The Philosophy of a Room

The Philosophy of a Room a notion that combines emphasis, balance, alignment, contrast, repetition, proportion, movement and white space. Antiqua’s research into the interior architecture of the room becomes part of an exploration into domestic space that the gallery has been pursuing through various Historical Design pieces. An installation that aims to create an architectural and philosophical dialogue based on the 'Room of Ones Own' and what it represents. A dive in the everyday's subconscious through design.

As Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara explain in their research "The Room of One's Own", the architecture of the room expresses subtly and yet directly the way in which households, families and individuals have been individuated as subjects with distinct gender and class connotations.

"We have focused not only on the Room, but on the process of subdivision that has produced the room as an enclosed 'sub-home' within a domestic space. Indeed rooms are never autonomous spaces but always the result of a process of subdivision and individuation that organises domestic life. The implicit yet unfulfilled promise of "the room of one's own" is in the reclaiming of this process, not for domestication but for the possibility of a better life”.

* "The Room of One's Own”, DOGMA, Pier Vittorio Aureli & Martino Tattara
* "A Room of One's Own", Virginia Woolf

Works by:
Afra & Tobia Scarpa
Alessandro Mendini
Angelo Mangiarotti
Claudio Salocchi
Ettore Sottsass
Ezio Didone & Gianni Pareschi
Franco Campo & Carlo Graffi
Gino Sarfatti
Giovanni Michelucci
Lella & Massimo Vignelli
Lorenzo Burchiellaro
Luciano Frigerio
Matteo Thun