Shona Heath's design for Tim Walker show reflects their decades-long collaboration
Set designer Shona Heath's exhibition design for the Tim Walker exhibition at London's V&A reflects the many outlandish sets she has created for the fashion photographer.
Each of the eight spaces in the exhibition, called Tim Walker: Wonderful Things, has been designed in wildly varying styles by set designer and collaborator Shona Heath, from a clinical white box to a chintzy pink bedroom complete with TV.
Visitors enter the exhibition under plastic bubbles that spell out its name, with coloured lights illuminating the dark entrance space. A swirly blue and brown carpet marks the way.
The first room is a long white space with a shiny white floor and a bright-white lightbox running the length of the ceiling. Stylised white paint appears to be dripping from the corners of the room. The adjoining room at the end of the space, the Chapel of Nudes, is finished with peach-coloured plaster walls, brown curtains and wall-sconces with fabric lampshades.
An upholstered pink sofa and wood sofa stands at the centre of the space.
Walker has themed the exhibition around certain objects from the museum's collection which have inspired his work over the years. These pieces are dotted throughout, providing a foil to the photography and Heath's designs.
The pair have worked together on fashion shoots for titles such as Vogue, Love and W for more than two decades, before collaborating on the exhibition.
"Designing an exhibition is so different ? I had no idea," Heath told De...
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