In 2003 Gareth Hoskins Architects were appointed exhibition designers for Court Barn, a small arts & crafts museum and archive in Chipping Campden, in the heart of the Cotswolds. The museum celebrates the work of influential local designers and craftspeople such as CR Ashbee and Robert Welch, and their legacy of craft-led design that pervades throughout the locality.
The museum is housed in a historic 17th Century barn which was carefully refurbished by local architects, Reg Ellis & Associates, with the centre piece of the exhibition and the principle visitor attraction being the permanent exhibition created by Gareth Hoskins Architects. The new museum space and exhibition are designed as a clearly contemporary installation within the carefully restored fabric of the original building. A cluster of bespoke cases inhabit the centre of the space, reaching up into the oak trussed roof space and each presenting the work and biography of a key designer.
| Location: | Chipping Campden, England |
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| Client: | Guild of Handicraft Trust |
| Value: | £1.3m |
| Status: | Completion 2007 |