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Victoria & Albert Museum Shop

Project Details

£250,000 to £499,999

Practice

Johnson Pinney Architects

2 The Canvas House, Jubilee Yard , 25 Queen Elizabeth Street , London , Greater London , SE1 2NL , United Kingdom

The competition-winning design for a shop within the new Exhibition Road extension created a series of 4.5m high, demountable pivoting frames with slender, bespoke extruded sections developed with Vitra. The open frames are retained at their head by a diamond grid, steel lattice structure and can be fitted with a combination of shelves, hanging rails, storage bunkers and showcases, enabling a wide variety of merchandise to be displayed. The upper levels of these frames provide an opportunity for high level flexible display, and can be pivoted and/or removed to allow differing circulation routes around displays and through the space to respond to the varying themes of individual exhibitions.