Robert Stadler 'Wild at Home' at Triple V

October '11

Paris

This past month at Triple V gallery in Paris, Robert Stadler presented 'Wild at Home' an exhibition exploring the preconceptions of 'good design' and, through design, breaking down the restrictions often placed on interior designers.

In the technical workshops of French secondary schools in the Eighties (but no doubt it is still true), posters were visible reminding pupils about health and safety instructions. On one was written: ‘Everything has its place, and every place has its thing.’ Consciously or not, this lesson about things is comparable to domestic layouts.

As Robert Stadler points out, ‘With few exceptions, like for example the popularity of open-plan kitchens, the layout of our apartments rarely changes, objects are always found in the same place and individual experiments remain rare: the electric outlet in the ceiling determines the position of the lamp beneath which a table is placed, around which chairs are positioned, and further on a television opposite a sofa.’

Sadler believes that important design or art do more than being good.

He goes one to explain the difference between good and important is the same as between recognising and finding; it is the gap which separates an experience and its reiteration. It is not sufficient to put one thing in the place of another, it is still necessary to change the place itself.

What is consequently at stake for the ‘Wild at Home’ exhibition, is therefore not only the appearance of new objects, but again the redefinition of the place allocated to them. The ceiling light becomes mobile, an inner wall becomes a support or an inscription surface available for all sorts of intervention, just as a nearby door neglects to separate two areas.

Triple V Gallery
Studio Robert Stadler

Robert Stadler 'Wild at Home' at Triple V (photo by André Morin)

Robert Stadler 'Wild at Home' at Triple V (photo by André Morin)

Robert Stadler 'Wild at Home' at Triple V (photo by André Morin)