The Dezeen Awardsjury voted unanimously to name Casson Mann’s designs for theLascaux International Centre for Cave Art as Interior Project of the Year 2018. Jury chair Brittney Hart explains why in this Dezeen movie.
London-based exhibition designers Casson Mann created the visitor experience for themuseum designed bySnøhetta, which features galleries containing replicas of 20,000-year-old cave paintings from the Paleolithic era.
New York-based designer and jury chairBrittney Hart says the jury was unanimous in its decision to give the award for Interior Project of the Year 2018 to Casson Mann for the project, whichalso won thecivic and cultural interiorcategory ofDezeen Awards.
“Everyone in the room really loved the project,” she says in the movie. “There is an integration of education and experience and we were all just entranced. It’s beautiful, beautiful work.”
Themuseum sits at the foot of the hill where the famous caves are located, at Lascaux in France’s Dordogne region. The caves were discovered in 1940 but closed to the publicin 1963 due to the damage the paintings incurred from carbon dioxide exposure.
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