1:1 Period Rooms1:1 Period Rooms

Exhibited home interiors have played an important role in transferring ideas on dwelling and domestic design. Both architects and designers continue to use these 1:1 installations to illustrate their position in an ongoing debate on the proper relationship between architecture, design and the domestic interior. A number of these influential 'interiors on display', documented in the latest issue of DASH, will be presented.

Exhibited home interiors have played an important role in transferring ideas on dwelling and domestic design. Both architects and designers continue to use these 1:1 installations to illustrate their position in an ongoing debate on the proper relationship between architecture, design and the domestic interior. A number of these influential 'interiors on display', documented in the latest issue of DASH, will be presented by editors of the publication, Jurjen Zeinstra and Hans Teerds. Architect Herman Verkerk (EventArchitecture) and researcher Fredie Floré (KU Leuven) will be questioned about the relevance of these installations for contemporary domestic design and architecture.

The home interior is a measure of time. It envelops and reveals the home, the private sphere; it explains how we deal with the past, as well as with the things that surround us. It shows how the complex world around us forms part of our lives. A history of the home interior can also be read as a historiography of everyday life, which is more and more in the grip of technology, as well as about changing attitudes towards family relationships, privacy and publicity, consumption and information. Although the interior of a home can be very personal, in the past century this meant that the interior has been a theme par excellence that architects use to reflect on modern dwelling, and a tool for unfolding future visions about dwelling and everyday life. Dwelling, after all, is very close to the skin, and the home is also an accessible tool for drawing attention to the future. The 11th issue of DASH, entitled "Interiors on Display", examines the interior as a tool for depicting architectural visions by publishing 15 exhibited interiors from the last century - interiors that were not intended to be lived in, but that instead had an artistic, educational or commercial purpose.

During the 1:1 Symposium visitors could also view a small presenation in Het Nieuwe Instituut's foyer featuring original material from the collection on period rooms and model interiors, such as the period room in the Rijksmuseum, Berlage's model drawing room for the Wertheim company in Berlin (1908), the 'In Holland staat een Huis' exhibition (Stedelijk Museum, 1940) and model interiors by the Goed Wonen foundation (1950s en 60s).