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In Why We Make, spanning two floors and featuring over 500 objects from 60 nations, lighting helps shape a journey through creativity. Working alongside @ja__projects and @apracticeforeverydaylife , we developed a system inspired by East London’s streets and markets - using illuminated signage, light boxes and dynamic titles to guide visitors through a series of “neighbourhoods.” Each object is individually considered, with lighting responding to its materiality, scale and conservation needs - from intimate moments to a broader reading of the collection as a whole. Be that the stunning Molly Goddard pink dress that greets you as you enter the gallery with it’s discreet showcase lighting allowing the object an immediacy and energy to the cardboard model of Derek Jarman’s opera sets, where the lighting encourages close up intimate viewing. The result is a layered, fluid environment that celebrates making, process and cultural connection. Designers of Why We Make: @ja__projects in collaboration with @apracticeforeverydaylife and @larryachiampong Designers for retail spaces: @studiomutt Building architects: @odonnell_tuomey Photography: @huftonandcrow

Studio ZNA is proud to have delivered the lighting design for the Why We Make permanent galleries and front of house spaces at the new @vam_east , which opened its doors the public on 18 April at Stratford Waterfront. The museum is a key part of East Bank, the mayor of London’s £1.1bn cultural and education quarter designed to transform the former Olympic boroughs. Our approach centres on using light to create a sense of welcome, dissolving thresholds between public realm and gallery spaces - so visitors feel like participants, not just observers in this new social space. Designers of Why We Make: @ja__projects in collaboration with @apracticeforeverydaylife and @larryachiampong Designers of retail spaces: @studiomutt Building architects: @odonnell_tuomey Photography: @huftonandcrow

From the sublime light and shadow of Zurbaran followed by elemental Mexico City - researching for a current project. Beyond inspiring and somehow seeing connections. Light, darkness, humanity.

It was an honour to light this incredible exhibition at the National Gallery. ‘Zurbarán’ brings together over 40 works spanning visionary Spanish Painter Francisco de Zurbarán’s career. The strong light and deep shadows bring intensity to the paintings ranging from monumental altar pieces to focused still lives. Open to the public now until the 23rd August. Congratulations to the team @nationalgallery A very lovely review of the lighting by the @theobserveruk Read the full article here: /culture/art/article/at-the-altar-of-zurbaran Exhibition organised by: @nationalgallery , London, @museelouvre , Paris and the @artinstitutechi Curators: Francesca Whitlum-Cooper and Daniel Sobrino Ralston with Imogen Tedbury, in collaboration with Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau (Musée du Louvre) and Rebecca Long (Art Institute of Chicago)

Delighted to attend the Private View of the new V&A East Museum ahead of its opening this week. Studio ZNA are proud to have designed and commissioned the lighting for the galleries, retail spaces and public realm — helping to shape a series of vibrant, immersive environments celebrating creativity and culture in East London. ✨ Congratulations to the fantastic team at @vam_east @vamuseum and the design team, it’s been a pleasure 3D designers and architects : @ja__projects 2D designers: @apracticeforeverydaylife Retail space architects: @studiomutt Building architects: @odonnell_tuomey

Yesterday, we welcomed the world to V&A East Museum - @vam_east - and a suite of exhibition spaces that offer new perspectives, frame unlikely pairing and pays homage to East London’s unique sense of community, creativity and connection. — It's been an absolute pleasure to work with the incredible team at V&A East – especially the amazing Youth Collective – alongside both familiar and new collaborators such as @apracticeforeverydaylife @larryachiampong @studiozna @urgecollective , within the generous building architecture of @odonnell_tuomey V&A East Museum opens to the public from Saturday April 18th . — Photo/s by @dwp.photo

We are so looking forward to the opening of the V&A East museum after 4 years of collaborative work lighting galleries, retail spaces and all public realm areas. So excited to share this new social cultural space which is designed to support a sense of welcoming and accessibility. Studio ZNA worked with the designers' spatial and scenographic concepts. Light was used to create vistas that entice and dissolve thresholds so that all public spaces between circulation lobbies to collection and display feel fluid and open. After months of working together on site the team is excited to celebrate tonight at the preview, an exciting start to a week of events in preparation for the opening weekend. 3D designers and architects : @ja__projects 2D designers: @apracticeforeverydaylife Retail space architects: @studiomutt Opens Saturday 18th April 2026

The warm immersive Perfume offers a unique experience. The concealed ceiling cove delivers a soft ambient warm glow, reflecting light into the richly textured faux fur walls. Objects are illuminated using integrated light sheets, lending each perfume bottle a subtle, luminous transparency. Discreet linear lighting within frames ensures the 2D works are viewed equally alongside the objects while maintaining a clean, uncluttered ceiling plane. The darker, high contrast space of Bijoux houses a collection of exquisite buttons. A recessed overhead lightbox forms a central shaft of light, both anchoring the space and evenly illuminating the display below. Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art open now the V&A South Kensington Curated by @sonnetstanfill , Lydia Caston and @rosalind.mckever Exhibition design by @nebbia.works Original score by @father_sound AV design by @lukehallsstudio Lighting design by Studio ZNA Graphic design by V&A design studio Build contractor @setworksltd #schiaparelli #danielroseberry #elsaschiaparelli #vandamuseum #fashionbecomesart

At a more intimate scale, slow-moving highlights trace the micro-details of garments, buttons, embroidery and intricate craftsmanship. This ensures each piece is experienced with clarity, depth and quiet emphasis. We used the moments of hyperfocus to create a suggestion of a camera iris opening and closing self consciously to zoom in and out from form to detail referencing work with Schiaparelli collaborators such as Man Ray and Horst P. Horst. Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art open now the V&A South Kensington. Curated by @sonnetstanfill , Lydia Caston and @rosalind.mckever Exhibition design by @nebbia.works Original score by @father_sound AV design by @lukehallsstudio Lighting design by Studio ZNA Graphic design by V&A design studio Build contractor @setworksltd #schiaparelli #danielroseberry #elsaschiaparelli #vandamuseum #fashionbecomesart

Studio ZNA had the privilege of lighting the first exhibition on Elsa Schiaparelli spanning the 1920s to today, celebrating the innovative designer’s influence. It traces the fashion house’s groundbreaking origins and its evolution under current creative director Daniel Roseberry. In one of the first introductions to Daniel Roseberry’s work we created a dynamic lighting sequence, synchronised with the score. It brings theatrical rhythm and colour, culminating in a dramatic showcase of Daniel Roseberry’s contemporary designs. The objects are viewed under changing lighting conditions to appreciate all the different details of the garments. It softly transitions from a cool to a gold top light before transitioning into a front spotlights that pans across the dresses creating silhouettes on the back wall. The scenes are supported by an amber wall wash that fades in and out, resonating with the colours of the Maison. Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art open now the V&A South Kensington Curated by @sonnetstanfill , Lydia Caston and @rosalind.mckever Exhibition design by @nebbia.works Original score by @father_sound AV design by @lukehallsstudio Lighting design by Studio ZNA Graphic design by V&A design studio Build contractor @setworksltd #schiaparelli #danielroseberry #elsaschiaparelli #vandamuseum #fashionbecomesart

Dancing shadows, shifting perspectives and visceral encounters with fantastical objects… some vignettes into the surrealist world of Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art at the @vamuseum Curated by @sonnetstanfill , Lydia Caston and @rosalind.mckever Exhibition design by @nebbia.works Original score by @father_sound AV design by @lukehallsstudio Lighting design by Studio ZNA Graphic design by V&A design studio Build contractor @setworksltd #schiaparelli #danielroseberry #elsaschiaparelli #vandamuseum #fashionbecomesart

What a delight celebrating the opening of the fantastic Schiaparelli Fashion Becomes Art exhibition last night at the PV at @vamuseum We loved lighting the collection with the amazing team Curated by @sonnetstanfill , Lydia Caston and @rosalind.mckever Exhibition design by @nebbia.works Original score by @father_sound AV design by @lukehallsstudio Lighting design by Studio ZNA Graphic design by V&A design studio Build contractor @setworksltd