Exhibition & museum fit-out · London

Galleries, exhibitions and museum spaces, built outside opening hours.

Stone floors, plinths, display joinery and reconfigurable wall systems for galleries and exhibitions. We worked inside the V&A while it stayed open: out-of-hours shifts, protected collections, galleries ready for visitors the next morning.

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Geometric marble floor laid between painted columns in a gallery — V&A Museum fit-out, South Kensington SW7 — **V&A Museum, SW7** · geometric marble gallery floor, installed outside opening hours

What we build

The floor, the walls and everything the exhibits stand on.

Gallery floors

Stone, terrazzo and timber floors, set out to the exhibition plan and laid out of hours.

Plinths and display joinery

Plinths, showcases, benches and display walls made by Selection.Works, our own joinery factory.

Reconfigurable walls

Aluminium frames with magnetic panels: change the face for the next show and keep the frame.

Glazing and screens

Glazed screens and partitions from AtoZ Design & Glass, our own glazing company.

Feature finishes

Seamless resin and metallic wall finishes, applied by our own team.

Cafés and visitor spaces

Café counters, tops and floors, as in the V&A café.

Marble stair and inlaid landing at a gallery entrance — V&A Museum fit-out, South Kensington SW7 — **V&A Museum, SW7** · marble stair and inlaid landing

Marble stair rising to a gallery, seen between perforated bronze screens — V&A Museum fit-out, South Kensington SW7 — **V&A Museum, SW7** · marble stair between bronze screens

Glass-walled room standing inside a period hall with arched windows — **Luconi system** · glass room in a period hall, manufacturer image

The constraint

The doors open tomorrow at ten.

Work in a live venue happens between closing and opening. The collection is protected, the visitor route is clear by morning, and every shift is planned before it starts.

A shift plan that names what is closed, and for how long
Night and closed-day working, noisy work kept off public hours
Collections and finished surfaces protected before work starts
Galleries cleaned and handed back before visitors arrive

Marble cafe table on a herringbone parquet floor — V&A Museum fit-out, South Kensington SW7 — **V&A Museum, SW7** · café table on herringbone parquet

Chameleon wall system

Click on, click off. The frame stays.

An aluminium frame with design panels held by magnets. When the room needs a new look we change only the panels, so the waste from a refresh is the face of the wall and nothing behind it.

Click on, click off

Design panels are held on the aluminium frame by magnets. Changing the face of a wall is one trade, with no dust and no wet work.

Keep the frame, change the design

At the next refresh only the panels change. The frame stays, so the waste from a new look is the face of the wall and nothing behind it.

One frame, many uses

Wall cladding, shelving, booths, room dividers, headboards and display walls, all on the same uprights.

No plaster, no drying time

A refreshed feature wall does not need board, skim and paint, or the days of drying between them.

Visualisation: floor-to-ceiling shelving divider between a living area and a kitchen — **Floor-to-ceiling divider.** Chameleon system · visualisation

Line drawing of a framed booth with a glazed door — **Rooms and booths from the same frame.** Chameleon system · drawing

Visualisation: office meeting space with a full-height shelving wall on an aluminium frame — **Shelving wall.** Chameleon system · visualisation

Visualisation: brass pressure fixing at the top of a wall-system upright against the ceiling — **Pressure-fitted at the ceiling.** Chameleon system · visualisation

Bespoke joinery

Made in our own factory, so we keep full control.

Design and build means the joinery is drawn around your plan, made by our own workshop and installed by the same team. Nothing waits on another company's production queue.

Our own factory

Every piece of joinery, every kitchen and every finish is made by Selection.Works, our own workshop.

Full control

Material, tolerance and programme stay with us from drawing to installation, with no other company's production queue in between.

Full bespoke

Reception desks, bars, counters, storage walls, panelling, headboards and wardrobes, drawn for your space.

It comes apart

Low-carbon board chosen by its EPD, real-wood veneers, and mechanical fixings rather than glue, so panels can be reused.

Circular resin counter, the finish wrapped around the full curve without a single joint — **Curved counter.** Made and finished by our team

Island with a seamless worktop and an undermount sink in an open-plan office kitchen — **Office kitchen island.** Our joinery, resin laid by our team

End of a resin counter seen along its length, the top and the returns formed as one continuous surface — **Top and returns as one surface.** Resin laid by our team

The late-delivery guarantee

We finish on the agreed date, or we pay you £500 for every week we are late.

An exhibition opens on a date the press already has. That is why the date goes in the contract. The date is in the contract, and so is this. Only a variation you approve can move it.

Payment follows the build: 10% to mobilise, then weekly against work already done — with 5% held past handover: 2.5% released at practical completion and 2.5% at the end of the 12-month defects period.

Calacatta chevron marble floor with a dark marble border and brass strip — Moncler, London — **Moncler, London** · Calacatta chevron floor, brass strip

Dark marble stair and portal leading onto the shop floor, with a glazed balustrade — Moncler, London — **Moncler, London** · dark marble stair and portal

Close-up of an oxidised resin panel, pale mineral bloom spread across a dark blue ground — **SpazioCemento** · oxidised finish, our sample board

Delivered · V&A Museum, SW7

Stone, parquet and café joinery in a working museum.

Specialist works inside an open museum, carried out outside public opening hours with the galleries ready for visitors the next morning.

Marble-topped cafe tables on a restored parquet floor — V&A Museum fit-out, South Kensington SW7 — **V&A Museum, SW7** · café stone table tops on a restored parquet floor

Inlaid marble floor in white, rosso, green and sienna at a gallery threshold — V&A Museum fit-out, South Kensington SW7 — **V&A Museum, SW7** · inlaid marble threshold in four stones

Also commercial

The other spaces we fit out.

Same contract, same named project manager, same glazing company and joinery factory. The constraints change with the room.

Offices

Cat A, Cat B and refurbishment

Hotels

Rooms, lobbies and bars, phased while you trade

Restaurants & bars

Front of house, kitchens, bar joinery

Shops & retail

Shopfronts, stone, display joinery

Questions

What venues ask first.

Can you work while the venue is open?

Yes. That is how we worked at the V&A: outside public hours, with the galleries ready for visitors the next morning.

Do you build temporary exhibitions as well as permanent galleries?

Yes. For a temporary show we design the walls and plinths to come apart, so the frame can be reused for the next one.

Do you work with our exhibition designer?

Yes. We build to your designer's drawings and raise anything that will not work on site before we order.

How is an exhibition fit-out priced?

After a site survey. The venue's access, working hours and the finishes decide the cost, so we price the space we have walked rather than a floor area.

Next step

Book an exhibition site survey.

We walk the space, the access, the landlord’s rules and your trading hours, then come back with a priced scope and a programme. If the job is the wrong fit for us, we say so before either of us spends money finding out.

Or call 020 8050 8968

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