Blyth House
Going to Visit Blythe House was an amazing experience as I never knew that the Victoria and Albert Museum has such an incredible building that stored so much amazing information.
Once arriving into Kensington Olympia I did not know what to expect, we arrived at this huge building that looked like a prison and felt like one when we got to the big metal gates where we had to say our names to be able to enter. I later found out that the building used to be a old bank.
Once going into a small room to leave all out bag behind we where able to go on further into the big building.
When visiting with Chelsea we got to see old archives of textiles prints for furnishings through to fashion textiles. The amount of books produced was incredible. Before being able to see all of these amazing books filled to the brim with exciting furnishing samples we got told Blyth House stores thousands of archives all of British based designers. They did not store any foreign designers, as the archive would then expand dramatically so they have tried to be quite limiting.
So overall this really was an amazing experience, as I never knew about Blyth House before this. They also sad if I ever needed to find out any information from a British based designers and they stored it anyone could come and visit and it was free of charge all you needed to do was call to book a appointment.
Below I have posted the link that goes onto the Victoria and Albert website that tells you more information about Blythe house and where you can book.
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