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living interior

the story

Before the object,
the question.

by Mari Munteanu

I didn't start with an object.

I started with a question.

What happens to space
when we forget the human inside it?

Over time, we have filled our environments with objects, designed, refined, perfected, yet something essential has quietly faded.

Our spaces have become more crowded,
while our inner landscapes have become more hazy.

We have learned how to shape the outside,
but we have slowly disconnected from what is alive within us.

My work has always been about connection.

About the invisible field we all belong to,
and the subtle ways in which we are already linked to one another.

A space that exists before form.
Before design.
Before separation.

Living Interior emerged from this search.

From the need to bring the human back
to the center of our spaces.

Not as a user.
But as the origin.

During Milan Design Week,
within a context where design is everywhere,
a deeper question appeared:

What if the human being
was the first architecture?
In all its dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, invisible.

Before objects,
we had each other.

Before structure,
we had presence.

Before function,
we had feelings.

Living Interior is an invitation to remember that.

It is not about objects,
but about the space that exists between us.

A space of support.
A space of position.
A space of awareness.
A space that is alive.

This project is not only an installation.

It is a space of awareness.

A place where people are invited
to reconnect with their own inner architecture,
and with the presence of others.

The questions are not answers. They are openings.
A way to move through inner and outer space.

To feel again.
To notice.
To return.

Because what is alive in us
was never gone.

Only unattended.

The body is the first architecture of the World.

— Living Interior —

Mari Munteanu

Mari Munteanu

Photo by Daniel Faluvegi

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