V & A Dundee - Ocean Liners Speed and Style. Critical Review
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So for date night last week, we'd booked for desert and coffee at the V & A. The Tatha bar and restaurant is loftily high on a mezzanine level and an event was on that same evening and the place was packed. Live Jazz down in the main concourse created incredible acoustics and provided a very loud soundtrack to our pudding (apple tart!).
We were given free tickets as a consolation for the live music (!) and were able to get a free viewing of the first exhibition 'Ocean Liners, Speed and Style'. The exhibition was stunning and full of costume, great theatrical room presentations, including a full height film of sea and sky, projected behind ships railings, fake swimming pools and VFX footage of 1st class passengers heading for the dining room. We bought a poster as a momento! Great to see such good use of colours (dark aubergine and chocolate) as background colours for the exhibits, plus such a varied and theatrical display of artefacts and historical references.
Looped black and white footage, projected behind authentic costumes
An actual panel from the Titanic, presented on a low level plinth with animated waves.
So for date night last week, we'd booked for desert and coffee at the V & A. The Tatha bar and restaurant is loftily high on a mezzanine level and an event was on that same evening and the place was packed. Live Jazz down in the main concourse created incredible acoustics and provided a very loud soundtrack to our pudding (apple tart!).
We were given free tickets as a consolation for the live music (!) and were able to get a free viewing of the first exhibition 'Ocean Liners, Speed and Style'. The exhibition was stunning and full of costume, great theatrical room presentations, including a full height film of sea and sky, projected behind ships railings, fake swimming pools and VFX footage of 1st class passengers heading for the dining room. We bought a poster as a momento! Great to see such good use of colours (dark aubergine and chocolate) as background colours for the exhibits, plus such a varied and theatrical display of artefacts and historical references.
Illuminated etched glass and vivid lighting against a dark background
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