A visit to Leeds Art Gallery just gets even better with a new shop and café now open below the main entrance and adjacent to the Craft and Design Gallery. The new Gallery Shop offers a wide range of exclusive kitchen textiles and ceramics, luxurious gifts for every occasion, stationery and books, artisan jewellery and an exciting range of artwork to suit any environment. A new, designer café providing a different experience to the Tiled Hall Café offers Barista style coffee and luxury cake to provide the perfect resting spot after an inspiring trip round the gallery.
The new Gallery Shop and Cafe compliments a range of developments around the Art Gallery, which include the cleaning and repairing of the stonework, and new exterior signage. The area around the gallery, Victoria Gardens, is also undergoing major redevelopment, delivered by Marks and Spencer and Groundwork, which includes the planting of twenty-six London Plane trees, new designer benches new chess boards.
Meet designers, Lineke of wivwuv creations, jorjawilkinson design, Janine Barnsley, Lizzie Prestt and Louise Nelson.
The gift shop exclusively stocks stunning scarves by hot new British designer, Richard Weston. Printed in Italy by the finest scarf producers in the world his scarves are a work of art produced in silk. The only other stockist of these exclusive designs is Liberty's of London.
Have a look at the initial Gallery Plans on Flickr. The designs are by Gain Retail Solutions for Leeds Art Gallery Shop and Café. Follow the Shop and Café on twitter @artgalshop or on facebook.