Celestial Studios is an award-winning BDSM playspace, private dungeon, and creative studio located in a beautifully restored 400-year-old warehouse in Shardlow, Derbyshire. Officially crowned the UK Fetish Awards’ Best Fetish Dungeon in both 2024 and 2025, the venue has become one of the country’s leading destinations for the kink community, offering an inclusive, welcoming environment where creativity, exploration, and consent are at the heart of every visit.
Spread across two floors, Celestial Studios features 12 professionally designed themed spaces, each with its own distinctive atmosphere. Guests can explore immersive environments including the Suspension Suite, Medical Suite, Medieval Square, Fantasy Suite, Scarlet Sanctum, Gilded Boudoir, Penitentiary, Office/Schoolroom, Dressing Vault, Golden Emporium, Padded Cell, and more. Every room is fully equipped for private sessions, photography, videography, workshops, and professional content creation, making the venue popular with lifestyle enthusiasts, photographers, filmmakers, and professional dominants alike.
Founded by Vivienne l’Amour, Celestial Studios was created with a vision of providing a safe, inclusive, female-empowered space where people of all experience levels can explore their interests respectfully. Alongside private studio hire, the venue regularly hosts themed parties, workshops, educational events, social gatherings, and community nights under its Circus Maximus Events brand, helping to foster a supportive and welcoming kink community.
Guests also benefit from a range of modern amenities, including a fully licensed bar, complimentary Wi-Fi, tea and coffee facilities, shower rooms, toilets on both floors, free on-site parking, and a discreet location close to the A50 and Junction 24 of the M1. The studio is available for private, professional, commercial, and event hire, with a capacity of up to 150 guests.
Whether you’re attending a workshop, creating professional content, booking a private session, or visiting one of its renowned community events, Celestial Studios offers one of the UK’s most versatile and highly regarded fetish venues.
Address:
Unit 4, British Waterways Yard
Cavendish Bridge
Shardlow
Derbyshire
DE72 2HL
