Jac Studios has designed minimal glass display cases for an exhibition in a Tadao Ando-designed museum – a project that has just won top prize at the Inside awards.
The Yumin Art Nouveau Collection exhibition is a permanent showcase at Tadao Ando's Genius Loci, a museum made up of board-marked concrete walls, located on Jeju Island, South Korea.

This exhibition features art-nouveau glass crafted between 1870 and 1940 by by French artist Émile Galle and his contemporaries.
The project was named Interior of the Year at the Inside interior design awards, which took place in Amsterdam last week.

Copenhagen-based Jac Studios chose to contrast the building's austere and heavy walls with transparent glass surfaces and volumes. "The architecture by Tadao Ando plays a magnificent setting for the exhibition. The architecture is in itself a piece of art and visitors cannot avoid being touched by its beauty," explained Johan Carlsson, founder of Jac Studios.
"The proposal responds to the dramatic setting of the volcanic island of Jeju with emphasis on framing the artefacts, just like how the building frames the landscape."

Carlsson and his team worked alongside art-nouveau specialist Didier Laugault on the arrangement of the exhibition, ensuring that pieces are displayed in a way that draws attention to their ornate detailing.
In some of the exhibition rooms, pieces are shown individually inside central glass boxes, while in othe...