Palace house, Beaulieu - rooms designed by Solent students transcript

00:00 - 0:32:10

Clips show Palace Hosue in Beaulieu, from the outside, then clips of the inside with Lord Montagu and students from Southampton Solent University looking at the rooms they have designed. This is accompanied by animated text: At Beaulieu in Hampshire, students collaborated with Lord Montagu, to design rooms within Palace House, creating bespoke wallpaper, furnishings and embroidery, the returned to see the final results. Classical upbeat music plays in the background.

0:32:10 - 1:08:24

I approached Solent's Interior Decoration course because I really needed some fresh new ideas for bedrooms and bathrooms in Palace House. I knew I wanted each one to have a distinctly different theme, particularly because the intention always was that they would be normally open to our paying visitors but usable for guests when necessary. And I thought well, what better way to get some really new fresh ideas than to work with some students and so that's exactly what happened.

Lord Montagu is standing in a stately room, (the garden room) in Palace House and is talking to camera. Video is shown over him talking of the bathrooms and bedrooms that were designed by the students.

1:08:24 - 1:32:14

They've played a really important role in bespoking the spaces - it's been something that has been an ongoing project for, you know, nearly three years now. It started as an opportunity to design some bedrooms and bathrooms for Lord Montigue and and it has continued to develop into what now has been part of his renovations of Palace House.

Lydia Southwell, Course Leader for Interior Design Decoration is standing in a stately room, (the garden room) in Palace House and is talking to camera. Video is shown over her talking of the bathrooms and bedrooms that were designed by the students.

1:32:14 - 1:53:23

We came here for quite a few visits during the project to take inspiration from the building. So, we took lots of pictures and was doing drawings whilst we were here. They had this big scroll with all the coats of arms, and we took a lot of inspiration from that, so we spent lots of time studying all the different families and pulling out what shields could be used - which was really interesting.

Lola-Mia Gurr, BA (Hons) Interior Design Decoration graduate is is standing in a stately room, (the garden room) in Palace House and is talking to camera. Video is shown over her talking of the bathrooms and bedrooms that were designed by the students.

1:53:23 - 2:06:24

We actually went round Beaulieu gardens and we were just so inspired by all the nature, all the animals, the plants and that really was the start of why we did a garden room for Lord Montagu.

Bethan Humphries, BA (Hons) Interior Design Decoration graduate is is standing in a stately room, (the garden room) in Palace House and is talking to camera. Video is shown over her talking of the bathrooms and bedrooms that were designed by the students.

2:06:24 - 2:44:06

I collaborated with the students really by.. I started by writing a brief.I set out some broad themes that I thought they might like to follow such as, the gardens, the history of the house, the history of the family. I also particularly like heraldry, so that was on the list. And really from that, each student did their own response, their their own set of solutions and then we narrowed it down to the bits that I liked best and then they worked collaboratively to arrive at a final design for each room.

Lord Montagu is standing in a stately room, (the garden room) in Palace House and is talking to camera. Video is shown over him talking of the bathrooms and bedrooms that were designed by the students.

2:44:06 - 3:06:10

Lots of feedback from lecturers, lots of feedback from Lord Montagu himself. He was so involved with the project which was absolutely incredible - to have that kind of real life, you know, industry experience and actually speak to the client. So we'd kind of create a design and then show it to him and then he'd say what he'd like what he didn't like and then so forth.

Bethan Humphries, BA (Hons) Interior Design Decoration graduate is is standing in a stately room, (the garden room) in Palace House and is talking to camera. Video is shown over her talking of the bathrooms and bedrooms that were designed by the students.

3:06:10 - 3:21:09

So we'd have our first presentations of Lord Montagu and he kind of like, selected which theme he wanted us to go with. We then went away with his comments on the pieces he liked from both of our designs.

Lola-Mia Gurr, BA (Hons) Interior Design Decoration graduate is is standing in a stately room, (the garden room) in Palace House and is talking to camera. Video is shown over her talking of the bathrooms and bedrooms that were designed by the students.

3:21:09 - 3:49:11

I think to see this through from the initial drawings right through to the final you know, realisation of spaces has just been an incredible opportunity for them. It's really given the students an understanding of what it's like to work in the interior design industry and to some degree the textile design industry. Because obviously part of the uniqueness of this project was designing the wallpapers to bespoke these spaces, so that again, has added an extra layer should I say, to their understanding.

Lydia Southwell, Course Leader for Interior Design Decoration is standing in a stately room, (the garden room) in Palace House and is talking to camera. Video is shown over her talking of the bathrooms and bedrooms that were designed by the students.

3:49:11 - 4:17:01

It benefited me massively, it refined lots of my skills, especially just you know, being a university student, actually speaking to a live client - that was the biggest part of it and getting the feedback from the live client. Because you know, a lot of projects at university are quite hypothetical and you kind of, you decide whether you like it or not. So, having someone say "Oh actually maybe change that," it brings a whole new challenge, which I think was you know, a great experience especially as a student.

Bethan Humphries, BA (Hons) Interior Design Decoration graduate is is standing in a stately room, (the garden room) in Palace House and is talking to camera. Video is shown over her talking of the bathrooms and bedrooms that were designed by the students.

4:17:01 - 4:39:17

I really love the course that we did, it just really prepared me for going into my job that I do currently, because of the amount of things that we cover. So we did like styling projects, interior design and then our surface design and I guess across all three of those things, I use them all in my job as a textile designer, because I'm always planning photography shoots, I go on set to style shoots which is really exciting.

Lola-Mia Gurr, BA (Hons) Interior Design Decoration graduate is is standing in a stately room, (the garden room) in Palace House and is talking to camera. Video is shown over her talking of the bathrooms and bedrooms that were designed by the students.

4:39:17 - 5:14:11

Well it's been a great pleasure working with the students, it's been actually three years since we started this project and I'm delighted now that they're able to see the final result. Now the rooms are open I'm speaking to you only two days after we open to the public and I am personally delighted but I am told that we're getting very good feedback from our visitors and in fact our visitors to the house are spending a lot longer in the house, which shows that they're taking time to stop and look. So that was great to hear that sort of feedback [Music]

Lord Montagu is standing in a stately room, (the garden room) in Palace House and is talking to camera. Video is shown over him talking of the bathrooms and bedrooms that were designed by the students.

5:14:11 - 5:17:15

Image fades to white, then a red animated stripy wave appears, followed by the Southampton Solent University logo.