A place where Culture, Art and Technique meet Experience
Tito • Antologia di Spazi was born of a necessity: to restore centrality to books and to the social and cultural world associated with them, answering the problems of modern society through the recovery of an inner space. It is a thought seeking a physical anchor, a tangible threshold where time slows down: an aspiration chosen to be materialised in a series of signature bookcases.
01/07
The sudden evolution of technology has exceeded man's ability to 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
Against the fluidity of a world that has replaced meaning with function, Tito reclaims the material stillness and plasticity of wood. In every grain a different temporality can be read — one specific to the human being — opposing the abstract temporality of the algorithm.
03/07
A condemnation of a culture that has become liquid 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. […] A kind 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 many instruments.
04/07
No shortcuts are taken. It is the same ethic that guides the creative process: every bookcase is designed, drawn and assembled by hand, following a slow, stubborn rhythm — the only one capable of turning matter into genuine awareness.
05/07
The home takes on the traits of an architectural alter ego, mirroring the multiplicity of inner rooms that make up the individual. In this system of correspondence between space and self, the bookcase becomes a reflective element: a threshold where time slows down and the individual withdraws from the noise of the world to inhabit, more consciously, himself.
06/07
Here emerges the dual nature of the book, material and metaphysical. Choosing which volumes to keep on the shelves and which to let go stops being a simple act of tidying and becomes the intimate, conscious act by which we select the experiences we welcome to define who we are.
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