Monday, 17 October 2005 | Elif Sungur
Ten Well-known Designers Design "The New Living Room"
September 4 - December 4, 2005
What kind of domestic bliss will we come home to in the future? Can a living room still be a safe and cosy haven in these times dominated by the Internet, mobility and terrorism? That is the question that ten renowned designers will address in the exhibition Just In - The Dutch Living Room Re-designed (September 4 - December 4) in the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI). Studio Jurgen Bey, Concrete Architectural associates, Jan des Bouvrie, Ramin Visch, Fransje Killaars, EventArchitectuur, Bert Jan Pot, Maarten Baas, Tjep. and BAR architecten will create ten "period" rooms to illustrate their ideas about the room with an eminently social function in this unsociable world. In a space measuring 3.2m x 6.0m x 2.7m (the minimum living room dimensions specified in the Dutch building regulations), each designer will take a stand on an issue that goes much deeper than a congenial place to put your feet up.
Designer rooms
Just In consists of ten "period" rooms, nine of which will be on show in the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI). The tenth space will be visible day and night to shoppers and passers-by from September to November in the window of the Bijenkorf department store.
Because of the current wealth of catalogue furniture, interior design magazines and the availability of low-cost design, anyone can use the domestic interior as a medium for expressing individuality and creating a sense of home. Dutch design and architecture, both of which have undergone tremendous renewal in the last few years, come together at the focus of society, the living room. But the term "home" has become a shaky concept in these days of geographical mobility, chat rooms and "Living Apart Together".
The ten designers taking part in Just In show how much life there still is, now and can be in the near future, in the tradition of well-designed living room as a centre of sociability. Each "period room" will demonstrate in its own visually attractive but provocative way how you can feel modern but still congenial, or inward-looking but in touch with globalization.
For more information, please visit http://www.nai.nl
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