Daylit Gallery
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The Daylit Gallery is an exhibition venue in London's Victoria and Albert Museum. It was created in 2009 from previously undeveloped and underutilised exterior spaces between the buildings of the muse
Sunlight and shadows on a 16th-century wooden staircase from a townhouse in Brittany, France (Simon Sainsbury Gallery; Room 64b)
Sky view through the Daylit Gallery's clear glass roof panels and frosted glass structural "ribs"
View showing the roof structure and a glass balustrade of the "circulation hub" staircase, a 13th-century bronze English church bell, a remnant of the wooden façade of Sir Paul Pindar's London house (c. 1599), and a plaster cast of a Donatello sculpture on an ornate pedestal.
Opposing view showing the gallery's circulation hub staircase in front of the lightwell and lifts
Baluster
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A baluster is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe-turned form found in stairways, parapets, and other architectural features. In furniture construction it is known as
Stone balusters in the Basilica of San Zeno, Verona (constructed 967–1398 AD)
The term derives from the swelling form of the half-open flower of Punica granatum, in Italian balaustra
A vasiform balustrade crowns Michelangelo's Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Campidoglio, Rome