Decorating with Light

Friday 17th & Saturday 18th June, between 5:00 and 8:00pm. 

We invite you to recreate the world of Regency architect C A Busby, by splashing his colourful decorative designs all over our drawing room wall, using interactive technology and a very large projector!

As the architect of Brunswick Town, Busby is best known as a designer of buildings, but he also drew extremely colourful decorations for room interiors. 

Wall design comprising pink square panels outlines wrapped in blue vines surrounding blue and yellow circles

Through a collaboration with University of Brighton's School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering, we are now able to reproduce these designs on the walls of the Town House.

Using a computer, a projector and some rather clever software, you will 'paint' Busby’s wall designs with just a wave of your hands.

This is the first public field trial of a collaboration between The Regency Town House and University of Brighton, your feedback will help us to shape this into the future.

Wall design comprising pink motifs arranged in vertical lines flanking decorative black and yellow panels, with a large blue and pink circular design above a central fireplace

Examples of Busby's wall designs are from his 1834 book A Collection of Designs for Modern Embellishments, © The Regency Town House archives.