The Dezeen Awards jury voted unanimously to name Casson Mann's designs for the Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art as Interior Project of the Year 2018. Jury chair Brittney Hart explains why in this Dezeen movie.
London-based exhibition designers Casson Mann created the visitor experience for the museum designed by Snøhetta, which features galleries containing replicas of 20,000-year-old cave paintings from the Paleolithic era.
The visitor experience at the Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art was named Interior Project of the Year 2018 at Dezeen AwardsNew York-based designer and jury chair Brittney Hart says the jury was unanimous in its decision to give the award for Interior Project of the Year 2018 to Casson Mann for the project, which also won the civic and cultural interior category of Dezeen Awards. "Everyone in the room really loved the project," she says in the movie. "There is an integration of education and experience and we were all just entranced. It's beautiful, beautiful work."
Dezeen Awards jury chair Brittney Hart said the jury voted unanimously for the projectThe museum sits at the foot of the hill where the famous caves are located, at Lascaux in France's Dordogne region.  The caves were discovered in 1940 but closed to the public in 1963 due to the damage the paintings incurred from carbon dioxide exposure.
Casson Mann captured the original caves using 3D l...