the tunnel entrance, the corners of the room are painted in a dark tone to reveal the primacy of the central structure, which climaxes in the rotunda. The material palette is also continued. The reception desk, sited below a new ‘living’ chandelier by Julian Melchiorri, is clad in coloured marble and topped with a hardwood counter using salvaged timber from the V&A archive.

New doors to Exhibition Road are detailed and finished to match seamlessly with the hardwood drums above the doors. Space for cloaks and new display areas are located at the periphery.

  1. Sector

    Culture, Heritage

  2. Location

    South Kensington, London

  3. Client

    Victoria & Albert Museum

  4. Status

    Completed 2018

  5. Photographer

    Simon Kennedy

Hardwood for the new joinery elements, such as the doors and the desk, was salvaged from the V&A stores.

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