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UK's Dyson Family to Open Art Gallery Showcasing Their Stellar Collection

  • August 26, 2020 14:26
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Interior rendering for planned Dodington Art Gallery, designed by Wilkinson Eyre.

The UK's bagless vacuum cleaner inventor and billionaire James Dyson, and his wife Deirdre, are planning to open an art gallery at their historic property in the Cotswolds. The new space will feature the Dyson's major collection of modern and contemporary artworks by the likes of David Hockney, Peter Blake, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and more.

Wilkinson Eyre architects has been chosen to design the gallery to be situated on the Dysons’ Dodington Park property in South Gloucestershire.

The new space, known as Dodington Art Gallery, will be free for the public to visit on set days (pre-booking will be required.) It is scheduled to open in 2021.

Rendering for entrance for planned Dodington Art Gallery, designed by London-based Wilkinson Eyre.

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