Designing the V&A

Julius Bryant is Keeper of Word and Image at theVictoria and Albert Museum, with responsibility for Paintings, Prints, Drawingsand Photographs, the National Art Library and the Archive of Art and Design.From 2005 to 2017 he was also the V&A’s lead curator for exhibitions onJames ‘Athenian’ Stuart, on William Kent and on John Lockwood Kipling (all incollaboration with the Bard Graduate Center, New York City, as co-curator andsenior research fellow). He is author of Alec Cobbe: Designs forHistoric Interiors (V&A, 2014), editor of Art and Design forAll: The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A, 2011) and co-editor of Word& Image: Art, Books and Design from the National Art Library (V&A,2015).

• Part I: Introduction: 1 Building the Museum; 2 The Museum as a Work of Art; 3 A Summary Timeline; Part II: Designs and Decoration: A Parkland Setting; The South Kensington Museum; The Refreshment Rooms; The Ceramic Stairs and Galleries; The Lecture Theatre; The Paintings Galleries and the North Staircase; The North Court; The South Courts; The 'Kensington Valhalla'; The Oriental Courts; The Prince Consort's Gallery; The National Competition Gallery; Frederic Leighton's Frescoes; The East Staircase; The National Art Library; The Cast Courts; The Grand Entrance and the Long Gallery; The Pantheon of British Art; The Henry Cole Wing; Exhibition Road; Endnotes; Index