The contemporary interior is constantly in the middle of things, it is in everyday life. The interior belongs to us and touches us directly. It is about the proximity of people and things that surround us in a mysterious way, make us remember, tell, mean and desire something.
Interior architecture is also essential. Cities, villages and landscapes have an arsenal of (unused) places that are ready for re-use. We recognize the quality of these places by nurturing them, critically (re) organizing them and finally or temporarily improving them through intelligent and clever interventions. We argue that interior architecture often involves seemingly hidden, simple but relevant interventions in ideas or the existing patrimony. Designing interiors from the existing, thus transcends the individual interest and is therefore socially relevant.
The first manifestations of architecture were in fact internal spaces: beautiful abstract cave paintings point to early living cultures and sacred rituals from the Neolithic period. These hollowed-out spaces were pre-eminently interiors that were one with the environment. Designing interiors is in a sense comparable to sculpting: starting from a solid existing mass to a residue of slow peeling and hollowing out.
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