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Bradley.Basso: Leighton House Museum and Gallery glass art installation

The site and its relevance

Contextual glass art installation

Leighton House Museum and Gallery
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London UK

Double doors to facilitate thermal control within the Upper Perrin Gallery and provide inter-connecting vision between two gallery spaces. Conceived to install a relevant new contribution to the museum whilst acknowledging the spirit of Lord Leighton’s original studio home.

Double doors to facilitate thermal control within the space and as a relevant new contribution to the museum whilst acknowledging the spirit of Lord Leighton’s original studio home.

A space intervention, with references to perception and the screens in Leighton’s Arab Hall, to combine the historic influences of the house with the present gallery use.

Primary influence for the doors was derived from the Damascene Musharabiyeh window screens in the Arab Hall, designed by Leighton’s architect George Aitchinson, but using a fusion of images evolved from the formality of a simplistic modern screen equivalent and random elements, of a related form, from textural perception experiments.

Glass section. Transparent and opaque enamels, silkscreened and fired to the interfaced surfaces of toughened float glass, to form the double-glazed units necessary to provide the required thermal control to the gallery.

Transparent and opaque enamels, silkscreened and fired to the interfaced surfaces of toughtened float glass, to form the double-glazed units necessary to provide the required thermal control to the gallery.

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