A place where Culture, Art and Technique meet Experience
Tito • Antologia di Spazi stems from a need: to restore the central role of books and socio-cultural environments associated with them, in order to address the difficulties of modern society by reclaiming an inner space. It is a concept seeking a physical anchor, a tangible threshold where time slows down: an aspiration that we have chosen to bring to life through a series of designer bookshops.
01/07
The sudden and unstoppable evolution of technology has reached such an intensity that it significantly exceeds humanity's cognitive capacity to assimilate and understand its causes and effects. […] As Galimberti states: efficiency has replaced meaning, speed has replaced thought, performance has replaced identity. We live in the age of functionality, no longer in the age of meaning.
02/07
In contrast to the fluidity of a world that has replaced meaning with function, Tito • Antologia di Spazi champions the material stillness and plasticity of wood. In every grain, a different temporality can be discerned — one specific to the human being — which stands in opposition to the abstract temporality of the algorithm.
03/07
This is not merely a critique of cultural neglect, but rather a condemnation of a culture that has become fluid and immediate, where the signifier devours the signified, omitting the history that lies behind it — the etymology — and the ability to ask the right questions. […] This is a sort of neo-humanism understood as the restoration of balance between the human organism — which feels and acts — the sphere of the sacred (of mystery) and technology with its myriad tools.
04/07
No shortcuts are sought. It is this very ethos that guides the creative process: every bookcase is designed, engineered and assembled by hand, following a slow and steadfast rhythm, the only one capable of transforming matter into genuine awareness.
05/07
The living environment takes on the characteristics of an architectural alter-ego that mirrors the multiplicity of inner rooms that make up the individual. In this system of correspondence between space and the individual, the bookcase functions as a reflective element: a threshold within which time slows down and the individual withdraws from the clamour of the world to inhabit their own self.
06/07
Thus emerges the dual nature of the book: material and metaphysical. Choosing which volumes to keep on the shelves and which to part with ceases to be a mere act of tidying up, becoming instead an intimate and conscious act through which we select the experiences to embrace in order to define who we are.
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