Title & Author:

The making of V&A East / edited by Tim Reeve and Gus Casely-Hayford with Brendan Cormier.

Publication:

London : V&A Publishing, 2026.
©2026

Description:

254 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Tristram Hunt -- Making the V&A East / Tim Reeve -- People and place. Makers of the world / Gus Casely-Hayford -- What place can do / Brendan Cormier -- Working in east London / Afia Yeboah and Komal Khetia -- Project profiles -- Objects in focus -- Dear East... -- What a museum can do. New dialogues with collections / Zofia Trafas White -- Why do you make? -- Making V&A East Museum: inspiration -- Objects in focus -- An interview with V&A East Museum architect John Tuomey / Claire McKeown -- Making the V&A East Museum -- What a storehouse can do. A working storehouse / Georgia Haseldine -- Objects in focus -- Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen / Sjarel Ex -- A day in the life -- An interview with V&A East Storehouse architect Elizabeth Diller / Tim Reeve -- Making V&A East Storehouse -- Global narratives. The future museum: people, purpose, possibility / Madeleine Haddon -- Global perspectives -- An interview with director of M+ Suhanya Raffel / Tim Reeve -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Image credits -- Index.

Summary:

"The Making of V&A East embodies the V&A's mission to make art, design, and creativity available to everyone... The site in East London encompasses V&A East Storehouse ... and V&A East Museum. Together, they are an open-access repository for over half a million works that span every creative discipline, and a new museum that celebrates making and creativity's power to bring change by spotlighting the people and ideas that shape global culture right now... [I]t also holds the David Bowie archive"--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

1838510486
9781838510480 (hardback)

Subject:

Tuomey, John, 1954- Interviews.
Diller, Elizabeth Interviews.
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Victoria and Albert Museum History.
Victoria and Albert Museum Social aspects.
Art England London.
Museum architecture England London.
Museum buildings.
Museum visitors.
Architecture des musées Angleterre Londres.
Musées (Édifices)
Visiteurs de musée.
Art Angleterre Londres.
museums (buildings)
Art museums
England
England London

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Reeve, Tim, editor, interviewer.
Casely-Hayford, Gus, editor.
Cormier, Brendan, editor.
Tuomey, John, 1954- interviewee, architect.
Diller, Elizabeth, interviewee, architect.
V&A Publishing, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 326174
Call No.: 326174
Copy: 1
Status: Available