When I was a young boy, I was sitting on the table and I was sketching my room in many different ways. I was drawing my dreams about places I wanted to live in. It was my secret world in which I could feel safe and happy.
Pursuit of the shelters is a part of our human being from the first moment of our lives.
Our first home is mother’s womb where abide before we born. Next, mother’s arms and cosy cot are shelter places we ‘live’ in. As children we build tree houses, secret tents or arrange private, mysterious places for dreaming or escapes. Finally we build our houses for our families and next generation.
Idea of shelter places is not a matter of time it is a matter of existence. From the dawn of the history people were looking for shelters. At the beginning it could be cave or den; next we started to build simple cots and hut using natural materials like branches and leaves. After ages of changes and hundreds of different ways of house building, today we can use countless numbers of natural and artificial materials for buildings and interiors arrangement. New technologies and accessibility many mediums of modern world give us unlimited possibilities.
Idea of the shelters is not only about places we indwell, it is also about aesthetic of it.
Like Palaeolithic people designed walls of Lascaux with primitive paintings, first human shelters , 16 thousand years old, like anonymous artists painted residences of Greek and Roman wealthy citizens, like first French decorators such as Le Vau or Mansard working for aristocratic and royal families, like design ideas of artists representing Arts and Craft Movements aimed for wide range of social classes of 19th century England; also modern people, as never before, are looking for personal and unique solutions for their own spaces, both residential and commercial.
Spaces we live in have double meaning, first personal, but also as a symbol of our social status. Personal aspect represents our soul, individual demands, colours we like, the things that could make us happy, materials the most suitable for us, the way in which we organise our space, everything match with our personality. Personal aspect is also inseparably connected with our families; take into consideration both, personal demands of other members of the family and demands of the family as a unity. Social aspect of our spaces is rather connected with commercial places such as offices, shops, working and production areas or others. Because, except when we are sleeping, nowadays we spend more time in our work places then in our private houses it is very important to design it as human spaces, almost as second home, include personal demands of people who work there.
I really believe that home is a theatre for self-expression and change and that places in which we live includes places in which we work can enact our desire in the most fundamental sense.
This is as simple as complex, the mission of modern interior designers to properly identify every aspect of being 21st century people and tease out archetype, deeply hiding human demands. The point of modern designers is to listen to the people and let them open, following by the sentence of one of the nowadays iconic designers, Philippe Starck – ‘In all my life, I never speak about design and architecture; I always speak about our life: our fight, our pain, our difficulties, our dreams, our vision, our utopia.’
Tags: Designers, Interior, Mission, Modern
