A few years after the success of my exhibition bathroom (see Neoclassical Bathroom), Fleur Rossdale offered me one of the principal spaces in The British Interior Design Exhibition. Having recently designed a circular library in a house in Hampstead which was not built due the client’s financial difficulties, I decided to design a Rotunda Bookroom for the exhibition as I had already invested a lot of time and thought into the details of that project.
One of the advantages of designing this room is that the height of the room was unrestricted, allowing me to include a domed ceiling, and a cupola (skylight) with special computerised lighting effects to give the impression of dawn to dusk in 10 minutes!